Experience

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  PNC

  • Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

  • Senior Counsel, Intellectual Property

    • May 2022 - Present
    • Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

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  Reed Smith LLP

  • United States
  • Law Practice
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Counsel

    • Jan 2022 - May 2022

  • Associate

    • Oct 2018 - Jan 2022

    My practice at Reed Smith focused on intellectual property law, with an emphasis on litigation, counseling and licensing.

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  JONES DAY®

  • Greater Pittsburgh Area

  • Associate

    • Oct 2016 - Oct 2018
    • Greater Pittsburgh Area

    Intellectual Property Litigation and PTAB Practice.

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  Reed Smith LLP

  • United States
  • Law Practice
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Associate

    • Sep 2014 - Oct 2016

    Intellectual Property Litigator

  • Intellectual Property Law Clerk

    • Sep 2013 - Sep 2014

    Intellectual property law clerk.

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  Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

  • Washington D.C. Metro Area

  • Summer Associate 2013

    • May 2013 - Aug 2013
    • Washington D.C. Metro Area

    Patent litigation.

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  University of Pittsburgh School of Law

  • Greater Pittsburgh Area

  • Research Assistant

    • Feb 2013 - May 2013
    • Greater Pittsburgh Area

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  University of Pittsburgh School of Law

  • Greater Pittsburgh Area

  • Teaching Assistant

    • Aug 2012 - Dec 2012
    • Greater Pittsburgh Area

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  Superior Court of Pennsylvania

  • Judicial Clerk

  • The Superior Court of Pennsylvania

    • May 2012 - Jul 2012
    • Judicial Clerk

    Law clerk.

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  Intergraph

  • Greater Pittsburgh Area

  • System Consultant -- Project Lead

    • Apr 2008 - Jun 2011
    • Greater Pittsburgh Area

    As part of CIP, I was a project lead consultant for Intergraph’s public safety and security software on federal projects, working to create a comprehensive operational picture customers. My responsibilities included consulting on proper system use, the mapping of current business rules into customized software configurations allowing ease of transition for end users, as well as the technical aspects of system engineering and interfacing to numerous hardware sensor systems stressing redundancy, security and information integrity and accuracy.As the Project Team Leader for the KOJ’s public safety system (~$16M), over a period of sixteen months on-site in Amman, Jordan, was responsible for all the technical aspects and business practices of interfacing, customizing and implementing a nationwide integrated Emergency Service’s fire, police and EMS Computer Aided Dispatching (CAD) and Intergraph Security system for the US Department of State’s overall $50M project to enhance the KOJ’s emergency services as part of the Anti-Terror Administrations goals. Also responsible for all on site negotiations between Intergraph, government and customer agencies. Managed a team of engineers and software consultants.

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  Raytheon Company

  • Electrical Engineer

    • Jul 2007 - Apr 2008

    Raytheon is a technology leader specializing in defense, homeland security, and other government markets throughout the world. In support of the National Missile Defense shield, I was a member of the Receiver-Exciter and Signal Processing Department. I supported senior engineering leads, with testing, debugging and verification of S and X band receiver-exciters; designed of low level testing components; reviewed schematics; and trained in Six Sigma problem solving methodologies.

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  Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center

  • United States
  • Research Services
  • 1 - 100 Employee

  • Technical Student

    • 2005 - 2007

    Working with a fellow University of Pittsburgh EE student we designed, manufactured and deployed a highly scalable SCADA system for remotely enabling power interrupt and monitoring system temperature of large clusters of computers.Also, worked as first line support for professors and researchers making use of the PSC's systems.

  • Student Consultant

    • 2004 - 2007

  • Student Consultant

    • 2004 - 2007

  • Student Consultant

    • 2004 - 2007

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  US Army

  • Satellite Communications

    • Aug 1997 - Aug 2003

    As a US Army paratrooper, Airborne!, I spent six years working in Satellite Communications groups, finally acting as the operations manager for a unit of 160 personnel and ~$100M worth of equipment. Prior to acting as operations manager, I acted as a team leader in charge of five direct reports, including two Republic of Korea Army soldiers, and ~$3M worth of equipment, while deploying to remote areas of the Republic of Korea to provide tactical communications to combat units.