Harold J. Chow

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Contact information available at www.haroldchow.com/resume/

Education:

Juris Doctor, Santa Clara University

Graduating Class Rank: Top 17%

High Tech Law Certificate

Honors Moot Court competitor, Spring 2001

CALI Excellence for the Future Award: Digital Property, Spring 2001

Master of Business Administration, Santa Clara University

Marketing Management concentration

Bachelor of Arts, Computer Science, The University of California at Berkeley

Bar Admissions:

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

State Bar of California

Other Professional Affiliations:

American Bar Association

Work Experience:

Attorney

The Law Office of Harold J. Chow, Los Altos, CA	July 2003 to Present
Engaging in estate planning, business formation, tax preparation, and miscellaneous legal matters.

Freelance Writer

(Freelance)	April 2006 to Present
Writing articles on competitive play for www.guildwars.com to promote ArenaNet’s Guild Wars PC game.

Business Analysis Intern

Rarefire Technologies, Cupertino, CA	May 2000 to August 2000
Researched third-pary vendors and potential competitors to facilitate the creation of a business plan.

Web Consultant

E*TRADE Group, Inc., Palo Alto, CA	April 1998 to September 1998
Provided HTML, CGI, Perl, JavaScript, and graphic support and services to E*TRADE’s web design group during implementation of E*TRADE’s new site design. Advised and assisted in design, setup, and implementation of E*TRADE Community Discussion Groups. Presented RealNetworks-G2-based demonstration of SMIL.

Webmaster

Integrated Systems, Inc. (later acquired by Wind River Systems), Sunnyvale, CA

August 1996 to April 1998

Handled all aspects of day-to-day maintenance of external, intranet, and extranet web sites. Skills involved include programming in HTML, CGI, Perl, and JavaScript, producing web graphics, and Apache, NCSA, and Netscape Enterprise server administration on Sun and IRIX (SGI) platforms. Edited content from content providers and suggested improvements for increasing web effectiveness. Also, made policies and decisions regarding web-related issues. Implemented, oversaw, and/or provided analysis for the company’s web-related projects. Project: External Web Site Renovation Designed and implemented new look and user interface for the corporate web site, http://www.isi.com/. Handled HTML, CGI/Perl, and JavaScript programming, as well as graphics for the site. Negotiated for content from the marketing department. Edited content for accuracy and higher marketing effectiveness before adding to site. Site designed to use server-parsed HTML to allow easier updating without the budget for a database-driven site, as well as to provide dynamic updates of information. Fill-out forms allow users to save registration information to a cookie file to encourage subsequent visits/feedback. Project: Webinar Designed and implemented an online seminar for the Company’s MATRIXX product under an aggressive deadline. Provided graphical work, as well as HTML, JavaScript, and CGI/Perl. After 9 months, this “webinar” continued to generate sales leads. Project: Customer Support Site Designed an extranet site for allowing customers to access patches, release notes, and other semi-sensitive information. Customers would access this secured portion of our web server with a login and password. Also assisted in setting up proxy host for securing look-ups to call request database, which would eventually be partially accessible to customers to look up the progress of their requests. Project: Internal Sales and Marketing Web Site Renovation Designed and implemented new look and user interface for the internal web site for the Sales and Marketing departments. New features included searchable employee phone list, push channels, and file upload area. Project: Web Server Migration Worked with IS department to transfer the company’s main web services to a new, faster machine. Assisted in selection of new server hardware/software, handled initial configuration of new server as well as transferring of files and web services. Upgraded pre-bundled Netscape 1.1 server to Netscape Enterprise 2.0. Performed benchmark testing to compare performance of new server to old. Project: Internal Web Site Redesign Revised user interface and site look for the main corporate intranet web site. Implemented on-line headquarters-wide anonymous suggestion box.

Consultant

HJC Consulting (self-employed), Los Altos, CA	December 1995 to August 1996
Provided technical consulting services: researched prior art for a patent, redesigned and enhanced World Wide Web sites to improve the look and presentation, installed LANs for small offices, and performed competitive analysis.

Quality Assurance

Digital Pictures, San Mateo, CA	July 1995 to August 1995
Performed high-level testing of software titles on MS-DOS and Windows 95 platforms; interacted with programmers to speed up the debugging process and to provide feedback on design.

Product Quality Assurance

The 3DO Company, Redwood City, CA	June 1993 to August 1993, May 1994 to August 1994
Performed compatibility testing of existing software on new 3DO hardware platforms; performed high-level testing of ROM-based applications for the Panasonic FZ-1 3DO player.

Product Quality Assurance

TecMagik, Redwood City, CA	November 1993 to January 1994
Performed high-level testing of software titles on the Sega Genesis and Nintendo SNES platforms.

Programmer’s Assistant

TecMagik, Redwood City, CA	December 1992 to January 1993
Assisted the head programmer with tasks such as upgrading PC hardware, installing software, and migrating artists (through training and technical support) to new paint programs; performed high-level testing of software titles on the Sega Genesis platform; provided game counseling for customers.

Technical Skills:

HTML, SHTML, CSS, CGI/Perl, JavaScript, ASP, PHP, MySQL, AJAX, and SMIL programming experience.

Administration experience with Apache, NCSA, and Netscape web servers on SunOS, IRIX, Linux, and NT.

Software experience includes MS Office, Sony Vegas Movie Studio+DVD, Adobe Photoshop, Macromedia Flash, FreeHand, and HomeSite.

Familiar with XML, LISP/Scheme, C/C++, Java, SQL, and Assembly.

Familiar with VHDL and logic design, working with programmable gate arrays.

Experience as an administrator for an online multi-user game and as founder and leader of a 50+-member MMORPG guild.

Legal Writing Samples Available online at http://www.haroldchow.com/resume/:

 

Legal Memo (12 pages, first year)

Brief (36-page joint work, first year)

Brief excerpt (10-page argument excerpt from above brief)

Will (6-page drafting assignment, second year)

Paper on Online File Distribution (20 pages, third year)

 

Last updated: July 30, 2007

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