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• Evaluated portions of NEC optical portfolio to assess value and potential licensing candidates• Expert Witness in Verizon versus Huawei optical patent suit. Testified at trial and wrote Infringement and Validity Expert Reports for 5 optical patents related to OTN technology including multiplexing, framing and high bit rate transmission. Provided 6-hour legal deposition.• Expert Witness: provided technical guidance on behalf of Level 3 via Law Firm, Foley and Lardner in defense of patent infringement allegations. Patent involved optical networks including GFP and OTN. Generated Expert Report exposing technical errors in plaintiff’s claim charts and analysis. My Export Report was sited by judge in favorable ruling in Summary Judgement. Testified in legal Deposition in defense of my Expert Report.• Evaluated Networking patents specializing in: optical transmission technology - ROADM, OTN, Sonet, SDH, DWDM, OXC; physical layer technologies - optical dispersion compensation, laser control, external modulation techniques, data encoding, coherent optical transmission; access networks - ADSL, VDSL, GPON and EPON; network protocols - GMPLS, GFP, RPR, VLAN, and Ethernet; Storage networking - Fiber Channel, Infiniband and Fabric Path.• Developed defenses against invalidity assertions, evaluated significance of Prosecution History and present technology concepts to internal lawyers and potential license customers.• Developed claim charts on industry Standards like ITU-T, IEEE and RFCs as well as industry implementations.• Assessed value and applicability of third parties patent portfolios.

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• IP Network Expert for sale of Optical and Enterprise divisions of Nortel - each deal worth nearly $1 billion. Assigned ownership of IPR based upon dominance of usage criteria for Optical (optical elements, network architecture, WDM architectures, network protection schemes, signaling and control protocols and xPON) and Enterprise Business Units (network architectures, Carrier Ethernet, network interfaces, service related middleware, HW and SAN networks).• Contributed to Nortel’s patent portfolio auction sale of $4.5 billion by patent mining extensive portfolio, identifying high value patents based upon industry impact, developing claim charts, and assessing market impact via technology trends.• Invented new product concepts, features and capabilities with goal to transition concepts into product groups.• Conducted feasibility studies and validated concepts to test product readiness for Optical Short-Cuts, Lossless Ethernet for Data Centers, network virtualization, cloud computing, and image distribution for Healthcare.• Awarded over $2 million worth of research funding from DARPA/NSA which supplemented $20 worht of internal funding, such as: 40 Gb/s Encryption Feasibility Study investigating future ASIC speed and capacity, identifying technology limitations and trends for NSA; Omega – DARPA project applying Time-value curves to create a dynamic QoS structure, leveraging workflow analysis, and Mission Goals to network requirements to compliment new QoS effectiveness; Coronet – DARPA Consortium with Telcordia and AT&T focusing on architecture and design of Service-enabling middleware, which abstracts network complexity to facilitate clients controlling network services; On-Ramp - DAPRA Consortium with MIT, Lincoln Labs and AT&T creating cost effective solutions to gather Mega-Data from access networks and pipe them into the optical super-highway.• Selected CTO project proposals for funding within areas of optical, network protocols and control planes.

• Leading expert in optical transmission and high speed signal integrity.• Lead designer for all high speed optical network products. • Project leader for DARPA All Optical Network consortium. Responsible for design of the Optical Terminal board.• Architect of various back plane options including Next Generation cross bar switch. • Project leader in GBE Standard’s MBI working group, providing experimental and model results.• Consultant to numerous projects and solving technical problems to re-ignite stalled product development efforts.

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Bs, Electrical Engineering