DOUGLAS P. BURUM, PH.D.
Vern Maine & Associates, Registered Patent Attorneys
547 Amherst Street, 3rd Floor - Nashua, NH 03063-4000
603-886-6100   fax 603-886-4796
Email:  DBurum@VernMaine.com
Website: http://www.VernMaine.com

TECHNOLOGY SPECIALIST AND PATENT AGENT with 25 years prior experience in development, implementation, marketing, and sales of technical products directed toward industrial, governmental, and educational customers across diverse industries in US and international markets.

• Registered before the US Patent and Trademark Office as a patent agent, providing counseling and services relating to invention capture, patent prosecution, and associated business strategies.

• Technical and business skills include medical devices, NMR, MRI, analog and digital electronics, scientific instrumentation and methods, automated sample handling devices, process control, telecommunications, LASER optics, and computer hardware and software. Author of more than 20 scientific publications, co-inventor of two company patents, and various managerial roles.

California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA: PhD, Applied Physics, 1979

California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA: MS, Applied Physics, 1975

Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA Bachelor of Science, Physics, 1974

Vernon C. Maine PLLC, Nashua, NH 2009-Present

• TECHNOLOGY SPECIALIST & PATENT AGENT – Invention capture, drafting and prosecution of patent applications including office action responses, continuations, continuations-in-part, U.S. and foreign applications and broadening re-issue applications.

Russ Weinzimmer & Associates., Milford, MA 2007 – 2009

• SENIOR PATENT SPECIALIST – Wrote, filed, and prosecuted patent applications. Supervised all production aspects of the firm, including preparation of patents by junior associates and outsourcing groups. Prepared and filed PCT applications.

DPB Analytical, Acton, MA and/or direct employee 1998 – 2007

• Provided technical, sales, and marketing support for technology-driven companies, including: Progression Systems, Inc., Haverhill, MA: NMR SPECIALIST, applications of NMR to process control; Universal Medical Systems, Solon, OH: TECHNICAL SALES ASSOCIATE, sales of veterinary MRI systems; Hallmarq Veterinary Imaging, Acton, MA: VP and General Manager, North America, veterinary MRI; MR Resources, Inc. Gardner, MA: VP of Sales and Marketing, re-manufactured NMR and MRI; NMR Communications, Framingham, MA: PRODUCT MANAGER, telecommunication enabling products.

Bruker Instruments, Inc, Billerica, MA 1982 - 1998

• NATIONAL PRODUCT MANAGER – Developed sales strategies and visited customers to close key accounts. Directed a small group of product engineers in modifying and enhancing products based on customer requirements. Coordinated and edited drafts of all patents generated by the group. Co-inventor on two patents. Supervised development of marketing materials. Supervised and directed R&D projects. Developed and maintained quotation-generating software, sales-tracking database software and departmental LAN based on MS Windows NT network and SQL server.

IBM Research, San Jose, CA 1981 - 1982

• POST DOCTORAL RESEARCH ASSISTANT – Assisted in development of novel computer memory technology based on laser optical spectroscopy and optical/NMR double resonance.

ETH (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology), Zurich, Switzerland 1979 - 1980

• POST DOCTORAL RESEARCH ASSISTANT – Assisted Dr. Richard Ernst in development of novel techniques for NMR research. Dr. Ernst was later awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1994).

• Hobbies include restoring antique radios and TV's, acting in community theater, and singing in a barbershop quartet.