Member of the Commercial Transactions team

Director, Enterprise Sourcing and Procurement - ITAssociate Director, Enterprise Sourcing and Procurement - IT Manager, IT Strategic Procurement/Sourcing• Manage team of professionals to negotiate and re-negotiate software license and unique agreements.• Negotiate all aspects purchase/use of complex and basic software, content, and services agreements. (Comprehensive negotiation skills and sophisticated industry knowledge in all dimensions of technology contracting including: pricing standards, licensing grants, intellectual property rights, support level guarantees, maintenance terms, consulting services, OEM agreements, developer agreements, Open Source licensing, etc.)• Work with vendors to create new and sustainable licensing models and enterprise agreements.• Provide legal, strategic, financial, and overall business analysis and counsel to executives and managers of large-scale enterprise, in all areas of technology management, procurement, licensing, and intellectual property.• Perform due diligence review of key IT relationships and third party services and license agreements; prepared due diligence reports.• Participate in divestiture of companies with focus on IT contract analysis and negotiations.• Educate business units on copyright and other intellectual property basics.• Creatively solve latent and emerging contract issues before and after contracts are executed including pre-litigation settlements.• Coordinate business and legal resources across the UHG enterprise to more effectively leverage contract negotiations and pricing across multiple business units and affiliates.• Assist with vendor management, license compliance, support and maintenance, and invoice issues.• Advise executives on contract, licensing and various other legal issues.• Liaison between business units and parent company’s legal department.

From 9/99 – 6/05-Lead – Technology Legal (f.k.a. Lead – Technology Contracts)-Senior Contract Analyst – Technology Procurement -Contract Analyst – Technology ProcurementWhere I:• Performed all of the functions and non-managerial duties I am currently performing at UnitedHealthGroup. In addition, my responsibilities included the following:• Negotiating all aspects of technology purchase/lease agreements for international and hardwaretransactions;• Organizing and pulling together worldwide project needs for West and its affiliates;• Working closely with internal end-users of technology to analyze cost/benefit of varioustechnology purchases including databases, middleware, application software, database tools andEnterprise Management Systems (ESM) software;• Managing vendor relations including purchasing programs and special “bundle” dealconsiderations.• Assisting in gathering information for business cases and RFP creation.• Providing contract project direction, training and mentoring while exercising supervisoryresponsibility over contracts and projects generated by Lead Analysts, Senior Analysts andContract Analysts.• Also, I was one of only a select few throughout all of West and West’s parent company, TheThomson Corporation, to be identified as a Primary Negotiator of Corporate-wide contracts andauthorized contract signatory for West Services, Inc.Also:Reference Staff Attorney (RSA) & Customer & Technical Support (f.k.a. Customer Service) Representative from 12/96-9/99

Criminal Defense Lawyer making court appearances, attending hearings and negotiating on behalf of my clients

• Draft orders, letters, bench briefs, professional article . . .• Research (criminal and civil law; including procedural, and constitutional issues)• Clerk of Court (mark and care for exhibits, record minutes, coordinate courtroom activities . . .)• Judge Duffy's consultant on the law and legal issues• Schedule motions; assist in general office management

• Research (including legislative history; federal, state, and local jurisdictional searches; constitutional analysis of statutes)• Draft legal documents such as motions, memorandum, affidavits . . .• Assist attorneys at trial – 2nd chair (including file preparation, voir dire, motions, and jury instructions)• Prepare and serve subpoenas, investigate witnesses