Henry H. Houh
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`26 Liberty Ave.
`Lexington, MA 02420
`(781) 861-6191
`cell: (781) 325-8273
`henry.houh@gmail.com
`Expert Testimony
` Trial and deposition-tested technical expert witness with expertise in:
`o Voice-over-IP, Streaming Video, Streaming Media
`o Telecommunications, Telecom Testing
`o Networking, Internet Protocol, Network Processors, Data Network Testing
`o Call Center Analytics
`o Optics, Optical Networking
`o Web Sites, Database-backed Web Sites, Web Site Security, Web Site Testing
`o Social Networking
`o Multimedia Search
` Key witness role in large cases including:
`o Case No. 1:06CV682 (CMH/BRP), US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia,
`Verdict reached in March 2007. Served as lead expert witness for the plaintiff. Court
`adopted all claim constructions filed in original report. Case went to trial and defendant
`was found by jury to have infringed 3 of 5 patents-in-suit, including both patents on
`which I testified. Jury asked for claim construction terms for these two patents and CVs
`of expert witnesses. Infringement verdict on these two patents was upheld on appeal,
`resulting in a $120 million settlement.
`o Additional trial testimony and deposition experience
` Author of reports and declarations for client and court for plaintiff cases, for defendant cases,
`and in re-examination cases.
` “One of the two best deponents I have ever seen” as stated by client
`Education
`Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
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` PhD in Electrical Engineering, January 1998. "Designing Networks for Tomorrow's Traffic,"
`thesis supervised by Professor David Tennenhouse and Professor John Guttag. GPA 4.7/5.0
` Master of Science in Electrical Engineering, February 1991. "Demonstration of a laser repetition
`rate multiplier," thesis. GPA 4.5/5.0
` Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, June 1989. "Boundary element analysis of
`arbitrarily shaped dielectric structures," thesis. GPA 4.7/5.0
` Bachelor of Science in Physics, February 1990. GPA 4.7/5.0
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`Experience
`H3XL Inc. d/b/a Einstein’s Workshop (formerly Lexington Robotics)
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` 2009 - present: Founder and President. Started local league providing science and engineering
`education programs based on LEGO Mindstorms, LEGO WeDo, and FIRST LEGO League. In
`2012, grew program into a full science, technology, engineering and math enrichment program
`and creative/maker space, in 7,000 square feet of space.
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`Houh Consulting Inc. / Independent Consultant
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` 2009 - present: Technical consultant specializing in Social Networking, Web 2.0, Web Site
`Development, Data Networking, Optical Networking, Telecommunications, Media Streaming
`and Voice Over IP. Representative clients include: Covington & Burling LLP, Winston &
`Strawn LLP, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, Kellogg Huber Hanson Todd Evans
`& Figel PLLC, McGuireWoods LLP, Sidley Austin LLP and startup companies.
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`Eons
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` 2008 - 2009: Chief Technology Officer. Created product that Eons acquired from BBN
`Technologies. Integrated BBN product with Eons social networking platform and significantly
`increased the Eons group creation rate. Eons raised $32 million from General Catalyst Partners,
`Charles River Ventures, Sequoia Capital, and Intel Capital.
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`BBN Technologies
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` 2007 - 2008: Delta Division, Vice President of Technology. Grew “Boomerang” counter-sniper
`project engineering team and significantly de-risked $10 million worth of product deliveries.
`Boomerang was a significant asset leading to the acquisition of BBN by Raytheon in 2009.
`Created new business plan and grew team; launched new fully-featured social networking web
`site in 5 months. Served as lead expert witness in patent infringement lawsuit, resulting in $58
`million jury award to client; verdict for patents I testified on were upheld on appeal which
`resulted in a $120 million settlement.
` 2004 - 2007: Delta Division, Director of Technology, responsible for commercializing IP and
`creating new businesses. Hired and grew division's initial engineering team. Wrote three
`business plans, two of which are funded and active. For call center business plan, acted as
`general manager, hiring and managing engineering team, inside sales team, and identifying and
`recruiting a new general manager. Identified and recruited other key employees to Delta
`Division, including senior members of team leading to successful internal sales growth and spin-
`outs of projects. Contracted by BBN to BBN spin-out PodZinger as VP of Operations and
`Technology. Identified sales team for counter-sniper system, leading to $10 million dollars of
`new sales within 6 months and $100+ million in additional orders in the following two years.
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`PodZinger Inc. (BBN spin-out, also known as EveryZing and now RAMP)
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` 2006: Vice President of Operations and Technology. Significantly upgraded capability of
`consumer-facing search site and redeployed web site from company to co-location facility.
