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Expert has a distinguished track record of providing innovative software solutions across diverse technology platforms and is a recognized leader in the software industry. As the founder of a custom software development company, Expert has been the CEO for over 37 years, overseeing the company's growth into a profitable and award-winning entity. His company is renowned for delivering tailored software products and business solutions to an impressive roster of clients, including Global 1000 and Fortune 500 companies across various industries such as technology, transportation, energy, manufacturing, and healthcare.

Expert's strategic focus includes software product/solution design, usability, and innovation across mobile, desktop, cloud, device, and enterprise platforms. The company boasts an extensive portfolio of projects involving period-relevant technologies, including legacy, client-server, n-tiered, distributed, and cloud environments. His team is skilled in most programming languages and frameworks, from legacy systems like C/C++ to modern high-level platforms such as Java, .Net, Python, JavaScript, Ruby, and various open-source technologies.

As an industry executive with over 45 years of technology education and experience, Expert has been actively involved in the daily management and operation of his company. His responsibilities include business development, contracts, customer relations, project scope, execution and oversight, strategy, management, hiring, and finance. He has negotiated and executed hundreds of complex software and technology contracts and statements of work, often involving material intellectual property aspects. Expert is also deeply engaged in handling and protecting the confidential, proprietary, and trade secret information of his company and its clients.

For two decades, Expert has served as an expert witness in over 150 litigation matters, providing balanced testimony for both plaintiffs and defendants. His cases range from billion-dollar, landscape-changing lawsuits between industry leaders to smaller-scale litigation between individuals or local businesses. His capabilities and resources as a software and computer expert witness include:

- Offering expert testimony under oath at trials, hearings, and depositions.
- Working extensively with counsel to take and defend depositions, review and challenge testimonies, and assist with overall trial presentation strategies.
- Effectively communicating highly technical material to counsel, judges, or juries in understandable terms.
- Leveraging his experienced team of software developers and IT forensic specialists to analyze or recreate relevant software or hardware platforms or scenarios.
- Utilizing proprietary and licensed tools for source code analysis, performance testing, load testing, data recovery and extraction, metadata review, and e-discovery.

Expert's practical implementations of his expertise include:

- Reviewing and comparing software source code and functionality against contractual commitments and intellectual property protections.
- Conducting computer/software forensics, including reverse engineering and reconstructing hardware and software environments.
- Investigating and assessing software project bidding, planning, and performance, with attention to discovery adequacy, specifications, cost estimates, schedules, and deliverables.
- Performing functional and performance testing of software against applicable specifications, warranties, or industry standards.
- Evaluating and using both traditional and modern software development techniques and strategies, including creative payment structures related to software application valuation and intellectual property licensing.
- Reviewing and exercising software applications and IT networks to identify and rectify security issues and weaknesses.

Expert's areas of expertise include:

- Software Trade Secret Misappropriation
- Software Intellectual Property (copyrights, patents, trade secrets, derivative works, copyright management information)
- Software Source Code Comparison and Analysis
- Patent Infringement/Non-infringement and Validity/Invalidity
- Non-compete Agreements
- Computer/Software Forensics and Data Recovery
- Software/Computer Programming
- Software Project Failure Analysis
- Software/Computer Technology & Strategy Mapping
- Software Testing and Quality Analysis
- Software Security
- Software Consultant Errors & Omissions
- Revenue Recognition Models
- Software Schedule Delay Analysis
- Software/Computer Contracts and Licenses
- Software Project Estimating
- Software Outsourcing
- New Computer/Software Product Development and Investigation
- Software Project Statement of Work and Specification Review
- Software Product Economic Life Assessment
- Information Technology Practices and Standards
- E-discovery and Electronic Due Diligence
- Software Proposals
- Software Development Methodologies and Standards
- Internet/Cloud Commerce and Security
- Dispute Resolutions
- Internet & Web Strategies
- Software Application Valuation & Appraisals

Under Expert's direction, his company continues to thrive, providing state-of-the-art software solutions and maintaining a reputation for excellence in the industry.