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<h3 class="style2">NorCal RE Expo Presenter: Joshua D.J. Sharfman, Ph.D.</h3>

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<p class="style1">BIO: Josh Sharfman has worked with the California Association of REALTORS&reg; (C.A.R.) for the last twenty-five years: first as a consultant; later as an outside board member of the Association's Real Estate Business Services (REBS) subsidiary; and now as the Association's chief technical officer. Prior to joining C.A.R. full-time, Sharfman led product development for a variety of privately held and public companies, including Legal Research Network Digital Lava, ParcPlace-Digitalk, Inc., Dassault Systemes USA, CADAM Inc., and the CAM Center at the Hughes Aircraft Company. Sharfman also has served as an adjunct professor of engineering at the University of Southern California. Sharfman holds four system and method patents for software inventions and has many more in the pipeline at the US Patent and Trademark Office. He provides expert testimony for software patent and copyright infringement matters. He holds a B.S. degree in computer engineering from UCLA, an M.S. degree in engineering management from USC and a Ph.D. in business from Capella. Sharfman and his family live in Southern California.</p>