Transitioned from external counsel (Frost Brown Todd) to in-house IP executive to drive disruptive innovation initiatives and build bottom-line Intellectual Property value, including:• Migrated company’s global IP practice in-house, eliminating all domestic outside IP counsel costs.• Organized, managed and mentored in-house IP team.• Developed and managed creative corporate-wide global IP strategy, linking IP, product development, and customer needs to drive increased IP value.• Reviewed, advised and negotiated IP terms in sales, supplier, consultant, confidentiality and other agreements.• Conducted due diligence investigations, evaluating intellectual property IP value for acquisitions.• Created third party IP infringement risk avoidance procedures. • Implemented formal IP invention disclosure, capture and maintenance procedures and practices.• Established management and tracking processes for non-disclosure agreements (NDAs).• Drove company innovation initiatives.• Established and supervised procedures for monitoring use of open source software.• Drafted and prosecuted patent applications.• Conducted comprehensive company and competitive IP assessment, including relative value, risk assessment and gap analysis.• Consulted on IP litigation strategy and procedure.• Formulated and executed company-wide IP policies and operating procedures as IP Business Process Owner (BPO). • Conducted Intellectual Property on-boarding training for new engineers and managers.• Interim General Counsel

Provided leadership, guidance, mentoring for the IP practice group of the 450+attorney law firm in all aspects of the practice in the following key areas: • Counseled organizations and management on all aspects of patent, trademark, service mark, copyright and unfair competition use, protection, licensing, enforcement and defense issues• Conducted IP inventory reviews• Drafted and negotiated Intellectual Property agreements, licenses• Drafted and prosecuted US and foreign patent and trademark applications• Represented clients before the United States Patent Office (USPTO) in ex parte and inter partes proceedings.• Interviewed, managed and mentored associates and other legal personnel.• Litigated, as lead trial and appellate counsel, 100s of IP court, arbitration and mediation proceedings, including successful patent infringement case before the US Supreme Court.• Consulted and testified as expert witness.

• Represented clients in boutique IP law firm all aspects of Intellectual Property law with emphasis on drafting and prosecuting patent and trademark applications, licensing, patent searches, and litigation.

• Represented clients in general practice law firm in broad range of transactional, civil and criminal matters.

• Designed, tested, implemented, and commercialized state of the art military electronics equipment involving radar and infrared detection. • Managed project teams of engineers and technicians. • Awarded two patents for work in this technology.