Since 1979, Dr. Cohen has served as a software development consultant to several major Silicon Valley businesses including Nortel Networks, Surromed, Incyte Genomics, BomDiver, Canon Information Systems, WeatherNews, PetroSoft, LSI Logic, Aspect Development, Abbott Laboratories, ETAK, Engineering DataXpress, Nikon Precision, Diasonics, Daisy Systems, Rolm, Oceanroutes, Mindcraft, and Integrated CMOS Systems. Concurrently, he has also held full time senior engineering and management positions with such companies as Tibco, Zycad, ETAK, and the NASA Ames Research Center. Dr. Cohen believes in giving back to the community and has been an instructor at several San Francisco Bay Area colleges, including San Jose State University, Foothill College, College of San Mateo, and City College of San Francisco.
 
Dr. Cohen's distinguished career includes extensive experience in bioinformatics and computational genomics, as well as building graphical user interfaces using XWindows and Motif for a complex foreign exchange deal capture application and for a petrophysical application. He managed a group of software engineers who designed and implemented the run-time software for a massively parallel hardware accelerator for VHDL simulation. He served as lead investigator in applying passive underwater acoustic detection and estimation procedures to multi-sensor target localization, and as a project leader for and designer of Oceanroutes' East Coast, Australian, and "Portable" Spectral Ocean Wave Models.

Cohen Software Consulting, Inc. is owned and managed by Howard Cohen, a software development consultant. Our practice, also located in Silicon Valley, is centered about Palo Alto. Dr. Cohen has a Ph.D. in theoretical physics and over 20 years experience in the design, implementation, and management of the development of a large variety of software applications. He also has over eight years of experience as an Expert Witness in software intellectual property matters, including patents, trade secrets and copyrights.