Branislav Kuvac
Business Management Strategist
- Role
- Business Program Manager at Microsoft
- Location
- Bellevue, WA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Branislav Kuvac
Business Management Strategist with 10+ years’ guiding business strategy, projects and…
Experience
Business Program Manager
Nov 2016 — Present
Create and lead implementation of worldwide patent filing strategy project, from ideation to execution, coordinating with 27+ attorneys, internal management, leadership team and external partners firms• Collaborate with engineers within Mixed Reality, Security and Identity, and Data teams, to harvest patent ideas, develop patent applications and review with outside global counsel and virtual teams to protect company interests and comply with intellectual property laws• Coordinate with internal and external global partners, building relationships, negotiating strategy and establishing and improving workflows of multiple projects with legal and engineering teams• Research, develop, and improve global guidelines and procedures for patent prosecution, proposing and establishing global patent prosecution process improvements to save $5-7M • Conduct training for US legal team consisting of 50+ internal team members and outside attorneys, business clients, paralegals and business partners, providing training and mentorship • Led quality improvement of global international patent applications, establishing inventorship foreign filing license guidelines for 42 countries • Led Diversity & Inclusion employee network group of 450 employees, managing events, collaborating with President and Senior Leadership to improve diversity and inclusion policies• Managed quality improvement initiatives with European law firms to improve quality of service and relationship, leading monthly meetings and calls, and guiding success, to re-establish partnership• Selected among small, hand-picked group to be alpha and beta tester of standard business conduct (SBC) program rolled out to 180K employees, reviewing program and providing quality improvements • Contribute to 8 member poll committee impacting the culture, strategy improvement, relationship building, and career development for intellectual property team
Education
University of Novi Sad
Bachelor of Science (B.S.)
International Air Academy
Diploma
City University of Seattle
Masters of Business Administration
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