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Expert Witness #238156
This expert brings to the table many years of experience and a global reputation for integrity, accuracy, and innovation, and is widely considered one of the world's leading authorities in information protection and risk management. This expert is CEO of an internationally recognized and trusted advisory firm specializing research and advisory services, litigation support, developing high demand graduate education programs, pathfinder studies, and business growth strategies.
This expert has extensive knowledge of issues related to digital forensics and the operation of computers, applications, devices, networks, and related mechanisms. This starts with experience designing, building, managing, operating, examining, and using computers and other devices and the Internet and its predecessor the ARPAnet, starting from when this expert was a computer operator for one of the early nodes in the ARPAnet. This expert has performed a wide variety of different functions associated with the Internet and systems connected thereto continuously, including without limit; specifically writing such software and analysis of such software; (2) examination and analysis of systems, mechanisms, claims, and asserted evidence for legal matters.
This expert has performed research over a period of years and published peer reviewed papers and two books as well as book chapters on issues of digital forensic evidence examination including specific work on examining digital traces for consistency, similarity, and a variety of closely related issues. This expert has testified at deposition and at trial in matters involving digital forensics including systems, mechanisms, and asserted evidence involving the Internet and related environments and systems, and has been qualified as an expert in Federal, State, and Local matters.
This expert earned and received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering, an M.S. in Information Science, and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering.
As a corporate consultant and industry analyst this expert has helped advise hundreds of the world's largest enterprises on security and risk management strategy and their information protection programs. As a consultant to and researcher for the U.S. government this expert was the principal investigator on seminal studies in defensive information operations. This expert has also worked in critical infrastructure protection, with law enforcement, and with the intelligence community to help improve their ability to deal with computer related crime and emerging threats to national security. This expert has worked on issues of digital forensics, including work for many large corporations, testimony in federal and state criminal and civil matters, and pro bono and state-funded work for indigent defendants.
Start National Security Expert SearchExpert Witness #257465
This expert is a career security consultant in both traditional and electronic security. When with a national bank, this expert worked specifically on ATM fraud and technical cases (which did not go all the way to court). This expert authored a bank security reference guide and was a primary security consultant with a major manufacture of ATMs. This expert is an expert in ATM security best practices and has been a member of the U.S. State Department's Overseas Security Advisory Council (OSAC), United States Justice Department's Judicial Security Advisory Council and Cloud Security Alliance.
Start National Security Expert SearchExpert Witness #258781
This expert served as a police officer for many years. In that capacity this expert has served as a SWAT team member, a firearms instructor, a defensive tactics instructor, and a low-light and tactics instructor. Below is an abbreviated list of some of this expert's credentials:
- Field Training Officer, Field Training Supervisor, Rangemaster/Armorer, Response Team (SWAT) squad leader and team leader, and Watch Commander (rising to the rank of Lieutenant)- Army National Guard- National Law Enforcement Training Center (NLETC), National Trainer- Countless training courses and train-the-trainer courses- Active Countermeasures Systems- American Society of Law Enforcement Trainers- International Association of Law Enforcement Firearms Instructors- National Rifle Association (several civilian and law enforcement instructor certifications)- PPCT Training SystemsFollowing a distinguished career in law enforcement, this expert ventured out to create a highly successful consultancy specializing in training police officers, military personnel, security forces, and private citizens on the art and science of personal defense.
In both law enforcement and civilian roles, this expert has gained a great deal of experience in using, testing, evaluating, recommending and making bid specs for tactical equipment in the police world, and has been involved in the manufacturing end on a basis of advising what features should be included, potential failure points, etc.
In these roles this expert has utilized, tested, demonstrated with, recommended, and written specs bids on various police duty gear related to carrying of duty pistols, back-up weapons, pepper spray, magazines for both rifles and pistols, handguns, flashlights, batons, flash-bangs, and other related police duty equipment. This expert has also tested products for various manufacturers and written reports as to the design of such products, as well as recommending improvements.
This expert's past litigation experience has all been in either criminal or civil court and related to police use of force, allegations of excessive force, civilian use of defensive force, firearms use and design. This expert has prior experience testifying in court, including both district and federal court. This expert has also prepared case review reports for police departments out of state.
