Quality Assurance Software

Honors & Activities Experience

Education

JD LAW

University of Iowa

Member: Law Review (Note: Software Copyright Protection Since Feist; Comment: Extent PTO

Guidelines Effect Software Patentability, In re Grams and In re Iwahashi)

Participant: Van Oosterhout Memorial Moot Court Competition

Legal Clinic: Summer 1992.

Research Assistant: Professor Alan I. Widiss (June 1992 to May 1993)

Intellectual Property Courses Taken: Entertainment Law, Copyrights, Antitrust, Licensing,

Patent and Trade Secret Law, Patent Practice and Procedure.

Graduation Date: August 6, 1993.

Licensed to practice law in the State of Texas

Registered United States Patent Attorney

In private practice since May, 1994

Co-Author, Comprehensive Guide To U.S. And International Trademarks

Admitted to practice in the Federal District Courts in the Northern, Southern and Eastern

Districts of Texas

Attended the 2010 Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys (CIPA) Congress in London

Attended the 2010 42nd Congress of the International Association for the Protection of

Intellectual Property (AIPPI) in Paris

MBA FINANCE

University of Denver

Graduation Date: August 1983.

BS COMPUTER SCIENCE

University of Denver

Courses which met Patent Bar requirements: Engineering Physics I & II, Electrical

Circuits, Logic Circuits, Electrical Network Analysis, Electronic Devices, Computer

Programming in C/C++, Computer Programming I & II (Pascal/Fortran), Data Processing with

Cobol, Software Design Techniques, Assembler Language Programming, Programming Languages,

Data Structures.

Graduation Date: May 1983.

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HONORS, ACTIVITIES & PAST MEMBERSHIPS

Prepared two affidavits and gave in Court testimony as an expert witness in Australian

Federal Court in the 2011 software copyright infringement trial held in Sydney between CA,

Inc. v. Independent Systems Integrators

Member, International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI)

Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE);

Member, American Bar Association;

Member, Toastmasters International;

Member, Cullinet/Computer Associates User's Association;

DU Honors Program Scholarship, Honors Curriculum, Coordinated Humanities Sequence

Integrated Studies Program;

Member, Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) DU Student Chapter; Pi Mu Epsilon

Mathematics Honorary; Alpha Lambda Delta National Honors Fraternity; Received BS degree

Cum Laude.

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EXPERIENCE

From

May 1994 to the present.

ATTORNEY AT LAWCarl F. Melito, Attorney at Law, Dallas, Texas

Responsibilities: U.S. and International (Int'l) Patent and Trademark searches and

prosecution; Patentability opinions; Business litigation; Respond to threats of litigation

for various patent, copyright and other business matters; Have registered dozens of

software copyrights and hold the copyright for a book, Comprehensive Guide to US and Int'l

Trademarks (out of print since 1998); Prosecute apparatus, article of manufacture,

business method and other software patent applications and transactional work before the

USPTO (registered since February 1996); Correspondence work on behalf of business clients

with intellectual property interests; IP contracts and licensing agreement drafting and

negotiation; Negotiate the sale of pending patent applications, etc.; Filed Articles of

Incorporation on behalf of various business clients and performed miscellaneous legal

counseling for businesses and individuals; Prepare strategy papers for patent clients

involving business policy, marketing plans, and preparation of contracts for the sale of

goods along with warranties and disclaimers on patented products.

From

March 1995 to March 2005.

PRESIDENT, VICE PRESIDENT LEGAL & DATABASE CONSULTANTAdvanced Resources, Inc., Dallas, Texas

Legal Responsibilities: Filed original Articles of Incorporation in the State of Texas

for the company; Filed Certificates of Authority for conducting business in Arizona, New

York and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts; Filed various legal forms and performed

necessary tax law research to set up the corporation under an "Accountable Plan" and as a

Subchapter S Corporation; Filed all tax returns and annual and quarterly reports with

various government agencies such as the Texas Workforce Commission, the States of AZ, NY

and the Commonwealth of MA; Maintained the corporate books, including maintenance of all

shareholder's meetings minutes, stock certificates, etc.; Sent cease and desist letters to

unauthorized users of the company tradename throughout the State of Texas; Managed

payroll; Negotiated and prepared all contracts for the company as in-house counsel;

Prepared confidentiality agreements and other correspondence work for company employees.

Received Oracle Corporation's DBA Masters Certification (Most Recent Experience Oracle

9i).

Last IBM Courses Taken: DB2 Family Fundamentals; DB2 for OS/390 Database Administration;

DB2 for OS/390 System Administration; SMPE Fundamentals; DB2 for OS/390 System Recovery

(Read DB2/UDB for Unix Certification Guide. Read DB2 for z/OS Developer s Guide 5th Ed.

which covers DB2 V7 & V8).

