LEN SCHAIER 53 Birch Street, Port Washington, NY Phone 516 944 3570 lschaier@avotec.com PROFESSIONAL PROFILE Provides patent prosecution, litigation, and infringement/validity investigation support and electronic design and development engineering services to companies focused on protecting, defending and improving their intellectual property portfolio and to law firms interested in doing the same for their clients CAREER PROFILE Avotec Systems Corp. Port Washington, NY 5/97-Present President     Provide technical support to tristate area law firms and Fortune 500 companies, including Carmody & Torrance (CT), Abelman, Frayne & Schwab (NYC), Stein & Associates (NYC), Stroock & Stroock & Lavan (NYC) and Philips Electronics North America Corp. (Tarrytown, NY) in the areas of: Patent specification and claim drafting Doctrine of Equivalents analysis Prior art research Opinion preparation Means-plus-function analysis Invention improvements Infringement analyses     System Technologies Corp. Port Washington, NY 4/91-5/97 President     Performed design and design review engineering for the transportation group of EDO Corp. including:   Designing and evaluating hardware and software improvements for a microwave doppler speedometer used in the NY City Subways   Designing a solid state switch for switching inductive loads in a speed control system   Designing optical sensing systems for berthing New York City Subway System trains   Designing a Frequency Modulated Continuous Wave (FMCW) radar system for an airport people mover position sensing system Provided interactive and electronic system design support to the engineering and marketing groups within NYNEX Video Services including:   Conducting a performance analysis of a digital wireless set top converter   Devising ways to provide interactive services using the limited bandwidth of wireless cable and telephone return path data channels Provided technical support to Preferred Entertainment Corp. prior to their wireless cable system launch including:   Conducting a design review of candidate set top converters   Designing transmitter monitoring systems   Improving Pay-Per-View software ACTV Inc. New York City, NY 7/83-4/91 President of ACTV Domestic Corp./Executive Vice President of ACTV Inc. Designed and developed all ACTV technologies for the cable television and education/training markets including:   System and circuit level R.F., analog and digital design   Encoding and decoding hardware and software   Set top converters with descrambling and Infra-Red remote controls   Education and training systems   Authoring environments   Video and audio production studios and systems Invented a number of multi-channel interactive technologies and drafted their respective patent specifications in the areas of interactive television programming, demographically targeted advertisements and circuits and systems associated with the production and delivery of interactive television programming Coordinated and supervised all manufacturing efforts relating to cable television and education/training markets System Technologies Corp. Port Washington, NY 7/78-7/83 President Provided design review services to the United States Navy related to:   Helicopter Towed Minesweeping systems   High power inverter power supplies for sonar systems   Gas turbine engine power supplies Designed a machinery health monitoring system utilizing enhanced spectrum analysis techniques EDO Corporation College Point, NY 9/64-7/78 Program Manager, Project Engineer and Design Engineer Designed and developed:   Test equipment for the Apollo 11 Program and the Lunar Excursion Module (LEM)   Gas turbine engine, hydraulic and fuel control systems   Communication and signal processing circuits and systems Education     B.S.E.E., Michigan Technological University, 1962

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