Director of Dreams,
2002 – 2009
Glofun Labs, Redmond, WA
Founder of startup that develops GPS-enabled
games for mobile phones. Responsibilities include overall
business strategy, partner development and negotiation, product specification and testing,
and intellectual property.
Products include:
Noteworthy: All products, prototypes, and marketing
events created with teams of 3 - 7 individuals.
Intellectual Property Manager, 1998 – 2002
Tangis
Corporation, Seattle, WA
Co-founder of Tangis Corporation, an unsuccessful startup which
investigated software for highly-mobile PCs ("wearable
computers"), and ultimately offered
software kits for mobile field-force automation applications.
Responsibilities included developing IP business plans and
processes, leading invention efforts, creating patent
portfolio on
Context Awareness.
Noteworthy: Patent portfolio purchased by Microsoft in 2007
Group Program Manager, 1999 – 2000
Responsibilities included hiring and managing program
managers and UI/Usability staff for development of wearable-computer prototypes.
Noteworthy: Personally produced a software-guided
Baja Road Rally
to provide program managers experience with proposed features
Intellectual Property Strategist, 1997 - present
Excelsior
Bonifico Company, Redmond, WA
Founder and manager of independent IP strategy firm.
Responsibilities include client management, analyzing IP
landscape and product potential of developing technologies,
optimizing business plans to minimize cost and maximize patent
value. Details...
Clients include Bio-Rad,
University of Washington,
McCarthy Software,
Smart Grid, Randal Industries, Radiocosm,
Glofun Labs, and other
confidential clients.
Intellectual Property Management Instructor,
2001 - present
Lecturer and workshop facilitator for schools, organizations,
and private clients. Programs provided include:
- University of Washington Extension Department
certification program in
Intellectual Property Management
(2001 - 2008)
- Licensing Executives Society,
Professional Development Series (2002 - 2008)
- Various US & Canadian Licensing Executives Society local
chapters
- Lecturer and Workshop Facilitator for Bio-Rad for over
200 senior business managers and scientists who completed
2-day workshops on introductory and advanced patent use.
Noteworthy: Popular speaker with consistently positive
reviews for content and delivery. For example this
feedback on
the March 2008 LES lecture on Valuation &
Negotiation (evaluations,
summary
graph,
comments).
Project Manager, 1995 - 1996
Advanced
Consumer Devices, Redmond, WA
Various responsibilities for the
Broadcast PC
project, including management of functional specifications,
communications and meetings with hardware vendors (e.g., Gateway
and video tuner manufacturers), specification
for extensions to Windows keyboard codes to handle streaming
multi-media, UI design and usability testing for Electronic
Program Guide and wireless remote controls, patent candidate
inventory, liaison to Legal and Corporate Affairs. Deliverables
included:
- Broadcast Architecture Platform Development Kit
- Electronic Program Guide prototype
- Usability analysis of Gateway TV-optimized PC input
devices
Noteworthy: Analyzed over 40 innovations, submitted 14
as high-value patent candidates, resulting portfolio which now covers
many aspects of PC use of broadcast and multicast content. James
also contributed to
various
Electronic
Program Guide inventions.
Program Manager, 1992 - 1994
TrueType
Fonts Group, Redmond, WA
Responsibilities included feature/UI design, documentation,
test, and packaging of font pack utilities and documentation. Except for
font creation and test, all staff was contracted. This project was done concurrent
with other project responsibilities. Products include:
- TrueType Font Pack for Windows
- Windows Printing System Font Pack
- TrueType Font Pack 2
- Hewlett-Packard Font Set
Noteworthy: Bill Gates congratulates team for
first font pack as being the quickest product in corporate
history to ship and to achieve profit -- just over three months from staffing to shipping; >$12M
revenue in following three months.
Documentation Manager, OEM Deliverables Manager,
1992 - 1994
Windows
Printing Systems Group, Redmond, WA
Technical specifications, code walkthroughs, UI design, and user
documentation for Windows Printing System. Training support included liaison with overseas
printer manufacturers. All James' staff was
contracted. Products include:
- Windows Printing System for HP LaserJets
- Windows Printing System Porting Kits
- Windows 95 printing components
Noteworthy: Inventor on patented
Printer UI.
Programmer Writer, OEM Deliverables Manager, July 1991 - 1992
Windows Systems
Group, Redmond, WA
Responsible for documentation and porting kits for
TrueImage. Porting support included training and serving as
liaison for printer manufacturer programming teams visiting from
overseas.
Founded and managed successful technical publishing firm
specializing in rapid creation of accurate manufacturing, porting, and support documentation. Staff
of
12 at time of Microsoft acquisition. Products include:
- Microsoft Windows 3.0 Software Development Kit (memory management chapters) &
Device
Development Kit (all 36 chapters)
- Microsoft
TrueImage technical specification (Microsoft Taiwan)
-
General Instrument
Video Cipher Division's 2100 - 2700
series satellite descrambler/receiver service manuals
-
Qume Technical Reference & Maintenance manuals for video
display terminals (QVT 190 - 323 EV)
- Dr. Dry Bed-Wetting Therapy Computer: physician, parent
& child instruction materials
- others
Noteworthy: Developed proprietary
Information
Refinery software which automated many
technical publishing processes allowing rapid, accurate
information collection and distribution. For example, the 34 chapters of code
reference information in the Windows 3.0 Device Driver Kit was
available for publishing 3 days after code freeze. Techniques
included parsing the assembly code to programmatically diagram static data structures and
their pointers.
Publication Tools Specialist , 1985 – 1986
Hewlett-Packard,
HP Labs, Palo Alto, CA
Developed software and processes that compressed documentation development
cycles, which were consistently critical path in shipment of
complex instrumentation.
Noteworthy: Developed automated SGML-based
STAR/TDP documentation system
used by many divisions to significantly decrease time and
expense of service manuals.
Technical Writer, 1982 – 1985
Hewlett-Packard,
Signal Analysis Division, Santa Rosa, CA
Responsible for creating service documentation for HP 8558
and HP 71000-series Modular Spectrum Analyzers.
Test Technician, 1981 – 1982
Hewlett-Packard,
Signal Analysis Division, Santa Rosa, CA
Responsible for calibration and troubleshooting of HP 8553 RF
Spectrum Analyzer.
Noteworthy: Shut down decade-old production line in
sixth week of employment by uncovering failure of product to
perform to all published specifications.
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