Experience

Skills

Legal advising, advising senior leaders, technology risk assessing and advising, negotiating complex commercial transactions, program design, project management, change management, technology implementation, risk mitigation, operations consulting, business startup, teaching, training, cross-functional collaboration, data privacy and security, AI and emerging technologies

Highlights: Projects & Outcomes

(1) Developed the City of Chattanooga’s first contract intake and management program, leading to improved support to City departments, decreased time to contract execution and the ability to track renewals and other performance metrics.

(2) Redesigned the global records retention policy to support a more data-focused organization.

(3) Led the development of the company’s first information governance policy program resulting in increased focus on effective data management and socialization of best practices in information governance across the organization.

(4) Redesigned Legal’s mobile application governance process, leading to decreased review time for mobile applications and increased speed to market for new mobile application products.

Roles

2019-Present

Senior Commercial Counsel - Fortune 500 company

Greater Chicago Area

2019-2021

Global IT Counsel - Fortune 500 Company

Greater Chicago Area

2018-2019

Information Governance Counsel - Fortune 500 Company

Greater Chicago Area

2015-2018

Assistant City Attorney & Strategic Program Lead - Local Government

Chattanooga, TN

2014-2015

Project Manager/Business Analyst - Local Government

Chattanooga, TN

2010-2014

Legal Counsel and Chief Operations Officer - Small Business Start-up

Chicago, IL

2010-2012

Instructor - Community College and Public University

Chicago, IL

2007-2009

Associate Attorney - AmLaw 100 Firm

Chicago, IL

2005-2007

Fellow - National Fellowship Organization

Chicago, IL

Speaking/Presentations

“Risk, Privacy and Our Increasingly Digital Lives”, Association for Business Communication International Convention

“Leadership and Difficult Decisions”, University of Illinois at Chicago Women’s Leadership Symposium

“Big Data and Privacy: The Legal Landscape Affecting Corporate Research”, Corporate Researcher’s Conference

Smart Contracting, Information Governance Conference (InfoGov Con)

Diversity in the Information Professions, Information Governance Conference (InfoGov Con)

Training

Commercial Contracting

Data Privacy and Security

Education

University of Illinois at Chicago, graduate coursework in Management Information Systems (cybersecurity focus)

University of Chicago Law School, Juris Doctor (law degree)

Duke University, Bachelor of Arts, English Literature

Licensure/Certifications

Law license, state of IL (active)

Law license, state of TN (inactive)

Strategic Change Management, Northwestern University Kellogg School of Business

Lean Six Sigma, Emory University

Publications

“Achieving Sustainable Data Governance.” ILTA Peer to Peer Magazine, Fall 2017

Committees/Associations

International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) Publications Advisory Board (2018-2020)

Vice-Chair, AI/Robotics Programming Committee, American Bar Association (2018-2021)

International Legal Technology Association (ILTA) Regional Lead (2016-2018)