Law Firm of Rainey Devine

Associate - Intellectual Property Practice Group, 2008 - 2009

Intellectual Property Associate in large multi-jurisdictional law firm of over 275 attorneys in multiple states. Practiced exclusively in the area of patent prosecution in the electrical, computer science, and electro-mechanical technology arts. Drafted numerous patent applications, amendments, and response to Office Actions to the United States Patent & Trademark Office. Successfully prosecuted multiple patents for multinational corporate clients of the firm.

Law Clerk, 2005 - 2008

Gained experience in a vast array of practice areas, including commercial litigation, family law, personal injury, creditor collections/judgment enforcement, bankruptcy, and landlord/tenant. Prepared legal pleadings including: complaints; bankruptcy adversary complaints; discovery requests, responses, and motions; temporary restraining orders; and preliminary injunctions. Managed day-to-day operations of the firm’s IRS tax audit defense cases for tax preparer clients.

Summer Internship, 2005 - 2005

Researched bankruptcy law, debtor and creditor related law, and wrote bench memos about default judgments, judgment renewals, fraudulent conveyances, and procedural summary judgments for The Honorable Judge Linda B. Riegle, Southern District of Nevada.

Senior Network Consultant, 2002 - 2004

Delivered onsite consulting services to previous Smart Guys’ clients and PG Technology’s clients. Designed, deployed, and maintained PG Technology’s DSL Internet access network, web & email servers, business clients’ networks and network security. Responsible for design and implementation of projects nearly tripling the company’s annual revenues during the first eighteen months.

Director of Engineering, 2001 - 2001

Director of Engineering for start-up Competitive Local Exchange Carrier providing integrated data, voice & Internet services to small and medium sized businesses over private DSL circuits. Developed proof of concept network for first round of VC fund raising. Provis shutdown after loss of funding after 9/11/2001 and was subsequently sold to PG Technology in January 2002.

Vice Presidnet of Engineering, 2000 - 2002

Vice President of Engineering for start-up Internet Access Content Management software company. Managed three full-time and part-time programmers developing the next version of our software. Shared overlapping contract management duties between iExalt.Net, nXp Technologies, and Provis Broadband, and continued support services until January 2002.

Senior Network Consultant, 2000 - 2001

Senior network consultant to national dial-up Christian filtered Internet Service Provider using nXp Technology’s web filtering solution on a custom designed load balancing Linux based proxy server array I created specifically for iExalt.

Network Consultant, 1999 - 1999

Created network management system for IT staff to monitor and manage their 19 site network which I had designed and oversaw deployment of while at my previous position with BlueGate Systems.

Owner/Independent Consultant, 1999 - 2002

Created a customer base of business consulting clients to which I provided computer and network consulting services while successfully retaining the majority of clients for many years.

Senior Systems Engineer, 1996 - 1999

Ground floor opportunity at systems integration firm. Tasked with directing the technical operations of a start-up business-class Internet Service Provider to provide Internet solutions and other network consulting services to professional organizations and firms. BlueGate now concentrates on deployment of HIPAA compliant secure encrypted data connections between medical practitioners and hospital organizations in and around Texas.