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`Michael D. Sidman, Ph.D.
`President
`Sidman Engineering, Inc.
`sidman.com
`6120 Wilson Road Colorado Springs, Colorado 80919
` (719) 531-9330
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`EDUCATION and ACADEMIC HONORS
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`Ph.D., Stanford University, Stanford, California 1986
` Dissertation: Adaptive Control of a Flexible Structure
` Digital Equipment Corporation Fellow and University Resident 1983-86
` Developed a high-performance self-tuning adaptive digital control system
` for a lightly-damped mechanism in the Stanford Aerospace Robotics Lab.
` Developed a robotic optical end-point sensor.
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`M.S.E.E. and B.S.E.E., Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts 1975
` Graduated with Highest Honor
` Cumulative GPA: 3.835 / 4.0
` Combined BS/MS Five Year Cooperative Education Honors Program
` Recipient:
` The Northeastern University Cooperative Education Award 1975
` - for Outstanding Performance in the Cooperative Education Program
` The Northeastern University Sears B. Condit Scholarship Award 1975
` - for Outstanding Scholarship
` The Tau Beta Pi William M. Rand Award 1973
` - for Distinguished Scholarship, True Integrity, Breadth of Interest, both
` inside and outside of Engineering, Adaptability and Unselfish Activity
` The Electrical Manufacturer’s Representatives Club of New England Scholarship Award 1975
` - for Outstanding Scholarship in the Department of Electrical Engineering
` Member, National Honor Societies:
` Phi Kappa Phi - interdisciplinary
` Tau Beta Pi - engineering
` Eta Kappa Nu - electrical engineering
` President, Tau Beta Pi, National Engineering Honor Society, Northeastern Univ. Chapter 1974-75
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`PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES and SOCIETIES
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`Listed in Marquis Who'sWho in Science and Engineering, 1998-
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`Senior Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
` Member, IEEE Control Systems Society
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`Member, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME International)
` Member, ASME International Dynamic Systems and Control Division
` Past Section Chairman:
` Chairman, ASME International, Pikes Peak Section 2002-03
` Co-Chairman, ASME International, Pikes Peak Section 2001-02
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`Appointed Associate Professor Adjoint, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs 1993
` Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, College of Engineering and Applied Science
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`Past member, General Engineering Board (formerly the General Advisory Board) of the
` College of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
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`Third Party Provider to The MathWorks, Inc. 1993-2005
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`Chairman, National Storage Industry Consortium (NSIC) Disk Mechanics Task Force 1991
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`Associate Editor, ASME Journal: Advances in Information Storage Systems 1990-92
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`Conference Session Chairman:
` PowerSystems World '96 Conference: Motion Controllers/Drives
` 1991 ASME Winter Annual Meeting: Dynamics and Control in Information Storage Systems
` 1990 ASME Winter Annual Meeting: Adaptive and Repetitive Control
`Digital Equipment Corp. representative to National Storage Industry Consortium (NSIC) 1991-92
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`Digital Equipment Corporation representative and founding sponsor to:
` Berkeley Sensor and Actuator Center (BSAC) 1989-92
` Stanford’s Information Systems Laboratory (ISL) 1990-92
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`Founded and hosted Digital Equipment Corporation’s Servo/Mechanical Seminar Series
` featuring leading researchers from universities and industry. 1986-92
`Sponsored scholarship and equipment for a quadriplegic Ph.D. candidate in control systems
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`Sponsored applied research of Presidential Young Investigators at U.C. Berkeley and Stanford.
`Hadassah Associate, Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center 1992-present
`Member, Japan-America Society of Southern Colorado (JASSC) 2003-present
`Board Member, Pikes Peak Regional Science Fair (PPRSF) 2015-present
`Life Member, Stanford Alumni Association
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`PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
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`INDEPENDENT ENGINEERING CONSULTANT, Colorado Springs, Colorado 1992-present
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`Technical Services
` Provide expert, results oriented engineering design services to manufacturers worldwide in a
` wide variety of industries.
`- Develop comprehensive custom design & dynamic system simulation tools and computer models
` of electromechanical, motor control, control and signal processing systems and products.
`- Optimize and simulate mechatronic (mechanics, electronics and control) systems, including
`disc/disk and tape drives, digital and adaptive servo systems, AC induction motor control systems,
`servo motor control systems, motion and vibration control systems, active damping systems,
`sensors and actuators.
