As an expert witness, I would be able to assist a litigation team in either a testifing or litigation support role. I can work on Internet, technology, patents and intellectual property cases for both plaintiff and defense.

I have been a founder of several different startup companies across a variety of industries yielding me a diverse business and technical background. The industries I have been involved with include; telecommunications, transportation, and the Internet as a few examples. Over 18 years, my career has spanned the business planning, marketing, branding, finances, human resources, and technical aspects of the companies I have owned and worked for. My current skill set would be best utilized as the leader/contributor of a major business unit, working with the business, technical and legal departments of an Internet or technology based organization.

In 1990, I founded the Dallas/Fort-Worth Internet based singles, dating and social networking website MatchMaker.com . The site was profitable and self funded (no venture capital) until February 1999. Under my leadership, Matchmaker.com was the first and worlds largest singles/dating site/network having over 4 million users yielding up to 230 million page views per month and generating over $7 Million per annum . The company was sold to Lycos for $45 Million cash after the Internet bubble/crash of 2000.

Over the course of MatchMaker.com's history, I was the founding President and CEO, the first full-time employee and largest single common shareholder. Under my leadership, media metrics rated us as the 2nd stickiest site on the Internet, and was growing at a rate of 8% or greater per month, making it the largest on-line dating site at that time. In 1995 when I decided to make Matchmaker.com my full time career, I was the only employee. By 1999, I had created a fully functional corporation with 28 full time employees and 11 remote part time employees, generating over $7 Million in annual revenue. By the time we sold to Lycos in July 2000 Matchmaker.com employed 124 people in 8 separate departments. This necessitated me becoming an expert in a variety of fields in order to grow this company over this very short time-line.

I was in the on-line dating and singles business before companies like Yahoo!, Lycos, Match.com, Lavalife, Friendfinder, or eHarmony had a web site or much less even existed.  I built the business case for these and other companies to enter the on-line dating space or business.  Many experts have credited MatchMaker.com as the "pinnacle of the online dating industry" and me as the creator of this multi-billion dollar Internet space. 

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When e-commerce was in its infancy, in 1990, MatchMaker.com was performing Internet email and on-line financial transactions before most people even knew how to log on to the Internet. The amazing success of MatchMaker.com literally created the business case for other companies to enter the on-line dating market.

The network design for MatchMaker.com was years ahead of the industry standard routing protocols. As a result I was forced to develop a routing model/tool to optimize the content delivery for Internet traffic. These tools assisted a networking engineer in building the routing tables for a gateway router before BGP was able to calculate these factors.

I have a unique talent of being able to quickly prototype solutions to critical business problems. This helps the business team make informed decisions more rapidly, staying ahead of the competition. My experience allows me to come up with unique and effective engineering solutions to solve real business problems. Lastly, I am one of the owners on this Expert Witness Site/Network, if I am not the right expert for your needs, contact me