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Licenses

·     United States Patent and Trademark Office Registered Patent Attorney 2006

·     State Bar of Illinois 2005

·     Indiana Certified Engineer in Training 2002

Education

Valparaiso School of Law, IN

J.D. –  May 2005

·    Intellectual Property Focus

·    Treasurer, Intellectual Property Law Association

·    Moot Court: Giles Sutherland Rich Memorial Intellectual Property Team

·    Independent Research on the GPL open source license

Valparaiso University, IN

Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering – May 2002

·    Sigma Pi, Beta Tau Chapter: House Manager, Network Administrator,
 and Web Committee Chair

    Experience

   Department of Energy (DOE) - Intellectual Property Law

Argonne, IL

   Patent Attorney

2004 Summer, August 2005 to Present

·    Handle all aspects of patent prosecution for a variety of national laboratories, corporations, and universities

·    Directly correspond with inventors during all stages of patent prosecution of numerous technologies including Sensors, Fuel Cells, High Power Laser Systems, RF Systems, Gamma-Ray Detectors, Neutron Detectors, NMR Systems, Chemical Processes, Alloys, Thermal Power Generation Systems,  Robotics and Magnetic Field Generator Systems

·    Responsible for all inventions developed by the Idaho National Laboratory

·    Advise supervisors and clients based upon evaluations of inventions for patentability

·    Handle waivers of government rights for contractor developed inventions

·    Handle various Trademark issues

·    Earned Service Award for efforts in Patent Prosecution for 2006-2007

 NASA Illinois Commercialization Center (Battelle Memorial Institute)

West Chicago, IL

          Client Service Representative/Research Associate

2001, 2002 Summers

2003 Summer and Fall

·    Consulted with clients on adopting beneficial technologies in their businesses

·    Designed a program that searches for keywords in NASA websites

·    Developed a system to simulate investment into startup companies

   Valparaiso University College of Engineering

Valparaiso, IN

   Senior Project – Adaptive Cruise Control

August 2001 to May 2002

·         Led the design and presentation of a device that maintains a following distance between a Ford Escort and a leading vehicle

   Valparaiso University College of Engineering

Valparaiso, IN

   Lab Assistant and Grader for Basic Circuits, Digital Logic Design and Microcontrollers

August 2001 to May 2002

    Skills

·    Computer Engineering: Computer Networks, Computer Architecture, Embedded Microcontrollers

·    Electrical Engineering: Electromagnetic Field Theory, Communication Theory

·    Law: Intellectual Property (Patent, Trademark and Copyright prosecution and drafting)

·    Programming: Assembly, C, C++, Java, Visual Basic (VB6, .Net), Perl, PHP, JavaScript

    Interests

·    Wrote the PatentWrangler™, a C++ program capable of generating a single PDF file from tiff files of patents and patent applications from the USPTO and EPO.

·    Serving on the Church Council at Divine Shepherd Lutheran Church