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Audio and Music Software Digital Signal Processing Programming Expert, Electronic Music and Technology Specialist, Computer Music and Technology Consultant, Audio and Music Programming Patent Litigation Expert Witness Testimony, Engineering Consulting Services
Expertise in custom programming of audio and music software for signal processing, C, C++, JAVA, assemblers for digital signal processing chips, designing signal-processing modules, audio and video post-production, assemblers for musical and audio signal processing applications, research in spline fitting, a 30,000-line two- and three-dimensional graphical editor for waveforms and spectra, porting of a complicated digital signal processing algorithm into the Digidesign TDM Environment, porting of multi-band, multi-channel compressors for manufacturing of audio plugins, and more.

Extensive experience designing scientific, engineering, and musical object-oriented applications, and extensive research on electronic musical instruments and technological developments. Experience includes design of an audio-related chip used in broadcast applications, architecture for a new version of an idiosyncratic signal processing chip, implementation of a highly optimized version of the modified discrete cosine transform (MDCT) for audio compression, reporting on software and music synthesis chip architecture, implementation of telephony encoders / decoders, porting of speech synthesis code, and research involving DSP architecture.

Expert witness in patent litigation relating to audio, music, programming. Specific litigation experience has included providing expert testimony in litigation involving audio compression and MP3, expert testimony in cases involving music downloading, investigation of prior art for hardware relating to patents on virtual memory and cache memory, identifying prior art relating to hardware for placing sound into 3-space, providing expert testimony in a patent violation lawsuit relating to music synthesis, providing prior art research in a case involving patent violation actions in the area of digital graphics, prior art research in the area of music synthesis, especially reverberation, and more

PRINCIPAL INDUSTRIES SERVED
Computer Music, Digital Audio and Video, Legal, Music Software and Hardware

EDUCATION
Ph.D., CCRMA, Music, Computer Architecture, Assembly-Language Processing, Digital Audio, Acoustics, and Digital Hardware, Stanford University
Grant to study electronic music, Tokyo, Japan, IBM Thomas Watson Foundation
Fulbright Scholar. Graduate-level coursework in music theory/history, audio engineering, electronics, information theory, cybernetics, Japanese, Technical University, Berlin
B. Mus, double degree in organ performance and music theory, Oberlin

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Consultant, Kevin Kennedy & Associates, Inc.

Providing expertise in audio and music software digital signal processing programming, electronic music and technology, computer music and technology, audio and music programming patent litigation expert testimony, and related expertise to a wide variety of clients.

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Digital Audio and Music Technology Consultant

Programmed hand-crafted audio and music software for signal processing, written in C, C++, JAVA, and especially assembler for digital signal processing chips. Was expert witness in patent litigation relating to audio, music, programming. Was recruiter filling technical positions in DSP, music, and audio.

President/Vice-President, Yamaha Music Technologies USA, Larkspur, CA

Helped establish and manage a nine-person Ph.D.-level research group, including site search, architectural design, construction, move-in, and hiring. Conducted original research on electronic musical instruments and recent technological developments. Extensive experience designing scientific, engineering, and musical object-oriented applications, especially C++ (UNIX).

Programmer, Lucasfilm/Droid Works, San Rafael, CA

Provided full-time programming, designing signal-processing modules and writing (96-bit VLIW) microcode for the ASP/SoundDroid developed by James A. Moorer. Experience in audio and video post-production. Extensive work in C (Unix). Another six months full-time experience writing tightly packed assembly code for the TI TMS32010 DSP chip, especially for a two-channel hard-disk audio record playback unit that played without bugs on the exhibition floor of the National Association of Broadcasters convention.

Doctoral Student, Stanford University, Stanford, CA

Developed code in high-level languages (Algol, Fortran, SAIL) and PDP-10 assembler for musical and audio signal processing applications during doctoral thesis work. Included original published research in spline fitting, a 30,000-line two- and three-dimensional graphical editor for waveforms and spectra, implementation (with John Gordon) of the short-time Fourier transform, device drivers, and libraries for graphic user interfaces. Did part-time consulting work also for clients such as SRI International (FORTRAN for mechanical engineering), Mattel Electronics (music in consumer electronic toys), IntelliGenetics (ALGOL-like code for biotechnology), Digital Keyboards (product specification and complete manuals for GDS and Synergy Synthesizers).

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
International Computer Music Association
Elected member of the AES Board of Governors
Midi Manufacturers Association (MMA)
Acoustical Society of America
Senior Member, IEEE

PUBLICATIONS
Numerous patents related to digital music and music technology. Authored numerous publications on topics related to digital sound synthesis, computer music, digital audio engineering, digital audio signal processing, and music technology.

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