`
`Steve Smoot
`2 9 4 5 F o r t B l o u n t R d .  H a r t s v i l l e , T n 3 7 0 7 4  s w s m o o t @ g m a i l . c o m
`
`
`Mr. Smoot has more than 45 years’ experience in Computer Science, Software
`Product Development and eCommerce Technology. Mr. Smoot has been
`employed or
`retained as an
`independent consultant
`in eCommerce,
`telecommunications, manufacturing automation, electric power, oil and gas
`delivery, medical research, civil electronics design and fabrication, military and
`intelligence electronics and financial services. He has experience with more than
`50 conventional programming, content description, database and markup
`languages. As a representative to the American National Standards Institute
`(ANSI) committees, Mr. Smoot participated in defining the American standard data
`encryption and communication protocols for layers 2, 4 and 6 of the OSI model on
`the X3T1 and X3T1.1 committees.
`
`For more than ten years Mr. Smoot held leadership roles in the design and
`development of electronic products including National Security Agency (NSA) certified high-speed
`encryption devices, two families of personal computers, and robot automated factories. His experience
`includes chip, circuit and system level engineering for both software and hardware. Mr. Smoot has been
`an independent consultant for more than 30 years and a consultant with global consultants Avanade, Inc.
`Mr. Smoot has represented other companies such as Apple Computer as their consulting expert on a variety
`of technical assignments.
`
`Testifying Experience
`
`Mr. Smoot has 12 years’ experience providing expert testimony for patent litigation, forensics and software
`contract disputes in telecommunications and computer technology, providing expert reports, depositions,
`and trial testimony. His expert analysis and conclusions were instrumental in achieving a $35 million
`settlement for his client I2 against Oracle in a Sales Force/ Supply Chain Management patent litigation. His
`expert opinions at a hearing in Federal District Court in Washington, DC on the operation of BitTorrent
`networks and file sharing of copyrighted materials, and the use of geolocation to determine users’ locations
`led to the judge preparing a written opinion for consideration by other judges handling similar cases. In a
`petition before the PTAB for re-examination of a patent’s validity, his expert written and oral opinions led to
`a reversal of the Board’s previous invalidity decision, resulting in the patent’s validity being sustained, as
`well as a similar reversal of a prior decision on a second patent the following day, using the same
`arguments. His areas of expertise include but are not limited to telecommunications, computer and network
`technologies, media distribution and media handling devices and cellular devices and networks including
`both hardware and software.
`
`Professional Summary
`
`Systems
`Engineering
`
`Product
`Development
`
`20 years Manufacturing automation robotics and factory control, Service
`Order Entry, Call Center Management, Satellite based mail routing
`and processing, medical procedure kit, substation/transmission
`power
`delivery
`engineering
`apps,
`networked
`property
`management/reservations, ERP, CRM, marketing support and
`analysis. Artificial Intelligence (AI) and non-AI based computer
`diagnostics.
`15 years Centralized media management and distribution systems, high
`speed encryption devices, embedded control systems, personal
`computers, factory and field diagnostics software for personal
`computer manufacturers, ISDN telephony products.
`
`
`
`
`
`Page 1 of 4
`
`SNAP EXHIBIT 1003
`
`

`

`Curriculum Vitae: Steve Smoot
`
`
`Financial Services
`
`Business &
`Technology
`Consulting
`Expert Witness
`
`12 years Support applications, automation applications for financial services
`document production and management, business improvement
`and support systems for financial professionals.
`22 years Technology marketing, strategy development, start-up funding and
`business launch, systems integration, systems development,
`business process engineering and management.
`12 years Expert for intellectual property & internet patents, DOJ Network
`forensics and telecommunications, civil and criminal cases
`
`Professional Experience
`
`03-2009
`to Present
`
`
`
`
`
`
`
`
`
`11-2012
`to 02-2015
`
`
`04-2007
`to 03-2009
`
`
`Senior Consultant
`eComp Consultants
`
`Tampa, FL
`
`Provide technology consulting and expert support on design and development of
`software products and ecommerce technology, including:
`• Patent portfolio evaluation, market valuation, and prior art analysis
`• Patent litigation consulting for validity/invalidity and infringement/non-
`infringement analysis, charting and claim construction assistance
`• Software contract and due diligence for disputes involving custom software
`• Functional analysis, source code reviews and forensic analysis
`• Worked on more than 40 cases involving patents, consulted as a hardware
`and software technology development advisor for clients seeking to patent
`inventions in a variety of fields, and performed investigations and given
`testimony on technology subjects in civil and criminal cases
`
`
`CEO
`New Amsterdam IP Services, Inc.
`
`Consulting and services to clients seeking to monetize their intellectual property,
`prepare for patent application, or needing technical consulting on the development of
`aspects of their technology.
`• Patent portfolio evaluation, market valuation, and prior art analysis
`• Searches for infringement
`• Develop and execute strategies and campaigns to license or sell IP to other
`parties
`• Consult on the development of hardware and software for solutions clients
`desired to patent. Advise on early stages of patent application process.
`
`Tampa, FL
`
`Group Manager / Program Management
`Dallas, TX
`Avanade, Inc. South Region
`Avanade is a global consulting joint venture of Accenture and Microsoft. With over
`8,500 Microsoft Specialist consultants, the company is the leading Microsoft
`technologies solution provider. Avanade project managers manage projects with full
`P&L responsibility, organize and contribute to new business pursuits, manage aspects
`of staff careers and take part in designing and improving delivery management
`processes and methods.
`• Worked with Business Development Executives and staffs in the Americas,
`Philippines and India to assess and propose state-of-the-art solutions to
`clients
`
`
`
`Page 2
`
`Page 2 of 4
`
`

