| Experience | Years |
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| Partner, Rainey Legal Group, PLLC | 2009-Current |
| Partner at Rainey Legal Group in Henderson, Nevada. I am growing a bankruptcy and debtor's rights practice from scratch, as well as working to expand the intellectual property practice of the firm. |
| Patent Associate, Armstrong Teasdale, LLP | 2008-2009 |
| Previously William was an associate with Armstrong Teasdale, a nearly 300 attorney regional firm, in the Intellectual Property practice group and was based out of the firm’s Las Vegas office. During that time, he practiced exclusively in the area of patent prosecution in the electrical, computer science, and electro-mechanical technology arts. William has drafted numerous patent applications and has successfully prosecuted multiple patents for General Electric, Washington University, BHA Group, and other firm clients that have included inventors from India, China, Scotland, England, and of course the United States. |
| Law Clerk, Kurth Law Office | 2005-2008 |
| While in law school, William worked for two years as a law clerk for a Las Vegas general practice attorney and gained experience in civil litigation in the areas of family law, real estate, and self-insurance for worker’s compensation matters. William also gained experience in bankruptcy practice including adversary proceedings, and managed the day-to-day operations of the attorney’s tax audit defense practice. |
| Temporary Law Clerk, Law Office of Grenville Pridham | 2005-2005 |
| Drafted litigation and discovery related legal documents for Attorney specializing in consumer fraud, collections, lemon law, and debtor’s rights cases. |
| Summer Judicial Extern, United States Bankruptcy Court - District of Nevada | 2005-2005 |
| Researched bankruptcy law, debtor and creditor related law, and wrote bench memos about default judgments, judgment renewals, fraudulent conveyances, and procedural summary judgments for The Honorable Judge Linda B. Riegle, Southern District of Nevada. |
| Senior Consultant, P.G. Technology, Inc. | 2002-2004 |
| * Delivered onsite consulting services to previous Smart Guys’ clients and PG Technology’s clients.
* Designed, deployed, and maintained PG Technology’s DSL Internet access network, web & email servers, business clients’ networks and network security.
* Responsible for design and implementation of projects nearly tripling the company’s annual revenues during the first eighteen months.
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| Vice President of Engineering, nXp Technologies, Inc. | 2000-2002 |
| * Vice President of Engineering for start-up Internet Access Content Management software company.
* Managed three full-time and part-time programmers developing the next version of our software.
* Shared overlapping contract management duties between iExalt.Net, nXp Technologies, and Provis Broadband, and continued support services until January 2002.
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| Owner/Independent Consultant, Smart Guys | 1999-2002 |
| Created a customer base of business consulting clients to which I provided computer and network consulting services while successfully retaining the majority of clients for many years. |
| Director of Engineering, Provis Broadband | 2001-2001 |
| * Director of Engineering for start-up Competitive Local Exchange Carrier providing integrated data, voice & Internet services to small and medium sized businesses over private DSL circuits.
* Developed proof of concept network for first round of VC fund raising. Provis shutdown after loss of funding after 9/11/2001 and was subsequently sold to PG Technology in January 2002.
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| Senior Network Consultant, iExalt.Net | 2000-2001 |
| Senior network consultant to national dial-up Christian filtered Internet Service Provider using nXp Technology’s web filtering solution on a custom designed load balancing Linux based proxy server array I created specifically for iExalt. |
| Senior Systems Engineer, BlueGate Systems | 1996-1999 |
| * Ground floor opportunity at systems integration firm.
* Tasked with directing the technical operations of a start-up business-class Internet Service Provider to provide Internet solutions and other network consulting services to professional organizations and firms.
* BlueGate now concentrates on deployment of HIPAA compliant secure encrypted data connections between medical practitioners and hospital organizations in and around Texas.
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