Mr. Jestice has over 30 years of experience with storage devices, file systems, networking, embedded software systems for industry, telecommunications and consumer products. His mission is to provide an accurate analysis of computer software in the area of Patents, Copyrights and software failures, enabling his clients to make informed decisions about their case. Mr. Jestice has conducted seminars and classes both privately and publicly. His reports have been recognized as being very complete, detailed and in language that is understandable to people unfamiliar with the technologies. Mr Jestice has written expert reports, testified by deposition and by trial.
Background
Q: Please list any teaching or speaking experience you have had, including subject matter:A: 1. "C" programming for the Amdahl Corporation.
2. Assembler coding and error handling at the Amdahl Corporation.
3. ATA disk interfaces for Zadian Technologies.
4. SCSI interfaces for Zadian Technologies.
5. 370/XA assembler programming. Itel Corporation Canada
6. 370/XA assembler programming, Palo Alto California
7. Introduction to Cobol programming. Hatfield Polytechnic, Hatfield, UK
8. PPC/U-Boot porting for the PPC 440GP. Bangalore India.
9. Data Integrity testing for mainframes. Kawasaki Japan.
10.Internet for power and electronics industry. Dallas Texas.
11.Basic 370 assembler programming. Orange Coast College, California.
12.Neat/3 programming for Customer Engineers. Hertfordshire CC, Hertford UK.
Q: Have any of your accreditations ever been investigated, suspended or removed? (if yes, explain)
A: Never
Q: On how many occasions have you been retained as an expert?
A: 16 times.
Q: For what area(s) of expertise have you been retained as an expert?
A: Patent infringement cases:
- Analysis of Game programming source code.
- Analysis of I2C interface data packets and coding.
- Review of source code of digital TV's
- Analysis of source code for domestic appliances.
- Research and report on prior art for Internet tracking program.
Contract/Royalty dispute:
- Analysis of Game programming source code and graphics.
Trade secrets theft:
- Analysis of Ethernet data streams and mpg files.
Malpractice:
- Capture and analysis of disk drive erased files.
Copyright infringement:
- Analysis of source code data from file systems recovery utility program.
Technology theft:
- Review technology and source code of file system recovery utility.
Failure analysis:
- Review the diagnostic software and failures of computer systems.
Computer forensics:
- Capture and analysis of computer systems in a sexual harassment case.
- Capture and analysis of computer systems in malpractice case.
- Capture, password break QuickBooks file in mis-representation case.
- Capture and analyze Point of sale (POS) records in fraud case.
Q: In what percentage of your cases were you retained by the plaintiff?
A: 40%
Q: In what percentage of your cases were you retained by the defendant?
A: 60%
Q: On how many occasions have you had your deposition taken?
A: 2
Q: When was the last time you had your deposition taken?
A: Within the last 6 months
Q: On how many occasions have you been qualified by a court to give expert testimony?
A: 8
Q: On how many occasions have you testified as an expert in court or before an arbitrator?
A: 1
Q: For how many years have you worked with the legal industry as an expert?
A: 15
Q: What services do you offer? (E.g.: consulting, testing, reports, site inspections etc.)
A: Consulting, research, computer forensics, failure analysis, expert reports, custom programming.
Q: What is your hourly rate to consult with an attorney?
A: $225
Q: What is your hourly rate to review documents?
A: $225
Q: What is your hourly rate to provide deposition testimony?
A: $250
Q: What is your hourly rate to provide testimony at trial?
A: $250
Q: Please list any fees other than those stated above (E.g.: travel expenses, copy fees, etc.)
A: travel and equipment expenses where appropriate.
