+ Vendor Management: Established and managed vendor relationships, leading to the creation of a new Vendor Management division. Negotiated IT contracts and conducted quarterly reviews, enhancing vendor performance and compliance.+ Financial Oversight: Administered Technology department's budget, including approving invoices and planning fiscal allocations. Implemented cost-saving strategies by auditing software and service usage, resulting in significant budget optimization.+ Strategic Planning: Coordinated with Product Owners in monthly meetings to align software and service usage with PBSd's broader IT strategy. Enhanced operational efficiency and software utilization across departments.+ Change Management: Spearheaded the integration of Customer Care processes within the Technology team, ensuring a responsive and efficient IT service framework for PBSd employees.+ Collaboration: Developed strong relationships with department heads and Product Owners, working collaboratively to refine and optimize PBSD's IT strategy and vendor engagements.

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Revenue Generation: + Brought in more than $343M in revenue in first 3 years as Proposal Manager by working with various stakeholders to submit winning proposals to Federal Government solicitations. Managed a team culture with an awareness of proposal deliverables, timelines, and expectations to meet internal and external deadlines.Process Improvement: + Facilitated 3-day Summit with over 15 stakeholders including Engineering, Legal, Compliance, and Security to review end-to-end roles and responsibilities for participation and compliance in a new Federal program with a high-volume proposal submission expectation. Established a vision for stakeholders to understand the intention of the Summit and overall program. Developed change management and adoption processes to facilitate internal stakeholder awareness and understanding to support program’s objectives. Collaborated with Sales Operations to create job aide documentation for stakeholders training and reference on the end-to-end process for the new Federal program.Proposal Planning & Project Management: + Developed 5 detailed proposal plans with 4 months of preparation time inclusive of solicitation summaries, competitive analysis, intended win themes, resource requirements, proposal development timelines, writing, and risk analysis. Analyze status of proposal development to ensure progress toward defined schedule. Training: + Delivered multiple monthly training sessions to different stakeholder teams at Comcast to ensure understanding of requirements and needs of governmental areas. Training was customized to the targeted needs of each audience to facilitate comprehension of requirements. + Facilitated training for Sales and Sales Support teams to educate and level set the importance of process adoption for risk mitigation and compliance while submitting a high-volume of contracts

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Contract Management: + Reviewed, drafted, and negotiated variety of complex commercial contracts including, but not limited to Consulting Services Agreements, Software License Agreements, SaaS Agreements, Non-Disclosure Agreements, and more.Compliance and Risk Management: + Ensured submissions to legal department adhered to applicable corporate and regulatory standards, were internally consistent, and appropriately addressed legal and risk considerations. Negotiations: + Supported sourcing associates with supplier negotiations.Communication and Training: + Utilized legal and contracts knowledge to translate and interpret terms/conditions to less technical teammates, leading to development of a new training curriculum.

Contract Negotiations: + Review, negotiate, and prepare over hundreds of contracts a year with Fortune 500 companies as well as schools and libraries. Work with Legal, Compliance, and downstream stakeholders to ensure that negotiated contracts can be supported. + Coordinated the development of a Legal and Compliance approved Contract playbook to be used by all contract managers across Comcast Business to improve the efficiency of reviewing contracts. + Collaborated with Sales Operations to create Legal and Compliance approved job documentation on various contract-related topics for Sales reference.Compliance & Risk Management: + Manage large number of requests from Sales that fall under FCC E-Rate program. Involves understanding myriad of rules and regulations imposed by government that must be followed to ensure compliance. Process Improvement: + Improved efficiency and management of internal business process for stakeholders to respond to Federal Government E-rate program. Reviewed existing process and collaborated with stakeholders to close gaps and minimize duplication of efforts. Worked in close coordination with Legal and Compliance to ensure that from end-to-end the program met Compliance requirements. Training: + Delivered multiple monthly training sessions to different stakeholder teams at Comcast to ensure understanding of requirements and needs of governmental areas. Training was customized to the targeted needs of each audience to facilitate comprehension of requirements. + Facilitated training for Sales and Sales Support teams to educate and level set the importance of process adoption for risk mitigation and compliance while submitting a high-volume of contracts. + Mentored and trained incoming contract managers

Patent Prosecution: + Drafted memos and filings, reviewed and interpreted research, filed trademark and copyright applications, prepared patent applications solely for inventors, and assisted in others. Consulting: + Listened to inventors and translated inventions and ideas into application prepared for submission to patent office to secure protection for intellectual property/invention.Technology Expertise: + Utilized computer science background to provide recommendations for office technology. Demonstrated initiative and created manuals both digitally and physically for reference in future. Included use of technology, policies for document retention, email and network security, and processing of paperwork.Continuous Improvement: + Launched audit of systems to assist in upcoming office relocation. Devised transition plan to minimize potential downtime and allow firm to resume normal operations as quickly as possible.

Patents: + Learned government side of prosecuting patents and prosecuted over 25 patent applications in 8 months. Reviewed, analyzed, and provided feedback to attorneys about applications.Project Management: + Collaborated with cohort of 15 classmates and completed numerous training sessions and group projects. Initiated group emails with daily summaries of tasks to complete since cohort worked across numerous physical offices.

Patent Prosecution: + Reviewed/interpreted research and drafted memos and filings for patent prosecution, trademark, and copyright cases. Filed 50+ trademark applications, 30 copyright applications, prepared ~5 patent applications solely for inventors, and assisted in 50+ others. Represented clients with government during in-person, as well as 20+ phone interviews. Consulting: + Listened to inventors and translated inventions and ideas into application prepared for submission to patent office to secure protection for intellectual property/invention.Technology Expertise: + Utilized computer science background to provide recommendations for office technology. Demonstrated initiative and created manuals both digitally and physically for reference in future. Included use of technology, policies for document retention, email and network security, and processing of paperwork.Continuous Improvement: + Launched audit of systems to assist in upcoming office relocation. Devised transition plan to minimize potential downtime and allow firm to resume normal operations as quickly as possible.

Customer Service: + Analyzed customers’ technical concerns, ascertained true nature of requests, and provided solutions.

+ Working on patent prosecution cases. Reviewing and implementing policy changes for software release.

+ Observed court proceedings including witness deposition and researched case law relating to standards and liability of utility companies.

Leadership: + Coordinated and managed team development of data portal prototype. Requirements Gathering: + Collaborated with team developing interface for scientists to share data from satellite imagery.