Start National Security Expert SearchExpert Witness #222611
This expert received a Ph.D. in Computer Science. This expert joined a prestigious University and is Associate Director of its Applied Research Institute where this expert is working with projects related to national security. Specializing in network protocols, telemedicine, electronic commerce, medical data privacy and security, this expert was a National Lecturer, gave keynote addresses at several leading conferences, and is a Fellow of the IEEE. This expert has supervised over 130 funded research projects, advised 68 PhD and master's students, and co-authored two books, 14 book chapters, and 170 refereed journal and conference publications. This expert and colleagues developed a Transport Protocol (supporting multicast and knowledge of the multicast group members) for the US Navy, and then turned it into a commercial product. This expert's current research focuses on medical data privacy and security, implemented by supporting authentication, authorization, and federation across trust domains. This expert is also developing delta compression algorithms for diverse environments. This expert was a Founding Director of an Internet Technology Innovation Center, which provided technical and business strategy for e-business, and developed e-commerce software for corporate and government clients. Other projects include improving security for mobile devices, evaluating relational keyword search techniques, and writing software that can perform a scientometric analysis of scientific literature.
Start National Security Expert SearchExpert Witness #262563
This expert is the Regional manager of a security consultancy, and lead Active Shooter Consultant. While serving in the military, this expert was deployed in support of Humanitarian Aid, and Combat Operations. During tenure with the military, this expert served on several Multi-Agency and Multi-National Joint Task Forces; under which this expert was awarded due to actions in combat.
This expert participated almost daily in human intelligence, screen procedures of hiring partner-nation forces, inside threat planning and analysis, firearms training, tactics training, combative employment of trained partner nation forces. Since coming home from active duty, this expert's activities have included:
- traveling the globe teaching investigative techniques methodologies to law enforcement, government, and foreign (US government backed) entities.- Concealed Carry Firearms Instructor, and NRA firearms instructor (for legalities, proper training, and deescalating measures).- managing a safety and rescue team of approximately 20 personnel (much of the safety and rescue law is applicable in tort just as security regarding employer liability and hiring procedures). This expert understands and communicates proper hiring processes in the private industry, tort law, and employers' responsibilities in not fulfilling their hiring and background screening requirements.- working in a security capacity for government and private industries, so this expert is very familiar with roles and responsibilities of an armed security officer.This expert received a bachelor's degree in Homeland Security and Emergency Management with an emphasis on the effects of religious prejudice and domestic terrorism and an active member in the American Standard's for Industrial Security (ASIS International). This expert has also been trained in Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape (SERE) practices at the US Government's highest levels of proficiency, and is an expert at Risk Mitigation, Weapons Handling, Surveillance, Operational Planning and proficient with Intelligence Analysis. This expert is also working on new, progressive methods to increase safety and survival in an Active Shooter situation; detailing highly simple yet highly effective courses of action derived from experiences with insider threats overseas.
Start National Security Expert SearchExpert Witness #246862
This expert has been designing and programming advanced user interfaces for many years and has worked on a wide variety of user interface projects in the areas of air traffic control, military communications, unmanned aerial vehicles, missile defense systems, Homeland security systems, two way pager systems, mobile portable phones, facial recognition systems, web based ecommerce systems, Android and iOS applications for smartphones and tablets, IPV6 internet routers, gaming systems, multiple medical devices, and mobile big data collection and analysis systems.
With a Masters’ degree and a PhD in Human Factors focusing on Advanced User Interface Design, this expert is an avid software engineer and architect with extensive knowledge in C, C++, C#, Objective-C, and Java. This expert has designed many advanced systems that utilize GPS and other mapping and location-based technologies in the areas of:
Advanced air traffic control
Military tracking of soldiers, equipment and vehicles
Routing of wireless signals for Army vehicles based on location
Routing, planning, and surveillance of unmanned aerial vehicles
Terrorist Tracking application
Personal tracking applications for iOS and Android
Tracking of visitors at a theme park
This expert has designed and developed a GPS enabled Location Based Services application for iOS and Android. Further, this expert has developed advanced geographic information systems for a proprietary research and development project and developed location based Unmanned Air Vehicle routing, control, and tracking algorithms for a proprietary research and development program.
This expert has been retained approximately 85 times, deposed 29 times, testified at trial in both state and federal courts, and presented at a Markman hearing and to the USPTO. This expert has written approximately 70 expert reports and declarations. This expert has worked on a wide variety of patent litigation cases for both plaintiffs and defendants.
