Mechanical engineer with hands-on experience in all phases of product engineering, including system architecture, system engineering, system modeling, system integration, mechanical and electrical design, as well as software and firmware development and testing. Areas of deep technical specialization include electronics design and simulation, digital signal processing (DSP), and software development in a range of programming languages.

Formal Education

  • B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, University of Maryland

Career Highlights

  • Independent engineering consultant with clients including major defense contractors and a branch of the U.S. military
  • Designed, developed, and integrated new capabilities for a branch of the U.S. military radar programs resulting in successful completion of validation and demonstration of mission readiness in a tactical environment
  • Led a team to provide system architecture, system modeling, system integration, and testing of air and missile defense radars
  • While a systems engineer at a major defense contractor was a two-time winner of an elite company excellence award
  • Maintainer of a U.S. Secret-level security clearance

Expert Qualifications

  • Conducted code reviews and generated reports for patent litigation cases, especially regarding embedded systems, signal processing algorithms, and telecommunications
  • Reviewed hardware designs in Verilog and source code in Java for a U.S. District Court patent infringement analysis involving Google
  • Reviewed hardware designs in VHDL in a litigation between Qualcomm and Apple
  • Reviewed cellular base station software source code in C and C++ in a patent case against AT&T

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Frequently Asked Questions

What types of cases can this expert support?

They handle patent litigation involving electronics, embedded systems, and signal processing. Their experience includes code reviews on hardware designs in Verilog and VHDL, and software in C and C++. They've worked cases for Google, Qualcomm, Apple, and AT&T focused on telecommunications and mobile devices.

What is this expert's technical background?

B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from University of Maryland, with a career as a systems engineer at General Dynamics and Raytheon, plus U.S. Navy radar development. They hold a Secret clearance and have hands-on experience in system architecture, mechanical and electrical design, firmware development, and integration testing.

What technologies does this expert specialize in?

They review code in Verilog, VHDL, C, C++, Java, and Python. On the design side, they use AutoCAD and SolidWorks. Their specialties include embedded systems, digital signal processing (Matlab/Labview), cellular protocols, military radar, and mobile platforms (iOS/Android).