Technical leader in the computer, software, and hard disk industries with over thirty years of experience. Areas of technical expertise include computer architecture, bus standards, embedded systems, software development, cloud storage, filesystems, and storage and memory/caching technologies.
Formal Education
- Ph.D. in Computer Science, Stanford University
- M.S. in Electrical Engineering, California Institute of Technology
- Bachelor of Engineering Physics, Cornell University
Career Highlights
- Hired and managed an engineering organization that made a major technology company a world leader in hard disk interface technology prior to its acquisition by another firm
- Led disk drive performance enhancements in caching and system performance modeling and simulation
- Former member of the engineering team for a major technology company's early-generation computing system
- At a major technology company, designed a computer processor and hardware and its operating system software and I/O subsystems
- Named inventor on seven issued U.S. patents including for a bus design with overlapped sequences
Expert Qualifications
- Retained as a technical expert in over fifty cases and technical advisor to a pair of federal judges in U.S. District Court
- Testifying expert witness on behalf of plaintiffs and defendants including Intel, DEC, Dell, Sun Microsystems, and Compaq
- Testified at the trial in Mirror Worlds v. Apple in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas where the jury awarded his client more than half a billion dollars for infringement of its patent
- Consulting expert for world-leading companies such as Samsung, Google, Microsoft, Atmel, NEC, Analog Devices, Western Digital, AMD, Freescale, EchoStar, HP and Motorola
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Frequently Asked Questions
What types of cases can this expert support?
They support patent disputes around storage systems, processors, and computer architecture. Over 50 retained engagements working for both plaintiffs and defendants at companies like Intel, DEC, Dell, and Sun. They testified in Mirror Worlds v. Apple, where a jury awarded over half a billion dollars for patent infringement.
What is this expert's technical background?
PhD in Computer Science from Stanford, plus an M.S. in electrical engineering from Caltech and a Bachelor's in engineering physics from Cornell. Thirty years in computer architecture, disk systems, and software—including work on the Apple Lisa and at Digital Equipment designing processors and operating systems. Seven issued U.S. patents to their name.
What technologies does this expert specialize in?
Storage systems (RAID and SCSI), filesystems, and bus standards are the core areas. They know embedded systems, Unix and Windows software development, optical and magnetic storage media. Cloud storage is on the list too.
- Embedded software
- Unix and Windows
- Bus standards
- RAID and SCSI
- Filesystems
- Optical storage
- Magnetic storage
- U.S. District Courts