As Google Patent Counsel, Sylvia works with firms and vendors worldwide to improve Google's patent portfolio. Prior to joining Google in 2014, Sylvia was a patent attorney at Motorola and championed the creation of Motorola's offshore patent support team near Delhi, India.

Before going in-house, Sylvia worked as an associate attorney at Fulbright & Jaworski LLP (now Norton Rose Fulbright) in Washington DC. She inadvertently entered the intellectual property field after graduating from the University of Illinois at Urbana with a B.S. degree in electrical engineering and accepting a job at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

Sylvia is interested in leadership issues in the law profession, particularly related to minority and gender factors, and is functionally illiterate in Mandarin Chinese. She is married with three children and her biblical hero is Daniel, though sometimes she feels more like a young Gideon.

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