Dave Howell Email & Phone Number

St. Louis, Mo, Us

Providing testifying and consulting experts to legal teams for IP litigation, breach of contract cases, PTAB IPRs, and more.

Available now• Source code inspection (iOS, Android, macOS, Windows, web front and back end)• Claim construction expert witness• Software engineering consultant• Patent and contract litigation witness

Portland, Oregon, Us

Founded a bootstrap-financed startup that produces innovative apps for iOS, Android, macOS, and Windows. Applied an evolutionary engineering strategy to grow a world-class team, hiring 50–60 employees and contractors, funded solely by app sales. Conceived app ideas at the edge of possible and led design and engineering to bring those ideas to life.Launched marketing campaigns through traditional and guerrilla channels to sell $14M of apps. Seeded and nurtured a corporate culture around solving the harder problems, love of design elegance, geeky camaraderie, and fierce respect for users’ time and productivity.HIT APPS• Air Sharing: document management and remote file access. Apple’s first App of the Week, was once on 20% of all iPhones after a million downloads in its first two weeks. Reached the #1 top paid app spot in the App Store.• Air Display: turns an iPad, Android tablet, Mac, or PC into an extra display for another computer. In top 10 Utility apps on both iOS App Store and Mac App Store.• Air Connect: tunnels to remote computers to do screen sharing, file sharing, or command-line access.• Air Login: lets you control your Macs remotely from an iOS screen. Launched with a Kickstarter project.• Air Dictate: enables voice dictation on a Mac by talking into an iPhone.• Print Sharing: prints documents to shared printers, using an embedded CUPS client, before AirPrint.• Avatron Publishing: 50+ apps that repurposed high-quality licensed media as iOS apps.

Managed technology at a telehealth startup.

Portland, Or, Us

Vancouver, Wa, Us

Leading a world-class team of app, data, and back-end engineers to reimagine commercial kitchen workflows. Perfect Company is an enterprise software company that has developed software solutions for the restaurant industry that automates kitchen workflow, and provides unprecedented corporate visibility into kitchen performance.

Cupertino, California, Us

Product Manager for the FxPlug plug-in architecture for visual effects in professional film & video production apps.• Developed and documented the FxPlug framework and SDK.• Presented basic and advanced FxPlug sessions at NAB, WWDC (2005, 2006, 2007), and CocoaHeads• Supported third-party and internal FxPlug developers.• Guided internal Apple teams to integrate FxPlug, Core Image, and After Effects plug-in support into Final Cut Pro, Motion, and other Apple Pro Apps. Contributed to Final Cut Pro and Motion engineering.Managed LiveType product engineering team.• Led engineering team to turn my India Pro animated-fonts technology into an Apple app.• Coordinated the human and visual interface teams with engineering to refine user experience.• Invented and implemented support for animated vector-based LiveFonts.• Worked with Apple Legal to patent LiveFonts and LiveType titling technology.Contributed to Motion, Keynote, Pages, iWeb, Numbers, Aperture, and other apps.

Founded startup and led through successful exit. (Assets acquired by Apple)Negotiated 30+ software development contracts. Led a lean network of engineers to fulfill the contracts, while building a proprietary cross-platform platform for creating apps focused on media creation and image processing. Sold that intellectual property to Apple in 2002 when Apple acquired Pablo Media’s last client, Prismo Graphics.Clients included Apple, Sarnoff Corporation, Iomega, Lucasfilm, Hasbro, Westwood Studios, Prismo Graphics, and others.Negotiated acquisition of assets by Apple.

Wrote cross-platform graphics library for use in Kai’s Power Tools, wrote QuickShow slide show utility app. (MetaCreations was called HSC Software at the time.)

Led team of software engineers at desktop-video startup funded by Apple Computer and Intel (their first joint venture) to develop software suite for the EyeQ family of desktop-video cards. Wrote pre-QuickTime video I/O SDK, Premiere plug-ins, XObjects and Xtras, applications, tools, and QuickTime components, including video codecs for JPEG, DVI PLV, DVI RTV, and EyeQ Video. Ported Intel’s Indeo 1.0 software decompressor to Macintosh.

Led engineering on Smalltalk/V Mac development environment and Smalltalk Goodies object library. Along with LISP, the Smalltalk language was popular among software researchers in the 1990s. It was a strong influence on the design of the NeXTSTEP language, which later became Objective-C, which led to Swift.

Wrote Master Tracks Pro 4 Macintosh MIDI sequencer, which won Electronic Musician’s “Most Innovative Software Product” award. Ported Master Tracks Pro to Apple IIgs. Wrote specifications for Producer, MIDI Player, and Pro Audio applications.

Doctor Of Engineering - Deng, Artificial Intelligence And Machine Learning

Master Of Legal Studies, Intellectual Property Law

Master Of Science - Ms, Computer Science

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Business Administration

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, International Business

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Computer Science

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Music