• Member of the Lawson Administration Management and Operations Teams• Managed all aspects of intellectual property and commercialization for the portfolio of innovations from both London Health Sciences Centre and St. Joseph's Healthcare London• Responsible for determining patentability and market potential of innovations for justification of institute financial and human resource investments including intellectual property protection, technology development, and marketing plans• Provided institute scientists, clinicians, staff and students with guidance in relation to intellectual property, technology development and facilitated industry engagement for contract research and technology licensing• Responsible for negotiating terms and conditions of agreements including collaboration, confidentiality, material transfer, intellectual property and license agreements• Provided oversight and guidance for start up company formation and development as an institutional representative on the Board of Directors• Strategically positioned technologies and start ups for technology development and fund raising through government grants, industry agreements and private investors• Ensured appropriate documentation and tracking of activities for internal and external reporting of success metrics

• Responsible for determining patentability and market potential of innovations for justification of institute financial and human resource investments including intellectual property protection, technology development, and marketing plans• Provided institute scientists, clinicians, staff and students with guidance in relation to intellectual property, technology development and facilitated industry engagement for contract research and technology licensing• Negotiated terms and conditions of agreements including collaboration, confidentiality, material transfer, intellectual property and license agreements• Strategically positioned technologies and start ups for technology development and fund raising through government grants, industry agreements and private investors• Documented and tracked success metrics

• Responsible for a broad portfolio of activities related to intellectual property including invention disclosure evaluation, prior art searches and evaluation, freedom-to-operate analyses, patent filing and prosecution• Responsible for a broad portfolio of activities related to commercialization including evaluation of market potential, marketing and promotion of technologies, and drafting and negotiating a wide array of related agreements including collaborative research, confidentiality, material transfer, and licenses• AAFC’s lead for participation in the Public Intellectual Property Resource for Agriculture (PIPRA)• AAFC’s coordinator for the web-based marketing tool Flintbox• Responsible for documentation, project tracking and reporting metrics

• Responsible for the practical development of freedom-to-operate for the biotechnology unit through the development of novel methods and products and facilitating intellectual property protection related to my research• Critically abstracted information from diverse sources (scientific and patent literature) for the purpose of providing strategic advice to my supervisor and team to make recommendations for freedom-to-operate and project design • Conceived and developed a novel technological method useful in many areas of agriculture and co-wrote the provisional patent application for this invention. Collaborated with the commercialization officer and patent agent in the evaluation of prior art, claim drafting and responses to patent office actions• Responsible for the maintenance of effective collaborative relationships relating to various multi-party molecular farming research projects. My role involved participation in collaborative research meetings to set research objectives, priorities and milestones for projects of critical national importance. For example, one of these projects involved a collaboration with the National Microbiology Laboratory for the design, construction, production and purification of recombinant heterologous anti-viral antibodies in plants at a large and efficient scale to create a national stockpile of antibodies for the immunoprophylactic treatment of susceptible animals in the event of a national foot-and-mouth disease viral outbreak

Responsible for various duties within both the clinical chemistry and microbiology departments including sample processing, testing and data analysis ands interpretation for writing medical reports and ensuring quality control