EW #706 is a Certified Management Consultant with 30+ years of Information Technology experience as senior executive, project manager, consultant, business process re-engineer, expert witness and arbitrator. Prior to entering consulting in 1985 he held senior management positions at Margrace Corp., Publishers Clearing House and Hoffmann-LaRoche. He is a graduate of MIT's Sloan School of Management and holds a Master's degree from Columbia University.

Provide expert advice, prepare expert reports and act as an expert witness in technology-related cases.

Examples of Case Experience:

Provided questions for an attorney to pose in deposing an expert witness as well as advice during the deposition. The case involved an individual vs. a gambling casino – claim was that a slot machine had indicated a “winner” but had not made a pay-out. Represented the plaintiff.

Provided expert report for a law firm on the contents of a computer hard-drive which an organization believed was being used by an employee to conduct non-company business. Represented the defendant.

Provided expert report for a law firm whose client had stopped paying for software which was being developed for them because the developers were not meeting schedule dates or functionality requirements. Represented the defendant.

Provided expert report for a law firm, was deposed and testified before a jury in Federal Court in a dispute involving the acceptability of custom software developed for a large multi-line insurance agency by a vendor. The software, an upgrade from an earlier version offered by this vendor, failed to meet the insurance agency’s needs. Represented the defendant.

Reviewed the contents of a computer that was allegedly being used by an employee of a school district to download adolescent pornographic materials. Provided advice as to the possibility of proving the employee downloaded the files found on the computer. Represented the plaintiff.

Provided advice for the purchaser of a hardware / software solution who was seeking damages from the supplier. The system had been failing, losing data and/or producing incorrect results sporadically and the purchaser procured another system to replace it. Represented the plaintiff.

Provided expert report for an attorney and testified in State Superior Court in a criminal case involving the source of e-mail. Represented the defendant.

Provided expert report for an arbitration hearing for an organization utilizing an applications service provider (ASP) for all its computer processing. A programming error caused the organization to unnecessarily spend several million dollars. Represented the claimant (arbitration).

Examples of experience as an Arbitrator (for American Arbitration Association):

Served as both a sole Arbitrator and as part of three-person panels on many cases since 1990. Cases have included disputes over: computer services / software development, software packaging and distribution, software sales / distribution agreements, payment for services rendered by a professional services firm and an e-commerce firm, etc.

Arbitration panels served on have ranged in length of hearings from one to more than twenty days.

Acted as the sole arbitrator on a case involving a dispute between a reseller of a product with computer software components and the product’s developer.

Selected as an arbitrator on six cases in 2003. Cases included: payment for a software package, payment for services used to create a website and non-performance of software.

Have taken a number of arbitration courses, including a 2-day Advanced Arbitration course in February, 2002 and at least one additional course each year since then.



Professional Information
Practice Description
Help organizations determine their Information Technology and Information Security needs, specify alternative ways of satisfying them and present these alternatives and a recommended solution to Management. Then help manage the implementation of the resultant projects so that they are completed on time and within budget and perform as planned.
Provide expert advice and act as an expert witness in technology-related cases, including providing expert reports, being deposed and testifying in federal and state courts. Act as an arbitrator for technology-related disputes.

Personal Background
National Lecturer for the ACM on Database Management Systems; frequent speaker at professional and technical meetings and writer of articles for professional journals (recent topics include Information Security, using the Internet and Data Warehouses/Data Marts); reviewer of books/articles for ACM "Computing Reviews"; Adjutant faculty member for more than 15 years at various universities teaching both undergraduate and graduate courses.
Former Regional Chairman of MIT Educational Council and President of MIT Club of Northern NJ; Recipient of MIT's George Morgan Award and MIT Club of Northern NJ's Outstanding Alumnus Award; Panelist for American Arbitration Assoc., MIT Enterprise Forum, NJ Entrepreneurs Forum; Graduate of MIT's Sloan School and hold Master's degree from Columbia University.

Professional Associations
Former President, New Jersey Chapter of the Institute of Management Consultants, and a Certified Management Consultant (CMC) since 1989

Company Background
Principal, Practical Computer Solutions 1985-Present; Vice President - Operations and MIS and member of Board of Directors, Margrace Corp. 1982-1985; Director - MIS, Publishers Clearing House 1978-1982; MIS Management positions, Hoffmann-LaRoche, Inc. 1965-1978.

Consulting Experience
Recent assignments include: Directing efforts for complying with governmental regulations for an international organization; Information Security solutions investigations and recommendations to remedy security gaps; Call Center computer telephony and customer resource management (CRM) integration product selection; global internet connectivity vendor selection; Project Management Office establishment (for a dot-com organization); enterprise systems upgrade planning and implementation; inventory system improvement; contingency planning; expert testimony on technology issues; data warehouse system design and project management; document imaging systems design and installation; system conversion; JAD session facilitation; RFP writing and proposal evaluation.