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`Identified key portions of infrastructure for upgrading and cost reduction. Hired in operations
`replacement and phased back to BBN.
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`Commonwealth Capital
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` 2004 - 2004: Entrepreneur-in-residence (informally), performed technical due diligence on
`business plans, brainstormed ideas for new businesses with venture partner. With venture
`partner, left for portfolio company BBN to form core of commercialization team.
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`Empirix, Inc./Teradyne, Inc.
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` 2001 - 2004: Chief Technologist, Engineering Manager, Web Application Test Group.
`Researched potential new product areas; developed product plan and prototype. Responsible for
`three new and existing products. Managed off-shore development team. Chief architect for all
`web testing products. Re-architected core testing product. Provided technical vision for core
`product.
` 2000 - 2001: Chief Technologist, Communication Infrastructure Test Group. Responsible for
`incorporating new technology internally, tracking new technologies, technical evaluation of
`partnerships and potential acquisitions. Helped develop division strategy. Developed plans which
`formed core capabilities for successful new products introduced in 2004-5.
` 2000 - 2001: Engineering Manager, Communications Infrastructure Test Group. Execution of
`new product plan developed in prior role. Grew team from four existing engineers to team of
`over 30 on immediate team and over 40 on project. Delivered new platform in one year. Platform
`and derivatives accounted for large portion of booked products for the division within 2 years
`and is currently (2008) a key portion of new product offerings.
` 2000: Empirix was formed as a spin-out of Teradyne in January 2000. Reported to CEO in
`carve-out of Empirix from Teradyne.
` 1999: (Teradyne) Director of Business Development, Software Test Units. Reported directly to
`Chairman of the Board/Founder and then to general manager of software test unit (6 divisions of
`Teradyne). Evaluated and researched acquisition and partnership candidates. Internally assessed
`technology position in market and gaps in product lines. Worked with senior division staff to
`develop new product strategies. Attended internal Teradyne divisional board meetings. Chairman
`served as my mentor.
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`3Com Corporation/NBX Corporation
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` 1999: Software Engineer 5. Continued work after 3Com acquisition of NBX. Built cross-division
`relationships for new products and research directions. NBX was acquired by 3Com in March
`1999.
` 1997 - 1999: (NBX) Senior Scientist and Engineer. Work in IP Telephony. Architected next-
`generation product. Protocol design and validation for core protocol now used tens of millions of
`times daily. Led team in integration of IP protocols into current product. Designed audio
`reconstruction algorithms. Developed applications for bug analysis and diagnosis of system
`problems. Implementation of network simulator. Work on collaborative projects with external
`partners. Worked to identify gaps in product. Representative at numerous trade shows. Innovated
`novel methods of using product.
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`MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Cambridge, MA
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` 1991 - 1998: Research assistant, Telemedia Network Systems Group. Design, development, and
`implementation of Gigabit ATM network for distributed multimedia system. Studied host
`interface design issues. ATM network simulation.
` Spring 1989, Fall 1990, Spring 1995: Teaching assistant, Computation Structures digital systems
`course. (Spring 1995 Head TA)
` 1988 - 1989: Head laboratory teaching assistant for Computation Structures. Responsibilities
`included writing and revising lab assignments, and maintaining the lab.
` 1987: Laboratory teaching assistant for Computation Structures.
` 1987: Design, construction, and programming of 16-bit computer.
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`Agora Technology Group, Incorporated
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` 1994 - 1996: Founder and CEO. Conceived and oversaw development of targeted advertising-
`supported Web sites. Responsible for company's vision and direction. Sold company intact; is
`currently an operating stand-alone company.
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`AT&T Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, NJ
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` 1989 - 1990: Implementation of cascadable all-optical fiber logic gate. Modelocking of all-fiber
`erbium laser. Construction of modelocked laser repetition rate booster. Strong optics laboratory
`and fiber optic experience.
` Summer 1988, 1987: Research in integrated optics. Analysis of rectangular waveguides using
`microwave modeling. Fabrication of integrated optical components.
