Professional History
2/04 – present Solo Practitioner Patent Agent.
2/03 – 1/04 Patent Agent, Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP, San Francisco, CA.
11/00 – 1/03 Patent Agent, Coudert Brothers LLP, San Francisco, CA.
11/99 – 10/00 Patent Agent, Majestic, Parsons, Siebert & Hsue LLP, San Francisco, CA.
6/97 – 10/99 Patent prosecution: Part-time work preparing patent applications, responding to office actions, interviewing inventors, and conducting patent searches.
9/83 – 10/99 Principal Member of the Technical Staff (7/85 – 10/99), Visiting Researcher (2/85 – 7/85), Post-Doctoral Research Fellow (9/83 – 8/84), Combustion Research Facility, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, CA.
9/84 – 3/85 Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemical Technology, Imperial College of Science and Technology, London, England.
9/78 – 9/83 Research Assistant, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley, CA (6/80 – 9/83); California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA. (9/78 – 6/80).
8/82 – 1/83 Lecturer, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA.
6/78 – 9/78 Member of the Technical Staff, Hughes Aircraft Company, Canoga Park, CA.
4/77 – 9/77 Engineering Assistant, Magnetic Fusion Program, Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, Livermore.
Education
University of California Berkeley, Mechanical Engineering, Ph. D. (1983).
Research areas: thermophysics, heat transfer, fluid dynamics and combustion
California Institute of Technology, Aeronautics, M.S. (1980).
Majors: fluid mechanics, applied mathematics
Awards: Hughes and D. W. Douglas Prize Fellowships
University of California Berkeley, Mechanical Engineering, B.S. (1978).
Graduated number one in a class of 120
Patent Qualifications
Registered to practice before the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, Reg. No. 45,186.