Christopher Geyer Email & Phone Number

Mclean, Va, Us

San Francisco, California, Us

San Francisco, California, Us

Mclean, Virginia, Us

I guided the business by evaluating and minimizing risk posed by new business initiatives, license restrictions, software license negotiations, InfoSec procedures, employment matters, data privacy, and more. I oversaw all corporate litigation, including filing and managing a trade secret case resulting in a $2 billion jury verdict (the largest in Virginia history). I prosecuted all corporate IP. I more than 6x'd Appian's patent portfolio. I drafted, reviewed, and implemented business continuity protocols. I oversaw more than a dozen outside law firms.

Mclean, Virginia, Us

Washington, District Of Columbia, Us

Washington Dc, District Of Columbia, Us

New York, Ny, Us

• Successfully represented clients in patent cases in federal district courts, the U.S. Supreme Court, and the Federal Circuit. Understood clients' complex technologies and helped craft successful litigation and business strategies. Drafted briefs, pleadings, motions, discovery. • Performed technical and legal analysis to win important litigation and client-counseling business. • Represented client in resolution of trade secret dispute.• Technologies: set-top boxes, medical devices, auction software, internet shopping carts, networking systems.• Ran appeal at Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims, including authoring all briefs, all appearances before the court, communications with client and opposing counsel. • Drafted amicus brief on second amendment issue submitted to Ninth Circuit.Supreme Court Cert Stage Briefs:- http://sblog.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Soverain-v.-Newegg-Neweggs-Brief-in-Opposition.pdf- https://www.dropbox.com/s/no30k5wuqqddgpg/O2%20Micro%20Petition.pdf

Washington, Dc, Us

Wrote appeal briefs for patent litigation, memoranda for corporate clients, responses to US Patent and Trademark Office (US PTO) Office Actions.

Provided internet application development services for public and private clients, including IRS, CareerBuilder, American Red Cross, Cognitive Technologies Corporation, and others. Full stack development (server administration, database development and administration, business layer and GUI development).Representative work:• Created dashboard to allow CFO and CIO of IRS to track technology system upgrades throughout entire organization to monitor risk. The system provided insight into budget, staffing, and implementation progress, and predicted success of project milestones.• Received numerous awards and commendations for the quality of the IRS dashboard application.• Created data store that served as system of record for GAO audits of IRS Business Systems Modernization efforts.• Built a project management tool that tracked tasks, resources, and individuals' time for CareerBuilder.com.• Designed a disaster relief application to track human resources and emergency supplies, worldwide, for the American Red Cross.• Administration of servers, including Windows NT and RedHat Linux, and configuration of firewalls (ipchains) and mail servers.• Technologies included Linux, Apache, MySQL, Java Server Pages (JSP), Java, PHP, ASP.NET, C++, C#, VB, VB.Net, JavaScript, SQL Server, ASP, Oracle.

Fort Worth, Texas, Us

Supported and extended the functionality of the IT applications related to Crescent's real estate operations:• Managed data warehouse using SQL Server OLAP design and Cognos data cubes• Developed and managed intranet content using Microsoft Sharepoint• Administered Crescent's public internet site

Fort Worth, Texas, Us

• Provided strategic design guidance and implemented specific design initiatives• Created a unified application framework for all internal web-based applications• Led training and implementation for use of unified framework• Redesigned supply chain application used by C-Level executives to track Pier 1's global inventory

Mclean, Va, Us

Developing prototype of enterprise-level web application for the IRS to track business metrics of technology projects. Technologies included Active Server Pages and SQL Server.

J.D., Law

Th.M., New Testament

B.S., Physics

Law