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United States

Ardmore, Pennsylvania, United States

Ardmore, Pennsylvania, United States

Lead legal support for Amdocs Software as a Service Division including five Amdocs subsidiaries, Vindicia, Inc., OpenMarket, Inc., projekt202, LLC, Kenzan, LLC and UXP Systems, Inc. Remotely manage a team of attorneys and legal professionals in the United States and the United Kingdom responsible for negotiating and drafting outbound worldwide professional services and SaaS arrangements; collaborate with Amdocs executives to establish and implement responsive policies and procedures for effective legal support; provide overall legal strategy and programmatic support to the Amdocs SaaS/Design Division. Professional highlights and accomplishments include:- Develop and implement international strategy around data privacy, including finalizing template Data Processing Addenda and security terms to be used in commercial transactions where European Union consumer data is accessed.- Lead attorney for the development of transactional templates and protocol for Amdocs SaaS subsidiaries co-sell opportunities. - Collaborate with Amdocs legal and finance teams for the implementation of a new contract management system.

Dhahran, Saudi Arabia

Member of the Law Department's Corporate and Commercial practice area supporting Saudi Aramco's various business units with technology licensing and general commercial procurement activities, as well as select corporate functions. Key focus is reviewing, drafting, and negotiating sophisticated software licenses and software as a service offerings, and other technologies, on behalf of the Information Technology Department and the Exploration and Production Computer Center. Additional responsibilities include managing the work flow through the Contracting Department and developing efficiencies across the business as well as supporting all corporate matters related to one of Saudi Aramco's in-kingdom wholly owned subsidiaries.

United States

Remotely manage and serve as escalation resource for a team of attorneys responsible for negotiating and drafting outbound licensing, professional services and SaaS arrangements for the U.S. and Canada; collaborate with worldwide sales executives to establish and implement responsive policies and procedures for effective commercial legal support. Professional highlights and accomplishments include:- Coordinate the identification and assignment of commercial agreements from HPE to Micro Focus during the purchase of the Hewlett Packard Enterprise software business unit in 2017.- Review, analyze and develop new Micro Focus standard templates.- Assist with the integration of the legacy HPE and Micro Focus departments.- Work with CFO for the approval of various risk provisions for large outbound commercial transactions.

Remotely manage and serve as escalation resource for a team of attorneys responsible for negotiating and drafting outbound licensing, professional services and SaaS arrangements for the U.S. and Canada; collaborate with worldwide sales executives to establish and implement responsive policies and procedures for effective commercial legal support; provide overall legal strategy and programmatic support to the worldwide Alliances and Channels business unit. • Create, staff, and oversee a new legal group within the Office of General Counsel in Bangalore, India to provide worldwide, pan-HPE support for commercial transactions.• Develop transactional templates and protocol for outbound SaaS and software products used to support HPE’s SaaS offerings. • Direct focus groups across the Office of General Counsel on topics such as go to market support, new product introduction, marketing, and mergers and acquisitions, to increase collaboration and best practices.• Develop and implement worldwide, pan-HPE policies in response to the invalidation of Safe Harbor provisions.• Coordinate the identification and assignment of commercial agreements to HPE during the separation of Hewlett-Packard Company in 2015.

Negotiate and draft enterprise-wide outbound licensing and SaaS arrangements; establish and implement legal policies and procedures; advise on overall legal strategy to the Alliances and Channels business unit. • Successful closure of multiple enterprise license agreements for security software and support with international financial institutions. • Creation of transactional templates and processes for outbound SaaS and software products used by HP’s Big Data and Marketing Optimization worldwide business units. • Development of Alliances and Channels worldwide business unit strategy for competition law compliance during distributor qualification.• Implementation of processes and training of HP’s enterprise legal group (50+ attorneys and negotiators) to identify and mitigate unfavorable IP ownership provisions in development and services agreements.

Poptent is a start-up, technology business that focuses on the development, production, and distribution of digital content in the entertainment and advertising space by and through its proprietary technology platform. Member of the executive team responsible for all areas of legal function comprised of drafting and negotiating complex commercial transaction and licensing agreements, including service, procurement, production and distribution agreements, supporting the technology platform - www.poptent.com, reviewing and clearing content, drafting and negotiating talent, music and location releases and third party licenses, maintaining intellectual property, vetting third party intellectual property, supporting operations, sales and marketing efforts, managing litigation, drafting and updating corporate polices, overseeing human relations and compliance issues, developing risk management strategy, and maintaining internal and external privacy policies. • Successfully negotiated a long-term agreement with leading etailer to provide content for distribution through etailer’s and select influencers’ YouTube channels.• Drafted and negotiated an agreement with a Fortune 100 business for the production and distribution of advertising content for air during the Super Bowl.• Procured master agreement with online music provider for licensed music to be incorporated into content to be distributed through various media channels.• Developed click through upstream and downstream agreements accessed through www.poptent.com for the production and distribution of content through social media channels.

Greater Philadelphia Area

ARAMARK is a $13 billion plus/year international food and facilities services management business. Lead corporate counsel for southeast, southern and mid-Atlantic regions of the higher education business unit earning greater than $1 billion/year in revenue and counsel to Seamless North America, LLC (a $250 million plus/year online and mobile food ordering business) with regard to intellectual property and licensing issues. • Won a $500 million ten-year food service contract bid for a public university in competition with Compass and Sodexo. • Successfully negotiated a master licensing agreement with an international coffee specialty enterprise thereby expanding ARAMARK’s domestic business for the brand by 40%.• Secured ARAMARK’s first international franchise venture in the “non-traditional” retail space. • Developed innovative mobile food truck licensing program that was rolled out to ten major universities.• Drafted Terms of Use and Privacy Policy for www.seamless.com. • Remedied compliance issues with certified minority owned business enterprises for goods and services.

Pepper Hamilton is a multi-practice law firm with more than 500 lawyers nationally.Practice concentrated in the areas of corporate reorganizations, debtors’ and creditors’ rights and business litigation. • Led a nationally recognized wireless phone company through chapter 11 bankruptcy resulting in a successful sale of the company’s wireless spectrum.• Prosecuted scores of preference and fraudulent transfer complaints and other adversary proceedings on behalf of debtor manufacturing company.• Recovered monies from a bankrupt cyber charter school on behalf of the creditors’ committee.

Drinker Biddle is a multi-practice law firm with more than 650 lawyers nationally.Practice concentrated in the areas of bankruptcy and business litigation. • Represented secured creditor through manufacturer bankruptcy.• Responsible for defending creditors from preference and fraudulent transfer complaints.• Represented firm on bankruptcy matters in Delaware bankruptcy court.

J.D., Law

Ab, Anthropology

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