Experience

Strong Force Innovation Portfolios

• Investment Management
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Director, Markets

  • Dec 2022 - Present

  Tampa, Florida, United States Strong Force creates value in dynamic markets by building Innovation Portfolios. We embrace early-stage uncertainty and complexity to build comprehensive patent portfolios of combinatorial innovation in technology-driven ecosystems. This enables us to capture broad value before there are indicators of product-market fit, the trigger for conventional patenting activity. As trends converge, use-cases accelerate, and product roadmaps solidify, we then help ecosystem participants realize this broad… Show more Strong Force creates value in dynamic markets by building Innovation Portfolios. We embrace early-stage uncertainty and complexity to build comprehensive patent portfolios of combinatorial innovation in technology-driven ecosystems. This enables us to capture broad value before there are indicators of product-market fit, the trigger for conventional patenting activity. As trends converge, use-cases accelerate, and product roadmaps solidify, we then help ecosystem participants realize this broad value. Our diverse competencies, senior relationships, and market-driven approach enable us to see across boundaries that trap others in isolated silos and inhibit the discovery and development of strategically valuable IP. We use our proprietary Strong Force™ Matrix to organize and combine our insights into a strategic array of thousands of potential patents, unlocking a geometric level of creation in areas untapped by other processes.

• Director, Markets

  • Aug 2021 - Dec 2022

  Tampa, Florida, United States



Strong Force Design

• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Director, Markets

  • Dec 2022 - Present

  Tampa, Florida, United States Strong Force Design employs market-proven methodologies to unlock the strategic potential of intellectual property, creating sustainable strategic advantage. Leveraging a diverse mix of competencies, the approach captures key drivers of IP advantage, fuels a highly systematic, combinatorial invention process, and guides prioritization and resource allocation. We identify strategic and valuable inventive material often missed by product-driven approaches. Our designs have supported successful… Show more Strong Force Design employs market-proven methodologies to unlock the strategic potential of intellectual property, creating sustainable strategic advantage. Leveraging a diverse mix of competencies, the approach captures key drivers of IP advantage, fuels a highly systematic, combinatorial invention process, and guides prioritization and resource allocation. We identify strategic and valuable inventive material often missed by product-driven approaches. Our designs have supported successful licensing programs and commanded high values in acquisitions.

• Director, Markets

  • Aug 2021 - Dec 2022

  Tampa, Florida, United States



Strong Force Catalyst

• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Director, Markets

  • Dec 2022 - Present

  Tampa, Florida, United States Strong Force delivers strategic advantage by systematically innovating across technologies, use cases, and ecosystems and by combining innovative material from a wide range of perspectives to create large, comprehensive, category-influencing patent portfolios. This approach enables it to capture broad market opportunity well before use-case adoptions emerge to drive more typical patenting activity. To benefit innovators and other stakeholders, Strong Force Catalyst delivers thought… Show more Strong Force delivers strategic advantage by systematically innovating across technologies, use cases, and ecosystems and by combining innovative material from a wide range of perspectives to create large, comprehensive, category-influencing patent portfolios. This approach enables it to capture broad market opportunity well before use-case adoptions emerge to drive more typical patenting activity. To benefit innovators and other stakeholders, Strong Force Catalyst delivers thought leadership, dissolves market boundaries, contributes disruptive innovation, and drives ecosystem participation to catalyze categories. We have created billions of dollars in value across a wide array of sectors and helped hundreds of visionary inventors, market leaders, and capital allocators succeed.

• Director, Markets

  • Aug 2021 - Dec 2022

  Tampa, Florida, United States



Cognis Group

• United States
• Market Research
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director of Research & Engineering

  • Jan 2017 - Aug 2021

  Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area Led assessment of client needs and fulfillment of projects encompassing technology and product commercialization, business analytics, engineering, and science.



Pharmalicensing, a Division of Cognis Group, Inc

• United States
• Information Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior IP Analyst

  • Oct 2012 - Jan 2017

  Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area Led intellectual property landscaping, partnering, and technology assessment projects. Generated technical and business insights from patents, scholarly literature, and other competitive intelligence information. Interfaced with client organizations, technology providers, and other parties regarding in-licensing and out-licensing opportunities.



UTEK Corporation / Innovaro, Inc.

• Senior Research Associate

  • Mar 2008 - Oct 2012

  Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area Supported innovation services including technology transfer, intellectual property consulting, and R&D for special projects (e.g. development and prototyping of a hydrogen-assisted hybrid electric vehicle).



University of South Florida

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research Associate

  • 2003 - 2007

  Worked in USF's Surface Science Laboratory under Dr. Rudy Schlaf. Research interests and experience include design of analytical and deposition equipment, development of novel means for thin-film deposition, and characterization of electronic and biological materials via photo-emission spectroscopy. The projects undertaken in this laboratory environment included all aspects of device development, from concept generation and CAD design to final assembly and testing.