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Transactions Counsel for the Indiana Public Retirement System.• Provide legal counsel on contract development, procurement, and vendor management issues.• Responsibilities include organizing and streamlining the contract and procurement process.• Negotiate and draft contracts, memorandum of understanding, and confidentiality agreements.• Able to quickly organize options and prioritize based on legal and business risks.• Provide legal guidance to functional areas regarding procurements and compliance with procurement policy.

Staff attorney for the Indiana Department of Workforce Development.• Responsibilities included providing legal counsel to operating areas of the agency, including advice on the legality of proposed activities. • Responsibilities also included reviewing of projects, grants, and other agency actions, and agency representation in administrative litigation. • Represented the agency in UI Tax liability hearings and UI benefit hearings. • These responsibilities required extensive case preparation with DWD staff, interacting with opposing parties, drafting and reviewing legal documents.

Adjunct faculty member for the Indiana Wesleyan University College of Adult and Professional Studies, School of Business and Leadership in the following study areas: • Negotiation and Conflict Resolution and Business Law courses in the undergraduate program. • Ethics, Law and Leadership course in the Master of Business Administration (MBA) program.• Legal Issues for Managers course in the Master of Science - Management (MSM) degree program.• Approved to teach Marketing Management and Organizational Development courses in the MBA program.

Operations Manager for Indiana Department of Health• Managed operations for the State Health and Human Services Commission. • Responsibilities included reviewing the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) for possible grant opportunities. Additional responsibilities included reviewing invoices to approve payments to American Recovery and Reinvestment Act grant agreement recipients and also assisting in the development of statements of work for proposed grant and professional services agreements.Legal Counsel for Indiana Department of Administration• Provided legal counsel to state agencies on contract and procurement issues. • Reviewed and approved over 9,000 contracts and grant agreements totaling $1.7 billion. • Accomplished contract reviews/approvals within 2 days 99.2% of the time and within 5 days 99.8% of the time.Director of Contract Management/Contract Management Administrator for Indiana Family and Social Services Administration (FSSA)• Worked with worked with executive staff and program staff to develop and implement a new contract development process to ensure the timely development of contracts that would meet service requirements.• Worked with program staff to maintain proper vendor management of existing contracts to ensure that service requirements were met during each contract’s term. • Worked with technical and business consulting staffs to ensure development of business requirements and service level agreements for IT related contracts.

Worked as litigation counsel in the Attorney General’s collections section. Previously managed the investigation of gasoline stations accused of excessive gasoline pricing on September 11, 2001. • Worked with state agencies to initiate lawsuits, obtain judgments, and to recover monetary awards. • Reviewed and analyzed pricing, gasoline sales and refund documentation provided by gasoline stations and updated station status reports. • Summarized status of investigation in weekly station status summary reports and briefings to the Attorney General.

Senior Project Manager on team that managed a $40 million broadband network installation project to 240 shopping malls.• Worked with MerchantWired’s partners to resolve legal and construction issues in the installation process.• Provided review and analysis of monthly financial report costs to MerchantWired’s executive management team.

Responsibilities included reviewing contracts with private vendors that provided city services. Project Manager for the city’s telecommunications program to market city owned properties as possible PCS cell tower sites. Facilitated and coordinated economic development efforts in Franklin Township. • Provided initial project research, created request for proposals, evaluated responding proposals, and negotiated a professional services agreement to implement the telecommunications program. • Played a key role in the out-of-county sewer service agreement with the Tri-County Conservancy District.• Managed the city’s print services contract.

Mba, Marketing

Ba, Political Science

Activities and Societies: Phi Beta Kappa

Jd, Law