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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, PA

• Assist in preparing judicial opinions by conducting legal research, writing memoranda, and contributing to drafts.
• Conduct research to assist Judge Woods-Skipper in her administrative duties as the President Judge of the Court of Common Pleas.

Philadelphia, PA

• Prepared 125 preliminary hearings. Represented the Commonwealth in 45 preliminary hearings. Charges included possession with intent to distribute, knowing and intentional possession of a controlled substance, and.
• Prepared 552 municipal court trials; conducted 19 trials; conducted 56 stipulated trials; argued 31 motions. Charges included knowing and intentional possession of a controlled substance, resisting arrest.
• Wrote a response to a Motion to Quash Return of Transcript/Habeas Corpus and a response to a Motion to Sever on a case involving the attempted murder of a police officer. Both motions were decided in the Commonwealth's.

Doylestown, PA

• Conducted preliminary hearings at multiple district courts. Prepared and handled 89 cases during the 2013 summer. Charges included aggravated assault, stalking, DUI, possession with intent to distribute, and retail.
• Conducted research for and wrote a portion of a response to a Federal Habeas Corpus Petition for a capital murder case.

Doylestown, PA

• Assisted attorneys with a first-degree murder case by writing motions, listening to prison calls, conducting research, and organizing discovery materials.
• Conducted research regarding the requirements for a SORNA colloquy under the Adam Walsh Act.
• Analyzed a large archive of records to determine whether conduct warranted further investigation for criminal charges.
• Inventoried seized assets in order to assist forfeiture proceedings.
• Assisted attorney during grand jury proceedings.
• Conducted research for attorneys and wrote memoranda summarizing the results as needed.

Fort Hood, Texas

• Deployed to Iraq from 2008 to 2009. Conducted patrols as a driver, turret gunner, and dismounted infantryman.
• Trained Iraqi Army and SWAT teams in urban combat, detainee searches, and vehicle searches.
• Promoted to Sergeant in Iraq. Prior to promotion, awarded Army Achievement Medal for personal development.
• Assumed the role of fire team leader while in Iraq. Responsible for a three-man fire team and later an eight-man squad. Conducted training operations in support of future deployments.
• Assigned the duty of Non-Commissioned Officer (NCO) in charge of ammunition for a Company. Responsible for tracking and distribution of tens of thousands of rounds of ammunition during Company/Battalion-level training.
• Appointed as Company Schools NCO. Processed all Company schools applications and acted as liaison with Battalion for the entry of soldiers into Army schools.

Chalfont, PA

• Coded an XML interface between FMC servers and a mainframe at Ohio State University Hospital. This interface was part of the dispatching subsystem for the Automated Guided Vehicle (AGV) network at the hospital.
• Assisted with the construction of the new user interface for the next version of the AGV control system.

Horsham, PA

• Assisted with the update to current company standards of a legacy application, Investor View. Debugged.dll issues, created new stored procedures, and converted existing inline SQL calls over to stored procedures.

Horsham, PA

• Coded a data abstraction layer called DLR (Data Location & Retrieval) in VisualBasic.net as a subsystem of an in-house programming framework.

Doctor Of Law (J.D.), Criminal Law Concentration

Activities and Societies: Drexel Law Veterans Association, Vice President and Founding Member

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Computer Science