Jeff Swearingen Email and Phone Number

This job requires receiving a technical application and reviewing it to understand the technical subject matter involved. Next a search is performed to find out what other similar technologies existed at the time of invention. Legal and technical reasons why the invention should or should not be patented are drafted. Then a lengthy negotiation occurs between the Applicant's counsel and myself to determine the technical scope and breadth of the patented invention.• Received outstanding ratings for past three years and consistently completed over 110% of expected work product. • Trained and reviewed work product of 1-3 junior examiners at a time.• Assisted with training of a class of 25 new hires. • Presented legal training to groups of ten examiners at a time • Prepared and gave technical lectures to sessions of 100-200 attendees, including examiners, managers, and Administrative Patent Judges. • Met with representatives of several Silicon Valley technology companies to discuss Patent Office practice and learn about new products.• Mentored examiners in understanding technical concepts and performing work functions on a weekly basis.

• Participated in group project developing a Sequelize powered memo application using a RESTful API. This utilized multiple npm packages, including passport.js for third party authentication, and nodemailer for emailing selected information.• Developed an Amazon-like application in Node.js which updated and queried MySQL databases.• Participated in group project developing Pipeline, a dynamic web portal accessing 7 different APIs. Pipeline was designed using MD Bootstrap, Javascript, jQuery, and utilized AJAX calls.• Developed an application in Node.js to retrieve data from the Twitter, OMDB, and Spotify APIs.• Developed a dynamic web page that populates with GIFs from the Giphy API. • Developed a trivia applet using Javascript and jQuery, with timers.• Developed a hangman applet using Javascript and jQuery. • Developed responsive web pages using CSS media queries and Bootstrap.

Teaching assistant for ECE 200: Introduction to Electrical and Computer Engineering and ECE 206: Introduction to Computer Organization. • Graded papers. • Proctored exams. • Taught laboratory sections.

• Installed and troubleshot ethernet cabling.• Installed and troubleshot a medium size Windows office LAN.• Made recommendations for hardware and software purchases.

• Managed a hybrid NetWare and Windows NT network. • Performed troubleshooting of computer hardware and software.• Data mined a FoxPro database using SQL. • Debugged and documented legacy code.