Sankara Shanmugam

Sankara’s experience with representative engagements includes:

• Analysis of voice recording servers for a large energy company to perform root cause analysis of significant over-recording of voice calls leading to potential issues with regulators.
• Analysis of complex trading application back-end systems to determine root cause of outage causing significant issues in the stock market.
• Investigation into the data breach of a healthcare company whose records were posted on the “Dark Web.” Led the forensic analysis team to map out the attack vector, systems and data impacted and exfiltration mechanisms.
• Analysis of mobile phone artifacts in regards to deletion of video allegedly capturing police brutality.
• Email deletion analysis for a matter involving government lawsuit related to mortgage fraud. Performed analysis and crafted rebuttal report in response to initial examiner’s unsupported findings and conclusions.

Testimony Experience

July 2019:

Mercurygate International, Inc. v. Amous International, Inc., and Oleksandr Lopatkin, Case No. 1:19-CV-04962 (US District Court – Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division).

Provided written testimony in the form of a declaration summarizing forensic review of devices for data spoliation.

June 2019:

The CommonWealth of Massachusetts v. Kevin S. Fowler, Docket No. 1888CR000598 (US District Court – District of Nantucket).

Provided written testimony in the form of an affidavit making the case for access to original mobile device in a criminal matter involving deleted texts.

Case against client was ultimately withdrawn.

November 2016:

United States v. Jayme Gordon, Case No. 15cr10390-PBS (US District Court – District of Massachusetts).

Provided courtroom testimony in a criminal matter regarding forensic analysis and findings related to spoliation and destruction of evidence from computers.

Testimony contributed to guilty verdict for the Defendant.

May 2016:

United States v. Americus Mortgage Corporation, et al., Civil Action 4:12-CV-2676 (US District Court – Southern District of Texas).

Performed computer forensic analysis with regards to email deletion analysis and authored written testimony in the form of an expert report on observations and refuting initial examiner’s conclusions based on the available evidence.

February 2016:

FTI Consulting, Inc. and Compass Lexecon LLC v. Atanu Saha, Case No: 01-15-0003-6810 (American Arbitration Association).

Provided written testimony in the form of a declaration regarding extraction of data from a mobile device.

August 2013:

Jayme Gordon v. DreamWorks Animation SKG, et al, Civil Action No.: 1:11-CV-10255-JLT (US District Court – Massachusetts).

Performed computer forensic examinations of Plaintiff’s devices and authored written testimony in the form of affidavits and expert reports on findings with regard to spoliation.

May 2011:

Young Woo & Assoc. LLC v. Andrew Kim, Index No. 652208/10 (Supreme Court of New York).

Computer forensic analysis and consultation in support of legal strategy to successfully defend theft of intellectual property charges. Written testimony in the form of affidavits regarding forensic imaging and analysis performed with regard to theft of intellectual property and trade secrets.

September 2010:

CreditSights, Inc. v. Paul Ciasullo, Docket No. 05-DV-9345 (US District Court – Southern District of New York).

Consulted with counsel and client to identify relevant data sources for forensic preservation and collection.

Managed and executed the forensic imaging of relevant data sources and processing into an e-Discovery review platform. Written testimony in the form of an affidavit attesting to the processes and procedures used for the electronic discovery.

October 2008:

Omniglow LLC. v. Cyalume Technologies, Inc. Civil Action No. 06-706 (Superior Court of Massachusetts).

Performed forensic analysis on matter involving theft of information. Authored expert report and provided courtroom testimony on findings.

July 2008:

Christie Lee Brinkley v Peter Cook, Index No. 20387-06 (Supreme Court of New York, Suffolk County).

Performed forensic analysis and drafted expert report in high profile divorce proceedings.

June 2008:

RLG, LLC v. TG Gallant Construction, Inc., Docket No. MID-L-6487-04 (Superior Court of New Jersey, Law Div: Middlesex County).

Authored expert report on forensics investigation findings. Qualified as Computer and Data Forensics expert in state court (Middlesex County, NJ) and offered courtroom testimony on findings from investigation.

May 2007:

Butler Capital Investments v. William Verner Daniel Jr., NASD-DR Arbitration No. 05-01792.

Authored expert report that led to extremely favorable settlement for client (BCI).

May 2006:

Keystone Fruit Marketing v. Brownfield, Civil Action No.CV-05-5087-RHW (E.D.Wa).

Authored expert report and a declaration with regard to findings during forensic investigation.

May 2006:

John Hammer v. Hair Systems, Inc., Docket No. L-1464-03 (Superior County of New Jersey, Law Div: Monmouth County)

Served as deposition consultant to depose opposing party’s IT person.

Authored certification opining on opposing experts’ analysis methodology.

Additional Background

Prior to joining Stroz Friedberg, Sankara was an associate director at Protiviti Inc., where he led numerous large and highly publicized investigations.