Experience

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  Privaceum

  • Founder & CEO

    • Apr 2017 - Present

    Founder, CEO, and chief technical architect of Privaceum. Privaceum is a decentralized blockchain protocol that brings a new level of interoperability and trust between people and organizations that care about privacy. We want to change the way society understands and controls privacy in a dynamic, sensor-laden world.

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  Labyrinth Law PLLC

  • Gainesville, Florida Area

  • Patent, IP, and Technology Law Attorney, Shareholder

    • Jan 2016 - Present
    • Gainesville, Florida Area

    Intellectual property, patent, and technology law attorney practicing in the area of innovative technologies such as blockchain, cryptocurrencies, and smart contracts. Counsel clients in the areas of patent preparation and prosecution, technology licensing and transfer agreements, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets and confidentiality, patentability, freedom to operate, validity, and infringement opinions, privacy and cybersecurity, open source software license compliance and policies, cloud service agreements, and technology escrow agreements.

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  Social Evidence LLC

  • Gainesville, Florida Area

  • Co-Founder, Board of Directors

    • Jan 2014 - Jan 2019
    • Gainesville, Florida Area

    Principal designer and architect of Social Evidence, a cloud-based application developed for the legal profession to improve the way attorneys find and manage discoverable legal evidence from social media in a repeatable, legally defensible format.

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  SALIWANCHIK, LLOYD & EISENSCHENK, A PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION

  • Gainesville, Florida Area

  • Registered Patent Attorney

    • Sep 2013 - Jan 2016
    • Gainesville, Florida Area

    Performed U.S. and International patent preparation and prosecution in technical areas including software systems, machine learning, computer-human interaction, information interfaces and presentation, medical simulation systems, energy systems, and biotechnology. Counseled biotechnology, legal, and large university research clients in technology portfolio generation.

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  MasonWare LLC

  • Co-Founder and CTO

    • Sep 2002 - Aug 2011

    Co-founder of the company and CTO for the commercial product IdeaMason®, a research management tool for professional and academic authors. The product sold to over 50,000 customers. Product was developed in Visual Studio.NET using Visual Basic, C#, C++, XML, and SQL Server.

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  Microsoft

  • Enterprise Strategy Manager/Principal Technology Specialist/Software Engineer

    • 1997 - 2000

    Advised Intel CIO and executive staff regarding strategic technology objectives and served as project manager for a worldwide rollout of a major Intel factory automation initiative for machine certification. Chief Architect for the University of Phoenix Online classroom system. Project lead and architect for Honeywell Industrial Store, the company’s first online presence. Chief architect of the American Express online brokerage website.

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  Nationwide

  • Scottsdale, Arizona

  • Research and Development Lead, Senior Software Architect/Engineer

    • Jul 1993 - Oct 1997
    • Scottsdale, Arizona

    Architect/development team lead for major records tracking and document management systems. Senior architect for one of the first claims management solutions with real-time access to internal claims data. Liaison to senior executives on technology strategy. Evaluated new development platforms, tools, and methodologies. Technical lead of executive task force to reengineer and automate the underwriting workflow with imaging and other technologies.

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  Scottsdale Community College

  • Scottsdale, Arizona

  • Adjunct Professor of Computer Science

    • 1995 - 1997
    • Scottsdale, Arizona

    Designed syllabus and course structure for C++ and Windows Programming and Visual Basic and Windows Programming (both new courses).

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  Midak International

  • Software Engineer

    • 1992 - 1993

    Developed the Microsoft HelpDesk, which allowed remote and local user request management and tracking over e-mail using packetized forms. The application was released to 10,000 developers world-wide as part of the Microsoft Workgroup Templates software.