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Provide product privacy guidance and manage privacy, data protection, and AI policy and compliance operations in the software, ad tech, and artificial intelligence (AI) space: • Extensive experience with European (GDPR), California (CCPA/CPRA), and other state, federal, and regional privacy laws and regulations.• Expert in the areas of cookies, consent, opt-in/opt-out, data subject rights, and data retention requirements. • Experience with sensitive data categories including precise geolocation and health categories.• Experience with privacy and IP rights related to use of data science, automated decision making, and machine learning (ML)/artificial intelligence (AI), including the EU AI Act.• Manage privacy review process to review product plans to identify privacy risks and recommend privacy safeguards; work closely with engineering to to ensure implementation of privacy safeguards.• Develop and maintain data inventory, purpose of processing, categories of personal data, categories of data subjects; and legal basis.• Maintain updates to Quantcast Privacy Policies and Notices.• Maintain Partner's Page, Records of Processing Activities (ROPA); assist engineering in maintaining datamap and data catalog. • Manage employee/contractor and applicant Privacy Policies, datamaps, and data subject rights.

Supported Privacy Operations (see above).Draft and prosecute patent applications; harvest concepts for IP protection; manage patent portfolio; improve efficiency of patent practices; train engineers on legal and procedural aspects of IP; manage IP incentive program; provide analysis related to financial diligence and patent disputes. Manage trademark portfolio, conduct knockout trademark searches; manage outside counsel trademark applications and prosecution. Manage legal oversight of use of open source software.

Course Instructor in Intellectual Property Law, Patent Prosecution, and Trademark Prosecution in ABA Certified Paralegal Studies Program.

Patent prosecution and portfolio management of large international patent portfolio in streaming video software space. Managed and directed prosecution by outside counsel. Managed patent portfolio decisions in light of budget requirements including pending applications, continuation and foreign filing decisions, and issuance/annuity decisions, and Managed invention development through patent training, Ideation sessions, and close collaboration with engineers/developers and business unit managers to generate high quality invention submissions. Managed inventor recognition program. Continuously improved internal processes to improve patent portfolio quality and manage costs. Supported patent licensing and litigation activities.

Patent prosecution in semiconductor space. Drafted new patent applications and responses to USPTO and foreign Office Actions. Managed US and foreign prosecution by outside counsel, disclosure development/Ideation sessions, continuation decisions, foreign filing decisions, annuity decisions. Worked with inventors in the US, Europe, India, and Asia. Supported portfolio management, paralegal management, M&A activities, and patent sales.

Product Engineer, Applications Engineer, Technical Product Marketing