Dr. Knutson is the Founder of Ironwood Experts and co-founder of Source Code Discovery, LLC (sourcecodediscovery.com). He is an Emeritus Professor of Computer Science at Brigham Young University, Founder and former Director of the BYU SEQuOIA ("Software Engineering Quality: Observation, Insight, Analysis") Lab, and Founder and former Director of the BYU Mobile Computing Lab. He is currently Associate Professor of Computer Science at Utah Valley University. Dr. Knutson has 33 years of industry experience, including engineering and management positions at Hewlett-Packard and Novell, Inc. He is the Founder, Chair, and CEO of Kinpoint, Inc., a genealogy software company. He was Vice President of R&D at Counterpoint Systems Foundry, Inc. (now OpenSynergy, Inc.), the world's leading provider of IrDA and Bluetooth protocol stacks for embedded systems. Dr. Knutson has more than 120 technical publications in areas including mobile computing, medical informatics, and software engineering. He holds a Ph.D. in computer science from Oregon State University, and B.S. and M.S. degrees in computer science from BYU.

Dr. Knutson has consulted on a wide range of legal cases and has submitted or contributed to dozens of expert reports on topics including: mobile and wireless computing systems, embedded systems and architectures, distributed network architectures, firewalls, location services, and many others. Dr. Knutson is an expert in software engineering and related development processes, and has worked on cases involving failed software projects, trade secret and source code misappropriation, and technology-centered contract disputes. Dr. Knutson has served as a testifying or consulting expert for 7 of the 12 largest technology companies in the U.S.

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Dr. Krein is a former adjunct professor of computer science and university researcher turned industry consultant and trainer focused on software process improvement and product design. Dr. Krein is a subject matter expert in software engineering, software quality, data analytics, machine learning & AI, e-commerce, wireless communications, networking, embedded systems, web technologies, and user interfaces. He has submitted or contributed to dozens of expert reports on various topics, including: cloud computing, web technologies, e-commerce, virtualization software, mobile and wireless computing systems, software engineering processes, backup and recovery software, industrial robot control software, supercomputing, DoD security and personnel management, online advertising, horizontal directional drilling, and many others. Dr. Krein is adept at applying strategic understanding to identify source code evidence. He has extensive experience in both source code review and systems analysis, including reverse engineering, as well as the diagramming and explanation of systems and source code suitable to non-technical audiences.

Industry Experience: Dr. Krein served as President and CEO, and then CTO for Kinpoint, Inc. and was the chief software architect for Kinpoint products during that timeframe, including delivering an iOS/Android app to market that garnered half-a-million users in its first two years post release. Dr. Krein served as Adjunct Professor for the Dept. of Computer Science at Brigham Young University (BYU), as a researcher at IBM's T. J. Watson research center in New York, as a professional software engineer for the Office of IT at BYU, and, among other things, actively consults for the software industry. Dr. Krein has also reviewed for and published numerous articles in academic and trade journals and conferences over the course of his career.

Litigation Experience: Dr. Krein has served as a testifying and consulting expert on more than 35 matters to date, and is experienced at giving testimony by reports, deposition, and at trial. His litigation experience includes, among others, trade secret misappropriation, copyright infringement, breach of contract, patent infringement and related, software as a good vs. a service, negligence, and many others. He also has experience with prior art search and analysis, claim charting, and inter partes reviews (IPRs) before the PTAB.

Education: Dr. Krein holds Ph.D., M.S., and B.S. degrees, summa cum laude, in computer science from Brigham Young University (BYU).

Activities and Affiliations:

• – Co-founder & Managing Partner, Source Code Discovery (sourcecodediscovery.com)
• – Chief Scientist over Data Science & Software Engineering, Crimson Vista (crimsonvista.com)
• – Chair, Board of Directors, Kids On The Move (kotm.org)
• – Member, Board of Directors, Kinpoint, Inc. (kinpoint.com)

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Mr. Webster has been working in information technology (IT) for 40 years, in a variety of industries, including defense, flight simulation, space sciences, environmental monitoring, desktop productivity, global telecommunications, financial and logistics. Since 1995, he has conducted numerous reviews of existing and proposed IT systems, products, projects, and organizations; in the process, he has evaluated project management practices, system architecture, software design and implementation, quality assurance and testing practices, security issues, personnel qualifications and performance, and intellectual property protection.

Since 1999, Webster has qualified and testified at trial as an IT expert in US District Courts (New York, Florida, Texas, Illinois, Colorado), US Bankruptcy Court (Virginia), in various state and circuit courts, and at arbitration hearings. He has served as an expert witness in arbitrations in Japan and the United Kingdom. He has served as a sole arbitrator himself, with both parties abiding by his findings; he has served three times as a neutral expert. He has testified three times before the US House of Representatives on IT issues. He is the author of four books on IT and spent two years teaching Computer Science at Brigham Young University. He has a BS in Computer Science from BYU (1978) and did graduate work in Computer Science at the University of Houston/Clear Lake.

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Mr. Hardy is founder and President of National Security Corporation and has provided cyber security expertise to government, military, and commercial clients for over 30 years. Also founder of CardKill Inc., he is a retired U.S. Navy Captain, and an internationally recognized security expert who has presented at over 250 events world-wide. He serves on the Advisory Board of the National CyberWATCH Center. A graduate of Northwestern University, he holds a BS in Computer Science, a BA in Mathematics, a Masters in Business Administration, a Masters in Strategic Studies, and holds CISSP, CISM, GSLC, and CISA certifications.

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Dr. Morse is a Professor of Computer Science at Brigham Young University, where he co-directs the Computer Graphics, Vision, and Image Processing Laboratory and formerly served as department Associate Chair. He has over 28 years of experience working with various forms of digital media and their applications, including image and video editing, computer graphics, visualization, robotics, image libraries, and medical imaging. Dr. Morse is respected in his research community and serves as an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence as well as a member of the Executive Committee of the IEEE Computer Society's Technical Activities and Conferences Board. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Dr. Harrison is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Utah Valley University, where he is the director of the software engineering program. Prior to working at UVU, he was a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff at Bell Laboratories (now Avaya). He was one of the early developers of software patterns, and is one of the leading experts in patterns of agile software development. Dr. Harrison is the co-author and editor of several books, and has numerous articles in publications including the Journal of Systems and Software and IEEE Software.

Dr. Harrison holds a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Groningen, the Netherlands, an M.S. degree in computer science from Purdue University, and a B.S. degree in computer science from Brigham Young University.

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A software engineer with 30 years' experience at companies ranging in size from 6 to 6,000, Peter has a wide array of experience, ranging from writing user interfaces to writing code for firmware, and from business management applications to scientific programming. Peter was a frequent presenter at the Novell Developer Conference, including BrainShare Europe. He holds an M.S. degree in psychology from Indiana University with a computer science minor.

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Mr. Thacker is a Product Manager in Brigham Young University's Harold B. Lee Library. He is also an M.S. candidate in the Department of Computer Science at Brigham Young University and member of the BYU SEQuOIA Lab. Curtis has 8 years industry experience as a Software Engineer and has Bachelor's degrees in computer science and applied mathematics from Brigham Young University - Idaho.

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