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Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

• Drafted provisional and non-provisional patent applications in artificial intelligence, machine learning, nuclear fusion, food technology, nutraceuticals, and related arts
• Responded to USPTO final and non-final Office Actions (responses to Sec. 101, 102, 103, & 112 rejections)
• Performed product clearance searches in fashion, backpacks, laptop cases, consumer electronics, etc.

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

• Intellectual Property and Technology Clinic
• Drafted and filed provisional and non-provisional patent applications for a first-time solo femtech and pet tech inventors
• Drafted and filed a trademark application for a French client intending to expand business to the United States
• Responded to USPTO final and non-final Office Actions (responses to Sec. 102, 103, & 112 rejections)

• Support GW Law Associate Dean for Intellectual Property Law and co-directors of the program in inaugural digital marketing strategy and execution.

J.A. Lindeman & Co. changed ownership and name to Raphael Bellum in October 2022.

• Drafted and filed preliminary amendments, provisional and non-provisional patent applications for chemical and biotechnology inventions for six attorney IP boutique firm
• Responded to USPTO final and non-final Office Actions (responses to Sec. 102, 103, & 112 rejections)

• Facilitated biotechnology breakthroughs through customized antibody discovery and development solutions
• Led and managed application, presentation, and purchasing of ND CARES Grant Funded COVID-19 Project ($400k) and ND Bioscience Innovation Grant Antibody Project ($1.45m)
• Built strategic relationships with diagnostic, therapeutic, and research and development clients by understanding and delivering their technical requirements
• Drafted, reviewed and enforced confidentiality, master service, and material transfer agreements
• Developed technology-segmented marketing strategy including antibody discovery flyer generation, capabilities presentation, website re-design, conference preparation, and lead generation

• Genovac purchased Aldevron's antibody discovery business unit in September 2020.
• Facilitated biotechnology breakthroughs through customized antibody discovery solutions including genetic immunization, advanced semi-solid hybridoma, and Berkeley Lights Beacon (single B-cell).
• Built strategic relationships with diagnostic, therapeutic, and research and development clients in the private and public space by understanding and delivering their technical requirements.🧬 Genetic Immunization🧬.

Washington, District Of Columbia

• Corresponded closely with North Dakota constituents and stakeholders to develop, draft, and introduce legislative and policy proposals related to veterans, agriculture, healthcare, science/research, intellectual.
• Provided oversight of federal agencies including United States Departments of Veteran Affairs, Agriculture, Health and Human Services, Transportation, and Justice
• Served as the primary staff point of contact for the Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Managed legislative responsibilities related to agriculture, healthcare, science, and intellectual property
• Researched and drafted legislative language within the base bill for the Agricultural Act of 2018
• Served as the Congressman’s primary health correspondent for the Energy and Commerce Committee

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Participated in congressional case work by gathering additional details from the inquirer, analyzed and advised on similar court cases, and summarized parallel issues including the Livestock Disaster Program.
• Responded to and escalated multi-faceted constituent concerns and comments via phone, email, and walk-in, on wide-ranging issues pertaining to energy, agriculture, healthcare, infrastructure, taxes, and foreign relations
• Led interactive constituent tours of the U.S. Capitol building (groups of two to fifteen)
• Co-hosted and taught up to ten "Close-up" outstanding high school students from North Dakota on the legislative process and issues of interest in North Dakota and the United States each month

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

• Supervised a team of eight to twelve individuals by shifting and reallocating efforts to ensure key performance indicators and optimal customer service are achieved
• Monitored and evaluated weekend team metrics including average time to answer, e-mail statistics, online portal management, customer messaging platform, and call status
• Fielded escalated questions from team members on weekend shifts, escalated issues or questions to directors, resolved escalated service issues with clients in the moment
• Provided custom-tailored logistics solutions to meet the corporate ground transportation needs of individual clients
• Maintained corporate travel specialist responsibilities

