Senior engineer and Principal Security Researcher with 20 years of software development experience specializing in real-time embedded systems, custom network protocol development, and distributed cloud architectures. Expert in VxWorks kernel programming, firmware design, Wireshark protocol analysis, and source code forensic investigation. Career spans mission-critical defense contractor roles at a leading defense contractor, government research facilities, and enterprise security consulting through independent consultancy.

Extensive expert witness experience in patent infringement, trade secret misappropriation, and copyright disputes involving embedded systems, networking technologies, cloud platforms, and source code analysis. Qualified for both consulting and testifying roles across complex software and hardware litigation.

Formal Education

  • M.S. in Computer Science from a leading research university
  • B.S. in Mathematics and Computer Science from a top-tier research university

Career Highlights

  • Principal Security Researcher at a security consulting firm, currently — developed custom DLP tools integrated with enterprise platforms, enterprise security architecture consulting, and high-performance real-time dataflow analytics platforms
  • Senior Principal Engineer at a large-scale computing systems firm, for several years — led team of 10 engineers on mission-critical large-scale computing systems with hundreds of compute nodes; architected Hadoop MapReduce analytics and ETL systems
  • Senior Firmware Engineer at a systems technology firm, for several years — advanced embedded systems and real-time firmware development
  • Senior Firmware Engineer at a major defense contractor, for several years — mission-critical naval gun control systems and defense contractor firmware
  • Computer Engineer at a government research facility, for several years — embedded systems and firmware development
  • Co-founder of a reverse engineering platform — deployed Django-based binary analysis and reverse engineering technology

Expert Qualifications

  • Retained as consulting expert in patent assertion matters involving networking and VOIP protocol source code review
  • Expert witness in patent litigation providing source code analysis for authentication, MapReduce processing, and structured search patents
  • Trade secret expert conducting database and ERP source code review, reverse engineering of deployed applications, and infringement documentation
  • Consulting expert in multiple technology disputes involving healthcare cloud systems, code history forensics, and copyright source code analysis