Effective communicator and collaborator, adept at leading and/or working with cross-functional teams. Trained, educated, and experienced leader. Provides adaptive, high-energy leadership and counsel with unwavering integrity. 15+ years’ experience in strategy, global legal operations, building, leading, and managing legal programs. Extensive expertise developing and coordinating flexible acquisition and contracting strategies to meet the changing needs of industry partners and consumers, using the full range of USG acquisition options (FAR contracts, OTAs, grants and cooperative agreements, CRADAs, and more). Innovative experience working collaboratively to develop strategic plans, change cultures, proactively identify risks, and analyze fluid situations to build risk-informed strategies to achieve organizational goals. Adept at navigating and delivering proactive legal counsel in plain language for all maters related to medical research and development, invention disclosure and patent strategies, FAR-based and other contract vehicles, technology transfer laws and regulations, medical and government ethics, HR and employment law, internal and external investigations, and information privacy. Over two decades advising clients on navigating Government bureaucracy - laws, regulations, policies