Management Project
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James R. Huntsman
Mounds View, MN 55112-4110
Phone: 763-***-**** (home)
Email: abh817@r.postjobfree.com
Education and Licenses
Paralegal Certificate, North Hennepin Community College (December 2003,
with honors)
U.S.P.T.O. Registered Patent Agent, # 43,685
Law School - 1 year, William Mitchell College of Law
Ph.D. Chemistry (minor in solid state physics), U. of Wisconsin (Madison)
M.B.A. Management and Project Risk Analysis & Evaluation, U. of Wisconsin
(Madison)
B.S. Chemistry (Phi Beta Kappa), West Virginia U.
Legal and Business Analysis Experience
Andrew J. Dawkins, Esq., Of Counsel, Mansfield, Tanick & Cohen, P.A.,
Minneapolis, MN, 2008 to Present. Paralegal work doing legal research of
case law, statutes, and regulations, and preparing pleadings, motions,
affidavits, discovery, memoranda of law, and appellate motions and briefs
for civil litigation.
Faegre & Benson, Minneapolis, MN, June 2005 to August 2008. I worked in
their Intellectual Property Practice Group as a patent agent, doing legal
research for patentability, patent validity, and freedom-to-
operate/clearance opinions; reviewing licensing agreements; drafting and
prosecuting patent applications, and responding to office actions. My
patent technology areas include general chemistry, pharmaceutical
chemistry, agricultural chemistry, materials science, mechanical devices,
electromechanical devices, medical devices and materials (stents,
catheters, CRM (ICDs), spinal implants, urological, volar, tissue
scaffolds/hydrogels), polymeric materials, color science, color printing,
and electrostatics.
I developed custom Excel-based macros for patent portfolio analysis,
including 20-year cost projections (actual or proposed), patent
theme/landscaping for competitive analysis, and complex patent family tree
generation in infringement actions.
I have particular skill in legal research to support patent litigation,
having done prior art research in the infringement actions of Andersen
Windows v. Pella Corp. and Cellect LLC v. Crocs, Inc., resulting in
dismissal in favor of our defendant clients. My other prior art searches
related to hydrogel scaffolds and electronic engineering materials and
demonstrated likely patent invalidity such that threatened infringement
actions against our clients were withdrawn.
Dorsey & Whitney, Minneapolis, MN, July to August 2004. Temporary work
involving document management for class-action litigation including
reviewing, identifying, and indexing documents for response to discovery in
class-action litigation.
Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi, Minneapolis, MN, July to November 2003.
Temporary paralegal work involving file management for litigation including
organizing, coding, and preparing documents for response to discovery and
trial preparation, collecting transcripts of adverse expert witness'
testimonies, coding discovery documents into Concordance, preparing
discovery responses, updating trial notebooks, and reviewing adverse
party's legal research and arguments.
3M Company, Senior Specialist, Intellectual Property Scientist, 1996 -
2002. I worked closely with laboratory personnel in researching their
invention disclosures for patent application. I provided patent
prosecution support in the technology areas of materials science, physical
optics, and the replication of microstructures for optical
(retroreflective, refractive, polarized) properties, surface friction,
micro-interconnection, microchannel fluid transport, microchannel
bioanalytical analysis, and microchannel thermal transfer performance,
including related art searching via QPAT, Micropatent, the E.P.O. web site,
and the U.S.P.T.O. files, reviewing application drafts, compiling IDSs, and
responding to patent office actions, both U.S. and outside U.S. I created
and maintained databases of related art and competitors' patents. I wrote
Excel macros to analyze and generate summary patent portfolio reports,
patent portfolio cost forecasts, patent prosecution status, and national
and foreign filing and maintenance fees to assist in budgeting decisions.
I did research for patent litigation support.
3M Company, Senior Specialist and Business Analyst, 1991 - 1996. My major
area of study in my M.B.A. was risk analysis and decision making. While at
3M Company, I developed and taught for several years a 2-day course in
performing modern analytical methods for financial and operational analysis
and decision making that included quantitative accounting for
risk/uncertainty, prioritization, and optimization.
The five computer-based analytical programs I taught in my course are
Crystal Ball (Excel add-in for Monte Carlo simulation), LINDO (operations
research, optimization), Expert Choice (weighted multicriteria
analysis/prioritization), Tree ge Pro (decision tree analysis), and
Analytica (influence diagrams). Using the knowledge of these analytical
programs, I was a business analyst resource to 3M's operating divisions for
several years in the areas of estimating/forecasting net present value,
ROIs, and IRRs of ongoing and new business ventures, estimating/forecasting
financial performance under uncertainty, project prioritization/portfolio
selection, and optimized allocation of resources (personnel, equipment,
budgets) or optimized supply-distribution networks. All these programs are
currently in use by corporations, university business school programs,
financial institutions, and federal departments and agencies. Use of one
or more of these program methods would provide ACIST with state-of-the-art
risk analysis and optimization methods.
General Computer Experience
I have experience with Microsoft Office 2007 (Word, Excel, Access,
PowerPoint, and Outlook, advanced working experience with Microsoft Word
and Excel 2007), Adobe Acrobat, specialized risk analysis and financial
management software (see above), and computerized legal research (Lexis and
WestLaw). I have experience writing Excel VBA macros for custom business
and database applications. I am adept at learning software.
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