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

• Booked, organized, and managed safe and reliable corporate ground transportation
• Collaborated with directors of security, flight schedulers, executive assistants, and travel planners throughout the life cycle of global ground transportation
• Provided excellent customer service via phone and e-mail communication
• Kept careful track of commercial and private aircraft arrivals and departures

• Responded to the request of an aflatoxin risk assessment analysis in animal feed and feed ingredients from the Kenya, Africa Parliament and regulatory agencies
• Conducted background research on aflatoxin action levels, binding agents, and blending mechanisms for use in the management of aflatoxin contamination
• Bio-statistically analyzed primary aflatoxin data collected from maize harvest in Kenya
• Collaborated with Kenyan scientists and risk analysts to understand the regulatory efforts and economic needs of the country
• Presented research and policy preceding at a high level breakfast meeting in Nairobi, Kenya

Woodland, CA

• Supported Monsanto’s Vegetable Discovery Pathology team
• Carried out host differential bioassays for three fungal pathogen isolates on bell and hot pepper
• Developed, performed, and read bioassay screens for bacterial pathogens on lettuce varieties using bacterial isolates from California and Brazil
• Enhanced molecular diagnostic development for economically important viruses and viroid
• Attended American Phytopathological Society’s Office of Private Sector Relations agricultural biotechnology tour
• Assisted in planting, transplanting, and thinning in growth rooms, greenhouse, and field

Bryan/College Station, Texas Area

• Managed a genome wide interspecific chromosome substitution and introgression project focused on Gossypium hirsutum (cotton) and three other wild-type varieties
• Assisted in wet lab cytogenetic assays including DNA extraction via Macherey-Nagel method and Kompetitive Allele Specific PCR genotyping chemistry
• Maintained cotton in greenhouse and field (watering, fertilizing, crossing, harvesting, spraying)
• Developed specific single nucleotide polymorphism primers for molecular analysis of four tetraploid cotton varieties
• Performed vehicle and lab maintenance (record keeping, transcribing, ginning)

Orlando, Florida Area

• Partnered with the USDA in stone fruit (plum) plant pathogenesis research
• Used tissue culture techniques to regenerate fifteen different plant varieties including banana, Venus fly trap, cactus, and Sequoia redwood trees
• Packaged, marketed, and sold tissue cultured plants and growing instructions to guests
• Educated 300 guests/week on innovative agriculture through Behind the Seeds greenhouse, aquaculture, entomology, and biotechnology guided walking tours
• Managed a tour desk by signing guests up for tours, answering questions, handling cash, etc.

Reykjavik, Iceland

• Iceland Research Associate via National Science Foundation Grant project focused on how temperature influences physiological processes of primary producing organisms
• Constructed a research proposal focused on temperature-nutrient interactions in geothermal streams in the Hengill region of Iceland across a temperature gradient
• Worked as a team to develop novel and mobile sample collection equipment
• Collaborated with international scientists on research design, sample collection and data analysis
• Managed and executed gas chromatography and sample preservation (chemical and thermal) procedures

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Critiqued and reassembled a microbiology preparatory manual and video-graphed and edited tutorial videos for training purposes
• Inoculated tubes and plates with seven different bacterial and fungal cultures
• Prepared a variety of broth for tubes and agar for plates
• Managed and trained five students in sterile technique and laboratory procedures and coordinated student employment schedules

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Collaborated with a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Minnesota as a Research Assistant in the Department of Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior
• Studied the effect of nutrient availability on vital biological processes such as metabolism and nitrogen fixation in lakes and reported data to be used in nutrient application regulatory efforts
• Engineered and assembled a novel and transportable device used to measure lake physiology
• Executed water quality filtering techniques to analyze nitrogen, phosphorus, carbon, algal diversity, and chlorophyll a levels in lake water to better understand limnologic biogeochemistry
• Assembled data collected in an Excel spreadsheet and derived equations used to calculate oxygen levels in freshwater aquatic ecosystems

North Dakota, United States

Juris Doctor (Part-Time)

Integrative Nutrition Health Coach Certificate

Master’S Degree

Bachelor’S Degree

High School Diploma