Julie Mason joined the Silicon Valley USPTO in late 2016 as a Regional Outreach Officer with a special focus on outreach to the STEM community.  Previously, she was a Patent and Trademark Resource Center (PTRC) representative at the University of California, Riverside (UCR) where she also served as instruction coordinator and science librarian.  Before her tenure at UCR, Julie was a client service specialist for the Intellectual Property (IP) Division of Dialog Information Services and worked as a chemical information specialist at Monsanto Research Headquarters.