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Global

International clientele in USA, France, Japan, and UK. Clients include Veolia & subsidiaries, Marble, VNS Federal Services, and various international stealth start-ups. FRM is a consulting firm specializing in intellectual property development, patent infringement/monetizing/litigation strategies, patent prosecution, transnational patent/trademark portfolio development and ongoing management, commercial contract development/management, customer negotiations, staff IP education and other management consulting activities.

Global

1. Oversee development, strategy, prosecution, and management of international patent portfolio. Hazardous Access Robotics. Ion Exchange Technology. GeoMelt and Vitrification. 2. Develop and manage agreements and contracts for domestic and international nuclear decommissioning projects. Bespoke robotics. Nuclear facility clean-up and treatment of radioactive waste. Government Contracts. International Projects.

Greater Seattle Area

1. Program management, patent portfolio production, and technical review processes.2. Developed USPTO prosecution strategy and project production strategy.3. Lead for key clients’ technical portfolio management and strategy implementation.4. Managed outside legal counsel.5. Coordinated cross-functional engineering teams to reach group consensus and project completion.6. Senior technical writer and in-house marketing writer.7. Developed and implemented client engagement contracts, billing strategy, and complex Statements of Work.8. Hiring, mentoring new staff.9. Business development and lead for client relations.10. General technology consulting firm operations.11. Promoted to this position in December 2015, after starting with the company as Director of IP management.

Bremerton, Wa Extension

1. Instructor through student outreach corporate program at ClaroVia Technologies2. Taught the patent ideation and development process to Mechanical Engineering college seniors as a mentor for senior design projects.3. Two teams of 5 students each.4. Course length -- one semester.5. Result of a typical senior design project: each student team successfully files a US provisional patent application with the US Patent & Trademark Office.6. Since course inception, two student teams have converted from Provisional to Non-provisional, subsequently received a granted patent, and sold the patent rights to a local technology firm.

Greater Seattle Area

1. Portfolio program manager, helped grow automotive safety and infotainment patent portfolio from 9 to 40 patents, all developed in-house (not purchased). Foundation of portfolio supported through hardware and software prototyping. 2. Managed production team, tech review, prosecution review.3. Managed outside patent prosecution counsel.4. Managed outside patent litigation counsel and Plaintiff document control during client's four-year patent litigation case.5. Litigation program manager, technical writer, and final editor for all case-required client-side deliverables: claims charts, infringement analysis, prior art analysis, etc. Final delivery to patent litigation counsel.6. Senior technical writer.

Greater Seattle Area

1. On-board from day 1 in start-up company. Company continues today as a going concern.2. Developed marketing plan, PR, best-practices, ongoing brand expansion, and marketing collateral.3. Successfully originated, developed, and implemented complex financing scenarios. 4. Praised for successful process troubleshooting, contingency planning, conflict resolution, and client retention.