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Kansas City, Mo, Us

Kansas City Metropolitan Area

- Works closely with clients’ cross-functional teams to devise and execute optimal sourcing, technology, and commercial solutions to meet the business’ targeted goals and achieve critical business objectives while mitigating associated commercial and business risks to the company.- Created HIPAA compliance policies and U.S. state data protection contract compliance program for U.S. subsidiary of global software and cloud solutions provider.- Managed breach response, including researching state data breach laws and drafting consumer notifications, that affected over 2000 subscribers for regional ISP and TV provider.- Negotiated $2 million software transition services agreement to incorporate newly acquired hospitals into regional hospital client’s existing revenue cycle management contracts and software infrastructure.- Trains and mentors associates in their legal and career development.

Kansas City Metropolitan Area

- Assisted clients in the development, acquisition, licensing, and commercialization of technology, data, and intellectual property.- Drafted, reviewed, negotiated, and successfully closed over $15 million in global commercial sales contracts for U.S.-based medical implant device manufacturer.- Co-led the firm’s GDPR and CCPA client privacy compliance group and counseled over 20 clients through information questionnaires, data protection impact assessments, and policy drafting to achieve compliance with local and international privacy and data protection laws and regulations.- Led contract dispute and exit negotiations on behalf of a managed hospice care provider client to mitigate losses associated with a failed $2 million EHR implementation.

Greater Chicago Area

Greater Chicago Area

- Drafted and negotiated complex inbound and outbound commercial agreements with focus areas on intellectual property and technology.- Reduced contract negotiation cycle for SOX compliance SAAS client by 200% by creating playbooks and defining clear lanes of responsibility in a business vs legal decision-making check-list.- Created new services contract for data center, remote hands, and colocation services for infrastructure services provider client.- Provided legal support for inbound and outbound commercial contracts to an AI-driven business automation software company during one year secondment.

Kansas City, Missouri Area

- Drafted and negotiated inbound and outbound commercial agreements, including master services agreements, professional services agreements, software license agreements, software as a service (SAAS) and cloud agreements, maintenance and support agreements, end user license agreements (EULA), terms and conditions of use agreements, and statements of work (SOW).- Managed for-profit healthcare client’s vendor information security agreement program and negotiated over 100 vendor cybersecurity, data governance, and data processing agreements. Created new vendor security agreement template and reduced average negotiation cycle by 33%.- Created contract templates and corresponding playbooks for a global computer security software company.

Lenexa, Ks

- Successfully closed over $1.5 million in outbound on-premise and SAAS software licensing contracts.- Drafted, reviewed, and negotiated other commercial agreements, including non-disclosure agreements, confidentiality agreements, RFPs, business associate agreements, and vendor security questionnaires.

Overland Park, Ks

- Reviewed and interpreted the terms and conditions of 75 contracts to more effectively resolve billing disputes, performance and service delivery requirements, and breach of terms disputes.

Bachelor Of Arts, History

Activities and Societies: Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Fraternity, Gamma Beta Phi Honor Society, The National Society of Collegiate Scholars

Juris Doctor, Law

Activities and Societies: Black Law Students AssociationHonors: CALI Excellence for the Future Award – Research & Writing; Professor Tony.