EW #1655 provides consulting services to clients that require in-depth telecommunications technology expertise in the areas of complex litigation support, network architecture & design analysis, patent process support, business model analysis & due diligence.
Practice is limited to telecommunications issues, specializing in emerging technologies: carrier-grade VoIP, Internet telephony, H.323, Session Initiation Protocol and packet-switched networks.

He is a computer and network architectural specialist concentrating on voice, video, data and facsimile transmission systems for the telecommunications industry. He has eighteen years of industrial R&D experience developing computer hardware and software systems for microprocessor platforms. He has provided technical leadership for both basic research and engineering projects. Most recently his research and developments have focused on emerging voice-over-packet telecommunications network architectures, including network-based enhanced services platforms and switching systems within IP-based carrier networks.

EW #1655  has been a regular speaker at industry events and standards body meetings where he has presented original work and offered perspectives on various telecommunications technology topics. He has extensive experience introducing new technology to senior technical staff at major telecommunications carriers, including SBC Communications, Verizon, BellSouth, Qwest, Global Crossing, WorldCom, Sprint, Allegiance and NTT in Japan. As a recognized innovator in the telecommunications industry, and as a corporate CTO and entrepreneur for more than seven years, he manages intellectual property at all levels: contributions range from advising corporations and organizations on the process of patenting new developments to authoring the technology disclosures used for patent filing purposes. He has worked extensively with Fish & Richardson, P.C. (Boston) on intellectual property issues since 1995 and with Hale & Dorr, LLP (Boston) on business-related legal issues since 1997.

He was most recently CTO of Accensus, a privately funded technology venture he co-founded in September 2001. Prior to Accensus, he co-founded IPeria (Burlington, Massachusetts) in 1995. As CTO of IPeria, he was responsible for advance technology research and new product development. During his first three years at IPeria, he focused on the development of the IPeria Service NodeTM product architecture, including its core Virtualized Multimedia Connection SystemTM technology.

Since founding IPeria in 1995, EW #1655 has filed four US technology patents, three of which were the result of his research at IPeria and have since been commercially deployed as part of that company’s product offering. From 1990 to 1995, he worked in the software industry developing first data communications, then telecommunications products: from 1992 to 1995, he participated in the design and implementation of PictureTel's (PCTL) first standards-based videoconferencing system, and from 1990 to 1992 he developed TCP/IP data communications software products for Ungermann-Bass Corporation under contract for Microsoft Corporation (MSFT). From 1984 to 1990, his R&D efforts focused on system software development, real-time operating systems, and biomedical instrumentation supporting real-time visual display technologies.

EW #1655  studied biochemistry and computer sciences, attending the University of Vermont, Merrimack College and Northeastern University.

Litigation Support Experience

Type of Matter: Complaint for patent infringement; working on behalf of defendant Nortel
Law Firm: Mince, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C.
Case Name: Foundry Networks, Inc. v. Nortel Networks, Inc. (2003)
Services Provided: Expert in areas of Internet telephony technology and related packet-switched network architecture
Disposition: ongoing

Type of Matter: Complaint for damages, fraud; working on behalf of defendant Lucent
Law Firm: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLP
Case Name: ISPtel v. Lucent Technologies (2002-2003)
Services Provided: Expert in areas of Internet telephony technology and related business/finance/market issues
Disposition: Confidential settlement

Type of Matter: Complaint for damages, fraud; working on behalf of defendant Cisco
Law Firm: Colson Hicks Eidson
Case Name: Vox2Vox v. Cisco Systems (2002-2003)
Services Provided: Expert in areas of Internet telephony technology and related business/finance/market issues
Disposition: Confidential settlement

Type of Matter: Complaint for damages, fraud; working on behalf of defendant Lucent
Law Firm: Stone Pigman Walther Wittman, LLC
Case Name: Actel Integrated Communications v. Lucent Technology (2002-2004)
Services Provided: Expert in areas of Internet telephony technology and related business/finance/market issues
Disposition: Confidential settlement

Type of Matter: Complaint for damages, fraud; working on behalf of defendant AT&T
Law Firm: Carlton Fields
Case Name: United States Data Authority v. AT&T (2003)
Services Provided: Expert in areas of Internet telephony technology and related business/finance/market issues
Disposition: Suspended until further notice

Patent Applications

Application Number: 10/122,589 (pending)
Title: Distributed Class 5 Edge Switching System For Voice-over-packet Multiservice Telephone Network

Application Number: 60/185,549 (pending)
Title: Apparatus and Method For Telephony Service Interface to Software Switch Controller

Application Number: 60/077,422 (abandoned)
Title: Integrated Telemessaging System

Application Number: 08/703,463 (pending)
Title: Virtualized Multimedia Connection System

Education

2001 Global Knowledge
Advanced Professional Studies (2 courses):
• “Converging Voice and Data Networks”
• “Voice over IP”

1993 Northeastern University
• “C++ Object-Oriented Programming"

1993 Learning Tree International
Professional Training (3 courses):
• “Real-time Operating Systems”
• “ISDN Concepts and Frame Structure”
• “OS/2: A Comprehensive Hands-on Introduction”

1989 Microsoft University
• “OS/2 Block and Character Device Driver Development in C”

1984-1986 Merrimack College
(Junior & Senior years)
• Majors in computer science and biochemistry

1982-1984 University of Vermont
• Major: Biochemistry