Heath Dixon Email & Phone Number

Seattle, Wa, Us

Seattle, Wa, Us

I teach Drafting Business Documents, the course I wish I could have taken when I was in law school, to help young lawyers sharpen their legal drafting of everything from correspondence to contracts.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Lead the combined team that provides legal support for all domain name-related operations, including Amazon’s Registrar, Registry and hostmaster/domain portfolio. Illustrative work:• Revised ICANN-mandated separation policies to enable legal and other enterprise resources to collaboratively support all domain-related legal and compliance issues• Provided legal support to clear and stand up .AWS dual stack (IPv6) service endpoints• Worked with engineering team to develop ultra-secure registrar models• Evangelized adoption of brand TLDs (e.g., .AWS and .Amazon) and new generic TLDs acquired by Amazon Registry• Developed a WHOIS privacy service model that provides better protection for our customers and preemptively solved GDPR compliance issues• Drafted and negotiated non-standard Model Clauses for a cross-border transfer of customer personally identifiable information• Developed and implemented strategy to change registrar backend providers and seamlessly migrate customers to a “white label” registrar service for improved operational efficiency and customer experience

Seattle, Wa, Us

Function as a “chief of staff” across legal IP Ops team, including:• Led transition from legacy IP asset management system, along with review and improvement of internal processes (e.g., document retention)• Hired and managed the IP Ops team’s first program manager• Negotiated, drafted, and managed software and service agreements and relationships for IP Ops team• Participated in management of IP Ops team (e.g., hiring, budget)• Led trainings for IP Operations and Amazon generally: Situational Leadership (management skills) and 5 Choices (productivity skills)• Led task force to revise the writing exercise and create a phone screen template for the legal department to use for attorney candidates

Seattle, Wa, Us

From 2015-17, provided sole legal support for development and operation of Amazon Registrar (a new domain name registrar), including:• Analyzed regulatory requirements for registrars and registrar-resellers• Developed online customer agreements and policies• Negotiated and drafted supplier and other commercial agreements • Developed processes and policies (e.g., for handling abuse complaints, then led migration of that function to the AWS customer support team, de-lawyering the process to enable it to scale)• Regularly audited processes for compliance and continuous improvement• Supported various operational requirements (e.g., managing onboarding and ongoing relationships with registries)• Managed compliance with ICANN policies and applicable laws (e.g., GDPR) and participated in ICANN policy development processes

Seattle, Wa, Us

Provide the primary legal support for the following AWS product teams: Compute - Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Direct Connect, Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Monitoring (CloudWatch), and Elastic MapReduceStorage - Simple Storage Service (S3), Elastic Block Store (EBS), and Import/Export;Productivity - WorkSpaces, WorkMail, WorkDocs, and Simple Email Service (SES);Edge Services - Amazon Route 53 (DNS), Amazon CloudFront (CDN), and Amazon Elastic Transcoder (media transcoding)In this capacity, supported 150+ new service/feature launches per year, including major services such as Storage Gateway, Glacier, CloudHSM, Data Pipeline, Directory Service, Reserved Instances marketplace, domain name reseller, WorkSpaces, WorkDocs, and WorkMailLed cross-AWS initiatives, such as privacy policy review, service level agreement review, ISO SC38 SLA standard discussions, Microsoft relationship, export compliance (ECCN), open source audit, DDoS response playbook, and product launch roadmap tool, product manager wiki, legal questionnaire and toolkit

Seattle, Wa, Us

Provide primary legal support across all Amazon business units for software, hardware, and infrastructure services, including: • computing and networking hardware (from purchase and financing agreements to procurement strategy)• enterprise-level software licensing (from Microsoft and Oracle to tax engines and FC scanners)• open source licensing and source code purchasing• infrastructure services (from software development to data center colocations to fiber and telecom services)

West Hartford, Us

• Provided legal management support for ~$1.2B annual revenue technology services relationship with a major financial institution, including contract interpretation, dispute resolution, and contracting for new business• Negotiated and drafted all contracts, including add-on business (four deals, ranging from ~$100-700M TCV each), new services (e.g., help desk expansion), and removing major service components from scope of existing agreement (e.g., telecom transport services)• Worked directly with customer’s management team as first line of support to resolve all questions and disagreements over contract-related issues; advised business executives on escalated contract dispute resolution (formal and informal mediation)• Significantly reduced disputes by improving early response processes and amending agreement• Managed contract professionals and mentored new attorneys on various deal-related issues (e.g., legal questions, contract structure, and negotiation strategy)

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Us

My practice areas at Hughes & Luce (now part of K&L Gates) included:Outsourcing and Services AgreementsPrivacy Law and Data Protection LawIntellectual PropertyLicensing AgreementsCommercial Disputes (including Bankruptcy Litigation)Representative Experience:Representation of domestic and international vendors and customers in connection with technology purchase and license agreements.Representation of domestic and international providers and customers in connection with outsourcing agreements (IT, BPO, HR).Representation of technology companies in connection with resolution of contract disputes (mediation and trial). Representation of internet-based companies on various matters, including supplier contracts, licensing agreements, privacy policies, and terms of use.Representation of retail and financial companies on conduct of internal privacy and data protection compliance audits and developing compliance programs.Representative clients include: Hewitt Associates, Blockbuster, McAfee, Worldspan, PIMCO, and EDS.See: http://www.PrivacySpot.com (privacy law blog)

San Antonio, Texas, Us

Taught Public Speaking and Communication courses to students in grades 9-12 at Lee High School* Coached students in competitive forensics (speech and debate) activities (LD debate, CX debate, extemporaneous speaking, oratory)* UIL Academic Coordinator* Texas Forensic Association (TFA) Secretary

J.D., Law

B.A., Economics, With Honors