Electrical engineer with broad industry experience in development and manufacturing of electronic products. Areas of technical expertise include magnetic and optical storage, RAID disks, Storage Area Networks (SAN), and Network-Attached Storage (NAS) as well as storage interfaces and related busses such as ATA, SATA, and SCSI. Author of articles and expert panel participant on these and other technologies.

Formal Education

  • M.S. in Management, Stanford University
  • M.S. in Engineering Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
  • B.S. in Electronics Engineering, Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn

Career Highlights

  • Former president of a CAD/CAM startup that was successfully sold
  • Former vice president of a major technology company in charge of all operations related to storage products with annual production of a multi-million dollar volume
  • Managed a 300-person engineering organization responsible for disk, tape, and main storage products and subsystems
  • Former U.S. military officer
  • Webmaster for a professional engineering society's Silicon Valley Technical History Committee
  • Named inventor on five issued U.S. patents

Expert Qualifications

  • Testifying expert for defendants Toshiba and NetApp in separate patent infringement litigations
  • Testifying expert for plaintiffs in separate trade secrets cases relating to embedded software and electronic circuits
  • Testifying expert for the plaintiff in a dispute with Kyocera relating to contractual performance
  • Witness for the United States in a famous anti-trust litigation against IBM regarding alleged monopolistic computer interfacing practices

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Frequently Asked Questions

What types of cases can this expert support?

They've testified in patent infringement cases for Toshiba and NetApp, handled trade secrets disputes involving embedded software and electronic circuits, and worked contractual disputes. They even served as a witness for the U.S. in the IBM antitrust litigation. If it involves storage technology, cloud computing, or consumer electronics, they can speak to it.

What is this expert's technical background?

Electrical engineer with three degrees: B.S. from Brooklyn Poly, M.S. in engineering from RPI, and M.S. in management from Stanford. They managed a 300-person engineering team at Memorex building disk and storage systems, then founded and exited a CAD/CAM startup. Five issued patents and decades of writing and speaking on storage technology.

What technologies does this expert specialize in?

Storage systems top to bottom: magnetic storage, optical storage, RAID, SAN, NAS. They know the physical interfaces—ATA, SATA, SCSI. Cloud computing and embedded systems round out the picture. Basically everything involved in how data gets written, stored, and retrieved.