`Honors
` MIT Alumni Association Great Dome Award, 2010, Baker 60th Anniversary Reunion Co-Chair
`(highest group award given by MIT Alumni Association)
` MIT Alumni Association Presidential Citation Award (now known as Great Dome), 2008,
`Member of MIT Chairman’s Salon committee
` MIT Alumni Association Bronze Beaver Award, 2007 (highest individual award given by MIT
`Alumni Association)
` MIT Alumni Association Volunteer Honor Roll, February 2004
` MIT Alumni Association Lobdell Award, 1999
` Boston Museum of Science Gold Pin for 1000 hours of Volunteer Service, April 1999
` MIT Alumni Association Presidential Citation Award (now known as Great Dome), 1997,
`Member of Alumni Online Communications Committee
`Patents and Patent Publications
` US Patent #7,975,296, L. Apfelbaum, H. Houh, T. Mayberry and G. Friedman, “Automated
`security threat testing of web pages,” July 5, 2011
` US Patent #7,877,736, H. Houh and J. N. Stern, “Computer language interpretation and
`optimization for server testing,” January 25, 2011
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` US Patent #7,801,910, H. Houh and J. N. Stern, “Method and apparatus for timed tagging of
`media content,” September 21, 2010
` US Patent #7,590,542, D. C. Williams, W. C. Hand, H. Houh, A. R. Seeley, "Method of
`Generating Test Scripts Using a Voice-Capable Markup Language," September 15, 2009
` US Patent #6,967,963, H. H. Houh, P. Anderson, C. Gadda, "Telecommunication method for
`ensuring on-time delivery of packets containing time-sensitive data," November 22, 2005.
` US Patent #5,144,375, M. C. Gabriel, H. H. Houh, N. A. Whitaker, "Sagnac Optical Logic
`Gate," September 1, 1992. Also European Patent #91304011.9-, May 1991
` US Patent Application Publication No. 20020015387, "Voice Traffic Packet Capture and
`Analysis Tool for a Data Network"
` US Patent Application Publication No. 20020016708, "Method and Apparatus for Utilizing a
`Network Processor as Part of a Test System"
` US Patent Application Publication No. 20020016937, "Method and Apparatus for Utilizing a
`Network Processor as Part of a Test System"
` US Patent Application Publication No. 20070106646, "User-directed navigation of multimedia
`search results"
` US Patent Application Publication No. 20070106660, "Method and apparatus for using
`confidence scores of enhanced metadata in search-driven media applications"
` US Patent Application Publication No. 20070106685, "Method and apparatus for updating
`speech recognition databases and reindexing audio and video content using the same"
` US Patent Application Publication No. 20070106693, "Methods and apparatus for providing
`virtual media channels based on media search"
` US Patent Application Publication No. 20070106760, "Methods and apparatus for dynamic
`presentation of advertising, factual, and informational content using enhanced metadata in
`search-driven media applications"
` US Patent Application Publication No. 20070118873, "Methods and apparatus for merging
`media content"
` US Patent Application Publication No. 20090222442, "User-directed navigation of multimedia
`search results"
` US Patent Application 11/395,732, “Search snippet creation for audio and video data”
` US Patent Application 11/774,931, “Methods and apparatus for managing a social networking
`web site”
` US Patent Application 11/774,947, “Methods and apparatus for organizing media files”
` US Patent Application 11/774,956, “Methods and apparatus for managing an online event”
` US Provisional Patent Application 61/086,909, “Measuring and ranking relationship activity”
` US Provisional Patent Application 61/086,914, “Detecting media object commonality”
` US Provisional Patent Application 61/086,904, “Message categorization based on message
`characteristics”
` US Provisional Patent Application 61/086,905, “Photo tagging to request action”
`Trials and Depositions
` Case No. 1:06CV682 (CMH/BRP), Verizon vs. Vonage, US District Court for the Eastern
`District of Virginia, was deposed as an expert witness and testified at trial.
` Case No. 1:08CV157 (CMH/TRJ), Verizon vs. Cox, US District Court for the Eastern District of
`Virginia, was deposed as an expert witness and testified at trial.
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` Case No. 5:09-cv-476, Two-Way Media vs. AT&T, US District Court for the Western District of
`Texas, filed expert report, testified at trial
` Case No. 2:10-cv-248 (RAJ/FBS), ActiveVideo Networks vs. Verizon, US District Court for the
`Easter District of Virginia, filed expert report and was deposed as an expert witness
` Case No. 1:11-cv-00880-TSE-JFA, Bear Creek Technologies, Inc. vs. Verizon Services Corp., et
`al, US District Court for the Easter District of Virginia, was deposed as an expert witness
` Case No. 3:10-CV-298-BBC, AlmondNet, Inc. vs. Microsoft Corp., US District Court for the
`Western District of Wisconsin, filed expert report
` Case No. 6:10-cv-00597, Guardian Media Technologies, Ltd. Vs. AT&T Operations, Inc. et al.,
`US District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, Tyler Division, filed expert report
` Case No. ESCV2010-02282C, The Octopus Solution LLC v. Gary Brown et al., Essex, MA
`Superior Court, testified at trial
`Publications
`"IP switching: server driven flow classification," H. H. Houh, Proceedings of the Washington
`University Workshop on Integration of IP and ATM , November 1996.
