ORTA Foundations

Fee:

$55.00

Various ORTA

The course is a combination of online at-your-own pace learning, a few scheduled live sessions, and the live capstone experience.

Amanda Horansky-Mckinney

Amanda served as the Head of the Office of Technology Transfer at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) for more than 5 years. In this role, she was responsible for NRL's research-focused collaborations and related partnerships with industry and academia as well as the licensing and management of NRL's intellectual property portfolio of over 1200 active patents. Prior to this role, she served in both senior and junior Partnership Manager roles in Technology Transfer at NRL. She has served as a Member-at-Large on the Federal Lab Consortium (FLC) Executive Board and as the FLC Education and Training Committee Chair, responsible for the national-level training program for technology transfer professionals government-wide. Additionally, she was active in a number of Navy efforts in support of Cooperative Research and Development Agreements (CRADAs), technology transfer training, and Navy-wide technology transfer strategy.
Before joining NRL, Amanda worked in product line development strategy and consulting for Analog Devices, Inc. in Norwood, MA and as a design engineer on Motorola's first 3G cell phone hardware platform team in Chicago. She earned her Bachelors in Electrical Engineering at Purdue University and later received an MBA from Purdue.

Darin Oelkers

Darin is a Certified Licensing Professional (CLP™) with more than 23 total years as a business development professional focused on innovation commercialization. His broad professional background includes diverse experience in Fortune 100, independent business consultancy, and multiple non-profit settings. This is 18th year in technology transfer, encompassing US and UK federal laboratories, an American land grant R1 research university, and a graduate-only research university in Saudi Arabia. His licensing efforts have generated more than $600 million in total economic impact and supported 2,278 job years.
He is an accomplished speaker and presenter. Darin's has served as a panelist for the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and presented at the LES Annual Meeting, the joint LES/AUTM Spring Meeting, the Federal Laboratory Consortium (FLC) National Meeting, and multiple U.S. Department of Defense Technology Transfer Training Workshops. He has also authored more than a dozen successful nominations for FLC and DoD technology transfer national awards.

Weekly Content

Online classes will be released each Monday, for a total of 15 classes over an nine-week period (11 March - 10 May. This allows participants to review course content throughout the week at times that work best for their individual schedule.

In-Person Capstone Event

Join course participants for the ninth and final week in Arlington, Virginia for two days of in-person learning and case study analysis 14-15 May.

Funding for capstone event travel is not included with course enrollment.

For information about refunds, cancellations, minimum enrollments and more, see the Course Administration and Procedures page.