• Hired as company’s first general counsel to manage IP portfolio, oversee contract negotiation and management, secure key rights and licenses, and assure regulatory compliance.• Led efforts to secure land rights for exploration and development projects in the United States, South America, Africa, and Europe.• Work closely with science team to develop, document, protect, license, and maintain the company’s intellectual property portfolio.• Supervised outside counsel in connection with litigation involving the company and advised CEO on litigation and risk management.

• Hired as the company’s first in-house attorney, build five-person legal team to meet needs of home office, sales, and field operations.• Supervised in-house attorneys and outside law firms on variety of litigation, regulatory, IP, commercial and strategic business matters.• Collaborated with sales team to secure $100M+ for new competitions and other initiatives and to develop and launch an official partnership program that generated millions of dollars in new revenue.

• Negotiated and drafted patent, trademark and copyright development agreements, industry-sponsored research agreements, and other business and intellectual property contracts on behalf of the UCLA School of Medicine and Samueli School of Engineering.• Developed and launched a new outreach program to better capture, protect and monetize UCLA patents and trademarks and worked with research teams and to successfully implement the program.• Served as university’s representative on the California Cybersecurity Task Force, a multi-agency effort between the FBI, CIA, NSA, US military, private industry, and local research universities to identify and share cybersecurity risks and prevent cyber espionage in California.• Negotiated, drafted, and implemented agreements between UCLA and academic and industry partners for the transfer, licensing and co-development of intellectual property and proprietary technology.• Created and presented a series of training videos and manuals to train researchers and staff in IP creation, protection, and commercialization.

• Built multi-million-dollar start-up coalition of inventors, investors and manufacturers enabling technology to transition from orphaned invention to a variety of market-ready commercial products.• Obtained all necessary industry and regulatory specifications and certifications for a novel material and cleared the way for use in various construction and equipment manufacturing sectors.• Prepared and filed all necessary documents and filings in compliance with applicable securities statutes and regulations in support of fundraising and securities offerings needed to fund the company. • Functioned for a time as chief operating officer in overseeing all manufacturing and distribution of research materials and sample products, as well as shipments of commercial products and materials.

• Drafted organizational documents, bylaws and CCRs for residential, commercial, and mixed-use real estate developments and filed them with the California Department of Real Estate for approval.• Advised real estate developers and other business clients on securities, corporate governance, IP transactions, dispute resolution and other business and legal matters.• Partnered with database developer to develop a custom document generation and management system that reduced the time required to prepare Department of Real Estate compliance documents by 80%.

• Promoted from Summer Law Clerk. Focus on intellectual property, corporate finance and securities, and corporate governance.• Conduct extensive computerized and non-computerized legal research, analysis and writing, due diligence and discovery document review, and litigation support.