Ron Schnell

Ron Schnell is a testifying and consulting expert in litigation cases where an understanding of technology is critical.

He has provided expert testimony in federal and state courts and at both depositions and arbitrations. His litigation support includes source-code reviews in most programming languages, architecture review, and advice on software trade secret, patent, and copyright issues. Mr. Schnell has also served as an expert witness on high-profile cases in the areas of intellectual property, software licensing, cybersecurity, and other highly technical matters.

Prior to his consulting career, Mr. Schnell had an extensive background running large technology organizations, from early stage startups to large divisions of S&P 500 corporations. Most notably, he was the chief executive of the monitoring organization responsible for auditing and enforcing Microsoft’s compliance with the consent decree in United States v. Microsoft Corporation and New York et al. v. Microsoft Corporation. The organization and its success were publicly praised by the US Attorney General, state attorneys general, and the federal court judge presiding over the largest antitrust case in US history.

Mr. Schnell has knowledge of over forty computer languages. His technical expertise includes:

• Artificial intelligence/machine learning
• Advertising/tracking pixels
• Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA)/Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA)
• Source-code analysis
• Software project management, remediation, and analysis
• blockchain (private/public)
• OS kernel
• Device drivers
• Very large database architecture and analysis
• Healthcare software
• Autonomous driving software
• Breach investigation/remediation
• Bid protest analysis

 Mr. Schnell is an adjunct professor at Nova Southeastern University.