John Clavin Email & Phone Number

Redmond, Washington, US

Cross Product Technical Program Manager for Audio hardware on several Surface Tablet products. Managing interactions with hardware designers, component suppliers, and factory as well as internal and external software engineering teams. Surface devices have custom designed audio components which are some of the highest rated in the mobile device industry..

Dallas, Texas, US

Contracted Referee/TZM for Major League Rugby, North America's professional rugby competition. Manage interactions with home and away team management and the referee team, as well as interfacing with broadcast production crew, medical staff, and remote video referee. Responsible for smooth running and organization of the playing environment for nationally.

Glendale, Colorado, US

• USA Rugby is the National Governing Body for Rugby in the USA and is a member of both World Rugby and the US Olympic Committee. I was selected by representatives of the roughly two thousand match officials across the.
• Chair of USA National Referee Selections and Appointments Teams.
• Management of Training Committee, Performance Reviewers, and Laws Groups.
• Established US National Referee Coaching Group and provided initial charter and direction to standardize coaching methodology and frameworks in all regions.
• World Rugby TMO and TZM appointments in 2016 - 2019.
• Member of National Governance Review Board.

Bellevue, WA, US

• Direct to CTO / Founder; responsible for analyzing business opportunities, identifying new technologies to enable them in the medium to long term, and developing programs and LOB tooling to address them.
• Design and development of a knowledge management system to enable at a glance consumption of critical business decision making information; shortening information gathering and time to decision by over 70%.
• Managed team of Senior and Principal Engineers and Program Managers and an outsource development budget.
• Technical advisor on a major corporate tooling initiative resulting in a cost avoidance of over $1M/yr.
• Lead cross company initiative to develop asset characterization and classification system to enable investment decisions to be made significantly faster and from a data centric perspective.
• Managed team designing a system of IP and corporate economic information proxies enabling roughly 10x faster identification of suitable deal candidates.

• Seconded from Intellectual Ventures to a JV startup between IV and four Fortune 100 technology companies collaborating on investigating the application of artificial intelligence techniques to improving the patent.
• Architect for initial Proof of Concept design; presented at investor meeting to secure initial round of funding.
• Engaged and managed a team of twelve engineers to build a complete functional prototype on time and under budget.

Redmond, Washington, US

• First person at Microsoft hired into the role of technical IP manager. Working closely with LCA/CELA, defined the parameters and responsibilities of the role. Developed and implemented the IP protection strategy for.
• Designed IP strategy to protect exclusivity of Microsoft Kinect for a multiyear post launch timeframe through an aggressive patent filing and purchasing program, resulting in a multi-layered robust patent portfolio.
• Drove R&D phase IP protection and development of Microsoft HoloLens to identify hardware, software, and usability opportunities from both an IP and technology perspective.
• Directed IP identification and extraction planning with engineering teams resulting in tenfold increase in candidate ideas for IP protection and fivefold increase in patent applications.
• Moved development teams away from post development filing of IP to including in planning phase, resulting in more robust protection by product announcement.
• Directed multiple cross company IP extraction sessions to generate intra divisional IP filings and collaboration on convergent technologies; developed internal procedures to conduct forward looking IP identification.

Redmond, Washington, US

• Program Manager / Lead Program Manager / Driver Group ManagerSet strategic and tactical direction for device driver development group and managed operating system device support program for Printing and Imaging in.
• Managed multi discipline international team (Dev/Test/PM) for Windows Printing and Imaging to ensure high quality operating system support for 95% of devices in market at operating system launch.
• Acted as Microsoft technical liaison to multinational inter-governmental initiative on counterfeiting and re-designed driver architecture to comply with requirements.
• Managed inter-company partner relationships with tier one digital imaging companies, such as HP, Canon, Epson, etc., to ensure highest possible driver quality and coverage in multiple versions and locales of Windows.
• Designed 3rd party source code control system and procedure for source code licensing and IP protection to enable partner companies to commit source code to the Windows build system.
• Drove process and tool enhancements that reduced QA staffing needs by 70% while showing approx. 10x reduction in serious driver failures.

Established the National Core Library, and designed a GIS database of its contents.Geological Cartographer in Bedrock Mapping Division.

Msc, Marine Geotechnical Engineering

Marine Geophysics

Ba(Mod), Geology, Physics

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