Steven Chang Email & Phone Number

Santa Clara, California, United States

Chicago, Illinois, United States

- Shepherded invention disclosures through legal review. - Managed patent portfolio.- Developed processes for internal patent tool. - Generated training materials for inventors and committee members.

Santa Clara, Ca

Santa Clara, Ca

Santa Clara, Ca

On secondment from Novak Druce & Quigg.

Drafted software, electronics, and mechanical patent applications for the USPTO; prepared responses to Office Actions from the USPTO; performed preliminary infringement and invalidity analysis.

Instructed and prepared students for a variety of aptitude tests including the math and verbal sections of the SAT, Physics SAT II, Biology SAT II, and Math SAT II; improved scores approximately 10-15% by tailoring lesson plans and teacher-student relationships on a individualized basis.

Maintained and performed all enhancements for the “change_names” command to ensure the thousands of names in a design are properly named according to connectivity; performed all VHDL and Verilog reader/writer enhancements; wrote functional specifications, project specifications, and usage guides.

Achieved 7% memory reduction, 12% faster runtime, fewer open nets, fewer failed connections, and fewer design rule violations by developing and testing routing targets (a subspace of the pin used for routing); reduced memory usage by 50% by rewriting the GDS abstractor; maintained and performed all enhancements for the Monterey Technology Compiler (MTC), a library preparation tool; managed infrastructure code stream for a team of 6 other developers; wrote functional specifications, project specifications, and usage guides.

J.D., Intellectual Property

Attended the night time program while working as a Patent Agent.

Bs/Ms, B.S. In E.E. And M.S. In E.C.E.

Thesis – implemented algorithms to solve the problems of converting regular television signals into high definition signals; worked 20.