`- Teach advanced, on-site multidisciplinary comprehensive engineering design seminars,
` including Digital Servo Systems Short Courses and MATLAB/SIMULINK/Toolbox Training.
`- Consult on high-performance servo system design and problem resolution.
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`Expert Services for the Legal Profession
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` Expert witness and technical consultant in matters regarding intellectual property.
`- Technical interpretation of patent specifications and claims.
`- Provide expert reports, deposition and trial testimony.
`- Assist in patent and technology licensing negotiations.
`- Technical literature and patent searches.
`- Graphical simulation of electromechanical, signal processing and control systems.
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`DIGITAL EQUIPMENT CORPORATION
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`Colorado Springs, Colorado
`Mass Storage Advanced Development Group
` Manager of Servo-Mechanical Advanced Development and Consultant Engineer
` Digital Equipment Corporation University Resident and Fellow at Stanford
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` Consultant Engineer, Head of Advanced Servo Development Group
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`Disk Drive Development Group
` Project Engineer and Principal Design Engineer
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`Technical Accomplishments at Digital Equipment Corporation:
` - Named inventor on seventeen disk drive related U.S. patents.
` - Developed novel electromechanical and control systems technology to enable higher track
` densities and improved seek times in Digital’s disk products.
` - Initiated, managed and demonstrated AD work in active vibration control, adaptive digital
` servos, active damping, high-performance DSPs, optimal seek control and adaptive runout
` correction. Developed and demonstrated a high bandwidth dual-stage piezoelectric
` microactuator system. Developed analog chip for embedded servo burst demodulation.
` Demonstrated working breadboards to product development engineering groups.
` - Digital Equipment Corporation’s representative to the National Storage Industry Consortium
` (NSIC) for servo and mechanical technology. 1991-1992
` - Digital Equipment Corporation representative and founding sponsor to:
` Berkeley Sensor and Actuator Center (BSAC). 1989-92
` Stanford’s Information Systems Laboratory (ISL). 1990-92
` - Initiated and sponsored applied research in MEMS based dual-stage microactuators and
` control system technology at Stanford, U.C. Berkeley and Univ. of Colorado, including
` sponsorship of two Presidential Young Investigators.
` - Consulted to Digital’s product development and manufacturing in Massachusetts and Colorado.
` - Introduced and enhanced modern control and dynamic system simulation tools based on
` Matrixx/SystemBuild and MATLAB/SIMULINK to design engineering groups.
` - Founded and hosted Digital Equipment Corporation's Servo-Mechanical Seminar Series.
` - Conducted a wide variety of technical seminars, principally for product development engineers
` both inside the company and to storage industry and university groups.
` - Conceived and developed a self-calibrating dedicated-plus-embedded disk drive servo
` system. Was the basis for the head positioning servo systems in the R81 and follow-on
` products. Portions were used in all Digital’s disk products.
` - Project Engineer - RK07 disk drive. Designed servo system and brought drive to
` manufacturing. Supervised the design of servo and read/write system test equipment.
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`DATAMETRICS, Inc. Wilmington, Massachusetts
`Developed a patented AC solid-state relay. Designed electronic equipment. Performed testing and
`calibration of precision electronic manometers. Cooperative Education.
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`M.I.T. CHARLES STARK DRAPER LAB Cambridge, Massachusetts
`Designed precision analog and digital inertial guidance system circuitry. Cooperative Education.
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`MEPPSCO, Inc. Malden, Massachusetts
`Programmed MHD generator gas dynamics computer simulations. Cooperative Education.
`Evaluated prototype electric motor AC line switching apparatus.
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`PARKE MATHEMATICAL LABS, Inc. Carlisle, Massachusetts
`Performed scientific FORTRAN programming. Cooperative Education.
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`U.S. PATENTS Named inventor on eighteen U.S. patents. Sole inventor except as noted.
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`Integral-Cycling Relay, U.S. Patent No. 4,153,870, Issued May 8, 1979.
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`• Dynamic Filter for a Moving Head Disk Storage System, U.S. Patent No. 4,172,267, Issued
`Oct 23, 1979.
`• Adaptive Misposition Correcting Method for Magnetic Disk Servo System, U.S. Patent No.
`4,536,809, Issued Aug 20, 1985.
`• Velocity Estimator in a Disk Drive Positioning System, U.S. Patent No. 5,095,471, Issued
`Mar 10, 1992.
