* Corporate Counsel at Capital One, working on exciting legal issues related to disruptive banking products and technological innovations that requires creative and proactive legal guidance. *Collaboratively working with business partners and product teams on initiatives that influence all aspects of the Capital One Canadian branch.*Drafting and negotiating diverse range of commercial agreements, including enterprise, professional services, and other business and technology agreements, and assisting with product go-to-market initiatives, marketing activities, and regulatory matters. *Responding to a wide variety of legal requests from internal clients, summarizing and communicating legal concepts that business people can use. *Advising business colleagues and other cross-functional stakeholders on legal issues and risks, approval processes, company policies and procedures, and related strategy.*Coordinating with external legal counsel, review preliminary advice and provide internal recommendations.*Supporting the continuous improvement of standard form agreements, legal processes, and repositories of legal knowledge.

• Project manager for multi-phased technology engagement with global solution vendor; drafted market analysis report, built sample data set, and assisted in the development of a Business Requirements Documents (BRD) for proof-of-concept.• Assisted with the design of transaction monitoring remediation program with senior executives for global financial institution, including detailed critical path work plan, operating model while identifying opportunities for increased productivity using technology. • Built Enterprise-wide risk assessment methodology based on Canadian, US and international regulatory guidance.

• Project manager for 14-month remediation for global financial institution with strict regulatory-specified timelines; engaged with senior executives to develop and implement operating model, governance framework and provided advisory services on Canadian and US anti-money laundering legislation; led to several sold spin-off engagements. • Advised Canadian financial institutions on regulatory and legislative requirements related to client identification requirements, know-your-customer requirements, record-keeping requirements, ongoing monitoring requirements and consumer privacy considerations. • Drafted client compliance programs and updated applicable policies and procedures, in addition to designing in-house training programs for all levels of management and staff.

• Regulatory Compliance Management (RCM) – Led and managed eighteen (18) RCMs for all CM Lines of Business (LOBs), including AML regulatory inventories for Canada, United Kingdom, Ireland, China, Hong Kong, Singapore and USA. • Identified and mapped all key controls to regulations, in addition to suggesting process improvements and highlighting inadequate or ineffective controls to meet regulatory expectations. • Led various regulatory compliance and audit issues to closure through project plan development, action plan execution, and sustainability validation. • Maintained strong working relationships with senior management by presenting current state risk and compliance assessments, in addition to leading the resolution of any material regulatory control gaps/changes. • Supported the completion of ad-hoc regulatory requests within tight timelines.

• Issue Management – Creating project plans with stakeholders from both the First and Second Lines of Defence to remediate identified CM AML regulatory compliance risks. • Managed regulatory issues, risk events and mitigation plans related to a broad spectrum of laws and regulations. • Analyzed regulatory issues and developments, evaluating impact on applicable business processes, and collaborating with CM LOB partners on the implementation of issue and risk mitigation efforts. • Worked with management to determine root cause, impact of regulatory issues, and assessment of risk exposure to CM LOBs. • Advised, analyzed, and assisted in process engineering and documentation to provide evidence of compliance and issue remediation. • Conduct cross comparisons between business practices with regulatory and internal requirements in order to self-identify weak control designs or lack of control in procedures.

• Mid-sized law firm specializing in civil litigation, corporate/commercial law, tax and estate litigation. • Assisted with several domestic and international corporate transactions, including international exclusive distribution agreements, non-disclosure and non-solicitation agreements, and joint venture agreements. • Managed closing agendas for major transactions and effectively communicated complex legal issues to executive-level clients. • Successfully presented cases at civil motions, case conferences, settlement meetings, and pre-hearings at the Financial Services Commission of Ontario (FSCO), Ontario Courts of Justice, Youth Court, and Superior Courts of Justice.

• Amended corporate guarantee agreements, general security agreements, and debenture instruments for large technology-consulting firm. • Conducted due diligence related to commercial transactions. • Drafted materials and appeared at various civil litigation motions.

• Conducted inter-jurisdictional legal policy research, and provided comparative analysis of global health equity trends. • Prepared detailed financial and operational reports required by governmental funding sources.• Contributed to: • Runnels et al, "Recruiting foreign trained health human resources: Practices and perceptions of Canadian health organization recruiters", Globalization & Health Equity, Institute of Population Health (Univ. of Ottawa, 2010). http://www.globalhealthequity.ca/webfm_send/38• Runnels, V. (2012), "Local Food Policies and Charters in Canada: A Collection and a Guide for Analysis." Ottawa: Population Health Improvement Research Network Working Paper Series, Institute of Population Health, University of Ottawa.

• Researched and presented a comprehensive report on recent Canadian case law and legislation on human rights and equality issues.

• Analyzed civil litigation files for mediations, pre-trials, and settlement meetings and advised legal counsel on issues relating to liability, evidence, and the application of relevant legislation leading to a number of successful settlements.

• Caseworker in the Women’s Division responsible for assisting women who have experienced violence, with an emphasis on making applications and appearing before the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board.

• One of the co-founders of the Women's Legal Mentorship Program (WLMP), which is a comprehensive legal mentorship program developed by women studying law at the University of Ottawa. The goal of the WLMP is to help women develop a support system that will help them throughout their legal careers.• The program — the first of its kind in Ontario — facilitates peer-to-peer mentorship, student-lawyer mentorship and professional development workshops.