Last CA Courses Taken: IDMS Internals; IDMS Performance & Tuning; IDMS Buffer Internals &

Tuning; IDMS Web Access via TCP/IP; Datacom/DB Performance & Tuning; Various Platinum

Oracle/UDB/DB2 Utilities Courses (Most Recent Experience CA-IDMS Release 16.0).

Reference Accounts include:

Fidelity Investments Corporation Las Colinas, Texas

Performed 24 x 7 IDMS DBA support functions including unload/reloads of 55 Customer

Accounts databases, disaster recovery, applying database changes to support development

utilizing most all IDMS utilities;

Greyhound Corporation Dallas, Texas

Converted all Fast Dump Restore JCL to DFDSS, maintained COBOL and ADS/O code and

performed routine DBA functions;

USA Group Indianapolis, Indiana

Unloaded/Reloaded mega IDMS segmented databases, performed routine DBA functions for 24 x

7 on call support and database changes;

Central and Southwest Services Dallas, Texas

Installed and upgraded several IDMS CV's using SMP/E, including all interfaces to Tact

Software, CICS, DB2 and mainframe Oracle, applied APARS as needed;

Origin Technology Dallas, Texas

Upgraded several IDMS CVs and supported an IDMS CAS Manufacturing Conversion to the

latest release level;

Dana Corporation Ft. Wayne, Indiana

Principal Oracle DBA, converted all 6 byte IDMS CAS Manufacturing dates to 8 bytes for

Y2K compliance using IDMS Restructure and Unlo/Relo utilities, corrected errant COBOL

application code which was filling up database areas, trained new Oracle DBA;

GE Capital Corporation Stamford, Connecticut

Upgraded over 70 IDMS CV's for Y2K compliance, including security. Worked with

applications people and IBM Global Services (Alpharetta, GA) to migrate data across

mainframes using DFDSS;

Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts

Upgraded entire Test/QA/Production IDMS environment to IDMS Release 14.1, and helped

upgrade Payroll application for IBM's Language Environment with application staff. This

was OS/390 under VM using Panvalet as editor.

Texas Guaranteed Student Loan Corporation Austin, Texas

Converted several Natural/Adabas batch programs to Cobol/IDMS and updated/tested various

batch Cobol programs according to new release Specifications. Wrote Culprit programs to

retrieve complex test cases for QA. Remotely upgrade 3 IDMS CV's from IDMS Release 10.0 to

14.1, including Security, for Y2K.

From

April 1989 to May 1991.

SENIOR DATABASE ADMINISTRATORGTE Directories Corp., D/FW Airport, Texas

Responsibilities: Performed Project Management functions within the DBA group and

attended various Systems Project Management Courses such as the McDonnell Douglas STRADIS

Systems Development Methodology course.

Performed capacity management, emergency database conversions and consulting support for

DBA staff. Provided second-level critical support for various Integrated Database

Management System (IDMS) Production Systems on a 24-hour on-call basis.

Represented GTE at Computer Associate's User Conventions (1989 Atlanta; 1990 Washington,

D.C.).

From

February 1985 to April 1989.

SYSTEMS PROGRAMMERElectronic Data Systems Corporation, Plano, Texas

Responsibilities: Performed Technical Project Leader and Administrative functions such as

leading weekly teleconferences with Project Managers and Systems DBA s throughout EDS and

was principal author of the IDMS Planning Guide.

Performed Corporate Software Systems Maintenance, Quality Assurance Testing,

Distribution, and Consulting Support for the Cullinet Software, Inc. IDMS/R product line

installed in MVS/XA/ESA environments at EDS data centers worldwide.

Gave technical presentations on Corporate Software functions and IDMS/R product

capabilities for various groups within EDS. Performed consulting activities for the ADABAS

and DATACOM DBMS software products.

Represented EDS at Cullinet Software User's Convention (1988 St. Louis). Received Systems

Programmer Development Phase II Certification.

From

June 1984 to January 1985.

ACCOUNT REPRESENTATIVESoftware AG Systems, Inc., Lakewood, Colorado

Responsibilities: Performed technical and management presentations for the sale of

ADABAS, NATURAL, COMPLETE, and associated products. Ensured an adequate level of service

and new product awareness at existing accounts.

From

July 1981 to January 1983.

TECHNICAL REPRESENTATIVESoftware AG Systems, Inc., Lakewood, Colorado

Responsibilities: Performed customer support activities which comprised the resolution of

Customer Request Logs for ADABAS, NATURAL, ADAMINT, and ADASCRIPT in MVS and DOS

environments.

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REFERENCES

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