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South San Francisco, CA, US

San Francisco, California, US

Negotiates high volume of commercial, research, clinical and miscellaneous agreements agreements across multiple departments of early stage biotechnology company. Coordinates within broader legal department with compliance, intellectual property and employment and collaborates with manufacturing, research, regulatory, clinical, business development and IT.

Sr. Counsel for an agile, boutique law firm, Biotech Law Center (BLC), specializing in outsourced in-house counsel work for life sciences and healthcare companies, providing legal services that bridge the gap between traditional outside counsel and full-time in-house attorneys. Clientele include early stage (stealth) start-ups to established commercial.

Stanford, CA, US

• Transactional attorney, specializing in national laboratory technology transfer.
• Provided legal counsel to management, administrators, scientists and engineers at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), a DOE national laboratory managed and operated by Stanford University.
• Negotiated agreements for SLAC with industry, governmental and academic partners (international and domestic) including: CRADAs; SPPAs (strategic partnership project agreements); data rights agreements; facilities and.
• Technological areas: renewable energy, including innovative battery design; electrical grid efficiency software; quantum information science (QIS); machine learning/artificial intelligence; accelerator science.
• Liaised with Stanford’s Office of Technology Licensing and Industrial Contracts Office in the management of IP licenses and industry sponsored research involving both SLAC and Stanford.
• Initiated biological material transfer agreement (MTA) program, templates and guidelines at SLAC to support SLAC’s expansion into biological research.

Seattle, WA, US

• Sole, in-house counsel for a biomedical research institute focused on eradicating global, high-impact infectious diseases through computationally based systems biology research methods and bench research. Oversaw.
• Reviewed, negotiated, drafted and maintained complex and routine agreements, both domestic and international, pertaining to: patent licenses; data sharing; non-disclosure; software licenses; SAAS; service procurement.
• Managed the Center's patent portfolio and outside patent counsel within budgetary guidelines.
• Facilitated, advised on, and managed: invention disclosure process; patent prosecution decision points; and patent maintenance strategy.Compliance Management:
• Drafted and revised policies, procedures and agreement templates ensuring the Center met compliance goals. Subject areas included: IP; export control; employment; privacy/data protection; records management; conflicts.
• Managed export control compliance and educated staff; screened items for export.

La Jolla, CA, US

• Negotiated agreements pertaining to: patent licensing, reagent licensing, confidential disclosures, consulting, corporate sponsored research, research collaborations, transfer of biological materials, software license.
• Optimized agreement production, creating new agreement templates/revising existing templates
• Drove the creation of Institute-wide material transfer agreement (MTA) procedures and educated Institute staff on MTA procedures.
• Assisted in the management of a $1M+ patent portfolio.
• Mentored new employees; managed and mentored interns.

San Diego, CA, US

• Negotiated license agreements and corporate sponsored research agreements concerning biomedical, software, and engineering technologies.
• Supervised outside patent counsel in foreign and domestic patent prosecution process, monitoring costs and schedules. Assumed full management of the SDSU patent portfolio after one year of employment.
• Obtained copyright registrations for educational videos and books. Assisted an incubated start-up company with registering trademarks.
• Mentored and managed legal interns.

San Diego, California, US

Original member of newly established Corporate Audit and Compliance team for a large healthcare organization, assuming the lead on policy creation and revision. Participated in extensive training regarding establishing a corporate compliance program, as well as the development of Scripps’ Corporate Compliance Program. Drafted and revised existing hospital.

Doctor Of Law, J.D.

Summer Mexican Legal Studies Program, Mexico D.F., Mexico

B.A. History, Cum Laude

Non-Matriculated, Liberal Arts Studies

Post Baccalaureate Continuing Education, Biochemistry, Inorganic Chemistry

Post Baccalaureate Continuing Education, Organic Chemistry

Certificate: Regulatory Affairs Essentials (2004); Patent Prosecution (2005)

Post Baccalaureate Continuing Education, Analytical Chemistry, Molecular Biology