John Levy, Ph.D.
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Listed in Computers, Software Engineering
- Point Reyes Station, CA 94956, USA
- 415 663-1818
- johnlevyexpert.com
M.S., Electrical Engineering, California Institute of Technology
B. Engineering Physics, Cornell University
Association for Computing Machinery
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers: Computer Society – National Lecturer on bus design
Forensic Expert Witness Association
Bus standards - ATA – ATAPI – IDE - 1394 FireWire I-Link - SCSI
Computer design – CPU – multiprocessor – input/output – I/O controller
Memory design – memory controller – cache – Flash memory – RAM, ROM
Hard disk – RAID – storage network – SAN – NAS – distributed storage
Internet protocol – http – cookies – web server
Software - firmware - embedded systems – software development
Operating system - file system – file server – file access protocol
Simulation - performance - benchmark
1999 to Present John Levy Consulting
and 1982 to 1992 Management Consultant
Managing development of computers, software and storage devices.
General business consulting for small firms, both for-profit and nonprofit.
Expert witness in intellectual property and contract dispute litigation.
1993 to 1998 Quantum Corporation
Director, Systems Engineering
Hired and managed an engineering organization of 27 people; Made Quantum a leader in hard disk interface technology - ATA/33, /66, SCSI-160M; Developed software/hardware tools for firmware & system validation; Led disk drive performance enhancements in caching, system performance modeling and simulation, Windows software drivers; Member of strategic planning team.
1979 to 1982 Apple Computer, Inc.
Engineering Supervisor
Hardware & firmware development of local area network on Lisa team;
Design of hardware/firmware interpreter for Pascal p-machine processor.
1977 to 1979 Tandem Computer, Inc.
Senior Engineer
Advanced development of next-generation multi-processor systems;
Study of rollback-recovery in distributed databases.
1972 to 1977 Digital Equipment Corp.
Consulting Engineer
Design of computer processor hardware & operating system software; Design of Input/Output subsystems, distributed systems, distributed storage systems; Design of buses for high-speed I/O channels and for minicomputer systems.
Dr. Levy is a technical leader in the computer, software and hard disk industry with over thirty years experience; Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University.
Areas of expertise include:
Bus design – system bus – local area network (LAN)
Bus standards – ATA – ATAPI – IDE – 1394 FireWire I-Link – SCSI
Computer design – CPU – multiprocessor – input/output – I/O controller
Memory design – memory controller – cache – Flash memory – RAM, ROM
Hard disk – RAID – storage network – SAN – NAS – distributed storage
Internet protocol – http – cookies – web server
Software – firmware – embedded systems – software development
Operating system – file system – file server – file access protocol
Simulation – performance – benchmark
Inventor on seven patents and author of a book and several published technical papers. Engaged as an expert in over 50 cases, testified in deposition and at trial; technical advisor to two Federal District Court judges.