EE Patent Attorney

LICENSED TO PRACTICE

Illinois (****)

United States Patent and Trademark Office, Registration # 61711 (2008)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Cardinal Intellectual Property Evanston, IL

Search Professional / Project Manager, July 2008 to Present

• Perform searching in business methods, software, communications, and electrical arts

• Review disclosures and provide detailed search strategies and guidelines for searchers

• Draft opinions for PCT applications for United States Patent and Trademark Office

Cardinal Law Group Evanston, IL

Patent Attorney, Contractor, March 2009 to Present

• Prepare patent applications

• Counsel clients regarding intellectual property matters

Bell, Boyd & Lloyd – Chicago-Kent IP Patent Clinic Chicago, IL

Robert Barrett and Jason Engel, Supervising Attorneys, January 2007 to May 2007

• Drafted a patent application

• Performed patentability and trademark searches

• Met with clients regarding patent and trademark applications

Alcatel-Lucent Lisle, IL

Tier 3 Technical Support Engineer, March 2007 to July 2008

• Presented multi-million dollar solution to customer management teams and executive leadership team

• Provided thousands of dollars of savings by training tier 2 support engineers

• Responded to and resolved 100% of support requests within contract-specified times

• Received 100% positive feedback from customer surveys

• Wrote and reviewed technical solutions available to customers with service contracts

• Gathered and provided feedback from engineering groups to executive leadership team

Tier 2 Technical Support Engineer, December 2000 to March 2007

• Verified and reported outage data affecting over 150 million subscribers

• Responsible for troubleshooting voicemail systems and networks

• Hispanic Association of Lucent Technologies Leadership Program (07/04 to 07/05)

EDUCATION Chicago-Kent College of Law Chicago, IL

J.D., Intellectual Property Certificate Program, May 2007

• Evening Division

• Chicago-Kent Scholarship

• Hispanic-Latino Law Student Association / Hispanic Lawyers Association of Illinois

• Chicago-Kent Scholarship

Northwestern University Evanston, IL

B.S., Electrical Engineering, December 2000

• Sigma Lambda Gamma National Sorority, Inc. – Founding Member

• Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE) – Various positions

• Kellogg Information Systems - Student Work Study Program

• Biomedical Engineering Graduate Department - Student Work Study Program

SPECIAL SKILLS

Spanish – Native fluency (written and verbal)

Proficiency in Windows OS, Microsoft Office, UNIX, Solaris, and various SUN systems

Knowledge of DNS, VOIP, LDAP, SIP, TCP/IP, SS7, SMDI, X.25, and SMPP

Knowledge of networking, wireless communications, computer hardware and software

ORGANIZATIONS

American Intellectual Property Law Association

The Chicago Bar Association

Hispanic Lawyers Association of Illinois

Intellectual Property Law Association of Chicago

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