Expert Witness Services
James A. Crawford
AM1 LLC, Managing Partner
- More than 30 years working across a wide range of wireless related product areas including cellular phones, pagers, cable modems, radar, avionics, WiFi, military communications, SATCOM, etc.
- Led the team which developed one of the very first cable modems
- Heavy participation in the cellular communication explosion in San Diego beginning in the mid-1990’s
- More than 20 years as a self-employed technology consultant to industry or founder/executive team member of start-up companies
- Prior working experience with dozens of different companies and clients, each with their own unique problems to solve, company strengths and weaknesses
- Active technical involvement in multiple wireless related disciplines including:
- GPS, both satellite based as well as terrestrial based
- RFIC architecting and design
- Microwave system design
- High efficiency power amplifiers
- Power management (an acute issue for all portable electronics)
- Digital signal processing algorithm development targeting FPGA’s
- Small microprocessors (e.g., Arduino, Raspberry Pi)
- Computer numerical control (CNC) machines
- More than 600 hours of paid expert witness related work over the past 5 years
- Prior art searches
- Expert reports
- Actual trial experience
- Extensive writing background, including hundreds of technical memos and two graduate-level engineering textbooks related to frequency synthesis (very germane to wireless communications)
- Multiple articles in the public domain, the latest scheduled to appear in Microwaves & RF this October
- MSEE in quantum electronics (lasers) from USC plus most of the course work toward a Ph.D. in communication theory
- Named as inventor or co-inventor on approximately 25 US patents.