Owning Innovation: Why Intellectual Property Can Be Your New Economic Engine

Across my career, from MCI WorldCom to National Communications System (NCS) to helping shape national cybersecurity standards, I’ve learned one lesson that applies equally to governments and markets:

Innovation without ownership creates value for others. Innovation with ownership creates value for you.

That philosophy is at the heart of the patent family I’ve built over the years. What began as a breakthrough in automated multivariate testing has evolved into a broader, AI-aligned portfolio covering decision optimization, segmentation, and intelligent interaction governance. Each continuation and enhancement was designed with intention: protect the future, not just the present.

In today’s environment where AI personalizes experiences, platforms optimize in milliseconds, and customer journeys are algorithm-driven “intellectual property” (IP) has become the new infrastructure. Patents are no longer just legal tools; they’re market tools that shape partnerships, valuations, competitive advantage, and economic mobility.

My work in national security taught me how “architectures”, standards, and governance frameworks influence entire ecosystems. That same clarity now informs how I build and protect innovation. The mission is twofold:

• Create defensible value for companies operating in AI-driven markets, and
• Demonstrate how IP ownership can reshape the wealth structure in this nation, especially for those historically excluded from the “innovation” economy.

So, if you’re researching my background or evaluating my portfolio, understand this: My patent family wasn’t built by accident. It was built by design and is rooted in national experience, aligned to emerging AI markets, and structured to create opportunity for both licensees and future innovators.

A Message to Displaced Federal Employees

With recent federal downsizing and reorganizations, many talented people are being pushed back into the private sector. My message is simple:

Don’t underestimate the value of what’s already in your mind. You don’t leave government empty-handed. Rather, you leave with world-class expertise.

That experience, your insights, your understanding of systems, your problem-solving frameworks is intellectual capital. And intellectual capital becomes intellectual property when you choose to formalize it.

You can:

• Build patents
• Start companies
• Create frameworks
• Develop methodologies
• License your knowledge
• Own the very innovations your career helped shape

There has never been a better moment for federal professionals to bet on themselves, turn their expertise into protected innovation, and enter the innovative economy as owners and not just contributors.There has never been a better moment for federal professionals to bet on themselves, turn their expertise into protected innovation, and enter the innovative economy as owners and not just contributors.