This expert has also worked on advanced missile defense systems, two-way pager systems, mobile portable phones, IPV6 internet routers, multiple medical devices, been involved with the design and implementation of portable handheld devices for many years and spent approximately 400 hours reviewing source code as an expert witness for a case. This expert can be very helpful in the areas of infringement/non-infringement and validity/invalidity, claim construction, source code review, writing declarations and expert reports, and expert testimony at deposition and at trial.
Start National Security Expert SearchExpert Witness #265727
This expert is established as one of the nation’s most influential researchers and trainers within the realm of the police use of deadly force. This expert has extensive and broad-based experience within the field of criminal justice, and is often interviewed by local and national media about impending trends in crime and the police use of force. This expert has written, lectured, and trained on use of force issues. This expert has been a certified police trainer for many years, and has trained over 15,000 police, security and military personnel from the US and other countries. This expert has completed over 90 courses of training involving various aspects of the police application of force, and is the lead instructor of several nationally presented seminars. This expert holds an M.S. in Forensic Psychology, a B.S. in Criminal Justice, and an A.A.S. in Police Science.
Start National Security Expert SearchExpert Witness #225868
This cellular technologies expert holds a PhD and is internationally recognized in high-speed communication and computing, as well as the development of semiconductor devices for related applications. Before joining a well-regarded university, this expert spent a number of years at a telecommunications research organization as a lead systems engineer helping regional telephone companies transition from voice-centric networks to multi-service networks suited for the Internet era. This expert received an outstanding achievement award for those contributions. This expert designed one of the earliest nationwide, commercial-scale code division multiple access, or CDMA, networks after winning a cellular communication license through a highly competitive national selection process, and was the leading author of the technical blueprint for that wireless cellular network. Since then, this expert has continuously researched 3G UMTS, 4G LTE, 5G IoT wireless networks, and various generations of WiFi technology. During that work, this expert's team used RF coverage software to optimize base station placement on a nationwide scale. This expert later worked closely with several U.S. carriers to design metro-scale radio access networks.
This expert's research areas include switching, routing, performance control, and security in communication networks. This expert and associated researchers invented and implemented methods of high-performance switching, including multi-channel switches that alleviate the speed and performance constraints of electronic switches. The pattern-matching engines developed by this expert's research group are used for processing complex instructions embedded in communication packets at billions of packets per second. The content search engine developed by this expert's research group has been incorporated into numerous cybersecurity systems in active networks and is being developed for machine learning and data mining in applications including cybersecurity and the Internet of Things (IoT).
This expert is also actively involved in the development of virtualized cluster computing networks and has developed algorithms to control code downloading from network servers to end-user units. Based on these algorithms, applications running on smartphones and portable devices can run much faster without consuming excessive battery power. By quantifying information related to usage patterns, large amounts of user data can be stored, helping improve mobile applications significantly.
This expert also focuses on future generations of wireless technology and has developed methods that enable coordinated transmission and reception of wireless signals among multiple base stations. Previously, radio signals from multiple base stations were considered interference. Leveraging this research, a cluster of base stations can work together as a single resource, enhancing the quality of radio signals across extremely noisy wireless channels. This research is critical in accommodating the next generation of the Internet and wireless networks, which integrates numerous Internet of Things (IoT) devices as part of intelligent networks. This expert holds multiple U.S. patents, has published extensively in the wireless and network fields, and has founded and managed multiple companies.
This expert is a highly experienced expert witness and litigation consultant. This expert has testified extensively in both state and federal courts on issues of patent and copyright infringement in communications technology.
Start National Security Expert SearchExpert Witness #230820
This cybersecurity and networking expert holds advanced degrees in computer science and professional studies and has built a strong reputation in cybersecurity, networking, computer systems, and information technology over 30 years. This expert's educational background includes a master's degree in computer science from a well-regarded technology-focused institution and a doctorate in professional studies from a well-regarded university.
This expert's involvement in the information technology industry is reflected in appointments to national cybersecurity advisory work, service as a senior fellow at a prominent cybersecurity institute, and election to the executive advisory board of a well-regarded university. This expert has also been inducted into a prominent information security hall of fame and received cybersecurity-related recognition from a branch of the U.S. military. In addition to seasoned technical expertise, this expert has authored various publications, including a recent cybersecurity book recognized on a prominent bestseller list.
This expert has worked on several expert witness matters involving network monitoring software and has also addressed network monitoring software processes as a business owner and consultant.
This expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant.