`• Methods of Automatic Gain Control Basis Selection Half-Track Servoing, U.S. Patent No.
`5,099,367, Issued Mar 24, 1992.
`• Continuous-Plus-Embedded Servo System for Magnetic Disk Device, U.S. Patent No.
`5,109,307, Issued Apr 28, 1992.
`• Fault Tolerant Frame, Guardband and Index Detection Methods, U.S. Patent No. 5,115,359,
`Issued May 19, 1992.
`• Embedded Burst Demodulation Methods, U.S. Patent No. 5,115,360, Issued May 19, 1992.
`• Track Identification and Counting in a Disk Drive Positioning System, U.S. Patent No.
`5,136,440, Issued Aug 4, 1992.
`• Self-Tuning Adaptive Bandwidth Regulator (principal inventor), U.S. Patent No. 5,155,422,
` Issued Oct 13, 1992.
`• Extended Range Servo System for Positioning a Disk Drive Head over a Selected Track,
`U.S. Patent No. 5,153,786, Issued Oct 6, 1992.
`• Combination Embedded and Dedicated Servo System, U.S. Patent No. U.S. Patent No.
`5,153,787, Issued Oct 6, 1992.
`• High Speed Switched Automatic Gain Control, U.S. Patent No. 5,187,619, Issued Feb 16,
`1993.
`• Methods of Writing and Detecting Dibit Servo Encoding, U.S. Patent No. 5,202,802, Issued
`Apr 13, 1993.
`• Disk Drive with Constant Bandwidth Automatic Gain Control, U.S. Patent No. 5,220,468,
` Issued Jun 15, 1993.
`• Automatic Correction of Position Demodulator Offsets, U.S. Patent No. 5,247,398, Issued:
`Sep 21, 1993.
`• Active Disturbance Compensation System for Disk Drives (principal inventor), U.S. Patent
`No. 5,426,545, Issued Jun 20, 1995.
`• Robust Active Damping Control System (principal inventor), U.S. Patent No. 5,459,383,
`Issued Oct 17, 1995.
`Recipient, Digital Equipment Corporation Cumulative Patent Awards 1987 and 1990
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`SELECTED COURSES and SEMINARS
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`Digital Servo Systems Short Courses, on-site at companies worldwide. 1986-present
` Taught to engineers and technical managers involved in digital servo positioning system
` product design in a wide variety of industries.
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`Matlab/Simulink/Toolbox Laboratory Training Courses, on-site at companies worldwide.
` Introductory, intermediate and advanced courses for a wide range of industries. 1993-present
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`The MathWorks Storage Systems Design Seminar
` Santa Clara and Costa Mesa, California and Boulder, Colorado, September 1998.
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`Short Course on Servo Position Transduction in Magnetic Recording Machines
` At Quantum Corp., Boulder, Colorado and via video teleconference to Shrewsbury, MA, Dec 1997.
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`AC Induction Motor Vector Control Simulation and Design Tool
` Powersystems World '96 Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada, September 1996.
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`Advances in Control Theory: Digital Servo Control in Disk Drives
` Invited speaker, Intermag ‘92 Executive Seminar, St. Louis, Missouri, April 1992.
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`The Impact of DSP on Future Generation Hard Disk Drives,
` Invited instructor, Santa Clara University, School of Engineering, December 1991.
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`Overview and Limitations of Current Servo Technology in Information Storage Systems
` NSF/NSIC Workshop on Applications of MEMS in Storage Systems, UCLA, July 1991.
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`Advanced Servo Techniques for Optical and Magnetic Disk Drives
` Instructor, Advanced Topics in Storage Technology Series, ECEN 5010 (televised), Center for
` Advanced Training in Engineering and Computer Sciences, Univ. of Colo. at Boulder, March 1990.
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`Adaptive Runout Correction System for Disk Drives
` DEC Storage Systems Technical Seminar Series, Digital Equipment Corp., November 1989.
` Seminar, Laser Magnetic Storage International (Philips), February 1990.
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`Optimal Control, Instructor, EE597 Graduate Course
` College of Engineering and Applied Science, Univ. of Colorado at Colorado Springs, Spring 1989.
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`Convergence Properties of an Adaptive Runout Correction System for Disk Drives.
` Control Seminar, Univ. of Colorado at Boulder, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Oct. 1989.
