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Michael Barr
Barr Group
25051 Century Blvd. #330
Germantown , MD 20874
Michael Barr is a former adjunct professor of electrical engineering and computer science with over 25 years of hands-on software design and implementation experience. Internationally recognized as an expert in the field of software process and architecture for safe and secure computing, Barr has been admitted as a testifying expert witness in U.S. and Canadian court cases involving issues of reverse engineering (including DMCA), interception of encrypted signals (Federal Communications Act), patent infringement, theft of copyrighted source code (including trade secrets issues), and product liability.
Widely respected as a leader in the engineering community, Mr. Barr has trained hundreds of software and firmware engineers in the state-of-the-art techniques used for safe and secure embedded systems development. Software written by Mr. Barr has powered millions of embedded devices. He is also the author of three books and more than seventy published articles and papers about software design. For more than a decade, he was a regular invited speaker at the Embedded Systems Conferences around the world, served as a member of the conference's advisory board, and served as chair for various specialty tracks.
Infotainment & Telematics Systems
A: Master of Science in Electrical Engineering (MSEE), University of Maryland
Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering (BSEE), University of Maryland
Master of Business Administration (MBA), University of Maryland
A: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), Member
Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineering (IEEE), Member
Phi Kappa Phi National Honor Society, Member
A: Teaching:
I am former adjunct professor of electrical engineering and computer science, having taught at the University of Maryland
and Johns Hopkins University.
I have trained hundreds of professional engineers in the state-of-the-art techniques used for developing safe and secure embedded systems and software.
Industry Speaking Events:
I have been an invited speaker at 10+ industry trade events, including Embedded Systems Conferences around the world.
A: I have been retained as an expert 50+ times.
A: I have had my deposition taken 15+ times.
A: I have testified as an expert in court or before an arbitrator 25+ times.
A: I have worked with the legal industry as an expert witness for 15+ years.
A: I provide legal teams with the following support for their cases:
-Source code reviews and software analysis
-Reverse engineering of electronic systems
-Technical consulting
-Expert reports
-Testimony
A: All rates are negotiable.
Michael Barr's CV