William C. Devine, II

10415 Midseason Mist Street / Las Vegas, NV 89183

(702) 238-4650 / william@devine.net

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EDUCATION

William S. Boyd School of Law - University of Nevada Las Vegas        J.D./M.B.A. Fall 2007

• Graduation Scholarly paper: “Building Casinos Off the Reservation: How the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act §20 Affects Off-Reservation Gaming”
• Dean’s List - Spring 2007; President – Gaming Law Association – 2005 & 2006; Clark County Pro Bono Project – Bankruptcy & Collections; Clark County Legal Services – Outstanding Bankruptcy Student Award; Student Member – American Bankruptcy Institute, American Bar Association, and UNLV MBA Association.

• Tribal Member Scholarship Recipient - Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma – 2004 to 2007

Prairie View A&M University - Prairie View, TX

B.S. Electrical Engineering, received Dec. 1995 – Cumulative GPA 3.13/4.00, EE Major GPA 3.92/4.00      

EXPERIENCE

Rainey Legal Group – Henderson, NV

Partner – October 2009 to Present

• Overseeing the creation and expansion of a bankruptcy and debtor’s rights practice.
• Assisting in the expansion the firm’s existing intellectual property practice.

Armstrong Teasdale – Las Vegas, NV branch office (main office – St. Louis, MO)

Associate, Intellectual Property Practice Group – April 2008 to October 2009

· Practiced exclusively in the area of patent prosecution in the electrical, computer science, and electro-mechanical technology arts.

· Drafted numerous patent applications, amendments, and response to Office Actions to the United States Patent & Trademark Office.

· Successfully prosecuted multiple patents for multinational corporate clients of the firm.

Kurth Law Office – Las Vegas, NV

Law Clerk – October 2005 to April 2008

• Gained experience in a vast array of practice areas, including commercial litigation, family law, personal injury, creditor collections/judgment enforcement, bankruptcy, and landlord/tenant.
• Prepared legal pleadings including: complaints; bankruptcy adversary complaints; discovery requests, responses, and motions; temporary restraining orders; and preliminary injunctions.
• Managed day-to-day operations of the firm’s IRS tax audit defense cases for tax preparer clients.

Law Office of Grenville Pridham – Las Vegas, NV

Temporary Law Clerk – August 2005 to October 2005

• Drafted litigation and discovery related legal documents for Attorney specializing in consumer fraud, collections, lemon law, and debtor’s cases.

U.S. Bankruptcy Court – Las Vegas, NV

2005 Summer Judicial Externship – June 2005 to August 2005

• Researched bankruptcy law, debtor and creditor related law, and wrote bench memos about default judgments, judgment renewals, fraudulent conveyances, and procedural summary judgments for The Honorable Judge Linda B. Riegle, Southern District of Nevada.

PG Technology, Inc. – League City, TX

Senior Consultant – January 2002 to August 2004

• Delivered onsite consulting services to previous Smart Guys’ clients and PG Technology’s clients. 
• Designed, deployed, and maintained PG Technology’s DSL Internet access network, web & email servers, business clients’ networks and network security.
• Responsible for design and implementation of projects nearly tripling the company’s annual revenues during the first eighteen months.

Provis Broadband – Houston, TX

Director of Engineering – July 2001 to October 2001

• Director of Engineering for start-up Competitive Local Exchange Carrier providing integrated data, voice & Internet services to small and medium sized businesses over private DSL circuits. 
• Developed proof of concept network for first round of VC fund raising.  Provis shutdown after loss of funding after 9/11/2001 and was subsequently sold to PG Technology in January 2002.

nXp Technologies – Houston, TX

Vice President of Engineering – October 2000 to January 2002

• Vice President of Engineering for start-up Internet Access Content Management software company.
• Managed three full-time and part-time programmers developing the next version of our software. 
• Shared overlapping contract management duties between iExalt.Net, nXp Technologies, and Provis Broadband, and continued support services until January 2002.

iExalt.Net – Houston, TX

Senior Network Consultant – Aug 2000 to Jan 2001

• Senior network consultant to national dial-up Christian filtered Internet Service Provider using nXp Technology’s web filtering solution on a custom designed load balancing Linux based proxy server array I created specifically for iExalt.

Transwestern Properties Company – Houston, TX

Network Consultant – May 1999 to July 1999

• Created network management system for IT staff to monitor and manage their 19 site network which I had designed and oversaw deployment of while at my previous position with BlueGate Systems.

Smart Guys – Houston, TX

Owner/Independent Consultant – May 1999 to January 2002

• Created a customer base of business consulting clients to which I provided computer and network consulting services while successfully retaining the majority of clients for many years.

BlueGate Systems Corp – Houston, TX

Senior Systems Engineer – January 1996 to April 1999

• Ground floor opportunity at systems integration firm. 
• Tasked with directing the technical operations of a start-up business-class Internet Service Provider to provide Internet solutions and other network consulting services to professional organizations and firms. 
• BlueGate now concentrates on deployment of HIPAA compliant secure encrypted data connections between medical practitioners and hospital organizations in and around Texas.

ACHIEVEMENTS AND MEMBERSHIPS

SunPANTHER Solar Powered Race Car

Team Leader for Wiring & Electronic Controls Team Spring 1994 to Summer 1995.  

• Multi-disciplinary Engineering Senior Project for General Motors SunRayce 1995.

• Charged with designing, installing & maintaining electrical and computer control system on solar charged electric car for a 1,500 mile, nine day race from Indianapolis, IN to Golden, CO. 
• Our team’s car placed 36th out of 60 total entries among other U.S. and Canadian universities.

Boy Scouts of America – Eagle Scout Award Recipient – Class of 1990

• Earned the highest award given by the BSA to boys in Scouts. 
• After achieving my Eagle badge, I remained active as an Assistant Scoutmaster for 4 1/2 more years assisting younger boys with the completion of their Eagle Scout badge requirements.

Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma – Native American – Tribal Roll Member #301

Eta Kappa Nu – Honors Member - National Electrical Engineering Honor Society