What I do best -- what I love to do -- is mix my understanding of technology and the law with an ability to write.

Education

Boalt Hall School of Law (UC Berkeley)
Class of 2001
Activities:
Berkeley Technology Law Journal Articles Editor, Webmaster for boalt.org, BTLJ, and La Raza Students Association

The University of Texas at Austin
Bachelor of English, fall 1995-May 1998
Minor: Mexican-American Studies
Major GPA: 3.73
Honors: Graduated with Special Honors in English; completed Honors Thesis; recognized for "Exemplary Scholarly Achievement" UT Honors Day spring 1997; recognized for participation in Tejas Magazine at UT Journalism Department Honors Day 1998

The University of Texas at Brownsville Undergraduate work, summer 1993-spring 1995
Major: English
GPA: 3.66
Honors: Dean's List fall 1993; President's List fall 1994, spring 1995

Work Experience

Christensen Miller, Los Angeles, Ca.
Associate/Attorney -- fall 2003 to present
Presently working at Christensen Miller on probate and patent litigation matters. Founding teammember of the IP Litigation Practice Group.

Perkins Coie, San Francisco, Ca.
Associate/Attorney -- fall 2001 to fall 2003
Advised clients on law and technology issues, including litigation, intellectual property, domain name law, privacy issues, telecom law, P3P, and spam. Clients include newspapers, P2P software companies, website operators, email service providers, and telecom industry players.

Wired News, San Francisco, Ca.
Reporter -- summer 1999, fall 2000
Reported on the latest law and technology issues in a fast-paced environment. See my tech coverage links page for a complete list of my Wired News coverage.

The Press-Enterprise, Riverside, Ca.
Police Reporter -- summer 1998
Covered more than 20 law enforcement and emergency services agencies in Riverside and San Bernardino Counties. Produced in-depth stories on technology in education and long distance rates.

TeleNetwork, Inc., Austin, Tx.
ISP Support Technician -- 1996 to 1997
Provided telephone Internet technical support to more than eight different Internet Service Providers, ISPs, helping users of all experience levels get online with fully configured systems and basic orientation. Answered other in-bound calls. Studied the ISP industry internally.

The Daily Texan, Austin, Tx.
General Assignment Reporter -- fall 1995
Reported on issues related to the University of Texas, including minority recruitment, technology, and the environment.

The Brownsville Herald, Brownsville, Tx.
General Assignment Reporter -- 1993 to 1995
Covered the city and education beats. Reported on various aspects of the telecommunications industry, including long-distance carrier scams targeting Hispanics and the linking of 16 public libraries in the Lower Rio Grande Valley through the Internet.

Skills

Law: Admitted to California Bar; proficient legal researcher; experienced in civil litigation

Languages: Fluent in Spanish

Computers:

Web Publishing: Can design and maintain Web pages, including listing them with search engines; able to hand-code P3P
Research: Expert online fact-finder
Software: Microsoft Word, Textpad, Most Internet Browsers, Eudora, Outlook, FTP, ICQ, Telnet, Adobe Photoshop, Dreamweaver
Platforms: Wintel, Palm OS, and Apple

Journalism: Event-based and analytical reporting, specialties in law and technology, Digital Divide and digital music.

Poetry: See my prose and poetry.

Activities

Sigma Tau Delta - English Honor Society, member

Columnist - The Brownsville Herald

Community Journalism - The Brownsville Herald, worked with animal advocate groups and the city of Brownsville to remedy stray animal overpopulation through reporting.

Tejas, in depth feature on computer and Internet literacy in the Lower Rio Grande Valley. See full text.

Guest Lecturer - Informally addressed students at elementary, junior high, and undergrad levels about the importance of an education and the skills needed to obtain one.

Shakespeare at Winedale - Memorized and performed three Shakespeare plays in a nine-week, intensive program situated in a historic Texas German enclave. (summer 1997)

Prometheus Unbound - Appeared in a never-before staged play by Percy Shelley, as part of a UT symposium titled "Romantic Drama in Place: Geography, Scene, Milieu." Challenged the meaning of "performance" by splitting the lead role in a production that included the non-traditional mediums of video, computer animation, live music, and recorded audio.

Multimedia Development - Assisted in the development of ground breaking CD-ROM title in the context of an intensive multimedia course at UT. Was involved in the conceptual creation, interface design, and coding of the project. Produced a working prototype of the CD-ROM. Demonstrated leaderships skills in organizing the class and establishing channels of communication.

Interests and Links

Interests - Law and technology (the law of cyberspace), Web publishing, media conglomeratization, technology, storytelling, writing, dreams.

News sites

Wired News
New York Times Online
C-net's News.com
Ha'aretz
The Online Journalism Review

Sites I like

Technorealism
Zone Zero
Elfwood
The Onion

Search Engines and Directory Services

Google
Dmoz.org
Yahoo
Google Groups
WayBack Machine
Mapquest
Anywho