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Tysons Corner, Virginia

• Practice is focused on interviewing inventors regarding their inventions; preparing and filing patent applications; and reviewing and responding to Office Actions from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in order to overcome rejections and obtain a U.S. patent.• Technologies include CATV networks, satellite communication networks and secure computer communications.

Gaithersburg, Maryland

• Practice is focused on interviewing inventors regarding their software-related inventions; preparing and filing patent applications; and reviewing and responding to Office Actions from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in order to overcome rejections and obtain a U.S. patent.• Technologies include computer networking, database systems, textual analysis, natural language processing, machine learning, satellite communications and parallel processing.

Ellicott City, Maryland

• Provided technology consulting services for patentee with two U.S. patents, directed to multimedia technology, being challenged by a third party via a review procedure at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Services included developing of technical arguments to rebut arguments made by an expert hired by the third party and to support patentee’s assertions.• Practice was focused on interviewing inventors regarding their software-related inventions; preparing and filing patent applications; and reviewing and responding to Office Actions from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in order to overcome rejections and obtain a U.S. patent.• Technologies included speech recognition, handheld processing devices, computer networking, wireless communications, telephone networks, computer security, cryptography, operating systems, object-oriented programming, caching, satellite communications, computer data storage devices and Internet-related technologies.

Annapolis, Maryland

• Practice was focused on interviewing inventors regarding their software-related inventions; preparing and filing patent applications; and reviewing and responding to Office Actions from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in order to overcome rejections and obtain a U.S. patent.• Technologies included natural language spoken dialog systems, handheld processing devices, computer networking, wireless communications, computer security, operating systems, object-oriented programming, caching, Internet-related technologies and machine vision.

Huntingtown, Maryland

• Practice was focused on interviewing inventors regarding their software-related inventions; preparing and filing patent applications; and reviewing and responding to Office Actions from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in order to overcome rejections and obtain a U.S. patent.• Technologies included natural language spoken dialog systems, handheld processing devices, telephone systems, and signaling system 7.

Fairfax, Virginia

• Practice was focused on interviewing inventors regarding their software-related inventions; preparing and filing patent applications; and reviewing and responding to Office Actions from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in order to overcome rejections and obtain a U.S. patent.• Technologies included computer networking, mobile communications, telephone networks, computer security, speech recognition and quantum cryptography.

Washington, Dc

• Practice was focused on interviewing inventors regarding their software-related inventions; preparing and filing patent applications; and reviewing and responding to Office Actions from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in order to overcome rejections and obtain a U.S. patent.• Technologies included operating systems, object-oriented programming, caching and cellular communications.

Washington, Dc

• Practice was focused on interviewing inventors regarding their software-related inventions; preparing and filing patent applications; and reviewing and responding to Office Actions from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in order to overcome rejections and obtain a U.S. patent.• Technologies included DVD, cellular telephony, automobile emission systems, automobile traction control systems, computer data storage devices, Internet-related technologies, machine vision and mechanical devices.• Managed patent prosecution for a client in the cellular communications field.• Supervised patent drafting by patent agents and junior level attorneys.• Provided support for patent infringement litigation involving MRI technology and the software that implemented the MRI technology.

Germantown, Maryland

Program Manager1995 – 1996• Wrote statement of work for multimillion dollar mobile satellite communications project.• Responsible for procuring billing system for the project.• Responsible for training and documentation plan for the project.Attorney1994 – 1995• Investigated new technologies with inventors to determine patentability of new inventions.• Monitored and aided invention disclosure processing.• Investigated new technologies for possible patent infringement.Principal Engineer/Technical Manager1985 – 1994• Designed and developed software to implement a packet switching networking product, which included communication protocols such as X.25 levels 2 and 3 (link and packet levels). • Provided technical support for the packet switching networking product as a manager and engineer.• Designed and implemented software enhancements for a networking product such as the X.25 Multilink protocol, which reliably transported data from a single source via multiple low-speed links, reassembled the data and delivered the data to a destination.• Debugged software and firmware problems related to a computer networking product.• Provided technical guidance to other engineers.• Analyzed performance of networking software with a microsystem emulator and successfully designed and implemented significant performance improvements.

Rockville, Maryland

• Planned, scheduled and assigned work to a group of software engineers who developed and implemented computer communications software for GEIS’ network.• Designed and developed a network gateway as a senior member of a team to provide a connection between GEIS’ wide area data communications network and NEC’s network.• Performed system integration testing and debugging in Japan.• Received a Management Award as a result of the project’s success.

Columbia, Maryland

• Wrote a development, test and evaluation plan to verify the capabilities of an upgraded Network Access System (NAS), which provided terminal and processor users access to a packet-switched network.

Vienna, Virginia

• Managed and led a project which included designing and writing software to implement the X.25 communication protocol for the National Library of Medicine’s local area networking facility. The software resided in a Z80-based bus interface unit (BIU) and allowed the BIUs to function as X.25 data communication equipment (DCE), an X.25 packet assembler/disassembler (PAD), or as an X.25 bridge to public data networks.• Managed and led a project to develop and implement software for the Walter Reed Army Medical Center’s (WRAMC) bus interface units (BIUs). The software provided the BIUs with the ability to communicate with asynchronous terminals, which communicated via the BIUs and CATV cable to remote BIUs having asynchronous connections to terminals or host computers.

College Park, Maryland

• Designed software modifications and additions to a real-time emitter environment simulator which resided on a PDP-11/60 computer with an RSX-ll/M operating system.• Designed and implemented a real-time emitter environment simulator which was used to fully test the capabilities of a computer-managed airborne receiver system. The project consisted of a scenario module resident in a MODCOMP U/26 computer which communicated with both a BEEHIVE intelligent terminal and receiver system software resident in an LC4516 computer.

Fort Meade, Maryland

• Served three one-year tours with various offices.• Achieved early completion of the Data Systems Intern Program.• Served as chairman of the Intern Panel Advisory Board, a group which represented interns before management.

J.D., Law

• Course Emphasis on Intellectual Property Law • Member, Student Computer Law Society • Member, Student Intellectual Property Law.

M.S., Computer Science

Activities and Societies: Graduated with a GPA of 3.9/4.0Coursework included: • switching theory • hardware architecture of digital.

B.S., Mathematics

Activities and Societies: "The Academy" (Honor Society of the College of Liberal Arts)Coursework included: • advanced computer programming.