` Mechanical Engineering Seminar, Computer Mechanics Lab., Dept. of Mechanical Engineering,
` U. C. Berkeley, April 1990.
` Control Systems Seminar, Dept. of Manufacturing Engineering, Boston University, Nov. 1989.
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`Adaptive Control of a Flexible Structure
` Colloquium, Center for Space Structures and Controls, Univ. of Colorado at Boulder, Nov. 1987
` Second Annual Symposium, Stanford Inst. for Manufacturing and Automation (SIMA), Apr. 1986.
` Stanford Information Systems Laboratory EE370 Seminar, November 1985
` Invited speaker, Control Systems Seminar, Martin Marietta, Denver, Colorado, 1987
` Engineering Seminars, Digital Equipment Corp., 1983-1986.
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`Disk Technology Trends and Servo Systems
` Invited speaker, University of Nebraska IEEE Section, Lincoln, Nebraska, May 1980.
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`Founded and hosted Digital Equipment Corporation's Servo-Mechanical Seminar Series, 1986-1992.
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`SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
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`Design Tool Speeds Development and Optimization of Electromechanical Products
`using AC Induction Motor Vector Control
` Power Conversion & Intelligent Motion (PCIM) Magazine, June 1996.
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`Time Optimal Voltage-Constrained Deceleration Velocity Profile Design for Disk Drives
` Invited Paper, 1995 American Control Conference, Seattle, Washington,June 1995, pp. 4146-
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`Control Design Made Faster and More Effective
` Invited Paper, MATLAB News and Notes, Summer/Fall 1994, pp. 8-9.
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`Active Compensation for Shock, Vibration, and Wind-up in Disk Drives with D. Davies, M.I.T.
` ASME Winter Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, February 1991.
` Advances in Information Storage Systems, ASME Press, Vol. 5, 1993, pp. 5-20.
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`Control Systems Technology in Digital’s Disk Drives
` Digital Technical Journal, No. 8, February 1989, pp. 61-73.
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`Parametric System Identification on Logarithmic Frequency-Response Data,
` with G. Verghese, M.I.T. and F. DeAngelis, M.I.T.
` Proceedings of the American Control Conference, San Diego, California, May 1990.
` pp 1888 -1892.
` IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. 36, No. 9, September 1991, pp. 1065-1070.
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`Convergence Properties of an Adaptive Runout Correction System for Disk Drives.
` ASME Winter Annual Meeting, Dallas, Texas, November 1990.
` Adaptive and Learning Control, ASME DSC-Vol. 21, December 1991, pp. 55-62.
` Advances in Information Storage Systems, ASME Press, Vol. 1, 1991, pp. 61-78.
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`Adaptive Runout Correction System for Disk Drives
` Proceedings of the ASME International Symposium on Robotics and Manufacturing Research,
` Albuquerque, New Mexico, November 1988, pp 1027-1036.
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`Adaptive Control of a Flexible Structure
` Ph.D. Dissertation, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, June 1986.
` Stanford Guidance and Control Lab. Report 556, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics,June1986.
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`Adaptive Control of a Flexible Structure, with G. Franklin, Stanford University.
` Proceedings of 2nd IFAC Workshop on Adaptive Systems in Control and Signal Processing,
` Lund, Sweden, July 1986, pp. 131-136.
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`An Adaptive Filter for the Processing of Position Error Signal in Disk Drives
` IEEE Applied Magnetics Workshop on Magnetic Recording, San Francisco, California, June 1978.
` IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, July 1978, pp 185-187.
