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Pleasanton, California, United States

Plays an integral role in the Companies legal team by helping to create, maintain, and drive processes and practices to improve the day-to-day efficiency and effectiveness of our legal operations and continue to be a key legal partner to the business. Specifically, responsible for the implementation of a number of legal technology projects that include end to end contract management system, litigation hold solution as well as patent and trademark portfolio tracking system. Provides legal support for our global intellectual property portfolio throughout the entire process from disclosure, to filing, to enforcement of our IP rights. Work cross-departmentally across the organization on numerous projects and with all facets of the business and doing so with a commitment to high quality service—via solutions-oriented approach and innovative ideas. Simpson Manufacturing is a company with over $2B in sales and 5,000 employees. Current IP portfolio exceeds 600 patents and over 1200 trademarks.

Pleasanton, California, United States

Manages companies portfolio of 1800+ patents and trademarks. Maintains a library of 96 standardized legal agreements, while managing the companies contractual negotiations across all business segments. Works with multiple outside firms with various specialties. Closely involved in product development ensuring the Company is focused on, and capturing, potential patentable features as it relates to all of its products, both hard-lines and software. Vets pre-acquisition IP looking for strengths, weakness, opportunities and threats. Manages both domestic and international counsel whether IP based forensics or litigation.

Pleasanton, Ca

Establishes and directs the strategic long term goals, policies and procedures for the 3D visualization software development program. As well as overseeing the development using the agile development environment. Release and maintenance of software applications in accordance with business needs. Leverage past experience and strong communication skills to collaborate proactively and effectively with a geographically diverse development team. Manage all marketing, monetization, platform utilization and QA as well as down-stream software effectiveness. Budget creation and maintenance for the overall operation. Evaluation of, recommendations for, and ultimate decision‐responsibility for, product designincluding architectural designs, SOW's and all related technical decisions including; platform and deployment methods, online storefront (i.e.: Sagepay or similar), localization among numerous other technologies and B2B, B2C efforts. Intimately familiar with cloud and mobile based deployments either public or enterprise. CRM deployment - Salesforce and report management.Strategic/Partnership Dev: Oversee the ability to see the totality of the business in its competitive context and realistically identify, translate and prioritize the strategic choices available. Sought out and developed partnership relationships for software inclusion or as partner to host our cloud-based offering. Technical Project Planning and Execution: Define objectives, assessing the technicalsuitability of the available resources, changing them where necessary, identifying milestones and KeyPerformance Indicators, assessing and moving to counter risks and evaluating progress.Financial Management: Understand the financial dynamics of the business, the concept of risk and thorough analysis to drive sound decision making and problem solving. Manage eight - including two sales, four technical sales and support, one coordinator and a product manager.

Manage the overseas development team and collaboratively interface with other departments in the company, recommend hardware and software products, platforms and purchases and stay current on emerging trends in the mobile market. Manages all the current client application development as well as assist in the design and development of future products. Mobile environments consists of Apple iOS, Android, Blackberry and Windows Phones. Concurrently working on five distinct apps on four different platforms for domestic as well as ten (10) language international deployments.Released the Company's first-ever mobile app for iPhone/iPad/Android as well as company's first enterprise app for its 200+ sales representatives.

Managed and reviewed targets, pre-acquisition intelligence and accretion and dilution modeling. Implemented a SharePoint Acquisition portal for all vested parties pre and post acquisition. Assembled vital documents and disseminated it to department heads for integration. Worked on both domestic and international acquisitions. Experience included but not limited to; financial and accounting integration, employee redundancy, R&D and product analysis, IT, legal and intellectual property, quality and ISO review, plant, property and equipment valuation.

Managed the companies product value as perceived by our customers. Conducted numerous surveys while working with some of the largest retailers in the country to conduct customer surveys on value, use and application of our products. Concurrently managed companies new product process whereby new products were reviewed and either accepted or rejected. Implemented NPV and ROI analysis for $500M+ product lines where each new product ultimately is tracked and resultant performance analyzed on a YOY basis. Implemented weekly reviews and status as well as margin and COGS analysis for product management.

As part of the companies ISO certification, acted as an internal auditor, auditing all facets of the companies processes. These included but where not limited to; production, die manufacturing, inventory control, non-conforming material, work instructions, document retention and SKU justification.

Managed Vistalite (consumer electronics), a division of Bell Sports. Increasing revenues from $2.4M to $4.3M in 22 months and increased overall margins from 46% to 51%, while managing capital budgets, forecasts, purchasing, marketing, sales and tradeshows. Managed a team of pure and applied engineers, product designers, artists and manufacturers both domestically and internationally to; work in synergy to arrive at commercially viable products and maintained the coordination that can create and sustain market demand for these products. Initiated product testing in the markets, to ascertain market receptivity and acceptance for the product, to coordinate with the Patent Manager and other related people and ensure the initial patent all related technologies are disclosed. Managed the technical innovation through R&D disciplines.Coordinated with all departments to ensure inventory levels were at demand levels, budgets were met, quality control issues were improved, sales force had necessary collateral and retail costumers (REI, Sports Chalet, Dicks etc) point of purchase display and sets were producing year over year increases.

3D Laser Scanning and image capture for visual graphics and motion picture industry. 3D destructive scanning capturing internal geometry for reverse engineering and quality control. Clients included; Blue Sky Studios, Johnson and Johnson, Ford Motor Company and Callaway Golf.

Founded Aria Sonics bicycle helmet company. Managed all aspects of business including; acquisition of capital, design, manufacturing, production, marketing, public relations, sales, distribution and accounting/finance. Sold assets to competing helmet manufacturer.

Jd Candidate, Law

Bachelors Of Arts, Double Option - Finance And Managerial Economics

Decision Sciences

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