John M. Horan Email & Phone Number

Los Altos, California

► Software development and open source license management and compliance, including analysis of development and deployed codebases (aka Software Composition Analysis/SCA).► IDE/OS: Visual Studio Code on Windows 10, Ubuntu 20.04 on WSL2, Windows Terminal.► Python 3.8-3.10 for analysis tool development and testing.► Jupyter notebooks/lab, Metaflow, pandas, numpy, matplotlib, xlsxwriter/openpyxl, Plotly, Bokeh et al. for data wrangling, visualization and workflow automation.► Documentation using Sphinx/reST (and occasionally Pandoc, Pelican).► Django, PostgreSQL, JavaScript.► Git/GitHub for source control.► Contributor to Software Package Data Exchange (SPDX) legal team.► And, of course, lots of data (especially .json and .xlsx).

Palo Alto, California

Consulting and related services, including the design and development of Web-based software tools, focused on the intersection of personal and business data, digital technology and the law. ► Primary focus: data privacy and security. ► Additional areas of expertise include internal investigations; corporate governance; and eDiscovery readiness, strategy & analysis.► Primary software-development platform: Microsoft ASP.NET (MVC 5, Entity Framework, Web forms), C#, JavaScript, jQuery, AJAX, SQL Server, XML, Bootstrap.

East Palo Alto, California

Broad experience in litigation, investigations and business counseling, including:► Options-backdating and other internal/governmental investigations.► Corporate governance matters.► Patent and other IP/technology-related litigation.► Business/commercial litigation.► Discovery and analysis of electronically stored information.. . . . ESI preservation, collection, processing, review and production. . . . . Search and analysis of ESI.. . . . Management of eDiscovery risks and costs.. . . . Design of ESI stipulations (e.g., preservation limitations, production format and metadata, and responsiveness-search and privilege-review protocols).. . . . Liaison among Howrey legal teams, client representatives (e.g., in-house legal department, IT personnel, key players) and eDiscovery service providers.. . . . Member of Howrey eDiscovery Steering Committee, eDiscovery-counseling teams for several multinational clients.

Founded and served as CEO of software startup focused on legal analysis applications.► Led all business implementation activities, including development of business strategy, budgeting, solicitation of investment, and management of product development.► Designed and developed working prototype of browser-based legal analysis application to model structure, logic and evaluation of legal rules/analyses.► Platform: ASP.NET using Visual Basic, Visual C#, SQL Server, XML/XSLT and JavaScript.

IP and other complex litigation for technology clients, particularly in the software and computer hardware fields.

Transnational corporate litigation as well as securities litigation and internal/governmental investigations (e.g., hostile takeovers and proxy fights; insider trading and Foreign Corrupt Practices Act investigations).

Global transactional practice for U.S., European, Pacific Rim and Saudi companies, including structuring of credit agreements and distributorships as well as foreign capital investment counseling.

Global finance practice representing commercial and investment banks, including preparation of credit agreements and complex documentation for bond funds, municipal bonds, Eurobonds and private placements.

Antitrust litigation and counseling.

J.D.

Note Editor, Michigan Yearbook of International Legal Studies

A.B., Social Anthropology

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