We are “Experts” with Individual PC’s to Enterprise Class Systems with Private Individuals to Government Agencies and World Wide Corporations. GDF is Experienced in identifying, recovering, and analysis of Evidence to prove what happened, when it happened, how it happened and who was involved..

GDF’s area of expertise is in Digital Data Recovery and Electronic Discovery nclude investigations into Employee Sabotage, Intellectual Property Theft (plans, patients, formulas, trade Secrets, trade information) , Intrusion Detection, Falsification of Co records, Asset Tracking, Violations or Breech of Co Policy, Vendor Information (Key contacts, contract rates, Expiration Dates) Employee Lists (names, addresses, SS #) Embezzlement ($$$ or plans) Credit Card (cloning or theft) Identity Theft, Software Piracy

Electronic Discovery

GDF experts extracted and compiled millions of email messages then de-duplicated and analyzed them for authenticity located potentially altered emails in large consumer class action lawsuit.

GDF was lead consultant in a global Breach of Contract Suite involving email from locations

Lead expert and consultant for consumer class action law suit against American Express. Fields of expertise for this action include analysis of airline reservation systems architecture, real-time transactions and mainframe database systems.

Consultant in the fields of complex credit card transactions systems and drop box deposit systems analysis for shareholders class action against Bank One Corporation.

Database systems analyst for complex class action suit against multiple oil and gas company defendants. Lead data custodian for massive amounts of anticipated discovery related information.

Accounting systems specialist and technical consultant for franchisee class action law suit against major real estate corporation, Cendant, Inc.

Lead expert for magnetic tape media and legacy mail system analysis

Multiple plaintiff attorneys, each with separate actions against major technology firm, Lernout and Hauspie and its bankers and underwriters for securities fraud claims.

Digital Forensic Examinations

Co-lead examiner for major pharmaceutical diversion and counterfeit drug ring selling grey market drugs in the United States and Overseas.

Investigation, in cooperation with Los Angeles County Sheriffs Office and the Federal Food and Drug Administration. The investigation included hundreds of gigabytes of digital evidence and thousands of pages of paper evidence requiring manual inspection of data at hex levels using forensic techniques and deep knowledge of file systems.

Co-lead examiner for the Department of Securities and Insurance Regulation for investigation regarding large insurance company which included onsite inspection of distributed data systems, workflow process and electronic accounting control systems.

Lead examiner for investigation of officers and staff of medium sized public financial company for fraudulent activities involving expense accounts and corporate issued credit cards.

Lead examiner on investigation, in cooperation with Federal Marshals regarding a ring of counterfeit products in the commercial and retail brand name clothing markets. Acted as custodian f all seized systems and head investigations coordinator for digital investigations in multiple U.S. geographic locations.

SOME REPRESENTATIVE CASES

EMC Corporation v. Nexaweb, Inc., et al

Sherman Consulting, Inc. V. Fitzgerald Consulting, Inc., et al

Bose Corporation v. Silonsonic, Inc., et al

Holland v. Motown Record Corp., et al

Hoffman v. American Express Travel Related Services Co., et al

Baker, et al v. KMPG, LLP, et al

Nisselson v. Lernout, et al,

Frank K. Cooper Real Estate #1, Inc. v. Cendant Corporation, et al;

In Re Old Banc One Shareholders Securities Litigation;

Schilowitz v. D.H. Blair, et al;

Gottdiener v. D.H. Blair, et al;

Brainstorms Internet Marketing, Inc. v. USA Networks, Inc., et al;

People of Florida v. Maglutta, et al; and

Douse v. Quick & Reilly.

Master Forensic Investigator, Staff Supervisor,

Joseph Caruso, the experienced technologist founded GDF to fill a gap in the growing electronic discovery and network forensics market. Today GDF assists attorneys with major class action suits and in complex litigation and as the leading forensic responders to several Fortune 100 companies.

Technical & Commercial Background

At Bell labs, performed file system design for embedded systems and Unix

engineering duties in the Research and Development Facility in New Jersey and acted as a corporate liaison in Germany troubleshooting for clients worldwide. Specialized in government contracts and technology transfers of high end communications and military systems with a specialty in real time systems, including design and development of Terrain Tracking Radar Systems for the Joint Navy Air force Tomahawk Missile Project with E-Systems. Also responsible for security analysis of systems involved in the storage of classified information.

During that time, held TS - SA Clearance.

Founded Consolidated Software Products, Inc. of New York in 1985. That

company developed software libraries that allowed applications to manage and co-ordinate massive amounts of data in real-time for analysis and visualization. The technology is still in use in the SAABER System developed for American Airlines, at the time the largest real time system in the world. Also developed the first PC Based Data Recovery Utility with RAID Capability for the National Geological Survey which was successfully marketed in the private industry and still in use today. Designed security enforcement protocols and systems for

Military Grade Communications including Cryptographic Recovery Code.

Founded The Learning Curve, Inc. in Clearwater, Florida in order to address the growing commercial demand for high-end data recovery and error correction code based products for large scale data warehousing systems, technical education products and security related systems. The company was sold in 1996 and the technology and methodologies are still in use.

Programming & Analysis Skills:

COBOL, COBOL II, DB2, CICS, VSAM, TSO/ISPF, ROSCOE, MICRO FOCUS, Basic, Fortran, SQL, SQL/400, RPG, Pascal, C (all flavors), Assembler, ISPF, PL1 IMS/TSO/CLISTS/JCL/ JCLJes2/3,IMS, MVS, ACF2 Mainframe Security DFHSM, SPUFI,BMC Load Plus, ACF2 Rumba, EDA, CLISTS FOCUS, TSO/MVS/ Focus, Oracle, ACF2 Security, CA-Spool, Boole & Babbage, Endeavor, BMC Computer Associates Tools, Compuware FILEAID, SAS, CHAMP, PANVALET - Tools VMSECURE, VM-CYPHER, MFD/MFS Full Screen Display, SAS, PeopleSoft, and others on mainframe and I386 based servers and their respective operating systems and hardware.

Expertise

GDF’s foundations are built upon over 50 years of experience in the technology and legal fields. From law firms of all sizes to Fortune 500 companies, GDF’s experts have assisted clients in all facets of litigation, from electronic evidence discovery matters to expert testimony on a wide array of technology issues. GDF has primary offices and Labs in the New York City, Tampa Fl, and satellite locations throughout the United States, Europe and Asia.

Corporate Rate Schedule Available Upon Request

Primary Contact James J Conwell jconwell@evestigate.com

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