Edward Black Email & Phone Number

Fort Lauderdale, Fl, Us

Miami/Fort Lauderdale Area

Manage the Medium Enterprise business model and the US team of Attorneys responsible for supporting the Sales teams that focuses on our medium sized customers.

Draft, review and negotiate complex, cloud-based Software solutions transactions;Work closely with internal Sales organization, providing assistance with the closing of net new transactions;Provide legal and customer service to external and internal customers involved in the sales cycle;Manage and meet time frames and schedules to the satisfaction of all players involved in transactions;Accurately and professionally represent the unique "one to many"​ Workday business model to all parties for optimal success of Workday and its Customers.Highlights of tenure:* Received inaugural "Legal Leadership Award"​ - March 8, 2016;*Award of Excellence - Legal MVP - East Atlantic Region - March 2016;*Award of Excellence - Legal MVP - TOLA South Region - March 2016;*Recipient - Sales Club Invitee - May 2016 (for service to the Sales organization during 2015);*Award of Excellence - Legal MVP - ME South Region - March 2017;*Recipient - Sales Club Invitee - May 2017 (for service to the Sales organization during 2016)

Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Oversee the global effort of the Contracts Department; manage an extensive and varied portfolio of patents and trademarks registered worldwide; work closely with outside counsel on various litigation matters; continuously monitor rules, regulations, trends in the wastewater industry; act as in-house counsel on all legal matters.

Director, Contract Management – Software/Services Licensing, North America and EMEA• Manage the day to day operations of the North American and EMEA Contracts Management departments. • Responsible for all software and services licensing transactions (including contract negotiations, drafting, reporting, contract and process management) for several software companies owned by CDC Software.• Establish and manage the process associated with software and services licensing, from proposal to final agreement, which is followed by the internal sales, services, and legal personnel.• Structure, negotiate, and draft standard license and services agreements as well as ancillary documents, such as strategic alliance and partner agreements, confidentiality agreements, various other agreements forms. • Apply established legal positions to non-standard situations.• Work closely with Finance to insure revenue recognition and compliance with current accounting principles.

Responsible for the drafting, negotiation, and preparation of software license agreements and related documents (Nondisclosures; RFP Responses; Professional Services, Outsourcing, Partnering Agreements; Amendments).• Provided legal interpretation of existing PeopleSoft license agreements to internal and external customers.• Worked directly with internal Sales team and Customers, acting as PeopleSoft’s authoritative legal representative. • Designed internal forms used by sales force worldwide to initiate the contract process & documents. • Managed the recording and distribution of sales data, used to track marketing and legal trends in the marketplace.

Contract Manager for the Strategic Business OrganizationDay-to-day management of all contracts involving large volume Customers with world-wide presence. Manager of Contract Administration/ Contract Services DivisionSupervised a staff of four Contract Administrators responsible for the review/acceptance of all Software agreements. • Developed, established and enforced all processes used in the contract approval cycle. Contract Administrator/Midwest Region/Contract Services DivisionResponsible for the review and processing of all software/services contracts negotiated within the Midwestern U.S.Contract Traffic Controller/Contract Services DivisionTracked the location and status of all DBS Software Agreements during the contract review process.

Juris Doctorate, Law

Activities and Societies: Recipient of the Excellence in the Future Award - for excellent achievement in the study of Current.

B.A., Communications, Summa Cum Laude

Certification, Paralegal Studies