Monty G. Myers is the founder and CEO of Eureka Software Solutions Inc. Now in its 24th year, Eureka is a leading project-oriented, custom software development company based in Austin, Texas. The company has built software products and business solutions for an impressive client list which includes members of the Global 1000, Fortune 500, notable private companies, and numerous high-profile start-up organizations. Eureka has a highly successful track record providing state-of-the-art software solutions on a variety of technology platforms. Eureka has enjoyed great business success and has received multiple achievement awards. As the leader of Eureka, Mr. Myers is truly a practicing industry expert.
• Currently active software industry executive with 30+ years experience.
• CEO and Founder of Eureka Software Solutions, Inc. (“Eureka”)
• Involvement in all aspects of the daily management and operation of Eureka, including business development, contracts, customer relations, project scope, strategy and management, hiring and finance.
• Negotiated and performed hundreds of real-world software and technology contracts and statements of work involving complex software project and licensing terms and conditions including material intellectual property aspects.
• Actively engaged in handling protecting the confidential, proprietary and trade secret information and technology of Eureka and its clients.
• Equally comfortable in either a consulting or testifying expert role.
• Proficient at giving depositions and offering in-court testimony – hearings and trial.
• Experienced in assisting counsel with the taking and defending of depositions, reviewing and challenging the testimony of others, and preparing and implementing an overall trial strategy.
• Adept at taking highly technical material in the software field and effectively communicating it to a judge or laymen in terms they can understand.
• Ready availability of Eureka’s experienced team of software developers and IT forensic specialists as needed to analyze or recreate a relevant software or hardware platforms or scenarios.
• Direct access to and familiarity with proprietary and licensed tools and software to assist with code analysis and performance testing, load testing, data recovery and extraction, metadata review and management and e-discovery.
Practical Implementations of Expertise
• Review and comparison of software code and functionality in relation to contractual commitments and requirements and/or protected intellectual property including, trade secrets, copyrights and patents.
• Computer/software forensics – able to reverse engineer and reconstruct hardware and software environments from backups, remnants and fragments of historical software. Eureka IT and Software development team is skilled at re-creating past hardware and software environments.
• Investigation and assessment of software project bidding, planning and performance with particular attention to adequacy of discovery, specifications, cost estimates, schedules and deliverables.
Practical Implementations of Expertise (continued)
• Functional and performance testing of software against applicable specification, warranty or industry standard using proprietary and commercial testing tools and techniques.
• Evaluation and use of both traditional and cutting edge software development techniques and strategies, including creative payment structures related to software application/effort valuation and intellectual property licensing and ownership.
• Reviewing and exercising software applications and IT networks to expose and correct security issues and weaknesses
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References
Karen BurgessTaylor, Dunham and Burgess LLC
301 Congress Avenue, Suite 1050
Austin, Texas 78701
(512) 473-2257
kburgess@taylordunham.com
Joseph P. McKay
Friday, Eldridge & Clark
400 West Capitol Avenue
Suite 2000
Little Rock, AR 72201-3522
(501) 370-1497
jmckay@fec.net
