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Manila, NCR, PH

Hong Kong SAR

Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR

Singapore

• Managed and developed a patent portfolio of small molecule/biologic therapeutics, immunology, stem cell, microbiology, vaccines, assays, chemical, and reagents.
• Conducted patentability and commercialization evaluations for new technologies.
• Marketed portfolio of technologies to potential partners.
• Managed licensing and commercialization efforts for a portfolio of technologies.
• Negotiated material transfer, confidentiality, intellectual property, contract research, research collaboration, and licensing agreements.
• Educated staff and students on intellectual property, commercialization, and licensing issues.

Remote Telecommute

• Drafted and prosecuted patent applications in the agro-chemical, oil and gas, and analytical chemistry arts
• Prosecuted patent applications before patent offices in Asia and Europe
• Designed and prepared freedom to operate, patentability, invalidity, patent landscape, and product clearance memoranda

Singapore

• Drafted and prosecuted patent applications in the chemical, pharmaceutical, and chemical engineering arts.
• Prosecuted patent applications before patent offices in Asia, Europe, and the USA.
• Conducted freedom to operate and patentability searches and assessments.

• Liaised between the United States site and Singapore site to transfer technology to the Singapore site
• Managed two research assistants
• Conducted patentability and freedom to operate reviews for new combinatorial libraries and medicinal chemistry programs
• Designed and synthesized combinatorial libraries containing over 20,000 stereochemically rich drug-like compounds
• Oversaw a team of three chemists that scaled up multi-gram quantities of material from an eleven step synthetic sequence

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Drafted and prosecuted small molecule and biotechnology patent applications
• Researched and prepared freedom to operate opinions
• Conducted patentability assessments
• Managed patent prosecution of foreign associates
• Participated in Fish and Richardson Patent Opinion Boot Camp

• Drafted and prosecuted small molecule patent applications
• Conducted patentability and freedom to operate reviews
• Identified patentable inventions through interactions with project teams
• Managed patent portfolio of preclinical and clinical stage drug candidates
• Assisted in performing inventorship determinations
• Supervised outside counsel on patent and trademark prosecution

Cambridge, MA

• Developed and optimized synthetic routes used to prepare combinatorial libraries of complex natural product-like molecules
• Scaled-up multi-gram quantities of stereochemically rich natural product-like cores used in the preparation of diversity oriented synthesis libraries
• Worked as part of a multidisciplinary team designing and synthesizing analogs for the Bcl-2 and TNF-α medicinal chemistry programs

Juris Doctor, Law

Master Of Science, Organic Chemistry

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Chemistry