With more than 30 years of experience in computer software and firmware, this expert witness specializes in embedded systems, source code analysis, firmware development, computer storage technologies, and hardware-software interfaces. More than 15 years of expert witness experience includes consulting on patent infringement, copyright infringement, trade secret misappropriation, breach of contract, prior art, patent invalidity, forensic product examination, source code comparison, and other intellectual property matters. Documented litigation work also includes expert reports, claim charts, deposition testimony, arbitration testimony, patent interpretation, and technical analysis of accused products and source code.

Educational preparation includes formal electronics training, university coursework in mathematics and physics, and participation in a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering program; completion of a bachelor’s degree is not documented in the supplied materials. Professional standing includes Senior Member status in the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, together with affiliations involving the IEEE Computer Society, storage networking, SCSI, Fibre Channel, consumer electronics, and magnetic storage technologies.

Across his engineering career, the expert has developed and evaluated software and firmware for hard disk drives, storage controllers, medical imaging and scanning equipment, printers, automotive diagnostic systems, flash-memory devices, and web-based applications. Technical experience includes SCSI, RAID, IDE/ATAPI, SATA, SAS, Fibre Channel, USB, FireWire, read/write channels, servo systems, embedded diagnostics, device drivers, real-time operating systems, and low-level programming in C and assembly language. Litigation assignments have involved source code comparison, prior art research, claim construction support, patent analysis, forensic testing of devices, and examination of software, firmware, and hardware functionality.

Professional leadership includes service as a director within the IEEE Consultants’ Network of Silicon Valley, chairmanship of its Consulting Practices Program, and participation on the Flash Memory Summit Conference Advisory Board. This combination of software and firmware development, embedded-system design, storage technology expertise, forensic product analysis, and intellectual property consulting supports the evaluation of technical similarities, implementation differences, alleged misappropriation, source code issues, and patent-related disputes involving computer software and embedded systems.