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Austin, Texas, United States

Drafting, reviewing, and negotiating a broad range of commercial agreements (across Americas, EMEA, and APAC) including SaaS software licensing, channel partner, data processing and professional services agreements. Advising business teams on applicable laws and regulations. Revising legal templates and assisting with process improvement initiatives for scalability. Collaborating cross-functionally with sales, customer support, product, engineering, finance, and other departments at all levels throughout the organization.

London, England, United Kingdom

Supporting BlackBerry’s cyber security software and services business across EMEA in its commercial contract transactions and partner programs (resellers and vendors) and providing general legal support within the global legal department. Drafting and negotiating inbound/outbound software licensing agreements, distributor/reseller agreements, professional services agreements, software integration agreements, non-disclosure agreements, and various technology partner/alliance and sales agency agreements. Supporting product introduction programs. Providing counsel on license agreements, responding to business queries, analyzing, and evaluating risks, ensuring adherence to company polices, laws and regulations. Working with BlackBerry Privacy Office on customer data privacy issues and Data Processing Agreements.

Madison, Alabama, United States

Divisional Counsel - Providing legal counsel in the areas of software licensing and other technology sales transactions for Hexagon’s Safety, Infrastructure and Geospatial customers in the USA and Canada (on premise and cloud). Drafting and negotiation of master software agreements and agreements for maintenance services and third-party products. Review and drafting of non-disclosure agreements, sole source letters, teaming agreements and subcontractor agreements. Review internal company procurement agreements and other commercial agreements as needed. Participating in Bid Review meetings, Executive Review calls and other internal review processes in relation to the creation of Hexagon proposals in response to customer bid requests. Collaborating with finance, sales, services, information security, product management, and Executive Management to resolve contractual as and revenue issues.Privacy Lead - acting as a bi-directional information channel passing guidance and best practice to the business functions as well as informing the Privacy Officer (performing Data Privacy operational duties on a full-time basis) of data processing activities and issues respecting Data Privacy operating policies and procedures. Acting as part of the governance organization for data protection compliance, ensuring compliance with GDPR as Hexagon’s established minimum data protection standard for the processing and protection of personal data for its Group companies and divisions on a worldwide basis (subject also to local laws if establishing a higher standard), and identifying practices that present undue data protection risks through reporting procedures. Drafting/Review of Data Protection Agreements, Data Protection Impact Assessments, Business Association Agreements and other privacy related tools and templates as needed. Maintaining internal records of data processing activities to be disclosed to relevant data protection authorities upon request.

Austin, Texas, Usa/London, England, United Kingdom

Deliver consulting and legal advice to public and private sector customers worldwide in the field of technology licensing and procurement transactions. Analyze contract requirements, special provisions, and terms and conditions to comply with appropriate laws, regulations, corporate policies, and business unit procedure.

Lake Mary, Florida, United States

Fulfilled company’s legal requirements for a wide range of commercial and legal transactions. Created, reviewed, and negotiated software licensing, SaaS/Cloud, implementation services, support, and third-party vendor agreements. Executed company security and privacy policies related to data protection provisions and supported incident and breach management. Dealt with and resolved litigation with the collaboration of corporate general counsel. Supported and facilitated negotiations for acquisitions and mergers by coordinating and implementing due diligence, responding to acquisition related document requests (both as target and buyer), and managing integration planning particularly with respect to customer software migrations, licensing/support agreement integrations, and related sales and contract processes. Managed outside counsel for trademark search and registration process. Delivered strategic leadership and guidance to team members, including the Contracts Manager, Senior Contracts Specialists, Contracts Specialists, Team Lead, and Contracts Associates. Directed and optimized company contracting processes, addressed the customer’s contractual/legal issues, and answered purchase related questions. Played an active role in formation of new corporate legal structures, confirmed compliance with legal requirements while sustaining and communicating the company's unique needs and business processes. Consistently achieved sales requirements and met deadlines for closing contracts to enhance recognition of company revenue.Received 𝗘𝗠𝗣𝗟𝗢𝗬𝗘𝗘 𝗢𝗙 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗬𝗘𝗔𝗥 award for 2010 and earned Employee of the Quarter awards 2010 and 2013.

San Antonio, Texas Metropolitan Area

Represented Clarke American Checks, Inc. (now Harland Clarke) with third party vendor agreement review, financial institution supply agreements, and intellectual property licensing agreement review and negotiation.

San Antonio, Texas Metropolitan Area

Drafting of exclusive requirements contracts for the supply of bank checks and related products and services to financial institution customers. Working directly with customer’s legal staff/counsel to negotiate terms of such agreements. Coordinating negotiations with appropriate company Sales Division General Managers (Credit Union, Community Banking, and National Accounts). Acting as point of contact for all intellectual property issues. Reviewing all Clarke American (and affiliate Checks In The Mail) intellectual property matters. Coordinating matters of a significant nature with outside intellectual property counsel. Reviewing Clarke American (as well as affiliate Checks in the Mail, Inc.) third party vendor service, supply and consulting agreements for negotiation and approval. Assisting Director of Legal Affairs in property management issues and the review/negotiation of all property-related agreements (plant facility and equipment leases, construction agreements, tax abatement issues, maintenance agreements, purchase agreements). Drafting, reviewing, and recording all company confidentiality and non-disclosure agreements. As the legal representative on the cross-functional team, successfully negotiated new Bank of America agreements, the largest check supply agreements in the industry (resulting from merger of NationsBank and Bank of America). “𝗦𝗨𝗣𝗘𝗥𝗜𝗢𝗥 𝗖𝗢𝗡𝗧𝗥𝗜𝗕𝗨𝗧𝗢𝗥” awards and bonuses for 1996 and 1999, recognizing top 5% of employees.