In my own words
— AaronSmall business owner providing patent drafting services to both large companies and sole inventors alike prioritizing quality and craftsmanship over output quantity.
Currently looking for a job in a field that combines product development/management with intellectual property legal services to protect innovation, inspire uninhibited creativity, and share/learn from the collective invention pool that is the patent program.
Trajectory
Oct 2017 — Now
Technical Visualizations Designer · Kiewit
Jan 2016 — Now
Founder/Managing Director · First File LLC
Developed the vision, business plan, organizational structure, and strategy for a successful patent drafting business.
Responsible for all activity including customer interactions, sales, accounting, project management, marketing and project execution.
Maintain close relationships with multiple high-profile clients while also working with sole inventors and small businesses to meet their business/personal needs.
May 2015 — Mar 2016
Patent Analyst · Boa Technology Inc.
Worked with Product Management in understanding existing portfolio content, competitor landscapes, potential opportunities, and weaknesses in order to develop and implement short-term and long-term IP strategies.
Created and maintained resources and assets used for better comprehension and organization of the portfolio, individual application content, and relevant meta-data.
Responsible for the design, development, and maintenance of the Intellectual Property Sharepoint site architecture and content, along with its implementation within the company.
Developed both competitive and partner brand IP summary assets that were used to shape company-wide strategic initiatives, with an emphasis on legal direction.
Identified flaws in company-brand partner proprietary information disclosure model and proactively worked with managers and key members of all affected departments to amend the model in a way that mitigated potential information leaks and while avoiding bottle-necking and increasing
Aug 2012 — May 2015
Intellectual Property Asset Designer · Boa Technology Inc.
Ensure legal team has the necessary resources to file new IP at every stage of the process that aligned with the company IP annual strategy by:
working between Product Development, Product Management, and the Legal team to sketch development concepts, design new solutions and solve unfinished ideas that could be used to file new provisionals that rapidly expanded the companies portfolio
Prepared figures/drawings used for the filing of non-provisional and design patents that were compliant to the USPTO's and all relevant International agency's requirements.
Responsible for the design, development, and transition to the new Sharepoint docketing system.
May 2012 — Aug 2012
Design Intern · American Rec
Responsible for researching color trends and applying findings to upcoming year product models
Conducted competitor landscape research and reported on opportunities and risks within the markets of operation.
Worked closely with Design Manager on the design and development of new backpack hardware
Activity
Education history
Metropolitan State University of Denver
Bachelors of Science | 2007 - 2012





