Matthew Watson Email & Phone Number

Englewood, Colorado

- Primary IT-focused counsel for service lines and IT purchases at $29 billion company. Supported IT Contracting teams for clinical apps, enterprise apps, telco, infrastructure, and other areas, including both national and divisional/local contracts.- Managed the relationship between Legal and the IT Contracting team, including workflows, communications, and liaison with legal department.- Instrumental to laying foundations of organizational workflows after merger, including IT contract template formation, BAA template formation, legal-security workflows, legal-privacy workflows, and offshore resource strategy- Advised business leaders in various contractual and billing disputes, and managed outside counsel.

Greater Denver Area

• Contracts: Reviewed, drafted, negotiated all contracts for about $14m/year revenue, including SaaS agreements, data hosting agreements, software licenses, SLAs, partnership and vendor agreements, and employment and engagement contracts• Sales/account support: Provided RFP response review, GSA & local supply schedule applications and renewals, EEO reporting, affirmative action audit, competitive market research• Compliance/HR: Drafted/negotiated BAAs, provided HIPAA research & advice, conducted internal investigations for HR lawsuits, reviewed/drafted employee handbook • Patent litigation: Saved about $100k by leading a 2 million page document review; was subject matter expert on 497 claims in 10 patents related to PHR/EHR and data management technologies; reported directly to CEO/inventor, Dr. Malik Hasan, founder of Foundation Health Systems, Inc.• Staff & outside counsel management: Handled communications and billing audits/approvals for outside counsel, managed internal legal holds and document collection, managed an internal staff of 2-4 clerks and 1-2 contract attorneys

Denver, Co

Greater Denver Area

Part-time involvement in startup phase of a cutting-edge legal process disrupterReview/analysis of software services and supply agreementsTeam co-ordination

* Approximately 20 individual lessons per week* Biannual recitals and occasional group lessons* In June 2007 I taught a four-day piano camp at my house for ten students, several of whom had no musical background.

* Editing information-security related documents (e.g. Sarbanes-Oxley Act compliance)* Simplifying and customizing text in forms and policy documents* Doing advanced formatting with Microsoft Word* Creating flyers and ads

Juris Doctor (J.D.)

Activities and Societies: Production Editor of the University of Denver Water Law Review; Civil Litigation Clinic; DU Wills Lab.

Ba, English Major, Political Science Minor, 3.9 Gpa

Activities and Societies: Sigma Tau Delta, Honors Program * Graduated magna cum laude, with honors * Mary Cass Award: Outstanding critical.

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Activities and Societies: Phi Theta Kappa, Great Books Program