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Denver County, Colorado, United States

Richardson, Tx

Applying over twenty years' of experience with most types of B2B commercial agreements, working for attorneys as a paralegal focused on contracts. Also work for corporate contract groups that answer to an attorney.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Support previous client engaged in digital video and still photography production as an employee, working with outside counsel to bridge the time until the new parent company can complete re-organization of several acquisitions and centralize contract services at the New York Headquarters. * Re-structured Contractor Agreement Template for the parent company that was flawed, lacking basic “pass through” protection* Aided in the parent company’s negotiation of a Master Service Agreement and Statements of Work with a major vendor located in Sweden. Helped navigate between well-structured commercial terms for the parent and the Swedish preference for “light” agreements* Ongoing initial review of SOWs, working with production and sales staffs to resolve errors prior to review by counsel. Reviewing markups and recommending counter proposals for counsel’s use* Checking the production and commercial requirements then conforming them to proper SOW language saving iterations while reducing risk * While under the direct supervision of outside counsel, set priorities for the counsel’s work based on required timing for projects

Richardson, Tx

Built a successful solo consulting business with helping small- to medium-sized companies create commercially viable, win-win contracts even when dealing with much larger entities.* Structured, prepared, reviewed, marked-up and negotiated business-to-business agreements including Subcontractor, Software Licenses, Master Sales, Master Service, OEM (outsourcing) Agreements, Software/ Software as a Service (SaaS) licenses and Statements of Work (with SLAs) for dozens of companies, where the transactions were worth from several thousand dollars to $20,000,000 in value* Managed the finalization of all SOWs for many clients (from a few hundred dollars to $1,000,000 in value each), liaising with sales, creative contributors, subject matter experts and management to assure the documents met the client’s requirements and were error free. * Reduced SOW turnaround times from days or weeks to hoursWe are experienced in commercial sales/service contracts and licenses, strategic alliances such as development and OEM agreements, and master agreements of all kinds. We also understand the protection of intellectual property for technical arrangements, and parameters that will make commercial agreements functional and a win-win for both parties. Effective Agreements services include:* Structuring the business arrangement * Drafting templates or one-time use documents* Markups and comments of incoming drafts* Crafting negotiating strategies* Negotiations Management teams are always kept informed of the contract business terms and their trade-offs so informed decisions result. Our comprehensive approach to contracts and agreements of all types and sizes, along with our fast turnaround times, allow senior management to maintain focus on the core business without being distracted by the contract process.

Richardson, Tx

Vice President responsible for funding, commercial agreements, software licensing and intellectual property matters. * Reviewed and negotiated dozens of commercial agreements with telecommunications customers such as Fujitsu* Managed the raise of $15,200,000 (“B” Round) from four venture capital firms, analyzing term sheets and successfully negotiating the funding agreements

Richardson, Tx

Built a successful solo consulting business with helping small- to medium-sized companies create commercially viable, win-win contracts even when dealing with much larger entities.* Structured, prepared, reviewed, marked-up and negotiated business-to-business agreements including Subcontractor, Software Licenses, Master Sales, Master Service, OEM (outsourcing) Agreements, Software/ Software as a Service (SaaS) licenses and Statements of Work (with SLAs) for dozens of companies, where the transactions were worth from several thousand dollars to $20,000,000 in value* Managed the finalization of all SOWs for many clients (from a few hundred dollars to $1,000,000 in value each), liaising with sales, creative contributors, subject matter experts and management to assure the documents met the client’s requirements and were error free. * Reduced SOW turnaround times from days or weeks to hours

Plano, Tx

Worldwide responsibility for acquisitions, divestitures and strategic alliances. Managed transactions totaling over $480,000,000 in U.S., South America, Europe and Asia. In charge of all due diligence, financial analysis and negotiation of acquisition and divestiture definitive agreements. Established department as center of expertise for all strategic contracts, especially those dealing with intellectual property such as OEM agreements; and strategic distribution contracts. Led due diligence teams then structured and negotiated complex international acquisitions or alliances in Denmark, England, Ireland, Brazil, India, Germany, Holland, Israel, and Italy.* Allowed DSC to purchase companies before much larger competitors interested in the same targets could organize their effort* Instituted a cross-functional team approach to the due diligence process that reduced acquisition times by several weeks and led to a much better-than-average success rate* Trained in Karrass negotiating techniques* Streamlined financial analysis of targets, tripling deal flow

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Critical financial analysis and evaluations presented in monthly oral reports to the chairman of the board and his staff. White paper adding to decision to divest LTV Energy Products. Creation of data rooms and supervision of data room visits by potential buyers. Structuring and negotiation of divestitures from LTV Energy Products, with annual revenues of $600,000,000.

Served as manager of both the domestic and Latin American financial analysis groups. Produced voluminous written monthly reports for NL management. Supervised automation of the annual financial plan submitted to corporate. One of the first adopters of the PC as a tool, mechanizing the Latin American reporting and lessening production time from days to hours.

Responsible for any and all financial analysis assignments. Became the sole financial analyst on new product pricing. Assigned to input financial data into the corporate MIS system when such systems were rare and most analysts resisted working with the software. Served as advisor to the UK-based MIS group replacing the corporate reporting package, and helped them adapt the system to U. S. GAAP.

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Psychology

Activities and Societies: Student Government, Chief Justice - University Court. Fellow - Wiess CollegeFellows were in charge of new.

Mba, Finance

MBA with a major in Finance