Start National Security Expert SearchExpert Witness #234052
This security camera expert holds a PhD and is internationally recognized in multimedia systems, with over 20 years of experience in the field. Research experience includes video streaming, video coding, and the design of automated video security systems.
A number of multimedia systems research projects were sponsored by a national science research foundation, including work on the design of an automated video surveillance and security system using a variety of security cameras. Academic supervision has included over 5 Ph.D. Dissertations on multimedia systems and video surveillance systems, with experience spanning both hardware and software aspects.
This expert has served as an expert witness and consulting expert in numerous patent infringement cases related to methods, systems, websites, and applications for video streaming, video coding, video transcoding, video sharing, and video recording. This expert is a named inventor on a U.S. patent involving automated video surveillance systems and has authored over 30 refereed papers on video streaming and multimedia systems.
Start National Security Expert SearchExpert Witness #246518
This transportation and logistics railroad expert holds a PhD and PE and has extensive multimodal experience in planning, design, engineering, safety, security, construction, maintenance, operations, and management. This expert's education, training, and experience are heavily weighted toward intermodal transportation. This expert has working familiarity with national standards of care and standards issued by railroad, intermodal, materials handling, testing, and occupational safety organizations. In addition, this expert served as a professor of intermodal transportation, teaching intermodal transportation, logistics, and supply chain management.
This expert can explain complex issues in layman's terms, suggest strategies, investigate and uncover facts, perform literature reviews and research, and prepare safety evaluations. This expert holds a Bachelor's Degree in Civil Engineering, a Master's Degree in Transportation Planning, and a Ph.D. in Transportation Planning and Engineering from a well-regarded university.
Start National Security Expert SearchExpert Witness #274207
This national security expert holds an MBA and CFE credential and is a retired federal Supervisory Special Agent with over 20 years of federal investigative experience. During a federal law-enforcement career, this expert held leadership assignments at agency headquarters overseeing programs related to weapons of mass destruction and later supervised a Human Intelligence (HUMINT) squad responsible for the development and handling of confidential human sources supporting national security and criminal investigations.
In those roles, this expert routinely evaluated intelligence reporting, investigative information, and threat indicators to assess the credibility, likelihood, and potential impact of threats to sensitive facilities, infrastructure, and government interests. Since retiring from federal service, this expert has continued to provide investigative analysis, security assessments, and expert consulting in criminal and civil matters.
This expert can assist with consultation, expert report drafting, and deposition or testimony if needed. This expert can also evaluate whether identified categories of risk represent credible national security threats under accepted threat-assessment principles. Analytical support may include research and review by a number of former federal intelligence analysts, while all opinions and conclusions remain this expert's own.
This expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant.
Start National Security Expert SearchExpert Witness #284931
This data security/intrusion expert is a founder and senior technology executive at a leading U.S. electronic evidence services company specializing in digital forensics, cybersecurity, and ESI services. This expert leads digital forensic and e-discovery services, helps determine company strategy, oversees day-to-day operations and internal information systems infrastructure, and personally handles selected engagements. Responsibilities include performing and managing digital forensic investigations and leading data evidence specialists and forensic analysts. This expert graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Engineering and a minor in Artificial Intelligence from a well-regarded university, and holds this expert designations of Encase Certified Examiner (EnCE) and Digital Forensics Certified Practitioner (DFCP). This expert is a past president of a national digital forensics certification organization and an active participant in the digital forensics industry, including speaking at prominent digital forensics and investigative technology conferences.
This expert has over 20 years of experience in the computer industry, with responsibilities including custom software design and implementation, network management and security, database programming, disaster recovery, and end-user support. The company has become one of the few capable of performing comprehensive digital forensic investigations and has worked on criminal and civil matters involving intrusion and incident response, intellectual property theft, fraud, and uncovering hidden assets.
Start National Security Expert SearchExpert Witness #286283
This fraud detection software expert is a cybersecurity practitioner with over 30 years of experience in consulting, teaching, presenting, and researching, and holds multiple certifications including Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Certified Ethical Hacker (C|EH), Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), and Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC).
As a cybersecurity professor at a university, this expert has published and presented numerous articles in the areas of cybersecurity, IT ethics, IT management, network architecture, and disaster recovery to both professional and academic audiences. Before joining academia full-time, this expert developed network and security solutions at a public research university and a national bank.
