• Second legal hire brought on to build the commercial legal function. • Scaled the commercial legal function to support company's growth from 100 to 1000 employees, including building new PO and contracting processes, CLM systems, contract templates, and negotiation playbooks.• Lead legal negotiations for over $1.5 billion in customer deals and support the evolution of the company's service offering.• Lead legal negotiations for transactions over all areas of the business, including real estate leases, capital equipment purchases, contract manufacturing services, and technology transactions.• Worked closely with the general counsel to grow the team from 2 to 11 members.

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Product Counseling• Responsible for SanDisk-branded retail and consumer products. • Advised on product development matters, including IP, privacy, antitrust, open source, and US and foreign regulatory issues.• Advised on product marketing matters, including product messaging strategies, marketing collateral, promotions and contests, and press releases.• Led legal negotiations on transactions for product development, design, and manufacturing services, component purchases, and technology core and software licenses.Commercial Transactions• Led legal negotiations on transactions for supply chain, IT, infrastructure, R&D, and other parts of the business. • Representative transactions include technology transactions, capital equipment and tooling purchases, SaaS, software, data subscriptions, and other IT purchases, and consulting, outsourcing, and other services engagements. • Drove improvements to standard terms and conditions, contract templates, business processes, and helped implement a new global contracts database and NDA intake system.Received recognition award from senior legal executives for creativity and innovation in supporting business clients.

• Part of the patent litigation team that moved over from DLA Piper. • Litigated patent infringement cases over USB technology, battery chargers, capacitive touchscreens, radio telemetry, memory devices, smartphones, and telecommunication devices. • Litigated Hatch-Waxman cases concerning pharmaceuticals and biologics.• Advised on patent portfolio and enforcement matters and M&A due diligence.

• Litigated patent infringement cases in district court and ITC actions, including developing technical non-infringement and invalidity arguments.• Products at issue include telecommunication devices, non-volatile memory, digital video recorders, industrial flowmeters, rare earth magnets, electronics, and software.

• Negotiated patent licensing, bailment, research collaboration, and material transfer agreements. • Counseled inventors on patenting strategy for biomedical devices, microfluidics, nanotechnology, and semiconductor materials. • Sourced strategic business opportunities and partnerships.