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-Draft, review, and negotiate a wide range of contracts, including GPO agreements, direct purchaseagreements and other agreements with the Company’s hospital customers, marketing agreements, government contracts, research and development agreements, HR agreements, IT agreements, supply agreements, quality agreements, vendor agreements, consultant agreements, nondisclosure agreements, etc. • Counsel and train the Company’s business units on standard contract terms, contract interpretation, contract enforcement, and compliance with the Company’s contracting and procurement policies, practices, and legal and regulatory obligations• Develop, update, and maintain form agreements• Assist in the further standardization of the Company’s contracting processes, metrics, and reporting• Assist with the development and oversight of the Company’s contract management system• Support due diligence reviews and special projects

Kansas City, Missouri, United States

• Acquired Sizewise in 2021.• Provided support to high volume commercial and government sales teams handling various transactions (drafting, reviewing, negotiating various sales transaction documents, and standardizing terms and conditions along with processes of acquired entities) including collaboration among multiple stakeholders at executive level. Group Purchasing Organization (GPO) contracts valued at $50M+.• Maintained focus on supplier/vendor contracts. Collaborated with business teams to achieve balanced supply agreement with key suppliers valued from $12M annually to $5M annually arrangements.• Delivered support to chief compliance and privacy officer on privacy compliance including drafting privacy notices, California notices at collection, reviewing DSARs, and providing guidance on review/response. Worked with marketing on privacy notice links. • Collaborated with stakeholders on M&A integration matters and led resolution of post-acquisition matters.

Kansas, United States

Central point of contact within Legal for commercial transactions and support high volume Sales team manufacturer and distributor company. Oversee contract process, draft, review, and negotiate contracts of various types, including durable medical equipment sales and rental, distribution (including SDVOSB and international), and other healthcare specific agreements (GPO ($1M+ spend value), IDN, sole source, Hospice, Pace etc.). Also the POC for general contract matters for the company including IT related agreements for software licensing, SaaS, and website development, confidentiality/NDA, manufacture supply/private labeling agreements, government FSS, flow down obligations, warranty, marketing materials, and user manuals. Assist General Counsel and business owners on various matters often matters of first impression and at times with engaged Outside Counsel; and strategize on the best solution to balance risk and obligations. Centralized all the Legal documents and created a process for storage and version control.  Work as a business partner with teams to improve processes and practices to ensure compliance with contractual obligations and regulations and laws including Anti-Kickback, False Claims, and minimize risk while developing consistency in contract management and drafting. Created new templates for Sales team including standard terms and conditions of sale together with a RFP/RFI response playbook and negotiation playbook. Created Product Naming Protocol to improve efficiencies of resources involved in managing trademarks and other IP. Develop policies and processes related to privacy and data security of personal information including bringing all entities policies current to comply with CCPA. Implementation of a data subject request (DSR) review process. Drafted Monitoring Policy for HR regarding cameras in trucks and video surveillance at sites.  Supervise Paralegal and support Compliance team and other team members as needed on matters.

Kansas City, Missouri Area

• Draft, review, and negotiate contracts of various types, including durable medical equipment purchase and rental agreements supporting a high volume Sales team, distribution agreements, service maintenance terms and conditions, commercial sales and other healthcare specific agreements (GPO, IDN, Ancillary Provider, Hospice, PACE etc.) , as well as IT related agreements such as software licenses and website development. • Assist General Counsel with various issues relating to IT, Human Resources, Marketing and Sales on matters including creation of standard terms and templates, as well as working on process improvements.

Lenexa, Ks

o Reviewed, drafted and negotiated various network and real estate agreements including regulated and non-regulated transactions, pole attachment agreements, licenses, rights-of-way agreements, right-of-entry, permits, and franchises in support of the engineering and outside plant organizations infrastructure builds. o Provided legal advice to the company on a variety of real estate and business transactions and helped create and implement processes and procedures to meet business objectives.o Assisted with negotiating timely and fair resolutions to disputes with property owners.o Conducted research and provided opinion memos on matters, as well as included as expert to provide input regarding pending legislation and utility commission rule makings on pole attachment matters.

Lenexa, Ks

o Lead position that reported to the Senior Corporate Counsel and VP of Finance with responsibility for the management of the United States Microbiology Business Unit contract administration department.o Reviewed, edited and approved changes to Commercial Sales contracts.o Drafted agreements and researched and interpreted agreements, applicable law and regulations.o Managed a team of 8 employees responsible for the support of the Commercial Sales team with responsibility for preparing contracts/quotes for the sale of goods that adhered to company pricing and contract policies. o Oversight of the coordination and preparation of company responses to RFI’s and RFP’s; and ensured business cases and response documentation were approved at the appropriate levels.

Responsibilities:• Investigate and resolve title claims submitted by lenders under loan title insurance policies.• Research and analyze governing law and issue coverage determination to insured/claimant.• Retain outside counsel and supervise litigation.

**Note - >>Embarq merged with CenturyTel and became CenturyLink in 2009.>>Embarq was formed as a separate company post Sprint/Nextel merger in 2006.Responsibilities:• Commercial/Retail leases• Dispositions/Acquisitions• Pole Attachment and Joint Use Agreements• Right-of-Way Agreements (responsible for 17 state region and managed team of 14)• Dispute resolution/settlement agreements• Process Improvement• Project management and vendor management• Management/training

Responsibilities:• Dark fiber procurement for long distance network• Fiber leases and IRUs• Network facility maintenance/restoration agreements• Vendor/Supplier RFP, scoring and certification• Non-disclosure/confidentiality agreements• Pole Attachments and joint use agreements (local phone and wireless networks)• Collocation and backhaul agreements• New Initiatives/network infrastructure expansion (metropolitan area networks, private sonet ring sale/lease)• Contract database (led a team of 15 on the consolidation of over 50,000 contracts into a centralized database)• Process development/improvement (pole attachments, lease administration, contracts database)• Project management and vendor management• Management/training

o Supported Sprint's Senior Negotiator by handling renewals pertaining to Sprint’s International telecom agreements which included interconnection and collocation agreements, fiber restoration/maintenance agreements and backhaul agreements related to trans-Atlantic telecommunication submarine cable systems (PTAT-1), TAT- 12/13, and TAT-14.o Reviewed and interpreted contracts, researched legal issues and provided memorandum of opinion on contractual issues; and set up agreements in the database for future monitoring of critical dates.

Lee'S Summit, Mo

One year temporary position. Duties included data entry, assembly and distribution of mass marketing materials to Veterinarians, and any other duties assigned from marketing team.

Jd, Law

Activities and Societies: Dean’s List, Summer Internship – Jackson County Court Clerk, Phi Alpha Delta

Course Certificate, Executive Education Program Course "Negotiations And Decision Making Strategies"

B.S., Business Administration

Activities and Societies: Honor’s List, Outstanding Student in Marketing AwardGraduated Magna Cum Laude with major in marketing.

Education record