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`SELECTED REPRESENTATIVE DESIGN PROJECTS
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`- Optimization of constant speed DC brushless motor servo
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`- DVD player digital servo system design
`- Simulation and analysis of a hard-bearing dynamic balancer machine for rotors
`- Dynamic simulation and digital control system design of
` vibratory conveyor system for food processing
`- Capstan DC brushless motor servo system in a high speed VCR
`- Dynamic simulation and animation of vibrating Coriolis flow meter
`- Objective speech quality analysis tool
`- Automotive stepper motor actuated EGR valve simulation
`- Transmission line reflection and propagation visualization tool
`- Digital phased-locked loop simulation and phase detector evaluation
`- Optimization and analysis of low cost variable speed AC motor control
` in medical and commercial applications
`- Dynamic simulation of radiation heat transfer in a strip steel annealing furnace
`- Tilt-cart regulator control system and sensor analysis
`- Automotive chassis and engine dynamometer motor drive and control systems
`- Modeling and dynamic simulation of an electro-hydraulic servo system
`- Magnetic disk drive head positioning digital servo system design and optimization
`- Tape film transport mechanism modeling and servo system design
`- Low cost, high performance DC motor control system
`- AC induction motor vector (field-oriented) drive system
`- Mechanical and control system modeling and design
` for Eurotunnel rail cargo bomb scanning mechanism
`- Chemical process kinematics modeling, parameter estimation, optimization and control
`- Non-compressible fluid servo valve profile optimization
`- Electro-optical servo positioning systems for aerospace/defense
` and entertainment applications
`- CD-ROM head positioning servo and operating shock and vibration sensitivity simulation
`- Adaptive runout correction system for disk drives
`- Active shock and vibration control system
`- Adaptive digital control of a lightly damped flexible structure
`- Competitive DSP benchmarking for computer peripheral applications
`- PC video board phase locked loop / ring oscillator VCO simulation
`- Digital PID control system for textile factory machinery
`- Active damping adaptive control of a very lightly damped mechanism
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`EXPERT CONSULTING EXPERIENCE
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` 1989-present
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`Patent Infringement and Trade Secret Litigation Expert Witness
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`Retained in 2017 as an expert witness and technical consultant by Michael Best & Friedrich LLP of
`Milwaukee on behalf of Kohler in patent infringement litigation relating to fluid delivery control
`systems in Intelligent Water Solutions, LLC v. Kohler Co. in the United States District Court for the
`Eastern District of Texas, Marshall Division. Case settled out of court.
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`Expert witness and technical consultant in 2015-16 to Locke Lord LLP of Houston. Client represents
`defendants, Broad Ocean Motor LLC, Broad Ocean Technologies LLC, Zhongshan Broad Ocean
`Motor Co. Ltd. and Motors & Armatures, Inc. in connection with patent litigation relating to HVAC
`motor technology with plaintiff, Nidec Motor Corp. of Japan in United States District Court for the
`Eastern District of Texas. Provided expert declarations regarding invalidity of the asserted claims of
`patents in petitions for inter partes review before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Patent Trial
`and Appeal Board. Defended IPR declaration in deposition. Litigation is ongoing.
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`Expert witness and technical consultant in 2013-15 to Foley & Lardner LLP of Milwaukee on behalf of
`Emerson Electric and Micro Motion in patent infringement litigation relating to coriolis flowmeter
`technology, Invensys Systems, Inc. v. Emerson Electric Co. and Micro Motion, Inc. in the U.S. District
`Court for the Eastern District of Texas, Tyler Division. Provided expert declarations regarding
`invalidity of the asserted claims of seven patents in petitions for inter partes review before the U.S.
`Patent and Trademark Office Patent Trial and Appeal Board. Also provided expert reports relating to
`non-infringement and to alleged damages for the U.S. District Court case. Defended IPR declarations
`and expert reports in a total of five depositions. Case settled out of court.
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`Expert witness and technical consultant to Michael Best & Friedrich LLP in 2014-15 on behalf of Agis
`Automatisering B.V. of the Netherlands in connection with patent litigation in the U.S. District Court
`for the Western District of Wisconsin. Technology relates to motion sensors and algorithms for
`detecting behaviors, rumination and estrus of dairy cows via telemetry. Plaintiffs are VocalTag Ltd.
`and SCR Engineers Ltd. of Israel. Provided expert reports relating to invalidity, non-infringement and
`defended same in deposition. A judgment was entered in favor of defendant Agis Automatisering
`B.V., granting summary judgment of non-infringement and no willful infringement, dismissing without
`prejudice defendant’s counter claims for declaratory judgment of invalidity and dismissing the case.
`The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed the U.S. District Court decision in 2016.
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`Retained in 2013 by Kenyon & Kenyon LLP of New York City on behalf of respondents, Lenovo
`(United States) Inc. and Lenovo Group Ltd. of Hong Kong in patent infringement litigation relating to
`optical disc drive servo technology, “Certain Optical Disc Drives, Components Thereof, and Products
`Containing the Same,” in the U.S. International Trade Commission. Complainant is Optical Devices,
`LLC.
