Ronald S. Arbo

Consulting Expert

Education

Fundamentals of Website Development course, Harvard University Extension School, 2011
C++ Programming course, Northeastern University, 2006
M.S., Electrical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, Thesis: "A Performance Study of Remote Executions in a Wide-Area Datakit Network," 1988
B.S.E.E., Electrical Engineering, University of Massachusetts at Lowell, 1986

Ronald S. Arbo is a director at Aon specializing in computer science and intellectual property litigation, including patent, trade secret, and copyright cases. Ron has over two decades of experience developing software across a wide range of technologies. He has had the opportunity to design and build software for secure operating systems and distributed filesystems on UNIX and Windows. He has also developed virtual private network protocols and multiple cloud computing products including cloud backup, identity and access management, wireless synchronization, anti-spam, and IP telephony offerings.

While at Aon, Ron has designed and developed data pipelines for insurance rating models and performed technical analysis on dozens of cases. He is a core developer for multiple large-scale data analysis tools. In addition to performing in-depth code analysis, Ron has analyzed large enterprise databases after cyber security incidents. Finally, Ron has used AI tools to perform patent portfolio analysis and collected evidence related to software licensing disputes as well as contributing to expert reports.

Prior to joining Aon, Ron worked at a small IP consultancy where he produced technical claim charts and performed patent portfolio analysis covering technologies ranging from internet, messaging, cloud computing, mobile, e-commerce, and security, to storage, database, wireless, networking, speech recognition, and 3GPP standards.

Ron holds an M.S. in electrical engineering from U.C. Berkeley. In addition, Ron has taken classes in data science, website development, and C++ programming. He is an Oracle Certified Professional in Java SE7 programming.

Certifications

Oracle Certified Professional, Java SE7 Programmer, Oracle, 2015
Certified ScrumMaster, Scrum Alliance, 2009

Selected Patents

Universal Data Mapping System. Ron Arbo, Olga Mirkina, Steve Pamer, Alexei Zheglov, and Bill Roy. US Patent Application No. 10/008,001, filed November 13, 2001.