• Surface Transportation & Critical Infrastructures
• Drafted, interpreted, and managed large, sensitive, and complex contract documents.
• Oversew multiple contract negotiations for the organization.
• Implemented significant improvements to processes to enhance company performance and effectiveness.
• Provided guidance, interpretation, and advice to senior management, commercial sales teams, finance, etc. regarding rights, obligations and risks associated with contract provisions as well as means to mitigate contractual and program risks.
• Participated in and conducted front-end assessments of all program activities to providing proper contract acquisition and fulfillment in accordance with company policies, legal requirements, and specifications.

• Front-line role in negotiating, drafting and administering complex commercial arrangements with customers and suppliers.
• Provide contracting insight in industrial equipment, construction or utility projects, drafting and negotiating equipment sale agreements, construction agreements, software licensing agreements, procurement agreements and a variety of other commercial arrangements.
• Provide contractual support in making commercial offers and RFP responses.
• Continually create contract templates and policies.
• Establish and manage escrow policy and procedures.
• Cradle to grave contract drafting and negotiation related to development and partnership opportunities.

Oversaw domestic and international legal departments through acquisitions under the Omnitracs transportation software and hardware portfolio, typically aligning legal and contractual support with Sales, R & D, Customer
Service, Professional Services, Finance, Marketing, HR and Facilities.
• Negotiated and drafted all legal agreements, templates, correspondence, and many other nuances of the organization, interacting regularly with outside and in-house legal counsel of customers.
• Contract models encompass both hardware and software as well as professional services. Omnitracs offers a variety of products and purchase/lease plans, providing a very wide array of legal and contractual interactions.
• Creatively mitigated risk at all levels with a sales-oriented focus, often maneuvering and navigating language around insurance, indemnification, liability, warranties, delivery terms as well as other high visibility risk factors.
• In depth experience writing, negotiating and reviewing non-disclosure agreements, license agreements, master agreements, partner agreements, distribution agreements (resellers, agents, joint marketing, etc.), corporate governance matters and securities filings.
• Positioned the business, from a contractual management perspective, for acquisition activity, including streamlining, risk mitigation and assessment.

• Established and negotiated agreements for new pursuits and emerging commercial programs.
• Drove strategy, capturing and facilitating collaborative efforts to close assertion claims and bringing resolution.
• Played a key role in accelerating the process for simplification of legal operations procedures by identifying areas of improvement and implementing a strategy to revise the current processes and procedures.

Provide entire range of contract management for offices in New York, New Jersey, Philadelphia, Massachusetts,
Pennsylvania, Washington, D.C., and Virginia;
• Restructured entire contracting process, including the creation of new contract templates;
• Established and maintained auditable physical and electronic filing systems;
• Negotiated multi-million dollar customer and vendor contracts while mitigating risks as it pertains to liability, confidentiality, etc., such vendors and partners include Verizon Communications, Microsoft, Google, XO Communications, and Lexis Nexis;
• Provided daily advice to sales staff as well as Vice Presidents, Chief Operating Officer, and Chief Executive Officer;
• Assumed management of all customer and vendor contracts and negotiations though six acquired companies and oversaw the assignment of those companies while taking advantage of vendor services and competitive pricing;
• Possess a wealth of experience in writing and negotiating master services agreements, business associate agreements, reseller agreements, HIPPA compliance agreements, non-disclosure agreements, vendor agreements, customer contracts, termination agreements and related policies.

• Responsible for supporting the Grant Thornton LLP, Global Public Sector (GPS) business unit;
• All contracting done in accordance with FAR and DFAR regulations.
• Issue, review, negotiate and execute non-disclosure agreements and teaming agreements;
• Responsible for basic contract close out;
• Led negotiations with subcontractors throughout all phases of federal and non-federal procurements;
• Negotiation experience with companies in prime and subcontractor roles;
• Experience in time and material, labor hour and firm fixed price type contracts and subcontracts;
• Assisted with solicitation (RFP and RFQ) review, making risk assessment and identify proposal requirements.

• Liaison between World Bank and Development Gateway Foundation with regard to the grant making process;
• Collaborated and negotiated grant language with the World Bank;
• Oversaw grant process from the initial documentation, certifications and other pertinent materials from various countries in which grants are to be given through closeout;
• Facilitated ongoing correspondence with Country Gateways as the grant process was carried out, assisting them with addressing questions and concerns;
• Drafted and negotiated intern agreements, topic guide agreements, institutional and pro-bono guide agreements, as well as Non-Disclosure agreements;
• Oversaw legal interns;
• Prepared Annual Report Filings and Tax Exemption renewal filings;
• Researched and abided by Anti-terrorism laws regarding the countries which received grants;
• Reviewed and contributed to the drafting and implementation of the Employee handbook, Secondee handbook, and the Secondee policy;
• Implemented a contracts database;
• Key member of coordination team, reviewing economic standards in the respective countries and relating those standards to a submitted business plan outlining the use of future grant funds to be provided.

• Draft and review numerous agreements, contracts, leases, orders of court, and memoranda;
• Prepare and draft multiple forms of client correspondence;
• Maintain and originate new client or matter materials;
• Prepare incorporation documents for small entities, including maintenance of minute books, drafting bylaws, preparing stock certificates and filing Internal Revenue documents;
• Prepare and maintain franchise offering circulars including various addenda and attachments necessary for registration in numerous states on behalf of nationally recognized Bruster's Ice Cream and Donut Connection franchises;
• Assist in drafting of estate planning and administration documents including Wills, Living Wills and Powers of Attorney, as well as executing the transfer and sale of stock.

• Created and maintained client-specific reports and databases;
• Responsible for initiating the initial stages of profiling for new matters;
• Researched Internet infringement and copyright violations for World Wrestling Federation Entertainment Inc.