This federally qualified computer engineering and medical cannabis expert witness has more than 40 years of experience in data storage systems, distributed computing, networking architectures, streaming media systems, data forensics, intellectual property, and industrial espionage matters, including over 5 years of expert witness work involving consultations, depositions, and courtroom testimony. His litigation experience includes patent disputes, trade secret misappropriation, inter partes review proceedings, source code inspection, forensic analysis, and evaluation of system performance and infringement issues involving storage controllers, NAS and SAN architectures, RAID systems, Fibre Channel, InfiniBand, Ethernet, distributed resource reservation systems, and enterprise software platforms. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering, an M.S. in Computer Science, and a B.S. in Computer Engineering, and is the named inventor on 19 U.S. patents spanning streaming media, switched fabric networking, distributed storage, performance optimization, and cannabinoid-related technologies.

His professional background includes service as Vice President of Systems Architecture, Chief Technology Officer, Founder, Director of Engineering, Architect, Executive Director, Project Scientist, System Engineer, Software Engineer, and Design Engineer within private technology companies and research environments, with responsibility for storage architecture design, enterprise infrastructure virtualization, grid and cloud computing systems, performance modeling, and technical due diligence. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and maintains professional memberships in IEEE and the IEEE Computer Society, ACM SIGMETRICS, the InfiniBand Trade Association, the Grid Global Forum, the American Association for Cancer Research, and the Society of Cannabis Clinicians.