This expert has more than 30 years of experience as an academic, industry practitioner and litigation support and expert witness. His experience includes management, design, and development in telecommunications, signal processing systems, modem development and integrated circuit development. Expertise encompasses error-correcting codes, telecommunications, digital signal processing (both algorithms and implementation), digital systems design, communications theory, integrated circuit design, and CAD. In addition, this expert is the recipient of patents and awards for his efforts in the fields of communications and VLSI circuits. He also provides support for technical patent prosecution, licensing, and litigation in the areas of communications, modems, digital signal processing (DSP), digital video and audio, and error correcting codes. He has been an expert witness on several occasions, and has been deposed and has testified at arbitration, bench trial, and at Markman hearings.