One of four finalists for the 2001 Intellectual
Property Owners’s “National Inventor of the Year” award. IBM Research Master
Inventor 2002 – 2005.
IBM T.J. Watson
Research Center,
Yorktown Heights, N.Y. 1999 - present
Senior Software
Engineer, Master Inventor
Key
contributor to inventions and patent licensing efforts realizing some hundreds of millions of licensing revenue. (not my money). Developed proofs of
infringement of IBM’s Filepp patents, which are currently used as templates for
many of IBM’s Internet-related enforcement actions and deal negotiations. The
most significant of these were proofs that AOL infringed IBM’s Filepp patents.
These were heralded by IBM’s IP executives as the most precise, detailed and
incontestable evidence of infringement of these patents. The net of my work was
a winning infringement case against AOL aimed at the heart of their
service.
IBM
Technical Leadership Exchange panelist
As an
IBM Research Master Inventor, mentored others in the patent process, and
assisted Corporate IP&L department in a variety of patent enforcement and
defensive actions, particularly effective in identifying prior art.
XCo, a NatWest subsidiary, N.Y.,
N.Y.
1999
Senior
Manager of IT Operations
Xco (Cybuy) National Westminster
Bank’s entry into the E-Commerce retailing arena.
Helped
establish the technical infrastructure for this Internet start-up. Developed an
IT department, managed the relationship with the hosting ASP, established
operational policies and procedures, designed and wrote applications using Open
Market Transact, Oracle, C++, and UNIX shell scripts.
Patent
Consultant, Westport, CT
1997 – 1999
Retained
as patent consultant by IBM Internet Division’s Intellectual Property Counsel
to assist with the specification of patents and their IP defense and
prosecution.
Advised
General Motors in IP patent defense matters.
Pearson
Technology (formerly Simon & Schuster), Old Tappan,
N.J. 1997 – 1999
Director, Systems Architecture
Responsible for developing the
E-Commerce infrastructure, and design
and development of applications used by various publishers, including Macmillan
and Prentice Hall, to enable Web-based retail book sales.
Partnered
with external providers to develop Distance Learning products.
Prodigy Services Company, White Plains, N.Y. 1985 - 1997
Senior
Manager of Systems Development, PLS Development
Senior Manager of Systems
Architecture and Systems Assurance
Senior Systems Architect
As one
of the principal architects of the Prodigy on-line service and network, managed
the Systems Architecture group with responsibility for the company-wide systems
design. Personally responsible for defining the Object Architecture and the
Data Interchange Architecture. These architectures specified how distributed
data and programs were represented as well as how they were transmitted through
the Prodigy network.
Managed
the Prodigy Local Site software development team. These 300+ geographically dispersed
but centrally managed servers acted as caching proxy concentrators and provided
distributed application functions, reducing the demand on Prodigy's hosts by up
to 90%.
International
Business Machines Corp., N.Y., N.Y. 1985
Consultant
Independent
Consultant, Systems Development 1979 - 1984
Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner, & Smith, N.Y., N.Y
N.Y. City Office of Management & Budget, N.Y.,
N.Y
Irving Trust Company, N.Y., N.Y
Electronische Administratie Centrum, “Rotterdam” B.V. Rotterdam, Netherlands 1976 - 1979
Project
Leader/Systems Analyst
Broadway
Bank & Trust Co., Paterson, N.J.
1975
Programmer.
Automated
Marketing Inc., Englewood, N.J.
1973 - 1975
Programmer.
