Experience

Prodigy

• Design
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Sr. Engineering Specialist

  • Mar 2019 - Present



Honeywell

• United States
• Appliances, Electrical, and Electronics Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Patent Engineer

  • Mar 2013 - Present

  Patent Engineer at Intelligrated solving intellectual problems for the company in the mechanical, electrical and software arts. Duties include working with inventors to identify and document inventions, preparing and filing patent applications, creating CAD models and drawings for patent illustrations, evaluating competitor’s products for infringement, providing product clearances, investigating the state of the art in new areas of business interest, providing design-arounds and suggested design improvements, and working with outside counsel. Duties require working across multiple family companies across the U.S. and a familiarity with the mechanical, electrical, and software aspects of the different products and patent art areas of each of the family companies.



The Armor Group

• Mason Oh

• Project Engineer

  • Sep 2012 - Mar 2013

  Engineer in the product development group creating drawing packages for customer orders. Engineer in the product development group creating drawing packages for customer orders.



US Endoscopy

• United States
• Medical Equipment Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Patent Agent / NPD Engineer

  • Mar 2010 - Jan 2012

  Managing the Intellectual Property needs for a medical device company. Drafted strong patent applications, successfully solved patent prosecution issues resulting in issued patents, and provided product clearances. Managing the Intellectual Property needs for a medical device company. Drafted strong patent applications, successfully solved patent prosecution issues resulting in issued patents, and provided product clearances.



MedVenture Technology

• Jeffersonvile Indiana

• Senior Engineer - Design

  • Aug 2009 - Nov 2009

  Three months experience as a Mechanical Design Engineer in medical device R&D. Performed FEA analysis and design optimization. Used problem solving skills and force/displacement tests to identify a subtle difference between lots of parts that defied detection. Delivered prototype builds to a client for in vitro testing. Three months experience as a Mechanical Design Engineer in medical device R&D. Performed FEA analysis and design optimization. Used problem solving skills and force/displacement tests to identify a subtle difference between lots of parts that defied detection. Delivered prototype builds to a client for in vitro testing.



Frost Brown Todd

• United States
• Law Practice
• 700 & Above Employee

• Patent Agent

  • Mar 2006 - Mar 2009

  Three years of patent preparation and prosecution as a Registered Patent Agent in a law firm. Areas of expertise include mechanical, electrical, and software arts with a focus on medical / surgical devices. Strong success rate in overcoming the art of record on office actions. Skilled at persuading examiners with telephonic interviews. Three years of patent preparation and prosecution as a Registered Patent Agent in a law firm. Areas of expertise include mechanical, electrical, and software arts with a focus on medical / surgical devices. Strong success rate in overcoming the art of record on office actions. Skilled at persuading examiners with telephonic interviews.



Ethicon, Inc.

• United States
• Medical Equipment Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Staff Design Engineer / Principal Patent Engineer

  • Sep 1991 - Jun 2005

  Fourteen years experience in the design and developement of medical surgical devices with six of those years spent managing and solving the Intellectual Property needs of the $2 Billion a year core business unit. Skilled at all phases of IP including drafting patents, designing around competitors IP, approving products, and invalidating patents. Obtained Patent Agent registration. Fourteen years experience in the design and developement of medical surgical devices with six of those years spent managing and solving the Intellectual Property needs of the $2 Billion a year core business unit. Skilled at all phases of IP including drafting patents, designing around competitors IP, approving products, and invalidating patents. Obtained Patent Agent registration.



Memorex Telex Computer Products

• Senior Engineer

  • Mar 1983 - Mar 1991

  Lead design engineer in the electro-mechanical printer group. Responsibilities included interfacing with the electrical and software groups to define and create new products, and to interface with manufacturing, and quality groups to ensure on time production of the products. Experienced in printer mechanisms, DC servo systems, stepper motor systems, sensors, logic and timing diagrams, paper handling, CRT displays, plasma displays, LCD's, systems troubleshooting, and some machine language programming..



Harris Corporation

• Palm Bay Florida

• Senior Engineer

  • Mar 1980 - Feb 1983

  Designed and developed Government and Military products for Government Information Systems and Tactical Satellite divisions. Developed electro-optic and laser systems for NASA, fingerprint readers for NY State, and rapidly deployable Military SATCOM Communications systems for the US Army and the White House. Designed and developed Government and Military products for Government Information Systems and Tactical Satellite divisions. Developed electro-optic and laser systems for NASA, fingerprint readers for NY State, and rapidly deployable Military SATCOM Communications systems for the US Army and the White House.