Gregory Rome Email & Phone Number

New Orleans, La, Us

New Orleans, La, Us

My team is responsible for enterprise-wide software asset management, and we will be standing up a hardware asset management practice in 2024. The SAM team evaluates and manages software purchases and renewals across the enterprise and consistently produces substantial year-over-year savings through relentless right-sizing, identifying software rationalization opportunities, and negotiating deals in concert with our supply chain partners. Additionally, the SAM team spearheads software license audit defense.

New Orleans, La, Us

I manage Entergy's relationships with key IT vendors, including global outsource partners, software and hardware vendors, and project management service providers.My regular duties include• Advising internal stakeholders on new and existing technology transactions and risk• Vendor performance management and cooperative improvement• Dispute resolution and commercial negotiation of technology transactions• Serving as subject matter expert on the technical scope and commercial content of agreements• Governance, including establishing and facilitating leadership and operational meetings• Developing and managing vendor scorecard programs• Reporting performance metrics to all levels of internal and external stakeholders• Vendor selection and transition activities

Managing attorney of a small firm focused on civil litigation, small business transactions, estate planning and successions.As general or outside counsel for a number of businesses:• Negotiates and drafts contracts, including industrial and commercial leases, NDAs, sales, service contracts, and corporate reorganizations• Monitors compliance with local, state and federal laws and regulatory agency action• Tracks contractual obligations to backstop management• Develops forms, databases, and other tools to optimize management activities and reduce transactional costsAs a trial advocate:• Represents clients before state and federal courts and agencies• Oversees all phases of litigation and project planning, budgeting, management, and execution• Coordinates and leads teams of accountants, appraisers, and specialist attorneys• Negotiates, reviews, and drafts pleadings and other documents

Part-time law clerk for the 34th Judicial District Court.• Researched legal issues• Summarized the cases on the Court’s dockets• Briefed the Court on upcoming hearings and trials• Coordinated with attorneys and pro se litigants• Drafted judgments and orders• Organized the Court’s calendaring system and internal workflow• Provided technical support for the Division’s computers and network infrastructure

Operated an IT company that provided hardware and software solutions, network design and deployment, access control and information security consulting, and custom software development for small businesses and startups in New Orleans.• Supported Windows, Apple, and linux desktops, laptops, and servers.• Developed, deployed, and maintained websites, web applications, mobile applications, and server-side applications for many platforms.• Projects included work in Ruby, Ruby on Rails, C, Java, SQL, and C#.

New Orleans, La, Us

• Helped design and build the Math and Computer Science Department’s Undergraduate Research Lab, which consisted of eight desktop computers and three servers dedicated to long-term, resource-intensive research by department faculty and students.• Managed and maintained the research lab’s machines and those in the department’s Sun Microsystems and Silicon Graphics computer-generated imaging lab• Administered windows, linux, and solaris, and IRIX workstations and servers

Jd, Law, Civil Law

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Finance

Computer Science

Bs, Computer Science, Political Science