Experience

CDS+

• Events Services
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Sales Associate

  • Mar 2016 - Present



Two Rivers Law Group

• United States
• Legal Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Legal Assistant

  • May 2010 - Sep 2015

  Reported to two Partners, working with six paralegals, purchase office supplies, make travel arrangements, processed purchasing and travel reimbursement requests, procured items for marketing trips for both the Christiansburg and Richmond offices. Responsible for the chain of documents received by mail, email, fax, and web to ensure documents are entered, tracked and diaried in a timely manner to ensure deadlines were met.• Processed mail and Web File documents daily which includes scanning and saving all correspondence and medical records to Worldox for a high volume of cases, filing upon completion of scanning, diary Hearing and Deposition dates and all corresponding forms to ensure timely responses to deadlines and appearances.• Purged and scanned all files upon closure to prepare for disposal.• Coordinator for the yearly Marketing Promotion ensuring all clients information is current for distribution of the gifts to ensure we met the deadline for cost effectiveness.



Baker Hughes (formerly Luna Enegy)

• Coordinator Office Services/Legal Assistant

  • May 2002 - Nov 2009

  Reported to the Chief Engineer and the Engineering Group consisting of 17 engineers, purchased office and lab supplies, made travel arrangements, processed purchasing and travel statements. Maintained the security badge system and the IT server backup.• Updated the patent award payments and plaques for inventors that had been neglected for several years to ensure that inventors were paid and plaques were purchased and received in a timely manner.• Member of the Move Committee that relocated over 32 employees and 10,000 sq. ft. of office space. Coordinated cleaning crews, furniture moves, waste disposal, furniture sales and donations.Reported to the VP of Engineering and Technology and responsible for arranging four patent committee meetings annually processing approximately 15 submissions per quarter. Created written policies and procedures for the processing of Intellectual Property, Trademark, Trade Secret and Licensing.• Created and accurately maintained over five databases containing from 20 to 600 items for tracking Agreements, Disclosures, Patents, Trademarks and Inventors.• Liaison with outside counsel to ensure that approximately 20 patent filings per year were processed in a timely manner and distributed the information regarding licensing and other IP issues to inventors.• Conducted patent searches for submissions from the Intellectual Property committee including procuring patents from NERAC and publications from VTECH library and other sources in a timely manner.• Selected to be Document Control Administrator and implemented and accurately maintained the Document Control Database that consisted of assigning part numbers to Engineering documents in preparation for transition from research and development stage to manufacturing.• Conducted searches and procured technical equipment for in-house labs and oilfield equipment for items ranging in price from $15,000 to $100,000.



Haleos

• Legal Assistant

  • Aug 2000 - Jun 2002

  Reported to the Chief Technology Officer and responsible for the Intellectual Property and assisted Patent Attorney and Patent Agent to research and file foreign and domestic patent applications.• Created 4 databases for Invention Disclosures, Patents, Trademarks, and Inventors for a start-up company that had no previous patent information organization.• Performed thorough patent searches for submissions from inventors. Procured patents and technical research articles in a timely manner.