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San Jose, California, Us

- Lead and mentor a high-performing team of attorneys and legal professionals who provide top-tier support to sales, marketing, partnership, customer success, and procurement teams.- Drive the vision for the commercial legal function, improving on process automation, legal technology, and other efficiencies.- Manage commercial legal forms and templates for new product launches, strategic partnerships, and other strategic initiatives.

San Jose, Ca, Us

Lead and develop strategic legal and global operations teams. Balance legal risk and business needs. Drive operational efficiencies dramatically improving workflows, and ensuring contracts are approved and signed according to policy. Focus on individual personal development and career growth opportunities for team membersLead strategic contract workflow consolidation project to combine three different regional contract submission processes (U.S., EMEA, and APAC) into one global submission pipeline. Drove transformative initiative to implement a new global contract management system including integrating two compliance and procurement systems to provide a single streamlined business workstream dramatically optimizing efficiency. Implementation include eight integrated systemsImplemented Legal AI to extract key data upon contract submission and to reduce legal review time by ~40%. Managed corporate signature policy, and developed a centralized repository for templates, playbooks, and clause library to drive consistent negotiation globally based on legal guidelinesDeveloped contract risk matrix to optimize necessary level of contract reviewMaintained metrics, reporting, and dashboards to track volume, monitor trends, and other KPIs for senior leadershipStrategic adviser to business partners and liaison to key stakeholders including procurement, Information Security, Privacy, and ITNegotiate strategic enterprise contracts, including technology, SaaS, software licensing, master service agreements, and a wide variety of corporate contracts

San Jose, Ca, Us

6th World Legal Tech Summit, Luxatia (2023)Implementing Legal AI for contract review, and automating and streamlining contract lifecycle Global Contract Management and Process Improvement, Mondaq (2022)Efficiencies and business process improvement19th Annual SuperConference, Corporate Counsel (2019)Utilizing Tech to Transform the Legal DepartmentThe GC Tech Masters Summit, LawGeex (2018)Leveraging in-house legal technologyACC Value Champions Award (2014)Cost effective contracts solution

Washington, D.C., Us

West Valley City, Utah, Us

Global sourcing responsibilities for indirect corporate services focusing on IT, Human Resources, Marketing, Legal, Finance and Audit. Interface with all levels of management in the organization. Major projects include the sourcing, negotiations and contracting for major reporting projects worldwide, consolidate staffing companies in Australia, global SaaS solutions, sourcing global mobile supply chain and various IT consulting engagements. Reduced IT spend. Created IT supplier segmentation matrix to target areas to consolidate or leverage services.

Salt Lake City, Utah, Us

Manage a team of lawyers and legal professionals in Utah and Texas. Responsible for contract management system and team metrics. Provide weekly and monthly reporting for senior management.Responsible for drafting complex technology contracts, including; software license agreements, sponsorship agreements, professional services agreements, non-disclosure agreements (NDA), Statements of Work (SOW) and various other agreements as needed.Assist with audits for FDIC, OCC and internal corporate and compliance audits.Ensure vendor contracts comply with various privacy and banking regulations including; GLBA, AML, CAN-SPAM, HIPAA and other Federal regulations.