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Palm Desert, Ca, Us

• Develop and implement software solutions to automate and enhance deal making and language-based processes.• Collaborate with developers, clients, and product managers to design new legal tech features.• Analyze workflows to identify and apply tech-based efficiency improvements.• Support sales with customized software demonstrations.• Lead testing and QA processes to ensure application reliability and user satisfaction.• Train and assist users, facilitating adoption and providing technical support.• Gather user feedback and recommend system enhancements for continuous improvement.• Manage the legal tech product lifecycle from inception to phase-out.

Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

• Advise Paramount legal groups regarding core systems and solutions, identify business goals and current challenges, and partner with IT to align requirements in the development and implementation of new or existing legal applications to strategically drive team efficiencies.• Introduce workflow-automated solutions to our legal teams to reduce time spent on admin work and advocate for their clients to use a self-service portal for high volume low complexity deals, thus increasing productivity and efficiencies across departments.• Construct a technology roadmap to support ongoing business priorities and needs. Working with cross-functional teams to translate business requirements into technology design and solution.• Effectively transitioned a large-scale data migration effort of over 700 legal users from a legacy document management system (e-docs) to our current DMS iManage, ensuring training efforts ran smoothly for a successful user adoption.• Managing and maintaining relationships with software vendors and service providers.• Function as a legal subject matter expert (SME) for all in-house and third-party studio applications.• Evaluate new vendors for our Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) and AI tool.

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Primary business lead to build, design, and launch our internal deal request (Deal Dash) application (Salesforce) for our Business and Legal Affairs to communicate efficiently with Creative and Production teams on incoming and tracking of deal requests.• Corporate Administration - identifying, tracking, drafting, setting up, and researching Delegation of Authority Signatories domestically, Internationally, and across our film/TV divisions involving over 1500 company owned entities. • Streamline DOA process by adding additional features within site to ultimately automate the request and renewal process for Paramount signatories across the company. Working with third-party developers on design and execution of new tool.

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Structuring, drafting and negotiating various agreements, with emphasis on production and talent agreements including on-camera and off-camera talent agreements, guest releases, locations releases, tent-pole matters, amendments and certificates of authorship rights, etc.• Maintaining team databases, deal tracking and administrative team matters.• Maintain and update contract option grids and communicate with development and production executives on a regular basis to keep them updated on expiration dates.• Managing all aspects of document delivery for original programming, including coordinating among development executives, production management, music and media licensing and production companies.• Revising and updating databases and spread sheets for delivery tracking purposes and coordinating with various departments (e.g., talent, original programming, on-air/promos, press, production management, music & media licensing, labor & employment, risk management, pre-broadcast review and litigation) to implement production legal policies and procedures.• Performing day-to-day contract management and team-related tasks including special projects as needed and assigned by the head of the department.• Draft Package Letters, conduct Production Guidelines calls, review Doc Deliverables, update Greenlight Reports - Rights Analysis, administer Option Tracking, point person for contract management and deal tracking etc.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Greater Los Angeles Area

Greater Los Angeles Area

Greater Los Angeles Area

Hollywood, Ca

Bachelor’S Degree, Sociology

High School, Gpa - 4.6

Activities and Societies: Volleyball Team