Establishing a municipal nonprofit to deliver high-speed internet to rural Vermonters through public-private partnerships, driving infrastructure development and economic growth. Launching operations creating $40K in monthly revenues within nine months and leading a merger to restructure and scale for long-term success. Drafting and implementing legislation with state and federal policymakers, securing funding and streamlining broadband deployment. Overseeing hiring of key staff and fostering an inclusive, employee-led culture. Authoring complex RFPs and forging critical partnerships for warehousing, supply chain management, and vendors, quickly adapting to evolving needs. Directing creative warehousing solutions during regional flooding, saving $6M in broadband assets. Collaborating with the board and committees to ensure organizational alignment and governance. Advocating for digital equity as VCUDA’s representative, shaping policies to close the digital divide. Managing design, procurement, construction, and logistics for large-scale network deployments while building strategic alliances with state, regional, national and international collaborators and partners. Representing CVFiber through public speaking, legislative testimony, and national conferences, highlighting Vermont’s leadership in rural broadband innovation. Combining legislative advocacy, operational strategy, and innovative problem-solving to position CVFiber as a transformative force in rural connectivity.

Leading telecommunications leasing and permitting for federally backed P3 health and safety initiatives, including FirstNet, a national public safety broadband network. Negotiating and drafting leases, licenses, easements, and other land controls to support critical infrastructure development. Providing expert analysis and resolution of property issues while advising clients on financial, environmental, and policy considerations to guide efficient project completion. Facilitating collaboration among clients, legal counsel, engineering teams, landlords, and governmental agencies to streamline complex permitting processes. Managing permitting for electric vehicle (EV) charging stations to meet the growing demand for sustainable transportation infrastructure. Successfully navigating challenges during the pandemic to deliver essential critical infrastructure projects for health, safety, and sustainability initiatives.

Public Relations/Zoning/Statutory Interpretation & Design: Manage relations with state and local governments, in support of broadband utility networks in Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, New York and Massachusetts. Negotiate and develop permitting processes with municipalities, counties and state agencies. Review and interpret zoning ordinances; suggest changes to ordinances and codes to support changing technologies and policies; prepare and prosecute land use entitlement applications; represent clients at municipal and administrative proceedings and public hearings. Obtain right-of-way permits. Obtain Letters of Intent for private property deployment of small cells. Coordinate site design considering environmental and utility standards. Coordinate long-term licensing and leasing processes.

Front-end Development of Solar Farms/Environmental Law & Compliance: Draft and negotiate Letters of Intent, Options to Lease and other land control agreements for utility scale solar projects in Vermont, New York and Michigan. Identify and qualify properties with collaboration of GIS, desktop and subscription resources, engineers, brokers and property owners. Zoning, land use, title and environmental diligence. Development and improvement of company diligence processes to minimize risk. Work with developers, executive team and finance. RFP preparation. Review and cure preliminary title reports and supporting documents. Review Phase One reports to identify and cure potential exposure to environmental liability; review reports for compliance with National Environmental Protection Act.

Optimizing Telecommunications Networks/Leasing & Zoning/Deployment from Site Inception to On-Air: Manage development of Verizon, AT&T and Sprint wireless facilities in optimizing wireless networks. Locate and qualify properties. Coordinate new-build site design with attorneys, landlords, engineers, architects, construction team and jurisdictions. Obtain environmental clearance. HazMat abatement. Analyze risk and cure title issues. Prepare zoning applications, research ordinances, analyze policies. Obtain land use entitlements. Represent clients at proceedings and hearings. Resolve concerns and disarm controversy at contested public hearings. Negotiate and execute long-term leases. Hash out deal points with landlord counsel. Resolve leasing and zoning issues until on-air. Pull Building Permits.

Growing a Real Estate and Professional License Defense firm: Develop and maintain cloud-based case management systems and applications. Optimize online presence using blogging, SEO and other marketing tools. Hire, train and manage a happy first-rate legal team. Represent commercial and residential property owners in land use dilemmas, neighbor disputes, purchase and sale contracts and landlord-tenant. Represent professional licensees in administrative actions. Negotiate, settle and try cases in courts and administrative forums. Settlement with emphasis on ethical resolution, rehabilitation and professional restructuring.

Counsel Clients/Dispute Resolution/Litigation: Advice on purchase and sale of licensed residential facilities. Draft lease agreements and other legal documents for licensed facilities. Represent professional licensees in actions brought by state licensing agencies. Negotiate settlements with Attorneys General, Department of Justice and licensing agencies. Manage administrative litigation and discovery process; draft administrative and superior court pleadings and settlement proposals. Represent clients at hearings, settlement conferences and mediations. Analyze statutory ethical and conduct issues for licensed professionals; client advisement.

Managed law office with a focus on calendaring federal and international patent filings; assisted in training new personnel.

Drafted and edited proposed orders and memoranda; checked jurisdiction for recently filed motions; modified and updated the court’s rules to meet the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure; summarized and charted details of outgoing orders for future law clerk reference.

Drafted state and federal court pleadings; prepared exhibit lists for cases on appeal; summarized government liability appellate court decisions for firm publications; researched insurance coverage and government liability issues; summarized depositions, reporter’s transcripts and interrogatory responses.

Prepared extensive joint exhibit list for trial of a class action lawsuit against the City; drafted memoranda for municipal branches recommending policy decisions; answered interrogatories; summarized hospital records; interviewed witnesses.

Campaigned door-to-door; met with radio, print, and television media; was involved in long and short-term campaign strategy. Researched House bills; recommended how to vote and whether or not to sign on to bills; recommended bill edits; wrote constituent letters; gathered constituent suggestions at public events; met with lobbyists and Union representatives.

Wrote and edited newspaper articles; covered last-minute news stories and ongoing in-depth investigative reports; conducted interviews; developed story ideas; created newspaper layout; assigned stories to news reporters; assisted news reporters with story development.