Start National Security Expert SearchExpert Witness #288350
This networking, datacenters, and switches/routers expert is a recognized academic specialist in networking, datacenters, and switches/routers, with prior departmental leadership in Electrical and Computer Engineering. This expert holds bachelor's and master's degrees in electrical engineering and a PhD in Electrical Engineering.
This expert currently directs a high-speed networking research lab, leading a team of research faculty and graduate students. This expert conducts research in software defined networking, network function virtualization, datacenter networks, high-speed packet processing, switching, routing, network security, quality of service control, and network on chip. This expert holds over 55 patents and has published over 200 journal and conference papers. This expert has researched and taught Data Centers and Cloud Computing for more than 10 years and currently teaches a graduate course on Data Centers and Cloud Computing. This expert has worked in telecommunications for over 40 years, written a number of networking books, and has many years of hardware design experience.
This expert co-founded a networking technology company and formerly served in a senior technology leadership role, leading a team that implemented a multi-terabit Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) switch router with carrier-class reliability. This expert also served as technical staff at a telecommunications research organization and was involved in transport and switching system architecture designs and Application-specific Integrated Circuits (ASIC) implementations. This expert previously worked as a senior engineer at a telecommunications laboratory performing circuit designs for a digital telephone switching system for a number of years.
This expert is a Fellow of a national inventors academy for demonstrated innovation in creating or facilitating inventions with tangible impact. This expert is also a Fellow of a prominent electrical and electronics engineering professional association for contributions to the architecture and application of VLSI circuits in high-speed packet networks and has received speaker recognition from a regional section of that association.
This expert has served as a guest editor for a leading communications journal on special topics including advances in ATM switching systems for B-ISDN, next-generation IP switches and routers, high-performance optical/electronic switches/routers for high-speed internet, and high-speed network security.
Start National Security Expert SearchExpert Witness #301770
This HIPAA rules expert is the founder and director of a HIPAA compliance firm, a frequent speaker on HIPAA compliance at national and local healthcare conventions and meetings, and has over 30 years of experience in healthcare systems.
Since the early 2000s, this expert has been a leading national expert on HIPAA regulations, including privacy, security, breach notification, and transactions.
This expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant.
Start National Security Expert SearchExpert Witness #306022
This international law, investment, and security expert holds a J.D. and Ph.D. and is an academic specializing in international business transactions, Chinese law, foreign investment, and national security issues. This expert is a law professor at a well-regarded U.S. law school and is affiliated with a prestigious university law faculty. Before holding the current academic role, this expert taught at a prestigious university for over 10 years and held a tenured associate professor role.
This expert previously practiced law in major U.S. and international legal markets, focusing on corporate real estate transactions and white-collar investigations, including matters involving the FCPA. This expert holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology, a J.D., an LL.M., and a B.A. from well-regarded universities, including a prominent law school in China.
This expert is a former New York-qualified practitioner and academic with experience involving foreign investment in the United States, especially investment from China, including issues relating to national security. This expert has particular knowledge of SB 264 and was trained in both U.S. and Chinese law. Subsequent legal practice included corporate and real estate law, as well as regulatory issues such as the FCPA.
This expert served as Principal Investigator for an over 5-year research project funded by a major European research grant and based at a prestigious university, addressing issues involving Chinese outbound investment. As part of that project, this expert contributed to a casebook on Chinese outbound investment, law, policy, and business, which examines questions concerning state-business links.
This expert teaches International Business Transactions and Chinese Law, among other topics, and engages frequently with current and former federal employees with experience involving CFIUS. For several years, this expert has conducted research on state legislation that discriminates against Chinese nationals purchasing real estate in the United States, with particular attention to SB 264. That research has resulted in a number of publications, including scholarship addressing property and national security that received an academic award. More recent scholarship analyzing updated data on adversarial comparativism was published in a leading comparative law journal.
This expert's public-facing work on state legislation affecting Chinese nationals in the real estate sector has included engagement with a prominent U.S.-China relations organization, podcast commentary, and writing for a national security and legal affairs publication. More broadly, this expert has been retained by private industry, law firms, and public regulators to assess risks relating to international business. Examples of this work include reviewing legal issues and dispute resolution mechanisms for a major international development project, assessing investment risk in China for a luxury goods company, training government-affiliated audiences on Chinese law and regulation, state-business relations, and the nature of the CCP, and authoring a report on China and global legal norms for a legal audience.
This expert has also worked with a national immigration and refugee adjudication body on China's treatment of ethnic and religious minorities.
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