`"Aurora at MIT," D. D. Clark, H. H. Houh, and D. L. Tennenhouse, Editors, MIT Laboratory for
`Computer Science Technical Report 673, December 1995.
`"ViewStation Applications: Implications for Network Traffic," C. J. Lindblad, D. Wetherall, W.
`Stasior, J. F. Adam, H. H. Houh, M. Ismert, D. Bacher, B. Phillips, and D. L. Tennenhouse,
`IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Communications, 1995.
`"The VuNet Desk Area Network: Architecture, Implementation, and Experience", H. H. Houh, J.
`F. Adam, M. Ismert, C. J. Lindblad, and D. L. Tennenhouse, IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in
`Communications, 13 (4), May, 1995.
`"Reducing the Complexity of ATM Host Interfaces", H. H. Houh and D. L. Tennenhouse, Hot
`Interconnects II Symposium Proceedings, Stanford, August 11-12, 1994.
`"Media-intensive data communications in a `desk-area' network," J. F. Adam, H. H. Houh, M.
`Ismert, and D. L. Tennenhouse, IEEE Communications, August 1994.
`"ViewStation Applications: Intelligent Video Processing Over A Broadband Local Area
`Network," C. J. Lindblad, D. J. Wetherall, W. Stasior, B. Phillips, D. Bacher, J. Adam, H. Houh,
`M. Ismert, and D. L. Tennenhouse, Proceedings of the 1994 USENIX Symposium on High-
`Speed Networking, Oakland, CA, August 1994.
`"The Media Gateway: Live Video on the World Wide Web," H. H. Houh, C. J. Lindblad, J. Soo,
`D. L. Tennenhouse, and D. J. Wetherall, Workshop at the 1994 World Wide Web Conference,
`Geneva, Switzerland, May 1994.
`"Active Pages: Intelligent Nodes on the World Wide Web ," H. H. Houh, C. J. Lindblad, and D.
`J. Wetherall, Proceedings of the 1994 World Wide Web Conference, Geneva, Switzerland, May
`1994.
`"Wavelength Division vs. Code Division Access Methods for Optical Networks," H. H. Houh,
`Area Exam Paper, May 1993.
`"Experience with the VuNet: A Network Architecture for a Distributed Multimedia System," J.
`F. Adam, H. H. Houh, D. L. Tennenhouse, Proceedings of the 18th Conference on Local
`Computer Networks, pp. 70-76, September 1993
`"The VudBoard: A Simple DMA Interface," H. H. Houh, Proceedings of the 4th Gigabit
`Minijam, January 1994.
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`"A Software-Oriented Approach to the Design of Media Processing Environments," D. L.
`Tennenhouse, J. Adam, D. Carver, H. Houh, M. Ismert, C. Lindblad, W. Stasior, D. Weatherall,
`D. Bacher, and T. Chang., submitted to the International Conference on Multimedia Computing
`and Systems, May 1994.
`"A Network Architecture for Distributed Multimedia Systems," J. F. Adam, H. H. Houh, M.
`Ismert, and D. L. Tennenhouse, submitted to the International Conference on Multimedia
`Computing and Systems, May 1994.
`"The Viewstation Collected Papers," D. L. Tennenhouse, J. Adam, C. Compton, A. Duda, D.
`Gifford, H. Houh, M. Ismert, C. Lindblad, W. Stasior, R. Weiss, D. Wetherall, D. Bacher, D.
`Carver, and T. Chang, MIT Laboratory for Computer Science Technical Report, MIT/LCS/TR-
`590, November 1993.
`"A System's Perspective of the Sagnac Fiber Logic Gates and Their Possible Applications," A.
`Huang, N. Whitaker, C. Gabriel, H. Avramopoulos, P. M. W. French, H. H. Houh, and I.
`Chuang, Applied Optics, September 10, 1994
`"Complete Switching in a Three-Terminal Sagnac Switch," H. Avramopoulos, P. M. W. French,
`M. C. Gabriel, H. H. Houh, N. A. Whitaker, T. Morse, IEEE Phot. Tech. Lett. 3 (3), 235
`"Complete Switching in a Three-Terminal Sagnac Switch," H. Avramopoulos, P. M. W. French,
`M. C. Gabriel, H. H. Houh, N. A. Whitaker, IEEE/LEOS Annual Meeting, Paper PDP-13,
`November 1990
`"All-optical phase-locked oscillator," N. A.Whitaker, Jr., H. H. Houh, H. Avramopoulos, T. F.
