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Part-time temporary in-house engagements with Latitude clients providing legal counsel, contracts drafting and negotiations, and legal risk management consulting on process and tools for IT and general procurements, domestic and global.

Supervising attorney building out new procurement counsel function for rapidly growing, global cloud network services industry leader; review and negotiate mission critical contracts with impacts across multiple organizations and teams; particular emphasis on negotiating for privacy and information security compliance including GDPR, CCPA; create and manage template and clause library; develop knowledge base for improved contracting expertise, contract administration, and vendor performance management.

Draft and negotiate wide variety of global inbound agreements with significant focus on internet infrastructure and colocation; particular emphasis on negotiating for privacy and information security compliance including GDPR, CCPA; develop strategy and processes to build out new procurement counsel role within the global commercial legal team; advise business leads on contract risks and options to mitigate; partner with cross-functional teams to streamline process and improve outcomes.

Promoted to new role with responsibility for IT contracting matters for largest state agency in US, including procurements, contract review and negotiation, vendor performance management, contract dispute and resolution management; draft, review, and negotiate software, IT services, and cloud contracts for state agency while complying with intense state and federal regulation and oversight as well as internal policies and procedures; advise leadership and managers from IT and multiple program areas on procurement strategy and risks; draft and negotiate contract amendments for in-flight IT projects to minimize emerging risks and improve enforcement tools and options; consult on termination and exit strategy when appropriate; consult on innovative technology procurement methods; develop standard documents and clauses for IT contracting tools library; work closely with contract managers to develop skills and improve overall customer service; develop and deliver accredited CLE on state government IT contracting and procurement; cross-train peers and contract managers on state government IT contracting tools and strategies. Contracts addressed include SaaS, IaaS, complex outsourced services for data collection and analytics, enterprise application development and implementation, consulting services agreements, various software licensing and support services agreements, NDAs. Contract values from $0 - $60 M.

Provide senior legal counsel for IT contracts and procurements, performance management, and disputes, including software development, software/SaaS licenses, data collection and processing, cloud services, and consulting/IV&V/professional services contracts, for 35,000 FTE state agency with $38B annual budget; act as legal team member for development of complex RFPs and SOWs and associated project management documentation for internal and external policy and regulatory compliance; advise on compliance matters under state and federal laws, including privacy and information security requirements; provide analysis and interpretation for complex software license and IT services contracts and related intellectual property and compliance matters; end-to-end management of legal issues from request to resolution/completion.

Draft, review, and negotiate complex software and IT transactions; other contract drafting and negotiation as needed, working collaboratively with key executives and stakeholders. Advise clients on various product regulatory and intellectual property matters. Sample agreements include VAR reseller, custom software development, various professional services engagements, SaaS agreements, NDAs, sales representative commission agreements, employee onboarding agreements.

Provided legal counsel to variety of software and technology services clients, including drafting and negotiating sales, licensing, and partner agreements; significant work with open source platform and SaaS agreements.

Promoted to new role. Provided executive-level legal counsel in termination of complex $850MM statewide data center services outsourcing engagement, including identifying and documenting key legal issues, coordinating strategy and risk with internal IT experts and business managers, and responding to related procurement, Public Information Act, regulatory, and contract law questions. Responsible for all legal matters following notice of breach, including continuity of service, monitoring status of all breaches, review of press releases and other internal and external communications, coordinating through executive leadership and external executive stakeholders legal response to arguments and counterclaims by vendor, and participating in mediation and settlement negotiations.

Promoted to new role. Provided legal direction and strategy related to state government-operated public data center services program; coordinated legal strategy for multiple contractual breaches by vendor related to transformation, network architecture and design, load balancing, staffing, deployment of patches and upgrades, virtualization software license management, instance and license allocation; drafted and negotiated related breach notices, amendments, and licenses; supported procurement documentation and management; provided counsel for regulatory matters, open records requests, intellectual property matters, software licensing, and data security and privacy issues and risks.

Oversaw performance monitoring; drafting and negotiation of amendments, technical SOWs, interagency agreements; and enterprise licenses for $863 million statewide data center services (DCS) agreement. Took leadership role, collaborating with technical experts and business executives, in defining and resolving performance disputes.

Provided legal counsel to various technology-based clients on legal and intellectual property matters related to product development, product marketing, open source development and licensing, developing and negotiating IP and technology transactions and licensing agreements.

Provided legal counsel to technology-based clients including drafting and negotiating technology licenses, custom development agreements, complex technology and services engagements, and royalty-based sales and distribution. Key clients included video-game developer, managed mobile services provider, IC design tool developer, and technology services provider to financial institutions.

Provided legal counsel on technology contracting and employment matters; performed internal investigations and drafted reports on findings for decision makers; drafted response to EEO claim resulting in "no cause" finding; provided legal counsel to managers and executive leadership on various state statute and regulatory compliance matters related to employment and state contracting practices; managed IT vendor dispute through termination with successful outcome for agency.

Managed all legal matters for Texas business unit providing software and technology services to community and regional banks, reporting to Americas Counsel; drafted and negotiated software and services sales agreements (direct and channel), and provided counsel to product marketing, real estate, and general ops; rewrote sales license resulting in shorter sales cycles; negotiated third party technology integration; advised on privacy and data security compliance, acquisition due diligence, employment matters, and intellectual property management. Declined job relocation to Atlanta HQ.

Drafted and negotiated OEM and channel sales agreements, technology development and license agreements, consulting agreements, and leases. Negotiated severance as part of reduction in force.

Drafted and negotiated technology development and license agreements; negotiated fab manufacturing and IC design tool license agreements; implemented trade secret protection program; supported defense of patent infringement claims; designed recruitment program that successfully avoided unfair competition claims. Negotiated severance as part of reduction in force.