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San Jose, California, United States

• Provides client guidance on all aspects of patent-eligible subject matter, ensuring alignment with business objectives. Proactively engages and advises on multiple product lines and ensures internal and external.
• Lead U.S. patent counsel for international clients specializing in consumer electronics.
• Compose executive summaries outlining commercially valuable aspects of patent applications.
• Evaluate latest research and technology to assist client decisions on patenting strategy.
• Interview inventors to elicit patent-eligible subject matter for patent applications
• Perform infringement analyses to advise clients on assertion and litigation opportunities

San Diego, California, United States

Corporate attorney and project manager adept at designing and managing a global intellectual property strategy for clients specializing in networking, semiconductor manufacturing, and artificial intelligence. Managed junior professional staff while advising executives of legal rights, opportunities, and obligations.

San Diego, California, United States

San Diego, CA

Served as the Lead Engineer for the national center of excellence in cold spray technology. Realized over $11 million savings by transitioning cold spray technology from engineering lab to production operations to repair high-value aircraft components.

Greater San Diego Area

• Examined and verified case data for over 700 patent cases to analyze effect of KSR International Co. v. Teleflex, Inc. on obviousness decisions by district courts and the Federal Circuit
• Analyzed case data and Federal Circuit reversals for trends using 17 obviousness factors, 6 technology types, and 6 procedural posture categories
• Drafted analysis section of paper published in Iowa Law Review

San Diego, California, United States

Greater San Diego Area

Served as the Lead Engineer for integrating payloads with unmanned systems. Led the entire lifecycle of four multi-system integration projects by defining scope, designing system architecture, creating and adhering to budgets and schedules, authoring and executing test plans, and reporting results to executive management and funding sponsors.

Juris Doctor (J.D.), Intellectual Property Law

Activities and Societies: High Pass, Experiential Advocacy I (litigation focused), Fall 2017 Law Alumni Achievement Scholarship Merit.

B.S. In Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace, Systems And Control, 3.67

Cum Laude