Shannon Warren Email & Phone Number

Solo and Partnership Firms• After starting a solo practice in Amarillo, Texas, where I previously lived, I temporarily formed Spradley Warren, PLLC (3/10-12/10)• I am now working as a solo practitioner once again with offices in Amarillo and HoustonPatent Prosecution Client and Technological Types• Wind energy services• Software and business methods• Agricultural mechanical devices• Pesticide distribution• Consumer products• Firm Administration: hiring and training a CAD drafter for patent figuresBusiness development through public speaking, pro bono work, community service and nonprofit board membershipPublic Speaking • “I Have an Idea, Now What?” (August 2010, Amarillo Inventors’ Association)• “Your Options on Guardianship” (March 2010, Legal Aid of Northwest Texas)• “Independent Inventors and the Patent Office 2009” (November 2009, Amarillo Inventors’ Association)Non-I.P. Legal Experience•Attorney ad litem: guardianship and declaration of heirship court appointments•Probate: hearings and estate administration•Debt collection: litigation of debt collection suits as local counsel•Uncontested divorces: two pro bono cases for Legal Aid of Northwest Texas

• Preformed a valuation of client’s Intellectual Property (Technology-Based Trade Secret)

• Administrated corporate SQL Server containing production accounting data• Corresponded with royalty partners as to production of jointly owned oil wells

• Restructured the company’s SQL databases and advised as to software architecture

• Programming, designing and commissioning automation and control systems including: “Programmable Logic Controllers” (e.g., Honeywell, Rockwell Automation) and “Human Machine Interfaces” (e.g., Experion, HMIWeb, PlantScape, VBA, Microsoft Access, HTML)• Projects included deep sea facilities (BP, Chevron, and Marathon Oil) and assignments to ExxonMobil’s Baytown Chemical Plant and Marathon's West Africa operations in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea

• Administering databases containing business data (production accounting)• Interacting with royalty partners concerning joint projects• Updating company data systems, sending monthly mailings to partners

J.D.

Activities and Societies: Vice President, Intellectual Property & Technology Law Society, 2007-2008 Dean's Honor List, 2008

B.S., Computer Engineering