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`Expert witness and technical consultant to Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP of McLean, Virginia
`on behalf of Pegasus Technologies in 2012 in patent infringement case relating to electronic pen and
`handwriting capture technology, Epos Technologies Ltd. and Dane-Elec v. Pegasus Technologies
`Ltd. and Luidia Inc. in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Provided expert reports
`regarding validity and infringement of the six patents-in-suit and defended same in deposition.
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`Expert witness and technical consultant to Perkins Coie LLP of Denver and Phoenix in 2011 in
`TriQuint Semiconductor v. Avago Technologies in U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona and
`in Avago Technologies v. Aigner and Fattinger in U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida.
`Provided expert rebuttal reports regarding alleged trade secret misappropriation and testimony in
`depositions and also served as a 30(b)6 witness on behalf of TriQuint. Technology relates to bulk
`acoustic wave (BAW) device technology used in RF wireless communications and to MATLAB
`programming. Case settled out of court with a favorable settlement for the client and IP cross
`licenses.
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`Expert witness and technical consultant to Kasowitz, Benson, Torres & Friedman LLP of San
`Francisco in 2011 and Weil, Gotshal and Manges LLP of Redwood Shores, California in 2010 on
`behalf of defendants in patent infringement case relating to disk drive technology, Convolve, Inc. v.
`Dell, Inc., Western Digital Corp., Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, and Hitachi Ltd. in U.S.
`District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, Marshall Division. Provided an expert report on
`invalidity on behalf of Hitachi, Western Digital and Dell, and provided an expert report regarding non-
`infringement on behalf of Hitachi. Technology relates to servo control and end user interface
`technology for seek acoustic noise reduction in disk drives. Provided testimony in deposition and at
`the trial in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, Marshall Division in which plaintiff
`sought nearly $200 million in total damages. Hitachi, Dell and Western Digital obtained favorable
`jury verdicts by being assessed a total of less than three percent of that sought.
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`Expert witness and technical consultant to Brian Cave LLP of St. Louis in 2010 on behalf of Nordyne
`in patent infringement case, Nordyne Inc. v. RBC Manufacturing Corp. in U.S. District Court for the
`Eastern District of Missouri, Eastern Division, relating to motor control in HVAC applications.
`Provided an expert declaration regarding claim construction and was deposed on same. Case
`settled out of court with a favorable settlement for the client.
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`Expert witness and technical consultant to Faegre & Benson LLP of Minneapolis in 2010 on behalf
`of Pella in trade secret and breach of contract case, Shi R2 Solutions, Inc. v. Pella Corporation in
`State Court of Iowa, relating to manufacturing equipment technology. Provided an expert report.
`Case resolved out of court.
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`Expert witness and technical consultant to Schopf & Weiss LLP of Chicago in 2008-9 on behalf of
`Goss in patent infringement case, Goss International Americas, Inc. v. Graphic Management
`Associates et al, in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division, relating to
`newspaper inserting machine technology. Provided expert report regarding validity and was
`deposed on same. Provided an expert declaration on claim construction in 2009 in related patent
`infringement case, Muller Martini Corp. and Muller Martini Mailroom Systems, Inc. v. Goss
`International Americas, Inc. and Goss International Corporation in U.S. District Court for the District
`of Delaware. Cases subsequently settled out of court.
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`Expert witness and technical consultant to Fish & Richardson PC of Boston in 2007-8 on behalf of
`Markem in the patent infringement case Markem Corporation v. Zipher Ltd. and Videojet
`Technologies, Inc. in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire, relating to tape drive
`and printing apparatus control systems. Retained in 2011 by Fish & Richardson in related patent
`infringement cases in same court, Markem-Imaje Corporation v. Zipher Ltd.
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`Expert witness and technical consultant to Michael Best & Friedrich LLP in 2006-2011 in patent
`infringement case, Bristol Company LP v. Bosch Rexroth et al in the U.S. District Court of Colorado,
`involving hydraulic control system equipment. Produced an expert report and provided testimony in
`deposition on non-infringement and invalidity. Also, produced an expert declaration regarding claim
`construction, attended the Markman hearing and assisted counsel in summary judgment action.
`Expert witness and technical consultant to Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll of Denver in 2006 in
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`related legal malpractice / patent infringement case, Bristol Company LP v. Lee Osman and Dorsey
`& Whitney LLP, in Denver District Court, involving hydraulic control system equipment. Produced an
`expert report on non-infringement. Both cases subsequently settled out of court.
