This Expert Witness has over 35 years of experience in electronics design, computer systems, communications systems, hardware, and software.  He worked on packet-switching networks, including the ARPAnet and early TCP/IP systems at BBN in the 1970's, custom Very-Large-Scale Integrated Circuits at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center in 1981, designed the production Xerox single-chip Optical Mouse, assisted later founder of Silicon Graphics, Inc. in testing his first Geometry Engine chips, and led the custom chip design efforts for the Apple Macintosh team in 1982 - 1983.  He also led Apple's efforts to support TCP/IP, and ran Apple's first internet commerce pilot program.  He was also Director of Technology at a very large computer company from 1996 - 1997.  At Xerox, he also led initial deployment and internal communications efforts related to Ethernet.  At Apple and at Netscape he was very active with standards efforts.  He studied packet voice in a graduate seminar at MIT, and has also worked on wired and wireless communications systems, including 802.11.  He combines a strong understanding of technology with an in-depth approach to business needs.

• 802.11
• Black-box reverse engineering
• Computer Hardware
• Computer Networks
• Computer Software: C, C++, Java, Assembly Language (SPARC, MIPS, x86, 68000, PDP-11, Lockheed SUE)
• Computer Systems
• Embedded Systems
• Optical Mouse
• Packet Switching
• Prior art research
• Source code analysis

• University of California, Berkeley:  Concepts of Relational Database Management Systems
• Sandia Labs, Albuquerque, NM:  Advanced MEMS, Introduction to MEMS
• University of California, Santa Cruz:  Intensive Seminar in Object-Oriented Programming
• California Institute of Technology:  Intensive Seminar in CMOS Design
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology:  Graduate Seminar in Integrated Voice/Data Networks
• University of Wisconsin:  Undergraduate Studies im Computer Science and Electrical Engineering