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Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

• Senior Contract Specialist | Corporate Paralegal
• Established strong cross-functional relationships with internal and external stakeholders to negotiate key company contracts, vetting and process improvements and mitigation of risk exposure.
• Redlined, drafted, and negotiated domestic and international contracts, including master services agreements (MSAs), statements of work (SOWs), nondisclosure agreements (NDAs), consulting agreements, software as a.
• Negotiated contracts and established processes with specialty movers for multiple site moves.
• Negotiated business associate agreement (BAAs), US data privacy addenda and GDPR data processing agreements (DPAs), and standard contractual clauses (SCCs) as needed.
• Trained administrative staff to review new contracts requests and triage for pre-contractual requirements.

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

• Negotiated commercial contracts capital, consumables, SaaS, consulting, and related privacy documents.
• Created contract solutions that minimized risk and provided value to Philips and customers.
• Supported customer fulfillment center and proposal center for requests for proposals (RFPs), requests for information (RFIs), and requests for quotations (RFQs).
• Implemented and recommended improvements of policies and processes to ensure that proposals, contracts, and purchase orders aligned with company's business controls, policies, and procedures.
• Advised management of contractual rights, obligations, and terms and conditions, identifying risks.
• Trained sales team, customer fulfillment center, and proposal developers to ensure consistent application of corporate policies and procedures.

Marlborough, Massachusetts, United States

• Reviewed incoming requests for investigator-sponsored research proposals and grants (proposals, budgets, and protocol) for various domestic and international academic and research institutions in Interventional.
• Performed fair market value reviews, drafted and negotiated contracts, including payment structure, and made payments to grant recipients pursuant to contract terms.
• Audited, scrubbed, enhanced, and maintained internal database.
• Maintained company database and made payments to investigators.
• After contracts were executed, entered contracts into the company database.
• Created contract templates for the US and Canada, adding required privacy language.

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

• Worked on behalf of Robert Half biotech and pharmaceutical clients.
• Negotiated clinical trial, healthcare provider, institutional, and vendor contracts.
• Audited, scrubbed, and verified existing contract databases.
• Created contract templates for the US and Canada, adding required privacy language.

Quincy, Massachusetts, United States

• Negotiated contracts, including SaaS, real estate, marketing, supply, and services.
• Consolidated company real estate and capital assets under corporate control, negotiated rental agreements, increased rental income, and reduced exposure.
• Implemented, populated, and managed comprehensive contract management system.
• Liaised with law enforcement agencies for subpoenas and fraud and identity theft matters.
• Managed acquisition of real estate and corporate governance matters, including the acquisition of MetroCast.

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

• Prepared and revised clinical trial and vendor contracts, collaborating with Procurement, stakeholders, and Legal on any changes to terms and conditions.
• Designed base master service agreement with schedules for SaaS, transfer material agreements, etc.
• Created audit file for each contract, memorializing negotiated terms.
• Created playbook for contracts review and drafting.

Woburn, Massachusetts, United States

• Performed lease abstractions and identified issues in American Tower’s acquisition of Verizon’s towers.
• Created lease abstraction manual and standard summary templates for team to ensure standardized abstractions, quality, and consistency.
• Drafted and reviewed amendments, LOIs, estoppels, SNDAs, and license agreements.

Salem, NH

• Created centralized corporate and contract database and established data room for financing transactions.
• Assembled and created board minutes for domestic and foreign holdings.
• Reviewed domestic and international contracts for key terms and provisions.

Waltham, Massachusetts, United States

• Performed global subsidiary compliance and entity management, including annual filings, formation, merger and dissolution of legal entities, and support of corporate tax department on tax-related reorganizations.
• Streamlined corporate governance of multiple international subsidiaries by standardizing bylaws.
• Assisted in due diligence and integration of target acquisitions with M&A department.
• Transitioned corporate entity management system.

Bachelor'S Degree, Criminal Justice/Paralegal

Activities and Societies: Dean's List; Outstanding Student Academic Year Department of Justice & Public SafetyParalegal Certification/.

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Finance, General, 4.0 -

Did not finish program due to military transfer