Timeline / Jobs

• Work on all aspects of patent portfolio development, IP strategy, and open-source licensing.
• Develop AI-powered innovation discovery and patent development pipelines.
• Patent market surveillance and IP risk assessment.

• Stepped up to lead a small team during a leadership transition.
• Chaired the company patent committee.

• Identified and developed patentable ideas using unique methods across an R&D organization of several thousand members.
• Open-source license attribution: Maintained a database of 10,000+ open-source dependencies across a dozen apps. Developed company-wide open-source guidelines. Skills/tools: GitHub, CI/CD pipelines (Buildkite, Bitrise), FOSSA, SBOM.
• Supported IP analysis of mergers, acquisitions, and investments. Contributed expertise developing the company IP strategy. Also acted as subject matter expert with in-house and outside counsel on patent licensing and litigation.

• In his final year at BlackBerry, after a significant reorganization, joined the Government Relations and Public Policy team. With a new public-sector focus, continued promoting company interests in international standards development organizations and other forums.
• Projects included the EUCS (European Union Cloud Services Scheme) – a horizontal certification program for cloud service providers (IaaS/PaaS/SaaS) being developed under the Cybersecurity Act. Another project involved contributing to NIST IoT cybersecurity guidance. Also presented to Canadian federal agencies and advised medical IoT startups in the L-Spark startup incubator.

• Managed a wide portfolio of standards and defined company strategy in wireless protocols. Focus research areas were low-power IoT and automotive wireless communication.
• Represented BlackBerry at IEEE 802.11, SAE V2X, Wi-Fi Alliance, Omniair Consortium, ISO, ITU, and other standards development organizations and industry forums.
• Provided technical subject matter expertise to those managing the BlackBerry patent portfolio (invention committees, patent acquisitions, divestitures, licensing, and litigation). Was involved in several of the highest-value patent transactions in any industry during this period.
• Continued his role as an individual inventor, filing as many as 10 new patents per year.

• Managed a wide portfolio of standards and defined company strategy in wireless protocols. Focus research areas were low-power IoT and automotive wireless communication.
• Represented BlackBerry at IEEE 802.11, SAE V2X, Wi-Fi Alliance, Omniair Consortium, ISO, ITU, and other standards development organizations and industry forums.
• Assisted product development teams in implementing products in compliance with defined standards.
• Worked with inventors in both R&D teams and the standards team to document problems and solutions in a format that could be provided to outside counsel for filing.
• Named inventor on 50+ patent filings, both functional and design patents, including both SEP and non-SEP.

• Worked on all aspects of preparing BlackBerry products for GCF/PTCRB and carrier certification. Performed a significant amount of work toward gaining certification for five generations of BlackBerry products. All were company firsts; some were world-first products with the technology.
• BlackBerry 8707 (RIM's first UMTS product)
• BlackBerry 8830 (RIM's first CDMA/GSM worldphone)
• BlackBerry 9000 (RIM's first Rel5 HSDPA product)
• BlackBerry 9500 (RIM's first Rel6 HSUPA product)
• Before changing roles, prepared for certification of RIM's first Rel7 HSPA+ product.
• Represented BlackBerry at PTCRB meetings and worked with the standards team to draft change requests to 3GPP and GCF specifications.

• Worked on authorization testing for the BlackBerry Connect project, a proprietary push email protocol licensed to third parties such as Samsung, Motorola, Nokia, and HTC.
• Tested UDP-based cloud messaging protocols for 2G wireless networks.

While a student in high school and university, ran a consulting business part-time. Activities included website design for small businesses, community web hosting, web portal development, IT consulting, and support. Also learned the basics of registering and financing a small business.