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Overview:
- Leadership in technology focused business development: Finding, assessing, and protecting patentable inventions in
software methods, electro-mechanical systems, imaging, multi touch input, human computer interfaces, aerospace
vehicle propulsion and aerodynamics, and other key innovations vital to success in world markets.
Projects Sought:
- Patent Strategy, Tactics, Evaluation, Value
- Patent Portfolio Management
- Patent Drafting and Prosecution
- Leadership in business development and marketing
Expertise:
- Patent Agent, Registration #67461 in the USPTO
- Patents in Systems, Software, Mechanical, Aerospace, Sensor, Imaging arts
- Prior art search for patentability and defense in patent litigation
- System Dynamics & Control theory and practice
Patents:
- US 8,245,158 Schrick:
System and method for providing a keyboard type interface for a computing device, issued 2012 August, filed March 2003
University Degrees: BSE Princeton University, MSE Stanford University
Contact:
- brad@brad.net
-- 650.776.1049 -- PO Box 66, Palo Alto CA 94301
-- http://brad.net/
Highlights:
September 2003 - present: Project, Program, Special Projects, and Patent Portfolio Manager
Insitu, Inc. a wholly owned subsidiary of the Boeing Company, www.insitu.com
2009 to present: Managing Insitu's patent portfolio, with work in new technology scouting and evaluation of competitive technologies.
2006 to 2009: Special Projects Manager working on interactive web systems, internal and external, and on sensor, imaging, and other related technologies for robotic aircraft systems.
2004 to 2006: Project and Program Manager for shipping camera payloads and development projects in stabilized camera gimbals, imaging, night vision, radar, and related
technologies, comprising internally funded projects plus STTR and other government contracts.
late 2003: Consultant in prior art search for patented and patentable technologies related to Insitu's core technologies.
March 2002 - June 2002: Writer
IEEE Spectrum Magazine, spectrum.ieee.org
Wireless Broadband In a Box
Non-line-of-sight wireless systems promise strong signals for high-speed Internet access
June 1998 [January 1998] - May 2001: Director of Marketing, Co-founder
WebScope, www.webscope3D.com
Third co-founder of WebScope, Inc., a startup company in Palo Alto that developed a uniquely valuable collaboration tool for
product prototyping and development, a web conferencing system with 3D views of product models that required no special software
and worked in real time over slow connections.
Responsibilities included cultivating relationships with Boeing, Ford, Siemens, Sun, BMW, Mercedes and other premier
companies in the United States and Europe.
October 1996 - February 1997: Apple - Competitive
Analysis of Leading Internet Clients
July 1996 - September 1996: Apple Mac OS Runtime
for Java, Developer Survey
May 1996 - August 1996: Apple Personal Web Sharing
Evaluation
February 1996 - April 1996: Apple - QuickTime
Conferencing Commerce Servers
November 1995 - January 1996: SALON Internet
Magazine, Launch Technical Advisor
For SALON Internet Magazine
(http://www.salonmagazine.com/): Served as consulting webmaster for
the launch of this award-winning Internet magazine.
July 1995 - August 1995: AIR&SPACE Magazine:
Oshkosh Air Show Correspondent
Sent by this Smithsonian Institution magazine
(http://www.airspacemag.com/) to the
world-reknowned Oshkosh Air Show to cover the show from the
web, using a Duo 230 and a QuickTake 100 (lent by Chris
Gulker). Approximately 15,000 aircraft and 800,000 visitors
were in attendance.
March 1994 - July 1994: Embry-Riddle - Marketing
Consultant for University Enrollment (http://www.db.erau.edu/)
Established and jump-started the University's web presence at the dawn of
the World Wide Web.
Prior experience:
Engineering software development, marketing,
and sales
November 1987 - December 1993: ESC - Engineering
Software Concepts, Inc.
Founded, owned and operated ESC, Inc., a
sales and marketing company in Palo Alto, California
1984 - 1987 : SCT - Systems Control Technology,
Inc.
Managed Ctrl-C, created by the founders of The Mathworks, derived from
the original public MATLAB code. Also produced and managed Model-C, a
new visual block diagram system simulation product developed by two
engineers in that time, entirely in Ada.
1982 - 1984 : SA&C - Systems Analysis &
Control
1980 - 1983: SEI - Sliwa Enterprises, Inc.
1981 - 1982 : Ford Aerospace
1981 - 1981: GCH, Inc
Control systems engineer, company pilot, test
engineer, crane operator, construction supervisor, grunt. We
tested, on the Texas Gulf Coast, to destruction, a prototype
of what would have become the first commercial rocket
communications satellite launcher, built in Sunnyvale.
1978 - 1980 : NASA Ames Research Center
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