Expert No. 166714 – CA(N)
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Expertise Description: Ph.D. - An accomplished executive and engineer experienced in both startups and Fortune 500 companies with extensive background in distributed systems, applications, software, networks and storage. Strengths include e-discovery, source code inspection, intellectual property development, strategic and technical leadership. Prior expert witness experience. Consultations, depositions, and courtroom testimony.
Areas of Expertise:
Representative Litigation Experience:
- Storage Area Networks and Fibre-Channel Switches
- Tape Storage, Error Correction and Recovery
- Streaming and Audio-Video Data storage
- Flash Memory
- Object Oriented Programming
- automated tape library storage for International Trade Commission case
Representative Consulting Services and/or Projects:
- Designed claim charts, wrote expert reports, identified infringing source code
- Performed discovery, reviewed patents, identified various methods to achieve similar functionality without infringement
- Searched literature and patents for prior art, drafted claim charts
- Assisted in staffing additional expert witnesses
- Constructed a live demonstration tape libraries available to one skilled in the art more than one year prior to issuance of the patent in question
Education:
| Degree | Subject | Institution | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ph.D. | Computer Engineering, Minor - Business Administration | Santa Clara University | |
| M.S. | Computer Science | Santa Clara University | |
| B.S. | Computer Engineering | Lehigh University |
Professional Appointment/Association Affiliations:
- Panelist, National Science Foundation review of the National Middleware Initiative (NMI)
- Senior Member, IEEE and Computer Society
- Member, IEEE standards committee
- Member, Infiniband trade association
- Member ACM, Special Interest Group for Performance Evaluation (SIGMETRICS)
- Member, Grid Global Forum (GGF), Globus
- Magnetics Society
- Research affiliate of University of California
- Research associate and Lecturer of Santa Clara University
Awards & Honors:
| Invitee, International School of Grid Computing, Vico Equense, Italy |
Other Career Highlights:
| Peer-Reviewed Publication - "Redundancy Management for P2P Storage" |
| Peer-Reviewed Publication - "Spencer Ng, Disk Scrubbing in Large Archival Storage Systems" |
| Peer-Reviewed Publication - "Mechanical Access Time, Measurement and Calculation" |
