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West Henrietta, New York, Us

Bellevue, Washington, Us

KEY ACHIEVEMENTS★ Led organizational transformation by assisting with the restructuring of the legal department while supervising a team of nine lawyers/non-lawyers within the legal department. ★ Functioned as the department lead for a re-engineering project of the Salesforce system by defining legal workflow and creating scalable and user-friendly contracts for the sales staff.★ Oversaw complex contract negotiations for numerous sales agreements, cloud business contracts, joint venture agreements, and vendor agreements while standardizing and managing processes to boost efficiencies.★ Leveraged creative and customized solutions in negotiating complex and high-value contracts for individual customers, including negotiating complex intellectual property agreements.★ Partnered with the procurement group to effectively administer vendor management processes and negotiate vendor agreements while reviewing all customer-related pre-litigation disputes and collaborating with external counsel on litigation-related matters.★ Led project management, oversight, strategic planning, and management of various compliance programs.★ Delivers legal support for all Aviation Operations matters, including purchasing and leasing aircrafts, regulatory, and insurance-related concerns.★Implemented an automated process for sales and other departments to submit requests for legal support resulting in an increase in departmental efficiency.o Introduced the company’s first request tracking process using Smartsheets to record and monitor workflow, thereby reducing the overall turnaround time.o Reduced redline requests by updating contract standard terms and conditions.

Bellevue, Washington, Us

KEY ACHIEVEMENTS★ Provided legal support for the sales organization and a support structure of network operations, procurement, real estate, risk management, customer disputes, litigation matters, agent program, commissions, HR, product development, and marketing. ★ Served as the HIPAA Privacy Officer of a public company and supported customer contractual compliance with HIPAA compliance responsibility while administering internal company compliance of privacy policies. ★ Delivered legal advice and counsel to senior management, product development, and marketing teams on all federal, state, and local regulatory compliance matters, in addition to providing general corporate and securities advice.

KEY ACHIEVEMENTS★ Advised senior management, product development, and marketing teams on compensation plans, government contracting, M&A integrations, federal, state, and local legal compliance matters related to employee policies, HIPAA, and other privacy policies. ★ Offered legal support for Referral Partner Agreements, Agent Agreements, and NDA's while coordinating responses to Requests for Proposals and assisting in the operations of respective channels, including commissions, product development, and marketing. ★ Acted as the primary legal contact to handle customer disputes and negotiated complex and high-value contracts by devising creative solutions tailored to specific customers' circumstances.

KEY ACHIEVEMENTS★ Headed the entire contract negotiation process, including developing complex contract provisions to support a sales force while negotiating high-value contracts with a focus on providing creative solutions personalized for specific customers.★ Provided general counsel on legal matters to sales offices and drafted and negotiated multinational B2B contracts for retail telecommunications services review of various real estate matters.

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

● Concentration on a wide range of business matters including contracts, multinational mergers and acquisitions, start-up entities, financing transactions, securities and antitrust law compliance and responsibilities of officers and directors.● Provide general corporate counsel advice to a variety of public and private corporations. ● Provide legal counsel on matters related to educational institutions and other tax-exempt and non-profit organizations, their corporate governance, fund raising, state regulation and taxation, including consulting on student matters, such as privacy rights, free speech, judicial proceedings and codes, and sexual assault and harassment.

Juris Doctor, Law

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Economics