Learning & Growing with Family! At Sparks Florist, a cherished family legacy for over 60 years, I collaborate with an incredible team to integrate my legal background and enthusiasm for technology. My focus is on streamlining operations and fostering a supportive environment that reflects our dedication to community and quality service.

Spearhead legal and financial planning and analysis, operational support, and business strategy that drives the organization's legal services and long-term growth.► Executive Leadership: Partner with CEO and the Executive team and over 140 board members to design and execute an engagement strategy for over 30 boards and committees to ensure active participation and drive board director commitment to patients.► Contract Administration: Implemented contract life cycle management tracking tool; resulted in reduction in risk by achieving consistency in contracting.► Business Process Improvement: Expertise in creating, automating, and streamlining processes by partnering with IT department to convert outdated legal processes and push through to technology advancements.► Dashboards: Developed a financial tracking system for legal operations with a visual dashboard to manage department budget and reduce spend, track high volume of contracts, loss reports, litigation portfolios, invoice management, and estate collections.► Board Governance: Lead Board governance and nominating committee and serve as trusted governance advisor to senior leadership and board members; built Board Operations team from the ground-up to drive Board performance oversight and reporting.

Partnered with a variety of departments and outside counsel to review acquisition, development, maintenance, and use of records and information management systems.► Content Management: Drove continued profitability through financial analysis during the integration of projects and processes; ensured contractual compliance during the migration of legal documents.► Cost Reduction: Utilized rate analytics and matter volume to reduce outside counsel spend by serving as billing and matter management administrator for multi-million-dollar legal department budget.► Legal Operations: Filed annual Secretary of State filings, articles of incorporation/dissolution for IGTand its subsidiaries in over 100 domestic and international jurisdictions.► Vendor Contract Management: Managed vendor relationships and legal technology services providers,including e-billing, contract management, eDiscovery, document collection, and legal entity support.

Drove business performance by developing and executing successful legal and operational strategies across financial planning and analysis, contract administration, and process development/improvement.► Bankruptcy Management: Saw the company through to the end of bankruptcy filing; submitted 10Ks and managed compliance for SEC rules and filings.► Contract Management & Administration: Reviewed and negotiated legal agreements (NDAs, MSAs, and SOWs) prior to execution for both clients and vendors.► Licensing: Scoped out which jurisdictions were coming on market and identify what rules and regs were necessary in order to determine what type of gaming was allowed.