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A people-manager experienced in intellectual property, global procurement, product

management, project management, and financial analysis; a professional with t ransferrable

skills who has managed assignment diversity and ambiguity by relying upon coaching,

business knowledge, creativity, organizational agility, and technical aptitude; someone who

has readily taken ownership of new concepts to quickly develop and continually improve

u pon a functional knowledge base.

PROFESSIONAL EXPER IENCE – AT&T, Lucent Technologies, Agere Systems, LSI

Corporation

Senior Manager, I ntellectual Property Law Group (April 2007 – present)

• In tellectual property lit igation discovery manager responsible for exposure analysis,

l iaison with outside counsel and internal stakeholders and custodians, and the

i dentification, collection and preservation of document repositories presently

representing more than 80 matters and containing in excess of 7M files.

• Manage a patent prosecution paralegal team of three people responsible for

docketing more than 800 invention disclosures and 400 patent application filings on

an annual basis, and responsible for an annual awards budget in excess of $3M.

• Accountable and responsible for the In tellectual Property Review Board – developed

more than 240 cases on behalf of internal clients to evaluate encumbrance r isks to

i ntellectual property.

• Project managed more than 220 patent mining projects that evaluated more than

11K United States patents to support a $100M annual intellectual property

l icensing business.

Manager, I ntellectual Property Business Group (December 2005 – April 2007)

• Identified, researched and evaluated more than 150 companies of which better than

75% became opportunity targets to support a $100M annual intellectual property

l icensing business.

• Developed company and industry profiles by analyzing financial data, product and

solution offerings, events, news and other information from domestic and

i nternational corporate filings and reports, company web-sites, industry-specific

subscription services, research service company reports, and t rade publications.

• Lead an internal board that ranged from six to eight people consisting of licensing

d irectors, reverse engineering directors, assertion attorneys, and licensing attorneys

responsible for selecting and assigning licensing opportunity targets to negotiation

teams.

Global Procurement Manager, OEM Supplier Relationships (September 2000 –

D ecember 2005)

• Implemented and utilized a strategic sourcing process to identify and manage global

OEM supplier partners for private-label products and semiconductor wafer foundry

services; developed and managed the commercial relationships in support of more

t han $250M in annual spend for a multi-billion dollar registered corporation.

• Engaged and evolved relationships with business leaders to continually understand

business needs and requirements; identified and evaluated alternative sources of

supply to improve global sourcing strategies, r isk management scenarios, and to

address immediate customer demands, longer-term requirements, and end-market

p rice pressures.

• Developed a report card for metrics including technology, delivery and f lexibility,

quality and reliability, cost, and service focused on current performance,

i mprovement, and competitiveness.

Product Manager, Optoelectronic Components (September 1995 – October 2000)

• Product manager responsible for the profitable success of multiple optoelectronic

component product groups including pump lasers, voice-communication grade laser

modules, and data-communication grade t ransceivers each generating revenues

between $30M and $100M annually.

• Responsible for the development and execution of product-line strategies; market

assessment, customer identification, revenue projections, price and margin analysis,

roadmaps, technical sales support and t raining, and results management; grew

p ump laser revenues by 300% with a greater than 30% operating ROS in my second

year of responsibility for the business.

• Successfully managed multiple projects – obsolete inventory, customer-product

m igration, facilities and equipment – to t ransition several product lines into a state-

of-the-art automated manufacturing facility

• Directed the efforts of product specific, multi-level, cross functional teams

responsible for the development and execution of product strategies, business plans,

and organizational budgets.

Financial Analyst (March 1985 – August 1995)

• CFO analyst to the directors of the Product Management, Development, and

M anufacturing organizations of several multi-million dollar business units;

responsible for all financial elements of historic and future profitability

performance.

• Standardized and consolidated product investment decisions, capital budgets,

i nterim business views, and annual commitment processes for all division product

l ines.

• Developed, presented and maintained product pricing, incurred costs, supporting

budgets and production schedules for a portfolio of submarine-qualified products;

p repared and supported bids for submission to the Department of Defense and

commercial customers.

EDUCAT IONAL BACKGROUND

Master of Business Administration

• Kutztown University of Pennsylvania – May 1993

Bachelor of Science, Business Administration

• Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania – May 1983

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