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Providing effective and timely solutions to clients most pressing legal and business concerns.

• A $500,000,000 per year commercial printer and provider of graphic arts, photography, and prepress services, with 2,100 employees; reporting to the Chairman & CEO and interacting daily with the CFO, Presidents of two.
• Chief Legal Officer: Reduced legal department costs by over $350,000 per year through increased legal department productivity and closely monitoring engagement of outside counsel.
• Bankruptcy & Merger: Prepared the company legally for bankruptcy and merger that reduced the debt of the surviving company by $1,000,000,000.
• Negotiation: Successfully negotiated agreements with retailers and prominent newspapers, including a $20,000,000 multiyear agreement with a nationally known newspaper in Washington D.C.
• Contracts: Managed and enforced multiyear contracts and legal relationships with nationwide retailers, including an agreement that withstood an attempt to purchase over $5,000,000 of work from a competitor.
• Litigation: Obtained a favorable quoted decision from the Tennessee Appellate Court regarding the duty of buyers to timely inspect goods received.

• A $30,000,000 per year binder products manufacturer with 300 employees; reporting to the President and interacting daily with Plant Managers and Supervisors, Inside Sales, Purchasing, Shipping and Receiving, and plant.
• Scheduling: Coordinated the on-time manufacturing and shipping of $2,500,000 of products each month by designing and implementing the company’s first centralized scheduling system.
• Team Building: Formed department supervisors into a production team focused on meeting deadlines, which increased productivity and improved employee and supervisor morale.
• Process Improvement: Eliminated weekly meetings involving senior managers by producing and maintaining reliable production schedules that facilitated timely resolution of production issues.

• A $7,000,000 per year advertising specialty and vinyl products manufacturing and sales company with 100 employees; reporting to the CFO, Vice President of Manufacturing and Vice President of Sales and interacting daily.
• Operations: Coordinated the on-time production and shipping of over $250,000 of products each month by overseeing reliable production scheduling and providing accurate information to and from production supervisors.
• Scheduling: Created and implemented the company’s first Scheduling Department, which decreased waste in materials and time and provided early resolution of production issues and greater coordination between.

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B.A, Speech; Management, Economics And General Business Classes