• First lawyer of Redpanda Data, a streaming platform company offering, cloud-based SaaS platform, BYOC Cloud Platform and self-hosted solutions.• Responsible for all company legal efforts including commercial, privacy, intellectual property, corporate, employment, and regulatory matters.• Manages budget and oversight of outside counsel, legal service providers, and legal technology.• Selected, configured, and implemented Redpanda Data's first contract lifecycle management platform.• Updated and maintained all legal forms and legal processes used in the business.

Taking a break to focus on my family before deciding on my next career adventure

• Joined as the third lawyer of CrowdStrike, a cybersecurity technology company offering a cloud-based SaaS platform.• Lead product counsel for the company, responsible for ensuring all products and services comply with privacy, security, regulatory, intellectual property, and contractual requirements.• In support of sales team, negotiated SaaS subscription and software license agreements, data privacy and data security agreements, and professional services agreements.• Led legal team supporting procurement matters, responsible for reviewing all inbound technology and services contracts, including ensuring compliance with data privacy and data security obligations.• In support of business development team, drafted and negotiated wide variety of partner agreements, including for resellers, managed service providers, integration partners, and OEMs.• Created legal processes for all procurement matters to streamline the entire procure-to-pay lifecycle.• Worked with cross-functional teams, providing legal support to CrowdStrike’s worldwide product, human resources, marketing, and finance teams.• Provided legal support for CrowdStrike M&A, including performing diligence on prospective acquisitions and integration of completed acquisitions. • Helped structure program and draft all related agreements for several new partner initiatives, including managed service providers, OEMs and engagement licensing program. • Managed team of lawyers and contract managers, responsible for hiring, training, and mentoring team and resolving escalated issues. • Provided legal support for CrowdStrike's successful IPO in 2019. • Managed company-wide open source software compliance.

• One of five lawyers for Appirio, a global cloud consulting company, acquired by Wipro for $500 Million.• Responsible for counseling on commercial transactions, corporate governance, protection of intellectual property, use of open source software, competition, data privacy, and employment law.• Primary legal representative for a large portion of Appirio’s sales team.• Led legal review of procurement matters on behalf of Appirio, including acting as primarily legal contact for Appirio’s human resources and marketing teams.• Negotiated and drafted a diverse range of transactional agreements, including technology-based services agreements, license agreements, software-as-a-service agreements, crowdsourcing agreements, technology development agreements, reseller agreements, confidentiality agreements, contractor agreements, employment agreements, sponsorship agreements, and marketing agreements.

• Associate in the intellectual property transactional group.• Negotiated and drafted numerous intellectual property agreements, including license and assignment agreements, software-as-a-service agreements, technology-based services agreements, manufacturing and distribution agreements, technology development agreements, affiliate marketing agreements, settlement agreements, confidentiality agreements, and employment agreements.• Counseled clients on a broad array of intellectual property, data privacy, and other industry-specific legal requirements, primarily for technology clients.• Involved in over one hundred mergers and acquisitions with substantial experience performing due diligence and negotiating and drafting purchase agreements, merger agreements, joint venture agreements, transition services agreements, and financing agreements.• Led negotiations in a variety of outsourcing engagements including software application development, information technology asset management, and procurement services, with experience representing both service providers and customers. • Recipient of the Kirkland & Ellis Pro Bono Service Award, which is awarded to attorneys who have made significant contributions to pro bono matters, in 2011, 2012, and 2013.• Member of the Kirkland & Ellis Associates Committee, which is responsible for representing associates to the firm’s partnership.

Led a legal health assessment on a non-profit, community development organization. Led a project counseling client on the proper legal protection of a business process and related trademarks.

Summer Associate in the Intellectual Property Transactional and Litigation Groups

Researched the expression, purification and fluorescent tagging of a DNA mismatch repair gene.

Researched and summarized patents; extensive experience with the USPTO.