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Canonical is a privately-held international tech company that delivers secure enterprise open source software and services. Canonical is the publisher of the Ubuntu operating system.- Draft, review, and negotiate a wide variety of complex international commercial contracts with customers, channel partners, and vendors of the company.- Serve as a strategic partner working closely with internal clients in Sales, Finance, Product, Support, Engineering and other organizations within the company to support initiatives and close transactions in a timely manner consistent with company policies and risk tolerances.

Rimini Street is a publicly-traded company that delivers third-party enterprise software support and services.- Lead and train team of attorneys overseeing a wide variety of commercial transactions, including client service agreements, vendor agreements, and other significant commercial transactions. - Draft, review, and negotiate a wide variety of complex commercial contracts with customers, suppliers, strategic partners and vendors of the company.- Serve as a strategic partner working closely with internal clients in Sales, Finance, IT, Service Delivery and other organizations within the company to support initiatives and close transactions in a timely manner consistent with company policies and risk tolerances.

Austin, Tx

Austin, Texas

- Drafted and reviewed a variety of commercial and technology agreements, including services and consulting agreements, software development agreements, software as a service agreements, referral agreements, reseller agreements, nondisclosure agreements, intellectual property licenses, and terms of use/service/sale. - Conducted due diligence reviews of intellectual property licenses and vendor/supplier agreements for clients involved in mergers or acquisitions. - Worked within DLA Piper's NEST (NextGen Environment for Start-ups) Program to provide emerging growth legal services to start-up clients.

Bellevue, Washington

- Drafted, reviewed, and negotiated consent agreements, omnibus agreements, commercial lease amendments, and other real estate contracts.- Managed contract lifecycles, including contract drafting, negotiation, approval, execution, and lifecycle reporting. - Built rapport with commercial landlords and their representatives while addressing landlord concerns and negotiating for consent to various transactions affecting the cell tower portfolio of T-Mobile USA, Inc. and its subsidiaries. - Provided legal analysis of real estate contracts and advised T-Mobile market personnel in the resolution of cell tower site legal and operational issues while balancing legal risk against business interests.

Houston, Texas

- Prepared and prosecuted domestic and international patent and trademark applications.- Managed outside foreign counsel in preparation and prosecution of foreign patent and trademark applications.- Counseled clients on intellectual property portfolio management and strategy.- Conducted patent searches and drafted patentability opinions.- Drafted, reviewed, and negotiated various types of commercial contracts.

Houston, Texas

- Conducted prior art searches and a long-term patent landscape study to assess the direction of competitors and the oilfield industry as a whole within a given area of technological development.- Presented findings to research and development group to drive product development.

Houston, Texas

- Conducted legal research and drafted memorandums for circulation to various departments within the museum on a variety of legal issues.- Analyzed and summarized contracts including exhibition contracts, artist commission contracts, leases, and encroachment permit agreements.

- Researched, drafted, and edited summaries of differing applications of the parol evidence rule for the revised edition of Corbin on Contracts (Vol. 6, §§ 25.1 - 26.18).

J.D. (Cum Laude), Law

-Environmental and Energy Law and Policy Journal - Senior Articles Editor -Energy and Environmental Law Society - Vice President -Peer.

B.S.T. (Summa Cum Laude), Engineering Technology With A Specialization In Environmental Systems And A Minor In Mathematics

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