Cables Expert Witnesses

This expert brings to the table many years of expertise and experience in the engineering and financial evaluation of utility infrastructure. This expert is President, CEO and Founder of an internationally renown and highly successful utility infrastructure holding company that provides specialized consulting to the utility infrastructure industry. This expert has designed, built and even financed large-scale projects for its own companies, other Utilities & manufacturers. This includes being an Engineering and Construction resource for the power industry. This expert has been involved with the construction of transmission facilities, distribution facilities, fiber optic lines, negotiated rights-of-way agreements, swaps, joint ventures, and even assisted in electrical facilities corrosion survey estimates. This expert and the firm have worked with many utility companies.

As to direct experience relating to submarine power transmission cables this expert has:

This expert is an active member of the IEEE's Power Engineering Society's Fiber Optic Cable Standards Subcommittee, the IEEE's Electric Vehicle Dynamic Charging Standards Working Group, with voting privileges on many other standards, and received multiple industry and government awards for work. Further, this expert has extensive prior expert witness experience with an excellent track record of success.

This expert has focused a consulting, engineering and design practice on towing and trailering equipment, heavy equipment, mobile equipment, and oil/gas drilling equipment, much of which is hitch mounted. This expert has analyzed and performed testing on multiple trailer auxiliary connections (safety chains/cables) and has researched federal, state, and SAE standards for trailer auxiliary connections. This expert is a member of the NATM (National Association of Trailer Manufacturers) and NATDA (North American Trailer Dealers Association. This expert is responsible for ground up designs of 5^th wheel style trailers and has performed structural analyses on small and large flatbed trailers and enclosed utility trailers (bumper pull and gooseneck). This expert has also designed mounting platers, and various hitch-mounted products.

This expert is founder and CTO of a leading US Department of Defense (DoD) and NATO approved consultancy providing expertise in the design and development of electromagnetically hardened electronics and communications. This expert brings to the table many years of experience in this field. Leading a team of engineers, this expert's experience includes:

This expert is a prolific author and speaker on the subject and holds several patents for shielded consumer products. This expert has served as an expert witness in several automotive matters relating to electromagnetic shielding; this expert has been deposed and testified.

This expert is the founder and Senior Engineer of an internationally recognized consultancy specializing in USB Power Delivery and Battery Charging. This expert brings to the table many years as Senior R&D Engineer. In the realm of USB Power Delivery and Battery Charging, this expert has:

among other things. This expert is producing a protocol stack for the USB Power Delivery specifications. This expert's litigation experience is limited. This expert has not yet been deposed or testified.

This expert is the Founder and Principal Engineer of a nationally recognized consultancy specializing in USB Power specifically and Power Electronics and Power Delivery. This expert has extensive knowledge of the whole area of providing power through data cables. This includes the competing fast charge standards and the upcoming PPS (Programmable Power Supply) technology. This expert was a part of the USB working group developing the specification, and had the first silicon realization of the standard. This expert designed numerous linear, buck and boost power supplies. These ranged from 12V to 5V buck switchers with linear regulation, to 2KV flyback power supplies, and an innovative direct offline power supply and included transformers / inductors, circuit design and build and test activities. As part of a four-year University course, this expert spent a year with the a power group designing physics magnet power supplies with up to 200A outputs and a new form of current monitoring transformer. As a consultant, this expert has designed a number of on silicon power supplies - both switching and linear. This expert was invited to join a USB Power Delivery Working Group. This expert's assignment was to develop silicon to support the standardization effort there. Some of this expert's code is a part of that standard. For a while this expert's consultancy had the only silicon realization of this technology, and sold IP to the major players. While this expert has no direct litigation experience, as a Senior Director, part of the role was working with legal on patent filing and patent infringement issues.

This expert has many years of experience with fire safety issues. This expert leads a well-known, internationally-recognized consultancy providing technical assistance with codes and standards issues (emphasis on fire), as well as consulting services for fire related legal cases.

This expert has published 500 papers and six books. This expert has a strong background in fire performance and the effects of flame retardants. This expert is very active on proposals for development and amendment of codes (leading to regulation), including the building codes (IBC and NFPA 5000), the life safety code (NFPA 101), the national electrical code (NEC, NFPA 70), the mechanical codes (IMC, UMC), the fire codes (IFC, NFPA 1), the residential code (IRC) and the wildland code (IWUIC). This expert is also very active in development of standard fire tests, practices, specifications and guides (nationally and internationally) within ASTM, NFPA, CSA, ISO and IEEE. This expert has been appointed to a number of positions of responsibility within codes and standards committees and has received several awards.

Among the many, this expert is a member of the following ASTM, ISO, and NFPA technical committees:

ASTM

E05 (Fire Tests)

D07 (Wood)

D09 (Electrical and Electronic Insulating Materials)

D13 (Textiles)

D20 (Plastics)

F15 (Consumer Products)

F23 (Personal Protective Clothing and Equipment)

ISO

TC61 SC4 (Plastics, Burning behavior)

TC92 (Fire Safety) -

NFPA

Hazard and Risk of Contents and Furnishings

Building Code/Safety to Life: Interior Finish and Contents

This expert has extensive litigation experience having been deposed and testified in matters involving:

upholstered furniture or mattresses

electrical cables

textiles

lining materials

plastics

fatalities

This expert is a testifying expert, author, patent holder, and Registered Professional Engineer who has many years of experience in Electrical Engineering, Networks and Telecommunications. This expert’s primary areas of expertise include telecommunications, switching systems (circuit, packet and optical), LANS, communication network architecture and protocols, and copper and fiber-optic cabling systems (cables, connectors, patch panels, etc.).

This expert holds 8 U.S. patents, has authored more than 30 technical publications (including 2 books) and has given technical presentations on 5 continents. This expert has provided Trial Testimony, Expert Reports, Depositions, Technical Tutorials, and consulting in more than 20 patent cases in Federal District Court and the ITC, as well as Inter Partes Reviews at the PTAB.

Relevant Professional Experience

• Member of Technical Staff and Technical Manager -- Customer Switching Systems
  Involved with telecommunications networks, PBX and data switch design, signaling systems, interface with long-haul network. Inventor and lead designer of integrated circuit and packet switching system. Inventor of a message signaling arrangement for ISDN switches and terminals.
  
• Technical Manager and Director – Network Cable Systems, Optical Fiber Solutions, and Optical Networking Business Units
  Involved with copper and fiber-optic cabling systems and transmission, optical switching, local area networks (LANs), wide area networks (WANs), network management. Developed a signal message translator to enable logical partitioning of a broadband network router into multiple virtual routers.

• Telecommunications consulting
  Provided consulting, engineering, and expert witness services on transmission, switching, and networking issues, LANs, and cabling systems.