Deploying Dream Teams to manage contract separation and transition during the merger and acquisition process. Work with private equity firms, corporate procurement and legal departments. Contracts management as a service (CMaaS) is also a growing services offering. Legal department overflow support also available.

Responsible for driving cross-functional teams to create consistent organic growth plans, solution brochures and partnership opportunities. Established standardized approach for capturing addressable market, targets and action plans for growth planning by working collaboratively across teams. Partnerships achieved with several companies for sales opportunities in utilities industry through relationship building, collaborative workshops and contract negotiations.Completed numerous solution brochures to enable consultative approach with customers.

Started out as Attorney/Contracts Manager and progressively took on more and more responsibilities during 10 year period of extreme growth. Highlights include:Contracts. Hands on and broad experience developing and negotiating supplier and partner contracts for technology, services, products and software for all of the Ericsson N. America portfolio. Provided legal advice and solutions, maintained, improved and created new contract strategies for various business needs, including M&A integration activities, as business expanded into new areas. Hired and managed team of attorneys and contract administrators.Leadership and People Development. Achieved top 10% leadership index based on annual employee survey. Responsible for leading numerous teams, including leading managers. Led People Development initiative for Strategic Sourcing Department, aligned competence needs with corporate strategy, prompted innovative and fun atmosphere, facilitated creative all-employee meetings and workshops and set up customized learning paths. Results include increases in the Employee Engagement, Leadership and Motivation annual survey scores for Strategic Sourcing Department.Supplier Diversity. Led revamped Supplier Diversity Program to ensure customer and government spending commitments were met. Managed customer relationship related to supplier diversity efforts. Resulted in significantly increased diversity spend over a 2-year period.Supplier Relationship Management. Led the development of the newly created Supplier Relationship Management framework and re-organization in North America and assisted with implementation for the global Ericsson organization. Learned valuable change management skills. Results include significant additional cost savings and enhanced sourcing efficiencies.Operations. Managed Fleet Management and Sourcing Operations Teams, during which time new tools, programs were implemented and significant savings were achieved.

Corporate executive team member at small start-up telecommunications design and engineering company, responsible for oversight of corporate operational legal affairs and contracts function for telecommunications services division. Managed changed during acquisition of the company by Alcoa, Inc.Reviewed, drafted and negotiated customer facing contracts with major telecommunications carriers, OEMs, utilities and cable companies. Established contract templates, contract administration and operational screening processes for all outsourced activities.Ensured company compliance with all governmental regulations.Managed outside counsel for various legal matters.Initiated, researched, developed and introduced company's first international strategic plan.

English teacher for 15 English classes per week for high school, middle school and elementary school courses. Led extra curricular activities and clubs.