A computer software expert witness with more than 30 years of experience in software development, systems architecture, computer technology, and intellectual property, this professional has more than 15 years of expert witness experience involving consultations, deposition testimony, and courtroom testimony. Areas of expertise include fault-tolerant systems, interactive and multidimensional databases, clinical systems, information retrieval, Boolean keyword search techniques, operating-system design, voice recognition, computer telephony, software design methodologies, client-server systems, real-time process control, and Internet search and retrieval technologies. Additional technical work includes algorithms for electrocardiogram analysis and image reconstruction, software internationalization, and communications protocols and standards including Z39.50, HL7, and Unicode. Litigation-related assignments have involved source-code analysis, patent infringement and invalidity, trade secrets, copyright, software licensing, contractual compliance, prior art research, patent reexamination, claim analysis, and software business practices.

Educational attainment includes a Bachelor of Science in Computer Sciences. Professional experience includes founding software and intellectual property consulting ventures, serving as Vice President for Software Development with responsibility for programmers, product managers, systems architecture, and strategic development of networked information products, and consulting on custom software development and project planning. His intellectual property background also includes patent analysis, licensing, portfolio evaluation, and prior appointments involving intellectual property litigation consulting, Internet and society issues, and patent review. Professional membership includes the Association for Computing Machinery and the Licensing Executives Society, while published work has addressed software litigation, information retrieval, clinical computing, database systems, and software-related intellectual property. This combination of software engineering, systems design, standards involvement, and intellectual property litigation experience supports analysis of source code, software functionality, technical prior art, development practices, and disputed software implementations.