Senior counsel for subject matter law at Dialpad. Portfolio includes product counseling across data protection, telecom regulation, consumer protection, and ethics. I work daily with Security, Product & Platform, AI Engineering, Sales, and Customer Success to provide risk-based strategies for sustainable growth and maintaining customer trust. Personal focus on leveraging automation and knowledge management to built legal capabilities that scale.

• On sub-contract to NASA, guide messaging strategy and advocacy on a first-of-its-kind UN effort to integrate oceanographic sensors onto subsea fiber optic cables to improve ocean science, tsunami warning, and communications reliability• Build coalitions among scientific, government, and telecommunications industry partnersthrough direct contact, symposia, and formal filings• Identify and mitigate regulatory and legal risks, develop a repeatable process from RFP through government consent, technology transfer, and deployment

• Conducted product reviews for telecommunications and technology services to proactivelyidentify potential legal and regulatory issues at the state, Federal, and international level• Obtained Section 214 international service authorizations, spectrum allocations,commercial/experimental licenses, and waivers before the FCC• Guided clients through investigations by the Enforcement Bureau, Team Telecom, and theUniversal Service Administrative Company, including settlement negotiations• Advocated for regulatory change via notice and comment rulemaking proceedings, includingpetitions, comments, and written and oral ex parte presentations• Carried out due diligence and regulatory compliance associated with telecommunicationselements of mergers and acquisitions• Advised on international regulatory compliance strategies for VoIP, satellite, and aircraft clients• Clients included a world-leading aerospace and defense corporation, a terrestrial locationservice, an international satellite industry organization, microwave and fiber backboneproviders, and numerous small and midsized SaaS and cloud-based enterprise service provider

• Same clients and portfolio as Jones Day• Conducted issue spotting and provided legal and regulatory advice on telecommunications andtechnology matters

• Managed data security and privacy compliance against various control standards (NIST, ISO, COBIT, HIPAA) on multiple engagements for Federal and private sector clients.