Scope & Range of Services

I am an electrical engineer with 30 years of experience in the electronics industry. As an independent consultant since 1984, I have served a diverse clientele having equally diverse needs. I have consulted with large corporations, small companies, startup companies, and individual entrepreneurs. I have managed projects, studied product and system feasibility, assessed technology, advised executive management, mentored young engineers, and served as an expert witness in patent litigation. I have developed electronic products, systems, and devices for industrial, consumer, commercial, military, and medical applications. I have performed research and development in corporate and academic laboratories, and worked with testing, sustaining engineering, and manufacturing organizations. I have also taught graduate and undergraduate courses in electronics, computer networks, and control theory.

I have developed analog circuits, digital circuits, and electronic microcontroller-based devices for a variety of applications, including light detection, sensing industrial valve position using magneto-resistive devices, diagnosing under-the-hood automotive sensors, detecting phosphorescence, measuring the height of river water, charging batteries for an orthopedic tool, and testing furnace igniters. I've designed servo systems, data detectors, signal processors, and test systems for magnetic disk and CD, DVD, Magneto-Optical (MO), and WORM optical disc technologies, and I've designed computer peripheral devices for PC, EISA, VME, and proprietary data busses.

I have provided litigation support including testing products; analyzing electronic hardware design and documentation; analyzing software and firmware source code; analyzing products for patent infringement; analyzing patents for validity; creating and presenting technology tutorials; assisting with claim construction, infringement and invalidity contentions; writing expert reports, rebuttal reports, witness statements, and declarations. I have also testified by deposition and at trials.