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Des Moines, Ia, Us

Des Moines, Iowa Area

• Serves as acting department general counsel, including working with the Attorney General’s Office to represent the State’s interest in litigation and other legal matters, advising the executive leadership team and department employees on all legal matters, including procurement, finance and accounting, open records requests, and real estate and construction, reviews opens records requests and responses, manages a team of two attorneys and one support staff.

Des Moines, Iowa Area

Represented State central procurement in drafting service, IT, and goods contracts. Negotiated multi-million dollar contracts with vendors. Represented the State's interests in contract disputes.

Des Moines, Iowa Area

• Manages a team of five attorneys and three support staff.• Drafts and reviews policies and procedures relating to all aspects of board operations.• Advises management on human resources matters, including conducting training on human resources topics for management and staff. • Responsible for the management of all agency administrative rule makings, including rule makings in response to passed legislation and regular updates of all 45 chapters of the board’s rules.• Counsels board members on administrative and utility law issues.• Advises the board on federal and regional issues that may affect stakeholders and works with the board to ensure the board is properly represented before federal and regional entities.• Accountable for the proper administration of all official matters before the board, including contested case proceedings.

Des Moines, Iowa

• Managed cross-functional project team responsible for agency’s response to legislative changes related to human resource matters.• Advised several state agencies concerning collective bargaining and employment law issues. • Prepared written decisions determining the outcome of grievances after hearing oral arguments and reviewing evidence from the parties.• Created State employee policies and procedures.• Trained managers and supervisors concerning human resource topics and collective bargaining agreements.• Investigated employee misconduct, including misconduct related to discrimination, ADA complaints, and violence in the workplace.• Participated in negotiations of the State’s collective bargaining agreements.• Provided guidance related to the development and implementation of State law.• Represented the State at labor arbitrations and proceedings before the Iowa Public Employee Relations Board.

Iowa City, Iowa Area

• Manages cross-functional teams to supervise the development of approximately one-sixth of the product deliverables in a $33.8 million contract. • Meets regularly with customers to ensure expectations are met and to resolve any customer concerns. • Develops and manages to project schedules. • Identifies and implements opportunities for process improvements that promote cost reductions and operating efficiencies.• Helps manage public relations resulting from negative press due to technical service disruptions. • Provides technical advice to customers to resolve unique, complex issues in a timely manner.

Iowa City, Iowa Area

The Strategy Deployment Office reported directly to the company CFO and was responsible for consulting on high profile projects selected by the President or CFO. • Managed project teams supporting corporate strategic initiatives and reorganizations.• Consulted with a team of executives to develop a strategic plan for the reorganization and potential divestiture of an international business that resulted in realignment of business strategies and an estimated savings of more than $5 million.• Consolidated and relocated customer service center from California to Massachusetts resulting in an estimated annual savings of approximately $250,000. • Directed project that examined how finance assessed costs and reallocated hundreds of millions of dollars of technology costs to better align incurred costs with usage and increase corporate competitiveness in contract bidding process.• Redesigned executive project reporting dashboard for the CEO making the dashboard more user friendly and more informative.• Analyzed and integrated mergers and acquisitions to increase efficiency and incorporate redundant HR, Finance, and Technology functions into Pearson corporate shared services.

Iowa City, Iowa Area

Represented clients in employment, Workers’ Compensation, and Social Security claims. Managed firm’s finance and marketing plans. Defended and conducted depositions. • Prepared written appeals before the Iowa Supreme Court and Iowa Court of Appeals. • Wrote winning Iowa Supreme Court briefs in the cases of Mercy Hospital v. Goodner and Jimenez v. Staff Management Services.• Supported the Iowa Workers’ Compensation Commission in opposing insurance rate changes in front of the Iowa Insurance Division.

Iowa City, Iowa Area

Conducted legal research. Prepared written appeals before the Iowa Supreme Court and Iowa Court of Appeals.

Iowa City, Iowa Area

Served as clerk to the Board of Supervisors and maintained all county contracts.• Worked closely with the County Attorney’s Office in ensuring the County met its legal requirements in passing resolutions and ordinances, holding bid lettings, holding open meetings, and other functions. • Wrote legal opinions regarding state statutes and their effect on county programs. • Analyzed and recommended steps to consolidate roles in multiple departments under a county-wide finance department.• Managed a team of six employees.

Davenport, Iowa Area

• Prepared legal memos and briefs concerning probate, estate, business, contract, real estate, municipal, tax, and construction law. • Helped represent a local municipality in an open records lawsuit filed by citizens. • Interviewed clients and conducted client meetings.

Davenport, Iowa Area

• Represented the United States government in Veteran’s Administration Citation Vehicle Board hearings by prosecuting crimes conducted on federal property.• Prepared memos concerning various federal criminal law matters, including immigration law, identity theft, and various drug offenses.• Wrote legal briefs for submission to the United States District Court for Southern Iowa.

Greater Omaha Area

• Prepared operating budgets for the $10 billion dollar corporate budget.• Responsible for reporting annual and quarterly figures for SEC filings. • Selected to represent the finance department for on campus college recruiting visits.• Developed an ad hoc position management system for a 3,000 person operating department to fill a knowledge gap for the COO while HR was implementing Peoplesoft HR management software.• Worked closely with the Chief Operating Officer in analyzing and reducing overhead in the Operating Department.• Promoted after six months to work on a two-man team to develop a real-time financial reporting system implementing Oracle-Hyperion software that was the initial step in a multi-million dollar overhaul of Union Pacific’s financial data management systems from mainframe based systems developed in the 1970s.

Mba

Activities and Societies: Consulting Team Lead for Overseas Market Viability Consulting Project, Student Delegate to the Executive Council.

Doctor Of Law (J.D.)

Activities and Societies: Chairperson of the Moot Court Board, Phi Delta Phi, Baskerville Moot Court Competition

Bachelor Of Business Administration (B.B.A.), Finance, General

Activities and Societies: Delta Sigma Pi, President's List, Dean's List.