Experience

Strong Force Innovation Portfolios

• Investment Management
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Analyst

  • Oct 2022 - Present

  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. Show less



Strong Force Catalyst

• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Analyst

  • Oct 2022 - Present

  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. Show less



Strong Force Design

• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Analyst

  • Oct 2022 - Present

  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. Show less


RTI International
• United States
• Research Services
• 700 & Above Employee
• Innovation and Strategy Consultant

  • Jun 2021 - Oct 2022


North Carolina State University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Ph.D. Candidate in Materials Science and Engineering

  • Aug 2016 - May 2021

  • Designed, fabricated, and tested novel spintronic devices with organic and inorganic semiconductor materials • Maintained and operated a glovebox-integrated vacuum deposition chamber for physical vapor deposition of metals, oxides, and organic materials using electron beam evaporation, radiofrequency sputtering, resistive boats and Radak furnace sources • Fabricated and tested coplanar waveguide, spin transfer torque, spin orbit torque, spin valve, magnetoresistive and spin Hall magnetoresistive devices • Maintained and operated cryomagnetic systems for magnetic and physical property measurements, ferromagnetic resonance spectroscopy, and electrical characterization as a function of magnetic field and temperature • Extensive experience in ferromagnetic resonance (FMR) characterization of magnetic thin films and single crystals at both cryogenic and room temperature • Performed statistical analysis and complex curve fitting on experimental data sets in OriginPro and Excel • Managed multiple projects in collaboration with national laboratories, domestic and international universities • Presented research findings at conferences in the U.S. and Japan, and in peer-reviewed publications (Google Scholar Profile: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=wKJSoQYAAAAJ&hl=en) Show less



NC State Office of Research Commercialization

• United States
• Research Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Licensing Analyst Intern

  • Jun 2019 - Jan 2020

  • Collaborated with licensing team to promote commercialization of intellectual property produced at NCSU for both the life sciences and physical sciences portfolios • Triaged new intellectual property and produced PowerPoint presentations highlighting the current stage of technology development, potential market opportunities, prior art and competitive analysis • Assembled marketing abstracts and contacted relevant executives at companies in the identified target market to gauge licensing, partnering, and tech transfer opportunities Show less



National Science Foundation (NSF)

• United States
• Research Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• NSF Innovation Corps

  • May 2018 - Sep 2018

  As the entrepreneurial lead I worked with a small startup company to identify viable and optimal commercialization pathways for a novel technology involving an IoT-integrated hydration sensor. Together with our team, I helped identify critical needs in target markets for which the technology could provide added value, and crafted a preliminary business model canvas for the highest priority market segment. In addition, I assisted in the application for an SBIR grant for this technology through the USDA. Show less



University of Virginia

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Materials Science Researcher

  • Jun 2013 - Jun 2016

  • Implemented advanced magnetometry techniques for enhanced characterization of magnetic nanocomposites (First Order Reversal Curve (FORC) analyses) • Optimized X-ray diffraction methods to obtain high fidelity, quantifiable structure data • Presented research findings at conferences and in peer-reviewed publications • Implemented advanced magnetometry techniques for enhanced characterization of magnetic nanocomposites (First Order Reversal Curve (FORC) analyses) • Optimized X-ray diffraction methods to obtain high fidelity, quantifiable structure data • Presented research findings at conferences and in peer-reviewed publications