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• Perform patent examination functions through the application of the Office’s guidance on administrative law and legal precedents • Translated large amounts of complicated technical and scientific data into more user friendly text • Review patent applications to assess compliance with the basic format, rules and legal requirements • Perform examination of patent applications within areas including: ◦ three dimensional modeling and rendering, tessellation, and animation ◦ parallel processing, virtual machines, graphics pipeline design and implementation, and graphics display memory controllers ◦ color processing including gamut clipping, expansion, and adaptation, as well as color space transformations ◦ antialiasing, smoothing, convolution techniques, and subpixel processing ◦ object tracking, pose determination, camera calibration, object recognition, gesture recognition, augmented reality, mixed reality, virtual reality, stereoscopic displays, heads-up display, HMD, DIBR, and novel view generation • Research, analyze and interpret Title 35 of the United States Code governing patent law • Clearly and accurately communicate orally and in writing with inventors and/or patent practitioners on findings of facts and application of those facts on the patentability of applications and other matters pertaining to patent prosecution • Apply established legal, scientific and analytical techniques to evaluation of patent applications • Evaluate patent applications for compliance with formal requirements of 35 U.S.C. §§ 101, 102, 103 and 112 • Plan and conduct prior art searches by researching various patent and scientific databases • Determine the availability and necessity of restriction of patent claims • Determine the scope of protection claimed by the inventor, conduct and interpret patent application searches pertaining to relevant technologies

Austin, Texas Area

• Maintained both Linux and Windows environments that hosted EMC Documentum, Document Sciences, and Captiva • Wrote shell and perl scripts to automate system admin jobs such as restarting processes/applications, taking backups, and restoring systems from said backups • Managed all change and service requests that were submitted by my team • Performed typical Documetum administration tasks such as creating users, purging audit trails, and deploying newly developed applications

San Marcos, Tx

• Conducted research into automated software validation and test case generation from control flow graphs • Managed code submissions with GIT • Developed algorithms for loop detection in directed graphs

San Marcos, Tx

• Developed parallel GIS algorithms for GPU computation using nVidia Cuda C • My research on Geospatial Computation on GPUs resulted in a 220X speedup over the industry standard algorithm, and lead to a publication in ACM SIGSPATIAL 2011 • Awarded Best Research Project in the 2011 REUIR program at Texas State University • Developed code in Eclipse IDE in an Ubuntu Linux environment • Optimized algorithms on GPU by managing data coalescing and memory accesses • Coordinated group meetings and delivered weekly presentation of progress to internal groups • Presented final deliverables to interdepartmental groups including the department chair • Used CVS to manage group code submissions

San Antonio, Texas Area

• Monitored Data Center systems with MOM, WUG, and HP SIM • Managed Data Center outages for various Tesoro properties • Troubleshot hardware, configuration, and operation issues • Managed data backup and restoration of production servers • Maintained an audit of Data Center hardware and backup media • Imaged, configured, and managed virtual machines through Vmware vSphere

San Antonio, Texas Area

• Imaged HP Proliant Series servers • Troubleshot hardware, configuration, and imaging issues • Managed communication between my team and various properties to ensure a smooth and timely completion of projects • Trained team members on Altiris imaging software, hardware troubleshooting, networking, Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and 2008 administration, and server configurations • Updated and patched server in a large scale production environment

Austin, Texas Area

• Responsible for day to day backup and storage operations • Experience with remote troubleshooting and operation of ESL tape libraries • Imaged, upgraded, built, and configured server hardware, including Operating System installation, rack preparation, and network configuration • Maintained server standards and provided testing for new server implementations • Specified server hardware to meet requirements as outlined by customer needs • Provide server hardware technical support for all IM Proliant systems deployed in Austin/Houston in addition to providing escalation support worldwide • Racked and installed HP UNIX Itanium/PA RISC hardware, connected LAN/SAN, and configured consoles • Racked Network Switches for Infrastructure requests and configured Switch IP for access • Managed break/fix troubleshooting • Provided on-site HPCC/SAN installation

Austin, Texas Area

Austin, Texas Area

• Provided phone support to customers • Troubleshot DNS and DHCP issues on Ubuntu servers • Troubleshot wireless, VDSL, and Ethernet connections

San Marcos, Tx

• Imaged workstations with Ghost • Troubleshot IMAP, DHCP, POP, SMTP, and Apache issues on a redhat 7.1 server • Installed Ethernet drops and installed managed switches and routers • Troubleshot Dialup, DSL, T1, OC3, and gigabit Ethernet connections • Created internal escalation web tools • Supported Siebel, Oracle, and HP Service Desk/Open View in a high volume outsourced call center