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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 divisions, Executive and Senior Vice Presidents, Vice Presidents, Plant Managers, Controllers, Human Resources Managers, and facility personnel.• 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.• Intellectual Property: Protected the company’s intellectual property by registering and policing the use of trade names and marks. • Work Product Ownership: Negotiated and drafted agreements for software development and computer systems and work for hire agreements that assured proper ownership of end products.• Human Resources: Eliminated litigation costs by successfully responding to employee claims of alleged discrimination in both state and federal forums and providing counsel for employee matters.

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 personnel.• 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 with the President, Outside Sales, Customer Service, Plant Manager, Department Mangers, vendors, and plant personnel.• 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 manufacturing and sales.

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