Membership: American Bar Association; American Intellectual Property Law Association; Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society; Gold Key National Honor Society.

Experience:

• Patent Associate at Birch, Stewart, Kolasch & Birch, LLP since 2006. Supports patent prosecution in the area of electrical engineering including digital signal processing, computer architecture/software, optics, solid state circuitry, video and image systems, telecommunications, power generation, radar, sonar and inertial navigation systems.
• Primary Patent Examiner, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, 2003-2006 and Patent Examiner, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, 1998-2003. Responsibilities included examining patent applications in the field of ultrasound diagnostic imaging systems and methods including: ultrasound probe structure, contrast enhancement, intravascular with a catheter, Plural display mode systems, Tissue attenuation or impedance measurement or compensation, Anatomic image produced by reflective scanning with mechanical and electronic scanning, Doppler flow and B-mode imaging, beam directing or shaping means in the wave path (e.g., lens, reflector) etc.  Also examined applications directed to Magnetic Field Sensor (SQUID), Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Tomographic (images of planes/cross-sections of the body) imaging (including X-Ray and Gamma Ray) obtained from Electromagnetic waves, Microwaves, and Nuclear Imaging (radioactive emission), Kinesitherapy (coupling acoustic waves at very high frequencies into the body for therapy), Infrared and Visible Imaging. 
• Practiced in intellectual property field since 1998, specializing in electrical patents.