A Ph.D.-trained electrical engineer and Licensed Professional Engineer, this expert brings more than 25 years of experience in electronic systems, software, and hardware design to complex litigation. With over 5 years of expert witness experience, he provides litigation consultation, technical analysis, expert report preparation, and deposition testimony in matters involving electronic discovery, copyright and patent disputes, embedded firmware, and source code review. Engagements have included review of C and C++ source code, assembly language analysis, evaluation of embedded firmware in multifunction devices, and forensic examination of large-scale firmware productions in intellectual property cases.

Areas of expertise include data format conversion, magnetic tape forensics, recovery of audio data from voicemail and voice logging systems, analog and digital circuit design, embedded systems and firmware development, optical communications receiver design, RF transmitter prototyping in cellular frequency bands, and analysis of legacy hardware platforms. He also evaluates ecommerce architectures, online credit card authorization systems, PCI-compliant network implementations, secure LAN design, and metadata database development. Professional experience includes founding and leading a consulting firm focused on computer software and hardware design, network engineering and security, and embedded systems architecture. He earned a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, an M.S.E. in Electrical Engineering, and an S.B. in Electrical Engineering, and is licensed as a Professional Engineer. He has been elevated to Senior Member of IEEE and holds issued U.S. patents in optical receiver and circuit design, reflecting sustained involvement in engineering research and applied technical innovation.