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Arlington, Va, Us

Responsible for strategic, policy and legal relationships of this wireless data technology developer and manufacturer for 5F investment group. Manage legal, regulatory and legislative issues, including product development and spectrum acquisition. Provide business advice on financing, securities compliance, technology deployment, and strategic alliances, as well as employment, corporate, and intellectual property law.

Coordinated outside counsel and in-house staff on all legal issues, and managed corporate and employment law matters. Responsible for negotiating and managing strategic relationships with local exchange carriers, equipment vendors, long distance and transport carriers, engineering consultants, and tower providers for a large independent U.S. cellular provider (“ACC”) and its predecessor, PriCellular. Coordinated legislative and regulatory efforts to minimize federal and state efforts to regulate company, while ensuring compliance on the federal level and in ten states with various legal and regulatory requirements. Assumed integral role in negotiation, acquisition and divestiture of wireless properties, including sale of the Company. Managed securities compliance, including quarterly and yearly SEC filings. Played integral role in the acquisition and divestiture of wireless properties, including sale of ACC.

Managed strategic, policy and legal relationships of a wireless data technology company for 5F investment group, including employment, manufacturing, strategic alliances, corporate and securities, regulatory, intellectual property, and litigation. Managed regulatory and legislative issues at the federal and state level, including financing, new product testing, infrastructure build-out, and spectrum acquisition.

Provided business and legal advice to clients, including MCI Wireless, Corporate Development, and internetMCI; negotiated business relationships, including acquisitions and licensing; advised on federal and state regulatory issues; analyzed and drafted transactions; performed corporate due diligence on significant acquisitions; successfully conducted trials; hearings; arbitration; and numerous favorable settlement negotiations. Negotiated and documented network technology purchases of almost $1 billion per year. Successfully defended major shareholder securities suit. Collected almost $1 million per year from failed transactions and uncollected accounts. Performed due diligence and negotiated acquisition of $1 billion satellite license and subsequent joint venture, acquisition of MCI Wireless and other business units

Juris Doctor Cum Laude, Securities, Corporate, Litigation, Telecommunications

Activities and Societies: Editorial Board, Georgia Law Review, ATLA Mock Trial Champion

Bs In Commerce, Accounting,Management, History, Speech

Activities and Societies: Mc Intire School of Commerce, B.S. in Commerce with Honors, A.C.C. Champion in Track, Beta Alpha Psi, National.