Intellectual property and product liability disputes define this expert witness’s work, supported by more than 30 years of experience as an attorney and professional engineer with an extensive background in electrical engineering, product development, regulatory requirements, automotive systems, and technology matters. He has offered electrical engineering and medical device design expert witness services for more than 15 years, including consultations, expert reports, depositions, hearings, and courtroom testimony. His educational background includes an M.S. in Electrical Engineering, B.S. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Chemical Engineering, a Juris Doctor, and an MBA. He is a Licensed Professional Engineer, Certified Project Management Professional, Six Sigma Black Belt through the American Society for Quality and International Quality Federation, Certified Information Systems Security Professional, Security+, Network+, SANS/GIAC-trained in wireless penetration testing and ethical hacking, SANS/GIAC-trained in cloud security essentials, and admitted before the United States Patent and Trademark Office, the U.S. Supreme Court, and state bars.

His intellectual property experience includes patent infringement and non-infringement, patent validity and invalidity, America Invents Act issues, prior art, literal infringement, doctrine of equivalents, prosecution history estoppel, Markman briefs, claim charts, patent file wrappers, Inter Partes Review, Post-Grant Review, Patent Trial and Appeal Board proceedings, International Trade Commission matters, and Georgia-Pacific factors analyses for reasonable royalty. He has represented clients in intellectual property aspects of electrical, chemical, software, computer, microprocessor, and automotive components and systems. His work also includes patents, trademarks, trade secrets, copyrights, data rights, licensing, antitrust/DOJ issues, unfair competition, false or deceptive advertising, Lanham Act issues, technology transfer, technology standards boards, licensing authorities, source code, algorithms, telecommunications, GPS/navigation, mobile telematics, information and data transmission, human machine interfaces, and automotive electrical and electronic systems.

His product liability and automotive engineering experience includes direct participation in more than 300 litigation cases involving forensic analyses, inspections, accident reconstruction, occupant kinematics, injury causation, component and system analyses, field analysis of product liability issues, alternative design analysis, and implementation of design changes to reduce exposure.

His technical experience includes airbags, seat belts, curtains, roof crush, structures, doors, sensors, crash recorders, crash pulse information, electrical systems and architecture, diagnostic systems, fault codes, lidar/radar, camera/optical/vision systems, warning systems, medical devices, wheelchairs, handicap assistance devices, fire cause and origin, automotive and truck systems, FMVSS interpretation and compliance, ECE, SAE, NHTSA inquiries, OSHA, ANSI, workplace safety standards, insurance law, no-fault insurance law, subrogation, regulatory pre-emption, discovery, e-discovery, motion practice, summary judgment proceedings, evidentiary hearings, motions in limine, trial strategy, dispute resolution, negotiation, and settlement. His leadership and decision-making experience includes principal-level technical consulting, technical case management, engineering management, senior project engineering, program management, cross-functional team leadership, risk analysis, decision analysis, systems engineering, cyber security engineering, government contract work, invention disclosure development, patent drafting support, and product design and verification leadership.