Draft, redline, review, negotiate, and execute contracts, memorandums of understanding, amendments and other contractual and legal forms related to clinical, practicum and field experiences.Complete complex negotiations to reduce contracts’ high-risk language and requirements, securing crucial need contracts.Establish contract team protocols and assessments to ensure consistency during contract reviews and mitigate company’s risk.Use continuous improvement methods to develop and implement rules and processes to streamline risk assessment, tolerance, mitigation, and acceptance to optimize contract executions. Update resource, training, and reference materials for various departments to aid in the contract execution process. Improved clinical contract execution by 24% (days to completion) over four years through development of guides for contract review and completion which focus on risk mitigation using a risk rubric to identify the levels of risk approval during the contract review process. Coordinate with various internal partners to alleviate potential non-compliance and other liabilities that pose potential adverse impact on the organization including insurance, regulatory requirements from boards of higher education and nursing, corporate risk management parameters, and school’s policies relating to clinical experiences.Present findings and advise senior leadership, legal, risk management and other stakeholders of contractual exposures and obligations by interpreting and analyzing contractual terms and conditions, as well as government regulatory, accreditation, and statutory requirements.Increased contracts team employee engagement score by over 40 percentage points within first two years.

Completed state-level, post-secondary education licensing applications including researching rules and regulations for applications, drafting letters, and compiling required data and documentation for application submittal.Provided regulatory guidance and leadership to institutional partners, relating to the licensing and authorization of the institution and programs.Researched rules and regulations related to, but not limited to, licensure, compliance for continued authorization, and bonds.Ensured compliance to regulations regarding various aspects of business operations within in various states with different regulatory agencies.Completed licensing applications for initial and renewal licensure, ensuring uninterrupted business operations within the respective states. Drafted and submitted response letters to institutional regulators on general inquires, notices of on-compliance, and requests for additional application information.Built relationships with state regulators, ensuring open communications and positive interactions and relations.Maintained records, including but not limited, regulatory agency communications, data resources, institutional policy and procedure documents, and internal reporting tools to ensure current and relevant information is readily available.Researched and reported on various statutes and regulatory updates to ensure institutional compliance.

Researched and implemented rules and regulations related to propane safety, propane marketing, and various other topics based upon local, state, and federal guidelines and best practices.Regulatory research aided in company compliance with natural gas and propane industry rules, regulations, and standards at local, state and federal levels throughout the United States leading to 100% reduction of violations and financial penalties.Directed audit engagement of over 20 drivers’ payment collections over a 6-month period, netting a recovery of over $40,000 losses due to reporting and recording errors.Drafted and implemented policies and procedures for various aspects of the business, including but not limited to inventory control, marketing standards, quality control and safety protocols resulting in increased efficiencies and effectiveness.Assisted the due diligence teams for acquisitions, including site surveys and business analysis support ensuring accurate asset acquisition.Built and managed the Compliance Department of 5 team members at central office, through the recruiting, hiring, and training of staff in addition to establish best practices, provide career mentoring, and personnel development.Established positive working relations with state and local regulators across the country, resulting in improved cooperation leading to negotiation and negation of over approximately $100,000 in probable penalties.

Developed and facilitated an online course for retail loss prevention; Designed course curriculum to challenge the deductive reasoning and critical thinking skills of students; Course topics included, but were not limited to: shoplifting laws and standards, the Five-Steps to Detention, restitution, civil liability in detaining shoplifters, employee theft methods, exception based reporting (EBR), retail security technology (CCTV, EAS, EBR software).

Ensured compliance to corporate policy, processes, procedures and practices through the completion of audits, store visits, and training; Completed financial and inventory audits to identify areas of loss and non-compliance to policy; Conducted internal and external theft investigations including Organized Retail Theft (ORT) groups; Completed inventory processes with investigation and research into significant inventory variances using inventory transaction data, POS data and other resources to find and correct false variances; Conducted internal theft investigations through use of retail technology and accounting principles; Interviewed employees during the course of integrity investigations.Managed Loss Prevention staff.

Performed operation shrink audits with analysis and recommendations for emerging high risk Chicago market; Developed management and store level training on company directive, policies and procedures for the reduction of operational loss and expense;Drafted recommended policy and procedure enhancements to correct operational and accounting deficiencies;Built cross function relations with buying groups, corporate accounting and distribution to solidify consistency and process follow between functions;Recovered $750,000 in accounting errors during first year, reduced annual shrink within district by $2.4 million through training, auditing and improved processes; Completed site audits of receiving process at all stores identifying break downs in process execution including DSD controls, packing list validation and UPC maintenance; Worked with inventory team to ensure correct and accurate count of product during inventory cycles; Researched variances from inventories including variances caused by paper error, theft or cost accounting process errors.