Professional Summary: This Ph.D.'s consulting practice focus is providing advice on technical, business, and intellectual property strategy to e-commerce startups. He has co-founded and/or provided technical and other strategic advice to a number of successful technology companies. His roles have included the following: CEO; COO; CFO; and Chief Technical Advisor. He has also served on various Technical Advisory Boards and Board of Directors. He is an experienced expert witness and has worked on a number of patent infringement and other cases involving technology issues. He has taught over three dozen classes at Stanford University, Western Institute of Computer Science, University of California at Santa Cruz, University Blas Pascal (Cordoba, Argentina), Helsinki University of Technology (Finland), The University of Texas at Austin, Brooklyn College (City University of New York), and TeX Users Group annual conferences. His research interests include: electronic commerce; interoperability of heterogeneous databases; database integration; object-oriented databases; database implementation; databases on parallel computers; federated autonomous databases; database views including updates; incomplete information and nulls; software integration and reuse; and large system integration. |