Attorney

Email: **************@*****.***

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--- QUALIFICATIONS PROFILE

Competent, analytical, and dynamic legal professional, interested to pursue a career in providing counsel and litigation support. Equipped with in-depth understanding of the law, as well as its complexities and procedures. Well-versed on legal issues; with expertise in collecting, organizing, and analyzing legal data and documents. Knowledgeable in various aspects of legal functions to ensure smooth operations in the law office, corporate legal environment, and the courtroom.

--- AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Litigation and Electronic Discovery ~ Research and Legal Writing ~ Contract Review and Negotiation

Contract Management ~ Client Engagement and Management

--- EDUCATION

UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI SCHOOL OF LAW - CORAL GABLES, FL

Juris Doctor (2008)

JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY - BALTIMORE, MD

Master of Science in Technical Management (2005)

- Relevant Coursework: Technical Group Management, Financial/Contract Management, and Management of Technical Organizations

JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY - BALTIMORE, MD

Master of Science in Information Systems and Technology (2000)

- Master’s thesis focused on creating a neural network that analyzed bidding behavior produced by the spectrum auctions held by the Federal Communications Commission during the late 1990’s

UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND - COLLEGE PARK, MD

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science (1996)

UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND - COLLEGE PARK, MD

Bachelor of Arts in Economics (1996)

--- CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

- Delivered exemplary performance in managing and leading pre-litigation activities for corporation, which included discovery, document collection, depositions and internal investigations; managing external law firms; providing information to opposing counsel; working with all key departments within corporation on all logistical requirements in preparation for trial.

- Successfully developed and managed a new infrastructure (electronic discovery system) for corporation’s legal work.

- Served as senior engineer in spearheading a U.S. government agency’s first (unified) quality assurance program which included design, code review, change control, configuration and release management for its database platform; which significantly reduced costs.

--- LEGAL EXPERIENCE

NOTABLE SOLUTIONS, INC. - ROCKVILLE, MD

Attorney and Senior Technical Writer 2009-Present

- Assumed full responsibility in managing contract and litigation matters which focused on electronic discovery.

- Collaborated with senior software engineers on patent applications.

- Reported directly to Chief Executive Officer for legal matters, and to Vice President of Engineering for software and documentation matters.

- Played a vital role in negotiating, developing, and providing guidance on technology transfer arrangements, joint ventures, and technology development agreements, collaboration agreements, securitization of intellectual property rights, intellectual property acquisitions, intellectual property strategy and license agreements.

- Created standardized format and infrastructure to manage software documentation. Coordinated with software developers and product managers in the development of software requirements for proposed products.

LAW OFFICES OF MARK ALLEN EGNER - MIAMI, FL

Law Clerk 2007-2008

- Administered duly assigned tasks in conducting research and writing motions, pleadings, responses, and client correspondences; while providing support with pre-suit activities, discovery, and other aspects of litigation.

- Developed and maintained professional client relationships to update them regarding the status of their cases.

- Efficiently created an electronic database of cases to restructure current case management which involved the development of software to catalogue firm’s paper records and files to an easily accessible catalogue, with each case summarized in a single report.

--- ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE

FREDDIE MAC - MCLEAN, VA

Operations Lead 2004-2005

- Managed and administered accounting-database systems and provided 24/7 support to key business departments.

SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION - WASHINGTON, DC

Senior Systems Engineer 2001-2003

- Served as an integral member of the database team that won the Best New Team Award while providing senior guidance for all database platform issues for the government agency.

THE ELECTRONIC NEWSSTAND - ROSSLYN, VA

Technology Manager 2000-2001

- Provided expert oversight to entire database platform and e-commerce start-up operations.

- Contributed to management by bringing corporate-style organization to chaotic albeit creative environment by formulating procedural requirements for the technology group, as well as developed standards for other departments.

MICROSTRATEGY, INC. - MCLEAN, VA

Database Team Lead 2000

- Conducted research and wrote a substantial survey of database technologies at the request of executive management, which assessed the advantages and disadvantages of available database software packages.

FANNIE MAE, INC. - WASHINGTON, DC

Database Administrator 1999-2000

- Provided 24/7 support for the entire database platform; ensuring efficient operations of the large scale database environment for business processing. Conducted and assisted with failover exercises.

SYBASE INC. - BETHESDA, MD

Senior Database Consultant 1997-1999

- Provided technical database support to various clients.

- Assisted with business development and client account management initiatives, resulting in the addition of approximately 2000 hours to client contracts.

THE EASTERN GROUP - ALEXANDRIA, VA

Senior Database Administrator 1996-1997

- Efficiently transferred the firm’s current system of managing financial, sales, and other corporate data from Microsoft Excel worksheets to a database-management system which combined into this system other database management systems from newly acquired companies.

--- BAR ADMISSION

Florida (2009)

--- PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Florida Bar Association Phi Delta Phi Legal Honor Society American Bar Association

--- TECHNICAL ACUMEN

Multiple database software technologies Microsoft Office Suite Windows and UNIX Operating Systems

Programming Languages X1 E-Discovery Suite

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