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`P.O. Box 1419, Point Reyes Station, CA 94956
`415 269-4096 http://johnlevyexpert.com info@johnlevyexpert.com
`SUMMARY OF EXPERIENCE
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`Dr. Levy is a technical leader in the computer, software and storage industry with
`over thirty years’ experience; Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford
`University.
`Areas of expertise include:
`Bus design – system bus - local area network (LAN)
`Bus standards - ATA – ATAPI – IDE - 1394 FireWire - SCSI
`Computer design – CPU – multiprocessor – input/output – I/O controller
`Memory design – memory controller – cache
`Hard disk – RAID – storage network – SAN – NAS – distributed storage
`Software – firmware – software development
`Operating system - file system – file server – file access protocol
`Simulation - performance - benchmark
`Inventor on seven patents and author of a book and several published technical
`papers. Engaged as an expert in over 60 cases including at least 5 involving IPRs,
`deposition and trial testimony; technical advisor to two Fed. District Court judges.
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`PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
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`1999 to Present
`John Levy Consulting
`and 1982 to 1992
`Management Consultant
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`Managing development of computers, software and storage devices.
`General business consulting for small firms, both for-profit and nonprofit.
`Expert witness in intellectual property and contract dispute litigation.
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`Quantum Corporation
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`1993 to 1998
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`Director, Systems Engineering
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`Hired and managed an engineering organization of 27 people; Made Quantum a
`leader in hard disk interface technology - ATA/33, /66, SCSI-160M; Developed
`software/hardware tools for firmware & system validation; Led disk drive
`performance enhancements in caching, system performance modeling and
`simulation, Windows software drivers; Member of strategic planning team.
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`Apple Computer, Inc.
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`1979 to 1982
`Engineering Supervisor
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`Hardware & firmware development of local area network on Lisa team;
`Design of hardware/firmware interpreter for Pascal p-machine processor.
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`1977 to 1979
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`Tandem Computer, Inc.
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`Senior Engineer
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`Advanced development of next-generation multi-processor systems;
`Study of rollback-recovery in distributed databases.
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`Digital Equipment Corp.
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`1972 to 1977
`Consulting Engineer
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`Design of computer processor hardware & operating system software; Design of
`Input/Output subsystems, distributed systems, distributed storage systems; Design
`of buses for high-speed I/O channels and for minicomputer systems.
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`EDUCATION
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`Ph.D., Computer Science, Stanford University, 1973
` M.S., Electrical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, 1966
` B. Engineering Physics, Cornell University, 1965
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`LITIGATION RELATED EXPERIENCE – Please see separate summary
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`PUBLICATIONS
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`Get Out of the Way: How to Manage Development of Timely, Innovative and
`Relevant Products, Cupertino, CA: Happy About Publishing, May, 2010
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`If Extreme Programming is Good Management, What Were We Doing
`Before? EDN Magazine, November 13, 2003.
`Twelve Things to Ask Your Software Development Team,
`ComputerWorld Online, September 22, 2003.
`A File Structure for Non-Erasable Media, with Wayne Wang,
`Ninth IEEE Symposium on Mass Storage Systems, pp. 72-76, 1988.
`also published as “An Operating System-Independent WORM File System” in
`Software for Optical Storage, Meckler Corp., 1989, pp. 23-54
`Small Image Retrieval System, with Wayne Wang,
`Ricoh Technical Report No. 16, pp. 93-95, 1987.
`Buses, the Backbone of Computer Structures, in Computer Engineering
`(Chapter 11), by Bell et al. (editors), Digital Press, 1978.
`Computing with Multiple Microprocessors, (Ph.D. Thesis)
`Stanford Linear Accelerator Center Report No. 161, 1973
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`U.S. PATENTS
`Patent Number
`4,245,303
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` Year Issued
`1981
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`4,229,791
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`4,232,366
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`4,045,781
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`1980
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`1980
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`1977
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`Title
`Memory for Data Processing System with
`Command and Data Buffering
`Distributed Arbitration Circuitry for Data
`Processing System
`Bus for a Data Processing System with
`Overlapped Sequences
`Memory Module with Selectable Byte
`Addressing for Digital Data
`Processing System
`Drive for Connection to Multiple
`Controllers in a Digital Data
`Secondary Storage Facility
`Secondary Storage Facility for Data
`Processing Systems
`Drive Condition Detecting Circuit for
`Secondary Storage Facilities in Data
`Processing Systems
`PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS & AWARDS
`Association for Computing Machinery
`Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers:
`Computer Society – National Lecturer on bus design
`Forensic Expert Witness Association
`UNIVERSITY-LEVEL TEACHING
` University of San Francisco, Fromm Institute for Lifelong Learning
`2017
`Artificial Intelligence in the World
`2016
`Artificial Intelligence and You
`2015
`Navigating the Digital World
`2014
`Innovation & Computers in the Modern World
`2013
`The Meaning of Life in the Digital World
`2012, 2010, 2008, 2006
`The Digital Revolution in the Home
`2011, 2009, 2007, 2005
`Computers - the Inside Story
` San Francisco State University
` 1980-81
` Computer Input/Output Architecture
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`4,007,448
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`1977
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`3,999,163
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`3,911,400
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`1976
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`1975
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