Managed team of attorneys and paralegals responsible for supporting senior executives and their organizations relating to intellectual property, patent portfolio, open source, cloud services, third-party ecosystems, mergers and acquisitions, technology transactions, employee matters, standards, strategic alliances, litigation, privacy, and other matters involving intellectual property. Provided deep expertise for M&A including divestiture of RSA for $2.075B. Mentored and trained attorneys and managed outside counsel. Assisted with strategy and planning for merged IP practice. Led integration teams in development of policies and processes. Provided IP litigation support. Businesses supported include Data Domain, Avamar, eCDA, DSSD, Isilon, Elastic Cloud Storage, Enterprise Hybrid Cloud, Converged Platforms, Midrange storage, Networking, and emerging cloud services (XaaS) offerings.

Led IP team in divestiture of the Enterprise Content Management Division to Open Text for $1.65B. Managed team of attorneys and paralegals responsible for supporting senior executives and their organizations relating to intellectual property, patent portfolio, open source, third-party ecosystems, mergers and acquisitions, technology transactions, employee matters, standards, strategic alliances, litigation, and other matters involving intellectual property. Supported company’s transition from traditional IT infrastructure market to 3rd platform including cloud and open source, and efforts to standardize contracts and business models for IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, and other cloud services offerings. Co-chair of open source program. Businesses supported include Data Domain, Avamar, Syncplicity, DSSD, Maginatics, Mozy, Documentum, and Pivotal/Greenplum, covering technologies such as deduplication, backup, flash, cloud, virtualization, content management, Hadoop, Internet of Things, online file synchronization and sharing, mobile, and big data.

Responsible for company's patents, copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets. Registered patent attorney, building Legato's patent portfolio and managing the intellectual property program. Responsible for patent litigation, and providing intellectual property expertise to development and licensing groups. Provided IP expertise in M&A and technology acquisitions. Assisted General Counsel in various other areas.

Responsible for all legal matters, including intellectual property, corporate law, employment, immigration, licensing, and IP transactions. Developed IP strategy and patent portfolio, negotiated licenses and development agreements, and drafted board minutes, corporate records, company policies, and employee handbook. Advised in corporate financing and prepared documents for option grants, stock sales, stock transfers, and warrants. Company merged into CellExchange of Cambridge, MA in August 2000. Served as General Counsel with similar responsibilities, as well as providing intellectual property expertise to company affiliates.

Patent prosecution, patent litigation, technology licensing, corporate work.