As a technical and consulting expert in over 100 IT project failure, breach of contract, intellectual property misappropriation, and computer forensics matters, Nick has been engaged on cases before state, federal, and international courts. He has been designated as a testifying expert in a number of software disputes, including cases in U.S. Federal Court and before the American Arbitration Association (AAA).

Nick has extensive experience on cases involving failed software projects in which unit, functional, integration, regression, and performance testing results were at issue, and he has experience with a number of industry standard software testing tools, including HP ALM, LoadRunner, and IBM Rational. Nick’s testing experience also includes the application of industry standard techniques for defect analysis, including the analysis of defect open/close rates, average time-to-close, and technical debt estimation.

In addition, Nick’s experience at DisputeSoft includes code reviews of everything from analyzing the architecture of large scale, multi-tier information systems to examinations of low-level smartphone firmware code. Nick has also assisted in a number of computer forensic investigations, including the examination of unallocated hard drive clusters for evidence of spoliation, research into Windows time logs and system clock synchronization protocols, and extraction of smartphone data logs for evidence of executive misconduct.

In addition to his client work, Nick also serves as DisputeSoft’s Director of Software Development. In this role, Nick actively applies industry standard techniques for the design and development of internal software tools using Agile development methodologies. Most recently, Nick led the effort to develop DisputeSoft’s proprietary static code analysis tool leveraged in our Code ACE™ service, which is capable of comparing and analyzing millions of lines of source code.