Reid has been a registered patent agent for four years, handling patent prosecution in the mechanical and software art areas. Prior to joining Brooks Kushman, Reid was a technical specialist at Ford Motor Co. In that capacity, he was an inventor on over 25 patents in the areas of planetary, layshaft, and hybrid transmission arrangements, actuator mechanisms, and control algorithms. Previously, Reid worked in the Aerospace industry performing conceptual design of launch vehicles and satellites. His formal education includes a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a PhD in Computer Science from Michigan State University. Reid is a King Scholar at Michigan State University College of Law and a member of the law review. He represented MSU in the Giles Sutherland Rich moot court competition. Publications Author, “Managing Engineering Data for Complex Products,” Research in Engineering Design, 1995. Author, “A Formal Approach to Managing Design Processes,” IEEE Computer, February 1995. Author, “Design Methodology Management Using Graph Grammars,” Design Automation Conference, 1994. Author, “A VHDL Synthesis Framework,” VHDL International Users Forum, 1994. Author, “A Cache Coherence Scheme Suitable for Massively Parallel Processors,” Supercomputing, 1993. Speaking Engagements Adjunct Faculty, Baker College of Owosso