Electrical Science, Inc. is an engineering consulting firm located in the New York metropolitan area and was founded in 2002 by Andrew Stevens. Electrical Science provides services in a variety of disciplines, including computer software and hardware design, network engineering, and embedded systems. We specialize in finding elegant solutions to difficult and esoteric problems. Our expertise includes (but is not limited to):

• recovering audio from voice logger and voicemail tapes
• performing due diligence for investors who are considering high-tech investment
• creating benchtop experiments for patent holders or litigators in order to prove (or disprove) infringement
• repairing legacy computer hardware, and migrating old data to modern hardware
• installing and configuring Oracle on Linux
• installing and configuring Linux virtual machines using Xen
• installing and configuring CNRI Handle servers, and loading millions of Handles
• architecting, implementing, and deploying database-backed Web sites
• performing secure online credit card authorizations, captures, voids, and refunds
• creating and maintaining secure PCI-compliant server environments
• all things XML, including validation, XSLT, DTD and schema design
• rent-a-CTO

• due diligence on a startup company for potential investors in the area of real time locating systems (RTLS)
• a sales database for a direct marketing company to compile revenue data from multiple sales channels, including Web, phone, and mail orders
• a metadata database for digital object identifiers (DOIs), including XML bulk loader and URL pinger
• a management system for "coinbox" service on 802.11b wireless LANs
• custom firmware for a wireless access point using embedded Linux
• architecture and deployment of a UNIX-on-the-desktop office environment for a startup semiconductor company
• a patient database for a major hospital
• LAN architecture and backup strategy for a law firm
• due diligence on a possible patent infringement in the area of wireless networking
• forensic analysis of backup tapes for litigation purposes
• Linux SCSI device driver programming for magnetic tape recovery
• design and prototyping of specialized VoIP hardware

Management

Andrew Stevens, Ph.D., P.E. received his bachelors degree from M.I.T. and his doctorate from Columbia University, both in electrical engineering. He has held industry positions at Bell Laboratories, Argonne National Laboratory, IBM Research, the Voyager Company, John Wiley & Sons, and Double Agent. He has published articles in several scientific journals and holds three patents in the areas of analog circuit design and computer user interfaces. Dr. Stevens is a licensed professional engineer in New York State.