My professional career has been about two things: analyzing technical topics and explaining them. Over the past 25 years, I have applied those skills to the four main areas of my IT career: technical seminars, consulting, books, and expert witness work.

The analysis part of my work involves research, experimentation, and critical thinking, all of which I developed during my engineering training at Stanford. I am a dogged researcher and have a large library of print and electronic reference material. I take a scientific approach to testing and experimentation, which has helped me design effective experiments in my legal work. As a critical thinker, I can get to "the heart of the matter," see both sides of an argument, structure concepts into a clear framework, and identify strengths and weaknesses in my own logic and that of others.

The explaining part of my work requires writing skills, which I have developed over the course of writing many seminars, books, magazine articles, blog postings, and white papers; and verbal skills (important in deposition and in court) which have been sharpened by delivering hundreds of technical seminars all over the world and appearing in several computer videos. In both my written and verbal work, I tailor my presentation to the technical level of my audience.