• Planning, configuring and implementing a contracts management system, working with the vendor and executives to configure the system to fit the company contracting process; writing the procedural manual for the database, and training all necessary staff on how to use it.• Managing contracts process including intake, drafting and reviewing, negotiating, maintaining files, updating contract management system, creating template documents for use by contracts and non-contracts departments.• Strategizing the business development process and working with CEO on which employees to utilize.• Drafting and reviewing corporate documents, contracts, employment documents, and reviewing, analyzing legal documents.• Researching and reporting on new changes to ITAR, FAR and the government contracting industry.

Assisting with employment documents, employment manual, reviewing legal documents, research, filing, proofreading, phones.

•Assessing and documenting business needs and requirements, developing and refining the approach to solve for the business need.•Leading the planning and implementation of contract management initiative Icertis; managing all interdependencies between initiative and various projects and identifying the risks arising out of the interdependencies.•Collaborating with Icertis and subject matter experts from multiple business groups and IT to design and develop contract management system solution, re-assess project requirements and re-define timelines, as needed; maintaining cooperative partnerships with multiple business groups.•Providing recommendations and/or proposed solutions to maximize project outcomes and performance, and managing change management efforts.•Providing platform subject matter expertise while consulting with business stakeholders and IT to analyze and determine role of the platform prior to design and enhancement activities.•Leading process mapping sessions with business subject matter experts to document as-is and to-be processes, narratives, gap analysis and roadmaps.•Developing executive updates and presentations including system diagrams, business process flows to illustrate integration between systems and process/system interactions, business requirements, and project progress including project milestones, deliverable, dependencies, risks, and issues.•Scheduling and preparation for workshops with business stakeholders to define and refine process documentation and initiative approach.•Leading and overseeing the creation of testing plans, traceability matrix; User Acceptance Testing including data setup, environment setup, scheduling, training, etc.; coordinating with IT and business teams to ensure verification/test plan address all known scenarios and risks; development of testing materials.•Monitoring and analyzing metrics to ensure client satisfaction and vendor performance; investigating, resolving and escalating problems as needed.

• Strategizing policy and process changes for the department, contract management system, and the implementation of a third-party vendor for background checks.• Implementing process solutions and creating process manuals for various functionalities of the contract management system and training users from multiple departments• Managing the contract management system, providing proposed solutions for improved workflow and functionality of the system, bridging the communication gap between the legal team and the software engineers building the system.• Managing contract administrators and training them on the systems, processes, negotiations and appropriate contract language.• Handling negotiations and drafting of affiliation agreements for over twenty degree programs with various school systems, health care systems, medical facilities, government facilities, CDC facilities, and health departments to allow students to participate in field experience.• Reviewing, analyzing and negotiating field experience contracts, affiliation agreements and associated documents for consistency with University policy and requirements.

• Managing the agreement submissions intake process, assignment of submissions within the group, and management of the share point database.• Managing the implementation of a new share point database to track assignments for the group and conducting all training for all users of the database.• Assisting with policy and process changes, implementation of third-party vendor for background checks, preparation of informational handouts about the field experience application process to be distributed at the faculty fairs during graduations.• Working with over twenty degree programs to negotiate and draft affiliation agreements with various school systems, health care systems, medical facilities, Department of Veterans Affairs facilities, CDC facilities, health departments to allow students to participate in field experience.• Reviewing and negotiating field experience contracts, affiliation agreements and associated documents for consistency with University requirements

• Planning, configuration, integration and implementation of a contracts management system: learning the new system and the nuances, working with the vendor and the legal team to configure the system to match the contract review process; figure out workable solutions when the system limitations affected configuration; work with both internal and vendor IT departments to find solutions to software problems.• Roll-out and training of the contract management system: draft and finalize the training manuals for the legal users and the business users; assist with the identification of employees who will receive access; schedule all trainings; conduct extensive trainings for legal users; conduct trainings for business users.• Manage Contracts team intake: liaison for the commercial contracts team; responding to inbox requests and messages, maintaining files, updating and assigning requests, updating multiple dockets, assisted with creating templates (Multi-party NDA, unilateral NDA, MSA, FIT Agreement), assisted with training associates on contracts review process, set up two day training for the contract review process at our other office, contract review with assistant general counsel and finance, prepare multiple reports of projects requested and completed – including a report each month for the IT department; training the administrative assistant to manage contracts intake process and other legal policies.• Drafting NDAs, Staffing Agreements, Speaker Agreements, Qualified Vendor Agreements and Amendments, FIT Agreements, Promotion Agreements, Default/Termination Letters (vendors), Mutual Termination Agreements, MSA/SOW, Master Performance Agreements, Riders for Co-Branded Card Agreement.• Assisted with strategizing the plan to improve the Qualified Vendor Agreement process that includes three departments and implementing a new template agreement.• Advertisement review and Video review (trademark issues and confirmation of necessary release agreements)

• Manage Contracts team intake: responding to inbox requests and messages, maintaining files, updating and assigning requests, updating multiple dockets, assisted with creating templates (Multi-party NDA, unilateral NDA), assisted with training associates on contracts review process, set up two day training for the contract review process at our other office, contract review with assistant general counsel and finance, prepare report of projects requested and completed each month for the IT department. • Drafting NDAs, Staffing Agreements, Speaker Agreements, Qualified Vendor Agreements and Amendments, FIT Agreements, Promotion Agreements, Default/Termination Letters (vendors), Mutual Termination Agreements, Release Agreements (studio, session player, video, photo), Artist Agreements, MSA/SOW, Event Terms and Conditions, Master Performance Agreements, Riders for Co-Branded Card Agreement. • Prepared Credit Default Letters, Settlement Release Agreements, Cease and Desist Letters (non-approved use of trademarks) • Advertisement review and Video review (trademark issues and confirmation necessary release agreements)

Creating new file systems, managing conversion to digital filing system• Assisted with the preparation of case briefs, estate documentation, incorporation documentation, corporate documents• Preparation of Employment Agreements, Operating Agreements, Bylaws, Minutes, trial exhibits• Assisted with intellectual property cases, pre-trial discovery phase, legal research (summarizing and analyzing), documents for court filing, preparing witness for testimony• Assisted attorney at trial for both Federal and Virginia Circuit courts• Proof reading and editing documents, drafting correspondence, document/file management, answering phones