Experience

Dority & Manning, P.A.

• United States
• Law Practice
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Patent Agent

  • Jan 2022 - Present



Perkins Coie LLP

• United States
• Law Practice
• 700 & Above Employee

• Patent Agent

  • Oct 2020 - Jan 2022



Michael Best & Friedrich LLP

• United States
• Law Practice
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Patent Agent

  • May 2017 - Oct 2020

  Participate in all phases of patent preparation and prosecution, including patent strategy and portfolio management for clients, patent searching, patent application preparation, and patent prosecution. Assist in clearance review, infringement review, and in post-issuance review, such as ex parte reexamination, post-grant review, and inter partes review. Passed the Patent Bar on December 30, 2019. Officially registered as a Patent Agent on February 25, 2020, with Registration No. 78,850. Participate in all phases of patent preparation and prosecution, including patent strategy and portfolio management for clients, patent searching, patent application preparation, and patent prosecution. Assist in clearance review, infringement review, and in post-issuance review, such as ex parte reexamination, post-grant review, and inter partes review. Passed the Patent Bar on December 30, 2019. Officially registered as a Patent Agent on February 25, 2020, with Registration No. 78,850.



Michael Best & Friedrich LLP

• United States
• Law Practice
• 200 - 300 Employee

• EDGE Intern

  • Jun 2016 - Jul 2016

  Drafted patent applications, patent claims, and responded to Office Actions on behalf of clients; performed patent searches; performed case law research; sat in and discussed patent actions with clients and inventors. Drafted patent applications, patent claims, and responded to Office Actions on behalf of clients; performed patent searches; performed case law research; sat in and discussed patent actions with clients and inventors.



Rockwell Automation

• United States
• Automation Machinery Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Student Associate

  • May 2015 - Mar 2016

  Worked on Rockwell Automation's Control Products and Solutions IBE team performing both technical (application development, software design, implementation of cloud solution for existing services and data) and non-technical (sales, data analysis, and project management) work as a student associate intern.

• Software Engineering Co-op

  • May 2014 - May 2015

  Worked on a software development team for a new product. Worked both as a test engineer creating and automating test cases and as a software engineer in charge of an in-house software tool to aid developers on the main project. I gained experience in the testing area in best practices, creation of automated tests, Agile testing, daily test scrum meetings, and creation of manual test cases. My tests are how being used worldwide as high-level regression tests for the new software product.I gained experience in the software engineering field in coding standard and style, effective coding, time management, Agile development, collaboration with other developers, in new areas of coding that I had no previous experience with (working the the registry on Windows machines, executing shell scripts, etc.), gaining valuable insight into Agile software design and code review advantages and effectiveness, as well as becoming the team leader in Git version control (and in version control strategy in general) and effective unit testing (mocking/dependency injection, creating good tests, proper testing strategy). Show less



Marquette University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Teaching Assistant

  • Dec 2013 - May 2015

  TA for Introduction to Java Programming for Dr. Richard Povinelli.In the course of this experience I have actively assisted students in acquiring rudimentary Java skills as well as instructed them on the finer points of software development. I have been in charge of grading homework assignments to test their knowledge, as well as being the primary grading TA for my lab section's final project, which explored various ideas with inheritance and class structure.TA Electric Circuits Lab One for Dr. James RichieIn this role I assisted sophomore students in the fields of electrical, computer, and bioelectrical engineering become proficient in the design, analysis, building, and testing of electrical circuits.TA Electrical and Computer Engineering Exploration Seminar for Mr. Christoper PerezIn this role I assisted freshman students in exploring many different facets of electrical and computer engineering through using Roomba iCreate to both create external circuitry/hardware (IR transmitter/detector, Bluetooth connector to control Roomba via Bluetooth connection) and through coding in Java to program the Roomba to execute various commands (drive, play notes, detect with sensors, etc.). Graded weekly in-class homework assignments and instructed groups in final project ideas, work, and presentation. Show less

• Software Developer

  • Jul 2013 - Jan 2015

  Worked on various teams dealing with various issues in our own program, GasDay, which models data and returns projected natural gas usage for many different gas utilities across the nation. Specific issues included data validation, database work, porting the application to the cloud, and other related tasks.In the course of this work experience I have gained confidence in the C# programming language and have been exposed to SQL, the .Net framework, and some elements of Javascript, JQuery, and CSS. Outside of programming languages, I have become familiar with scrum-style meetings, test-driven development, workflow, code review, and Git. Show less