Michael Gilleland

Current

• Paralegal at Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company

Past

• Software Engineer at Nortel
• Software Engineer at Bell Northern Research
• Software Engineer at Paradyne Corporation

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Education

• Inver Hills Community College
• Central Michigan University
• University of Virginia

• University of Virginia
• University of Maine

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Connections

7 connections

Industry

Law Practice

Websites

• My Website
• My Blog

Michael Gilleland’s Experience

• Paralegal

  Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company

  (Law Practice industry)

  2005 — Present (4 years )

  Work includes research and writing (arbitration statements, summary judgment motions, appellate briefs) under attorney supervision.
  
  Continuing legal education courses:
  
  Four Steps to Standout Legal Writing (November 21, 2008, Minnesota Bar Association CLE)
  Advanced Writing for Lawyers with Gary Kinder (July 25, 2007, online American Bar Association CLE)
  Appellate Practice Institute (January 26, 2007, Minnesota Bar Association CLE)
  Asbestos Medicine Seminar (October 26-27, 2006, Defense Research Institute)
  Advanced WestLaw (April 15, 2005)
  Legal Writing for Paralegals (March 30, 2005)

• Software Engineer

  Nortel

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; NT; Telecommunications industry)

  1993 — 2004 (11 years )

  • Submitted company-sponsored applications to U.S. Patent Office for inventions related to Internet telephony. One application is still pending, and two were accepted — U.S. Patents 7,277,533 (Providing Calling Party Information in a Request to Establish a Call Session) and 7,463,619 (Launching a Web Browser in Response to a Message Relating to Communication Sessions).
  • Wrote automatic software update for Internet telephony soft phone, by implementing a subset of Java Network Launch Protocol (JNLP).
  • Designed Java plug-in collaboration framework for Internet telephony soft phone, which allowed users to run shared applications (file exchange, whiteboard, clipboard, games, screen share, etc.) while talking on the phone.
  • Developed Visual Basic software for call center Symposium Agent application.
  • Wrote C++ telephony driver software allowing a variety of Nortel switching platforms and telephones to support Microsoft's Telephony Application Programming Interface (TAPI).

• Software Engineer

  Bell Northern Research

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; NT; Telecommunications industry)

  1985 — 1993 (8 years )

  • Designed software to integrate Nortel's DMS-1 Urban digital loop carrier with its DMS-100 telephone switch.
  • Developed software allowing screens for telephone operators to appear in different languages, such as French and Spanish.
  • Designed line and loop testing software for Nortel's AccessNode fiber-optic loop carrier.

• Software Engineer

  Paradyne Corporation

  (Telecommunications industry)

  1983 — 1985 (2 years )

  Developed C software (debugger, configuration manager) for the PIXNET-XL product, which extended the I/O channel of IBM mainframes to remote locations for printing, check processing, tape operations, etc. Without PIXNET-XL, high-speed printers and other peripheral devices had to be located nearby the mainframe computer which controlled them.

Michael Gilleland’s Education

• Inver Hills Community College

  Certificate , Paralegal , 2004 — 2005

  • Most Outstanding First Year Paralegal Student award, 2004-2005
  • Internship at Minnesota Court of Appeals
  • A’s in all courses: Introduction to the Law and Contracts, Criminal Justice System, Legal Research, Interviewing and Investigating Techniques for the Paralegal, UCC and Business Organizations, Legal Writing, Domestic Relations, Probate Law, Litigation and Trial Practice, Real Estate Law

• Central Michigan University

  B.S. , Computer Science , 1981 — 1983

  G.P.A. 4/0/4.0

• University of Virginia

  Ph.D. , Classics , 1974 — 1979

  Linguistic Differentiation of Character Type and Sex in the Comedies of Plautus and Terence (Ph.D. Dissertation)

• University of Virginia

  M.A. , Latin , 1972 — 1974

• University of Maine

  B.A. , Latin , 1969 — 1972

  Elected to Phi Beta Kappa honor society.

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