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(Undisclosed Consulting Company)

Consultant

Expert does intellectual property consulting and licensing in high technology areas.

1996 to 2003

Motorola Semiconductor Products Sector

Intellectual Property

Director of Intellectual Property

He was a key figure in the organizational start up of the company's IP program, recruitment of SPS IP technical staff, and was responsible for complete program oversight including: IP generation, patent administration, patent preparation and prosecution, patent portfolio management, IP spin-off businesses, IP analysis, IP software tools, IP competitive intelligence, and reverse engineering of semiconductor devices and electronic systems. He was the founder of a reverse engineering laboratory in Kiev, Ukraine with 25 scientists and engineers. He was also responsible for infringement detection, proof preparation, and patent licensing to generate and grow royalty revenue.

1981 to 1996

Motorola Semiconductor Products Sector

MOS Analytical Laboratories

Department Manager

Expert was Departmental Manager of multiple departments composed of Surface Analysis, Chemistry, Technology Assessment, and Failure Analysis Laboratories. He was responsible for technical and professional personnel, appropriations, expenses, headcount, and budgets. He also worked in materials characterization, microanalysis, and scanning probe techniques for VLSI/ULSI fabrication from raw silicon to packaging. Expert did competitor reverse engineering and construction analysis of integrated circuits. He performed root cause failure analysis and assessment of silicon based integrated circuits. He did advanced reliability and technology assessment of critical silicon based processes including multilevel metallization, thin dielectrics, and transistor stability issues such as HCI and ESD phenomena. He was also involved in wafer processing and packaging problem solving.

1978 to 1981

Tracor Inc.

Applied Sciences

Senior Scientist

He worked on underwater acoustics, SONAR signal processing, digital signal processing, classification algorithms and techniques, and spectral analysis.

1975 to 1978

Radian Inc.

Advanced Systems

Senior Scientist

Expert performed acoustic emission monitoring, vibration monitoring, transfer function analysis, and modal analysis of mechanical structures for incipient failure detection. He also worked on the precipitation kinetics of insoluble species in sulfur dioxide exhaust scrubbing processes.

1974 to 1975

The Johns Hopkins University

Chemistry

Postdoctoral Associate

He was involved in experimental solid state physics, materials science, materials characterization, ultra high vacuum technology, optical spectroscopy, and cryogenics.

• Expert consulted for the McKool Smith Law Firm for 14 months full time as an intellectual property consultant for several of their high technology clients. He performed the following duties: patent infringement research/patent mining; reverse engineering and analysis; claim chart preparation; licensing negotiations; patent litigation support; and expert witness.
• Expert was consultant to O'Keefe, Egan, & Peterman Law Firm, Austin, TX for client Micron Semiconductor, 2003 - 2004
• Expert was consultant to Global Intellectual Strategies, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, for clients Texas Instruments and Harris Corp., 2004 – 2005.
• Expert is consultant to STMicroelectronics Inc., process portfolio manager and licensing, 2005 – Present.
• Expert is consultant to Micron Technology Inc., Boise, Idaho, semiconductor technology, 2007 – Present.

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• Semiconductor expert for consulting on manufacturing facility.