• Responsible for transforming and streamlining Strategic Sourcing contracts organization for the world’s most trusted social media platform to position organization to meet company’s rapidly growing procurement contracting demands.• Successfully hired and trained and provide day-to-day management of global team of exceptional contracts managers that is now responsible for negotiating LinkedIn worldwide procurement contracts across a variety of categories including IT, marketing, HR, professional services and construction.• Develop training curriculum for over 60 sourcing managers and contracts management team. Topics include contracts drafting, contracts negotiation strategies, data privacy regulations and emerging legal trends in technology that will enable organization to negotiate superior contracts. Training presented in both in-person conference room settings and video conferencing.• Provide daily legal support to the Strategic Sourcing team regarding contractual obligations, intellectual property rights, and data protection and privacy requirements.• Negotiate complex supplier agreements, acting as point of escalation for the Strategic Sourcing team, particularly for legal negotiation.

Lead counsel for Intel’s worldwide indirect procurement organization handling high volume of IT and services contracts.• Provide legal support and direction to dozens of Intel global business managers and a five-member contracts and negotiations team with emphasis on drafting and negotiating technology and supply chain transactions with hundreds of vendors and suppliers.• Lead legal support for Intel’s IT Strategic Sourcing division which includes contracts and licensing for cloud services, SaaS, software and support services, IP transactions.• Extensive experience negotiating supply chain and professional services contracts in multiple industries that affect every employee of the company including healthcare and wellness, HR/retirement/employee benefits, airlines and other transportation services.• Advise on GDPR/data privacy, compliance matters and risk optimization strategies.• Experience also includes negotiating contracts for manufacturing automation, shipping/transportation, marketing and data analytics, supply contracts for semiconductor components, reseller agreements, consulting agreements.• Provide legal support to Intel’s Customer Planning and Logistics Group and Intel Federal, LLC, an Intel subsidiary specializing in US federal contracts.• Teach contracts drafting classes to global business managers.• Frequently volunteer for special legal projects including establishing contracts for Intel grants to Oakland Unified School District to promote STEM careers for high school students; mentoring programs for high school student summer internships at Intel facilities; university student research internships at Intel.

CONTRACTS & LICENSING• Director of International Contracts and technology licensing department.• Negotiated and closed licensing and sales contracts with global customers such as IBM, Microsoft, McAfee, Lockheed Martin, Kingston Digital, BearingPoint, Hitachi, Telenor Conax AS (Norway), Handelsbanken AB (Sweden), Israeli Ministry of Defense, and Raytheon.• Drafted and closed the company’s largest revenue generating agreements in the last 15 years. • Draft, review, and negotiate contracts including software & patent licenses; US government contracts; open source licenses; co-development, marketing, consulting, manufacturing, and SaaS agreements; service contracts.INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY• Manage domestic and foreign IP rights, including over 30 company patents and 50 trademarks spanning four continents and 13 countries in the areas of digital rights management, secure communications, and data protection technologies.• Advise company on patent and trademark prosecution and litigation strategies.CORPORATE GOVERNANCE• Advise executive management and Board of Directors with legal and business advice on all issues that affect the company, including technology transactions, trade secret protection, export regulations, compliance and privacy regulations.• Mitigate exposure to lawsuits by providing accurate risk analysis and supervise outside counsel.• Draft investment offering memoranda and business plans and review venture capital documents, shareholder and voting agreements.BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT• Closed deals representing 20% of company revenues by revitalizing business and sales operations of a company subsidiary specializing in internet security software. Customer wins include Microsoft, Vignette Software, American Express, Intuit, and Software AG.• The only attorney in company history to program manage major accounts such as the Department of Defense, Microsoft, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, BMC Software.