`

`Curriculum Vitae: Steve Smoot
`
`
`• Managed projects according to Avanade's highly developed and mature
`methodologies known as Avanade Connected Methods or ACM. Methods
`used: ACM for .NET, ACM for Business Intelligence, ACM for Dynamics AX
`(ERP), ACM for Infrastructure Transformation
`• Responsible for ACM standard project manager deliverables including scope
`management plan, risk management plan, issue management log,
`communications plan, work plan, weekly status and financial reporting and
`monthly forecasts, etc
`• Group Manager leading a 20 member financial and accounting team made up
`of members from Avanade and Accenture located in Seattle, San Diego,
`Dallas, Tampa, New York, London, and Kronberg
`Consulting engagements included:
`• Lowe's, Inc. Special Orders E-Catalog and Advanced Kitchen Design Center
`• AT&T Collaboration Services Dashboard (St. Louis) and AT&T Retail Metrics
`Dashboard (Atlanta)
`• DataPath, Inc. ERP upgrade and conversion
`• CardiologyStation project for M.D. Anderson Cancer Center at the University
`of Texas
`• Desktop Transformation project for ConocoPhillips Oil Company
`• Modernization of infrastructure and applications of Safety-Kleen’s Waste
`Management Division
`CEO and Lead Consultant
`Tampa, FL
`Steve Smoot Consulting
`Consulted on IT, marketing, business start-up, business funding and business process
`needs across a variety of industries.
`• Sample Clients: Florida Power & Light, Sykes Enterprises, Maxxim Medical,
`DiagSoft, Money Matters, Protective Life
`CEO and Lead Consultant
`Tampa, FL
`Teknosys, Inc.
`Consulted on IT, marketing, business start-up, business funding and business process
`needs across a variety of industries.
`• Launched business providing integration services to major clients in eastern
`US and Canada with intent to become a commercial software developer
`• Managed project planning and execution for multiple simultaneous projects
`for multiple clients
`• Conceived and developed artificial intelligence-based computer problem
`solving software
`• Designed and developed software product for performing hardware
`diagnostics for PC compatible computer manufacturers including DEC, NEC
`and Tandy/Radio Shack
`• Sample Clients: Apple Computer, AgentLife, Florida Power & Light, Sykes
`Enterprises, Maxxim Medical, DiagSoft, Johnson & Johnson Sterile Design,
`and Northern Telecom (Nortel)
`Chief Architect
`Tampa, FL
`GTE Data Services, Inc.
`GTE Data Services was a wholly owned subsidiary of GTE. It provided all technology
`research and innovation in software and computer systems development for GTE and
`external worldwide customers.
`• Established architecture standards and reviewed projects for standards
`compliance on projects budgeted at $400M per year
`
`Page 3
`
`1997 to 2007
`
`
`
`
`1988 to 1997
`
`
`
`1985 to 1988
`
`
`
`
`
`Page 3 of 4
`
`

`

`Curriculum Vitae: Steve Smoot
`
`
`• WORKSIN Chairman: Chaired one of 16 technical leadership groups of the
`GTE Worldwide Engineering Roundtable. Each group consisted of technical
`leaders from 43 different business units. The groups were responsible for
`leading the units to adopt advanced technologies and business processes
`• Service Order Entry: Architect of GTEs first multi-tier application system using
`intelligent workstations to replace multiple terminals to multiple back end
`systems and applications
`• Call Center Staffing Management: Defined architecture for system to manage
`dynamic staffing of 29 large call centers. Led a team to design and develop a
`set of applications. Won a competitive bid situation and delivered under tight
`time and budget constraints
`• High Priority Mail: Developed a technical architecture for a mail delivery
`system using satellite-based distribution of mail to regional printing centers
`that enabled delivery of high priority mail in less than 24 hours. GTEDS won
`$50M contract to implement
`• Project Eagle - Led team of 25+ specialists investigating $1B business
`opportunity including an 18-month investigation and planning phase of a
`billion dollar spin-off business in the highly engineered manufacturing sector
`that includes the aerospace and defense industries. Produced business plan,
`financial plan, defined product strategies and products, defined market entry
`strategies, identified key partners
`• Reader Service Plus - Vice President, Systems and Technology. Worked with
`several of the US's largest conventional publishers to evaluate interactive, on-
`line publishing strategies. Designed architecture for an on-line publishing
`platform before the Internet and Web
`Senior Electronics Engineer
`Largo, FL
`Paradyne, Inc.
`Electronic and software engineer on communications and computing products
`products.
`• Engineer on 2 families of PC compatible computer systems. Ported MS-DOS,
`contributed to hardware design
`• Led a group of twenty engineers tasked with finding and resolving a number
`of system design problems that threatened an $86 million contract with the
`Social Security Administration. The company’s full resources were at our
`disposal and we met every evening with senior executive management to
`review progress. Nine months of intense work successfully resolved all
`problems and saved the contract
`• World’s first high-speed encryption device: One of three engineers that
`created world’s first high speed DES encryption device approved by the
`National Security Agency
`• Represented Paradyne on American National Standards Institute (ANSI)
`X3T1 and X3T1.1 technical committees that set the US standards for secure
`communications. The ANSI level 2 and level 4 encryption standards are
`based directly and exclusively upon my research work at Paradyne. Also
`supported US committees working with International Standards Organization
`(ISO) on worldwide standards
`
`1979 to 1984
`
`
`
`Education, Licensure, and Certifications
`
`ASEE – Associate of Science in Electrical
`Engineering
`
`1977
`
`United Electronics Institute
`
`
`
`
`
`Page 4
`
`Page 4 of 4
`
`