This Expert Witness has 43 years experience in the silicon industry.  He is an engineer, an entrepreneur and a teacher.  He was a founder of three successful start-up companies and taught graduate (UC Berkeley) and undergraduate (Cogswell College) evening courses for 15 years.  He is a Registered Professional Engineer in the state of California and he holds 10 patents. 

He has provided expert witness litigation support in 13 cases over the past 25 years including patent, trade secret, breach of contract and product quality.  He has generated numerous documents, been deposed and testified at Markman hearing, arbitration hearing, trial by Judge and trial by jury. He was also appointed as a Neutral Referee by Santa Clara Superior court.  

§         A-D converter design

§         Analog IC design

§         BiCMOS design

§         DSP u-Processor development

§         Electro-optical design

§         High-speed video RAM design

§         High voltage mixed signal design

§         IC design tool development

§         Linear monolithic IC design

§         Low noise op-amp design

§         Low voltage CMOS & Bipolar

§         Mixed signal ASIC design

§         Power conversion

§         SRAM & EPROM design

§         OPM Executive MBA, Harvard University

§         Postgraduate studies in Integrated Circuit Design and Semiconductors, University of Santa Clara and Stanford University

§         M.S., Applied Science/Electronics, Portland State University

§         B.S., Applied Science (Electronics), Portland State University