Law Office of Robert Vernon Phillips, Serving Florida. Phone 813.389.4100

U.S. Mail Address: 8828 Cypress Hammock Drive, Tampa, FL 33614

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Robert Vernon Phillips
8828 Cypress Hammock Dr, Tampa, FL
Phone: 813-389-4100; email: robertvphillips@gmail.com

LICENSE:

Florida Bar License #77029

Admitted April 2010

EDUCATION:

	UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA LEVIN COLLEGE OF LAW
	Juris Doctor, May 2009		Gainesville, FL
	UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND
	Ph. D. Cognitive Psychology		College Park, MD
	NEW COLLEGE OF FLORIDA
	B. A. Experimental Psychology, 1975		Sarasota, FL

EXPERIENCE:

Bay Area Legal Services and Hillsborough County Family Justice Center	Tampa, FL
Part-time Volunteer Attorney	March 2010 - Ongoing

Completed 20 hours of formal training. Assist guests who report domestic violence in filling out and filing Injunctions for Protection. Provide legal research and counsel as needed.

Moffitt Cancer Center Office of Technology and Commercialization	Tampa, FL
UF Law Postgraduate Public Interest Fellow (Gainesville, FL), serving at Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, Fl	January 2010 - June 2010

Interviewed Moffitt inventor and surgeon about his medical device invention and drafted a U.S. patent application for final editing and filing by outside counsel. Researched the compatibility and legal impact of multiple software licenses coexisting in a Moffitt software product. Advised Moffitt counsel and software management on the restrictions of these licenses and preferred software commercialization process for a complex cloud server and database system. Researched alternate business organization options for the National Functional Genomics Center and recommended the optimal choice which recommendation was accepted by Senior Management. Authored Technical Offering Memoranda (TOMs) describing Moffitt Patents and Intellectual Property that Moffitt offered to external parties for licensing. Researched and implemented a marketing campaign to medical device manufacturers.

State Attorney's Office	Tampa, FL
Part time Volunteer Law Clerk	January - April 2010

Researched legal issues pertaining to Driving Under the Influence (DUI), search and seizure, probable cause, reasonable suspicion, misdemeanors. Provided attorney support.

Hillsborough County Family Forms Clinic	Tampa, FL
Law Graduate Volunteer	Nov. - Dec. 2009

Assisted Pro Se litigants in completing and filing legal forms.

Gator TeamChild Juvenile Law Clinic	Gainesville, FL
Legal Intern	Fall 2008, Spring 2009

Interviewed clients, prepared clients for court by researching their legal issues. Drafted legal motions. Prepared for court hearings. Attended and led team organizational and strategy meetings.

Information Technology Product Development	Gainesville, FL
Entrepreneurial Research	1+ Years

Created a cloud based website server for law practice information management. Developed, installed, and hosted Apache2 with Ruby-on-Rails andPython/Django websites, using HTML, CSS, AJAX, JQuery, databases, andapplications on host Linux systems. Installed and administered from the ground up, including analysis, selection, installation, configuration of networkarchitecture, hardware configuration, Linux Operating System, Apache 2 webserver, Phusion Passenger, mod_wsgi, Drupal/PHP webserver, relational databases including MYSQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, applications, languages Ruby, Python, web frameworks Ruby on Rails, Django 1.1, development of application code,automated backups, login administration. Developed applications based on interactions with colleagues in a law firm environment to enter and track billable hours by multiple law firm attorneys and associates and to manage legal tasks. Employed Linux SSH-based backups to a Linode backup server. Developed Django templates driven by back end relational databases and SQL queries. Managed legal information via HTML and XML processing and hosted it on web sites.

Software Engineer, Lead Developer: Engineered and built an internal company Drupal/PHP web site to coordinate project schedules, to provide forums of communications, and to collect employee progress reports. Developed Python web applications to integrate with and improve on Perl website code. Did scheduling management and lead software development (UNIX, C, C++, source code control) for internet phone dialing features. Scheduled project goals and coordinated simultaneous workflows in the context of formal (ISO 9001) quality management policies. Two-time recipient of the Avaya Labs Cup Award, bestowed upon the software development team voted to have contributed most to Avaya's success in the fiscal quarter.U.S. Patent 4,512,612 Video Exercise Bicycle; U.S. Patent 7,564,793 In-band Call Signaling; App. No. 11/403,529, Patent Allowed 5/7/2010 Short-cut Dialing Method.

Software Engineer, Consultant: Installed and hosted Apache Website using Tcl/Velocigen platform. Engineered and developed (INFORMIX SQL, 4GL, ESQL, ACE, UNIX shell, C, C++, INFORMIX-TCL, Windows, Visual C++, Visual Basic) major components of a software package distributed to several communications companies nationwide. Contractor.

Software Engineer. Consultant: Lead developer of AT&T Credit and Collections Systems, and sole developer of three key software processes in the system. Heavy use of INFORMIX 4GL, ESQL, ACE, Windows, Unix,C, C++ Development
Architected, designed and developed proprietary state of the art database validation system. Designed and developed a sophisticated error-tolerant fuzzy logic customer address search and matching system used by AT&T Billing and Collections.

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