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Raleigh, Nc, Us

Providing legal counsel to Red Hat's executive management, business leaders, and engineers on generative AI, open source, emerging products and technology, copyright, acquisitions, and commercial licensing/transactions.Lead counsel for Red Hat's generative AI products and services. Lead project manager and co-author of multiple amicus briefs filed with the U.S. Supreme Court in connection with Google v. Oracle.Development and management of Red Hat's open source internal infrastructure components for managing worldwide open source requests, knowledge management systems, and performance reporting.Frequent author and speaker on generative AI, open source licensing and related business models. Management of Red Hat's open source legal internship and externship programs.

Raleigh, Nc, Us

Chapel Hill, Nc, Us

Constructed and periodically teach UNC's LAW 547 course on Open Source Software.

San Diego, Ca, Us

Managed open source licensing for the Office of the Chief Scientist.Drafted and negotiated a variety of complex commercial and open source licensing agreements.In-depth analysis and counsel on various open source licenses including GPL, LGPL, BSD, MIT, and Apache.Lead counsel and manager of all open source acquisition matters.Featured speaker at various IP and technology conferences on open source and technology law.

Product Management Director for QCT's worldwide Internet of Things ("IOT") chipset and software offerings / EDGE computing solutions which included market research, specification of new ASIC solutions, operating systems and software offerings, plus eco-system development, go-to-market strategy, financial modeling, and demand-generation activities.

Operational responsibility for the successful launch of the Gobi 3000 mobile broadband module with Qualcomm’s domestic and offshore licensees and manufacturing partners.

Lead legal counsel for the formation of the Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. (QuIC)Development of QuIC's open source software policy and process including training executive management and engineering teams on proper practices and procedures.Creating and structuring proprietary software, open source software, technology transfer, and intellectual property license agreements.

Managed a team of patent and open source attorneys focused on analyzing various Linux based software systems.

Open source legal counsel for various divisions and subsidiaries of Qualcomm Incorporated including QCT, MediaFlo, and Qualcomm Israel.

Lincolnshire, Il, Us

Department formation and management of a 15 person team including Product Managers, Marketing Specialists, and Field Application Engineers in order to develop, market, and support Zebra’s software / networking products and custom product solutions.Led the specification development and launch of the ZBI software language, XML / ERP data solutions for Oracle and SAP, and wireless enhancements to the ZebraLink family of printer connectivity and control systems.

Lincolnshire, Il, Us

Led from conception to market launch of ZebraLink, the industry's first "'Web-Aware-Printer'" for mission-critical barcode printing operations. This product required translating complex enterprise and B2B business needs into a cost effective and powerful wireless technical solution for Zebra’s customers and was awarded "Best Product of 1999" by AutoID News. This product was also awarded U.S. Patent #7,126,716.

Lincolnshire, Il, Us

U.S. Registered Patent Agent responsible for corporate policy development, drafting of patent applications, and managing outside legal counsel.Development of various label printer hardware, software control systems and ASICs.

Lincolnshire, Il, Us

Mechanical, digital, and analog electronics design and embedded systems software programming.

Doctor Of Law (Jd), Intellectual Property Law

Master Of Business Administration (Mba)

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Electrical Engineering Technology

Associate Of Applied Science (A.A.S.), Aviation Flight