`Morse, IEEE/LEOS Annual Meeting, Paper ELT2.4/MOO3, November 1990
`"Passive modelocking of an all-fiber erbium laser," H. Avramopoulos, H. H. Houh, N. A.
`Whitaker, M. C. Gabriel, T. F. Morse, IEEE/LEOS Conference on Optical Amplifiers and their
`Applications, Paper PDP-8, August 1990
`"Transverse modes, waveguide dispersion, and 30ps recovery in submicron GaAs/AlAs
`microresonators," J. L. Jewell, S. L. McCall, A. Scherer, H. H. Houh, N. A. Whitaker, A. C.
`Gossard, and J. H. English, Appl. Phys. Lett. 55 (1), July 3, 1989
`Leadership, Activities and Interests
` Leadership
`o Discovery Museums (Acton, MA)
` Science and Technology Advisory Council, 2012 - present
`o MIT Alumni Association Board of Directors
` Awards Committee Chair, 2012 - present
` Awards Committee, 3 year term, 2011 - 2014
` Vice President, 2 year term, 2004 - 2006
` Board Member, 2 year term, 1997 - 1999
`o MIT Club of Boston
` Board of Directors, 2006 - present
` K-12 Initiatives Chair, 2009 - 2012
` VP of Communications, MIT Club of Boston, 2003 - 2006
` Past-President, MIT Club of Boston, 2002 - 2003
` President, MIT Club of Boston, 2001 - 2002
` President-Elect, MIT Club of Boston, 2000 - 2001
` VP of Programs, MIT Club of Boston, 1999 - 2000
` Activities Super-Chair, MIT Club of Boston, 1998 - 1999
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`o MIT Enterprise Forum of Cambridge, Inc.
` Past Chair, 2009 – 2011
`In-NOW-vation Co-chair, 2010
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` Chair, 2007 - 2009
` Vice Chair, 2005 - 2007
` Executive Board Member, 2002 - present
` Winter Workshop Co-Chair, February 2007 - conceived idea for conference,
`which sold-out and produced largest attendance numbers in recent memory
` Spring Workshop Co-Chair, Spring 2004
` Membership Committee Chair, Fall 2003 - 2006
` 25th Anniversary Dinner Chair, Fall 2003
` As Membership Chair and Board Member, started Special Interest Groups in
`2004; a SIG won the MIT Presidential Citation award, the MIT Alumni
`Association's highest award for organizations, in 2006
`o Estabrook Elementary School PTA
` Advisory committee to the superintendent on PCB issue, 2010-2011
` 4th Grade after-school science program co-organizer, 2010-present
` 4th and 5thGrade before-school Math Olympiad co-organizer, 2009-present
` 5th Grade BBQ and Yearbook Committee, 2011
` Family Math Night volunteer, 2008-present
`o Tau Beta Pi National Engineering Honor Society
` Advisor, MA B Chapter at MIT, 2003 - present
` District Director (National Officer), Tau Beta Pi, New England Area, 1991 - 2003
` President, MA B Chapter at MIT, Fall 1988 - Spring 1989
` Laureate award, 1989
`o MIT Class of 1989
` Secretary, consecutive 5 year terms, 1989 - present
` 20-year Reunion Committee and Gift Committee, 2009
` 15-year Reunion Committee and Gift Committee, 2004
` 10-year Reunion Committee and Gift Committee, 1999
` 5-year Reunion Committee, 1994
`Interim Treasurer, 1993 - 1994
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`Instituted annual senior class career fair, now entering eleventh year, now raising
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`over $100,000 annually for senior class activities, Fall 1988
`o Strong, consistent record of leadership dating to high school
` Acting
`o
`'21' (Sony Pictures), credited as "Chinatown Dealer," 2007, Kevin Spacey's movie about
`the MIT Blackjack Team inspired by "Bringing Down the House" by Ben Mezrich,
`opened nationwide on March 28, 2008. 21 was the number one movie in US for two
`weeks and number one globally for one week. 21 also topped the DVD sales, Blu-ray
`sales and DVD rental charts.
`o Spring Lake Theater Company, first New York-area off-broadway production of "A
`Chorus Line," played role of Mark, Summer 1990
` Producer for 10,000 Maniacs’ 2013 album “Music from the Motion Picture”
` Violist, violist, harpist, guitarist, singer, actor: played in many amateur/semi-professional groups
`including Merrimack Valley Philharmonic, Longwood Symphony, MIT Symphony, MIT
`Summer Philharmonic Orchestra and Somerville Community Chorus  
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