Attorney at an innovative business law firm with a focus on litigation.

I am an experienced classic rock, jazz, blues, country, and R&B drummer available for hire. I am also a classical percussionist performing with concert bands and ensembles. I have played with Albuquerque Concert Band, local club bands such as Last Counterplay, Twisted Mojo, Leeside, and Wild Frontier, and the High Desert Jazz and Ballut Abyad Shrine big bands. I am always seeking playing opportunities. Previously I played with bands and ensembles in Portland, San Diego, Boulder, and Indianapolis, before relocating to Albuquerque in late 2015.

The firm is a busy civil defense firm with clients including state and local government and large, nationally recognized insurers and self-insured entities. I am a full-time litigator representing clients in employment, civil rights, professional responsibility, construction defect, and other complex matters.

Conklin, Woodcock & Ziegler, P.C. is an Albuquerque law firm representing employers, businesses, and insurers in a variety of legal practice areas, including labor and employment, medical malpractice, and professional licensure.

Attorney in the litigation section of the USDA Office of the General Counsel; Civil Rights, Labor and Employment Law Division. Civil rights representation for the U.S. Forest Service.

Southwestern Power Administration is a federal power marketing administration within the U.S. Department of Energy. I am an attorney in the Office of General Counsel, working a full spectrum of legal matters from power and transmission, labor and employment, real property, procurement, and general law topics (FOIA, ethics, etc.). Southwestern is headquartered in Tulsa, Oklahoma. My primary office is a virtual office in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Senior attorney for real property transactions, including right of way, access road, and substation property right acquisitions for transmission projects. Agency counsel for litigation in district court, including transmission project condemnations and various employment matters. Legal advice on environmental law related to power and transmission facilities, including ithe Clean Water Act, RCRA/CERCLA, and the Endangered Species Act. Agency representative for administrative actions in labor and employment law, including a $10M interest arbitration over wages and benefits for craft employees, numerous complaints before the Equal Opportunity Employment Commission, and numerous appeals to the Merit Systems Protection Board. Lead attorney for BPA relationship with Energy Northwest, the region's only nuclear plant operator. Research and Development leader as a five-year member of the BPA Technology and Innovation Council. Additional experience in power rate cases, intellectual property, procurement, and analysis of statutory authority.I joined BPA as a contract law student in 2007, became a federal employee under the SCEP program in 2008, became a licensed attorney in Oregon in 2009, and was promoted to GS-14 in 2010.

Responsible for sales of Teradata hardware/software products and professional services to the travel and transportation/logistics industries in the United States. Led a nationwide team of sales, professional services, and industry professionals. Major customers included Fed Ex, Delta Airlines, Southwest Airlines, Continental Airlines, Travelocity, and Orbitz.

VP for the Teradata customer services business in North and South America, a $200M hardware/software maintenance and professional services business.

Managed a multi-site development organization of over 200 engineers responsible for delivering releases of the Teradata massively parallel relational database on Unix and Windows platforms. Engineers were located in El Segundo and San Diego, CA, Madison, WI, and at partner firms Satyam in Hyderbad, India and WIPRO in Bangalore, India.

Led a team of 12-15 product managers responsible for product positioning, pricing, competitive analysis, and product requirement development for a hardware/software solution driving over $500M in revenue.

Various first and second-level management roles in software and hardware development.

Mainframe system programmer. Lead designer and project leader for the Record Management System, a clustered file system with transaction semantics.