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`Expert witness and technical consultant to Cantor Colburn LLP of Bloomfield, Connecticut in 2005-6
`on behalf of Faro Technologies in the patent infringement case, CimCore Corporation, et al v. Faro
`Technologies, Inc. in the U.S. District Court of Southern California, involving 3D coordinate metro-
`logy equipment. Authored expert reports on non-infringement and invalidity, providing expert testi-
`mony in deposition and at a jury trial. Case later settled with a favorable settlement for the client.
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`Expert witness and technical consultant to Holme, Roberts & Owen LLP of Denver and to Brooks
`Kushman, P.C. of Southfield, Michigan from 2003-6 on behalf of StorageTek in patent infringement
`litigation in the U.S. District Court of Colorado, Storage Technology Corporation v. Quantum
`Corporation, involving tape drive optical servo technology. Authored expert reports and provided
`testimony in deposition on infringement and validity. Directed production of animations and
`videography for trial, addressing infringement. Case settled out of court during trial with a $25 million
`settlement for the client and a cross licensing agreement.
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`Expert witness and technical consultant to Fenwick & West LLP of Mountain View, California from
`2003-4 on behalf of Via Technologies of Taiwan in trade secret and patent infringement litigation in
`the U.S. District Court, Central District of California (Western Division), MediaTek, Inc. v. Via
`Technologies, Inc. et al. Disputed technologies involved optical disc drive position sensing, servo
`control and data buffering. Produced four expert reports addressing trade secret matters, patent
`invalidity and non-infringement. Provided testimony in deposition. Case settled out of court with a
`satisfactory settlement for the client.
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`Expert witness and technical consultant to Oliff & Berridge, PLC of Alexandria, Virginia from 2003-4
`on behalf of Nikon of Japan in patent infringement litigation in the U.S. District Court, Northern
`District of California, San Francisco Division, ASML Netherlands B.V. and ASM Lithography, Inc. v.
`Nikon Corporation and Nikon Precision, Inc. Disputed technologies related to semiconductor
`processing microlithography equipment. Provided opinions in expert reports relating to claim
`construction of two ASML reaction frame patents. Cases settled out of court with a favorable
`settlement for the client and cross licensing agreements.
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`Expert witness and technical consultant to Welsh & Katz, Ltd. of Chicago from 1998-2001 on behalf
`of Papst Licensing, GmbH. of Germany in multi-district patent infringement litigation proceedings in
`the U.S. District Court, Eastern Division of Louisiana, involving IBM, Quantum Corporation, Maxtor
`Corporation, Western Digital, Seagate Technologies and Matsushita-Kotobuki Electronics Industries,
`Ltd. of Japan. Related litigation involved Minebea Co., Ltd., of Japan. Disputed technologies
`included hard disk drive spindle motor and mechanical design. Performed priority analysis and
`developed claim charts on the more than twenty patents at issue. The parties settled out of court
`with favorable settlements for the client.
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`Expert witness and technical consultant to Oppenheimer Wolff & Donnelly LLP of Los Angeles in
`2000 on behalf of Harmonic Design in patent infringement and trade secret case, Harmonic Design
`Inc. v. Hunter Douglas Inc., in U.S. District Court, Central District of California, Western Division,
`relating to electronic circuitry, sensors, IR signal demodulation, microprocessors and motor control
`logic. Investigated Hunter Douglas' motorized window covering products for infringement. Wrote an
`expert report on infringement, providing post Markman interpretation of disputed claim terms. Case
`settled out of court with a satisfactory settlement and business arrangement for the client.
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`Expert witness and technical consultant to Holme, Roberts & Owen LLP of Denver in 1999-2000 on
`behalf of Exabyte in patent infringement case, Ecrix Corp. v. Exabyte Corp. Investigated Ecrix's
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`tape drive microcode, electronics and mechanics for infringement of Exabyte patents relating to
`servo and timing control, buffer management, tape format and cartridge loading. Investigated
`infringement and provided technical feedback during depositions of Ecrix personnel. Provided a
`computer animation video of the operation of the Ecrix tape loading mechanism. Case settled out of
`court in a mutually beneficial business arrangement for the parties.
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`Expert witness and technical consultant to Wood, Herron and Evans, L.L.P. of Cincinnati in 1999 in
`patent infringement case, Ran