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Expert has had many years of experience programming Access, Filemaker and SQL databases. He has developed a multi-user, multi-site manufacturing control system using Access. The system included remote synchronization of the databases. Using FileMaker Expert has built and sold complete Filemaker database system for the equipment rental industry. He has built several websites using SQL as a back end database.

Expert has been a software engineer since 1970, programming in various assemblers, "C", "C++", "C#", Python, Delphi, VB, Cobol, Lisp, Neat-3 and others. He has programmed for Windows, OSX, Linux, QNX, VxWorks,Unix, VM, MVS and Novell. He has programmed multi-threaded and single threaded applications, including disk drivers, Network drivers and many other hardware devices.

Expert developed a "Call Home" system for Amdahl mainframes, where remote sites called Amdahl Corporate to report intermittent failures, and predict future complete failures of the systems. The data was entered into an Ingress relational database where it was analyzed.

Expert built and sold "I-Mail" an email gateway for Microsoft Outlook, that used UUCP, SMTP and POP protocols.

Expert built and sold one of the first Arabic language computers, and wrote a tool to Internationalize and localize any software.

Expert has ported Unix to a proprietary IBM/370 architecture, and a bootrom from an X86 platform to a PowerPC platform.

Expert developed a website to sell and distribute Power Supplies. This was an ASP based website with SQL as a backend.

Expert designed, wrote and is currently selling a TOR based program for the MacIntosh OSX system, written in Python, and has written Filemaker applications for the MAC. The system allows the internet browser to be untraceable.

Expert architected and developed diagnostics tests for Engineering, Manufacturing and Customer Support, for Ciena Corporation and Infinera corporation. These programs ran on an embedded system, QNX and VxWorks and were written in "C" and "C++", assembler and VB.Net.

Expert worked on the reverse engineering of IBM 370 systems, and the reverse engineering of TCP/IP media server technology.

Expert has experience writing phone apps for Android and IOS. Expert has also reviewed the source code for different versions of the Android Operating systems. Expert has forensic analysis of both Apple and Android phones.

He served as an Expert Witness on a Copyright and License infringement case involving software that finds deleted photographs on Flash Storage. He studied both sides source code and used standard evaluation techniques to establish that his client's code was not copied from the other code. After giving testimony in Federal Court in Florida, his client was found to be in the right and the case was won.He served as an Expert Witness putting together expert reports to opine if a certain game program infringed a Patent for the 3 dimensional representation of music.

He modified the scripting language to allow a video to made of the game while "flying" to the side and under a guitar fret, thus proving that the image was in fact 3 dimensional.He studied the use and operation of EDID data received from a computer display, to ascertain if his clients code infringed a patent claiming that the data was transmitted at power up time. Using a logic analyzer he was able to capture and translate the date stream to prove that the data was on transmitted by software request, not on power upHe performed a disk clone and forensic search of a disk drive to ascertain if the information pertaining to a mal-practice suit existing on a disk drive. Using Encase and writing an expert report, he convinced the jury that no such information was on the computer system of the client.He successfully argued against a patent during a deposition, showing the the software algorithm used to detect an off balance condition in a washer dryer was fundamentally different from the patent.

Expert has over 40 years of experience with storage devices, embedded software systems for industry and consumer products, systems, including Flash Memory ( Solid State Disks, memory cards, flash drives ), Optical Storage ( CD, DVD, WORM, Magneto-Optical) Magnetic Storage ( Hard Disk, Floppy Disk, Tape ), RAID/Disk Arrays and jukeboxes; USB, SCSI, iSCSI, IDE/ATA/ATAPI/SATA, Fibre Channel, PCMCIA, game programming, home appliances and telecommunications. He has written and designed device drivers, software and firmware for Windows, Linux, VxWorks, QNX and other embedded real-time operating systems ( RTOSs ). He has been a software developer, project lead, seminar presenter and technical writer. He is experienced with various programming languages, including C, C++, Delphi, C# and assembly. He has been an expert witness and expert consultant in over 40 engagements involving patent, trade secret, copyright, class action and contractual disputes, patent portfolio reviews including file systems, game programming, home appliance, telecommunications and television control software. These have drawn on over 30 years of experience in the software storage industry and over 40 years of experience as a computer engineer, and have involved technology in the consumer products, telecommunications and storage industries. He has written expert reports, been deposed, and has provided courtroom testimony at trial. His engagements have involved source code analysis and comparisons, object code disassembly, benchmarking, and computer media duplication, as well as forensic analysis on data storage devices and file systems using tools including EnCase, FTK and DiskJocky.

Expertise:
 Embedded systems
 File systems
 RAID Systems
 Game Programming
 Networking (Ethernet, TCP/IP, DLNA)
 iPhone, iPad Android Programming
 Device Drivers
 Storage Devices & Software
 Telecommunications Software
 Bootrom/Bios/Assembler
 Computer Languages: C, C++, VBAssembler, PERL, SQL
 Zigbee, Xbee.