Sales Project Manager

Charles J. Williamson

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Valley Drive, Spring, Texas 77379-3960

Cell: 713-***-****

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

(Last Revision: 12/2012)

Overview

. 10 years experience in civil litigation, primarily in complex cases

. 10 years experience as in-house counsel for three software

technology firms . 10 years experience - pre-legal - in high-

profile, computer hardware and software strategic marketing and sales

. Personal/solo practice cases, with emphasis on commercial

contractual matters and intellectual property . Contract/Project

Attorney work (on significant cases): document review, depositions,

case development . LL.M.*(Intellectual Property & Information Law),

J.D., M.B.A., B.S. . Published.

Professional Experience

CONTRACT/PROJECT ATTORNEY AND SOLO PRACTITIONER

3/03 to Present

+ CONTRACT/PROJECT ATTORNEY: UHY Advisors, Haynes & Boone LLP,

Gardere Wynn LLP, Baker & Botts LLP,

Fulbright & Jaworski LLP, Fleming & Assoc. LLP, Bailey Perrin &

Bailey LLP, Greenberg Traurig LLP, Bracewell

& Guliani LLP and Skadden Arps Slate Meager & Flom LLP is a

representative list of firms for whom I have

performed through agencies or directly.

. Cases include: AIG (accounting & stock fraud),

Bayer Corporation (Trayslol pharmaceutical), Austin

Contractors (contract dispute), American Home Products

(Phen-Fen pharmaceutical), Dell, Inc. (patent

infringement), and quite a few more that cannot be discussed.

. Encompassing: discovery review, taking/defending depositions,

deposition preparation, case preparation

and special projects, I have gained valuable exposure

to large, complex international, national and

regional matters involving various contract

disputes, very large insurance and accounting firms and

pharmaceutical giants, and other areas that cannot be discussed.

. Performance: has consistently been characterized as fast,

thorough and analytical, and - because of strong

communication skills - great on depositions and briefs. Invited

for return engagements at a number of firms.

Experience with many platforms: Relativity, Xerox XLS,

Ringtail, LextraNet, FTI, Concordance, others.

. Landman Law: worked for Cinco Energy on a partial buyout of

Chesapeake shale oil interests by a French O&G

firm.

. Latest assignments: Large financial case under the direction of

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. Patent litigation -

helped to build cases for trial. Oil field related mechanical

engineering.

+ SOLO PRACTICE: contract disputes, company start-ups,

regulation compliance and other litigation and

transactional matters - for individuals and other legal entities.

Appeal - current state court case: won in a

mandated opinion; reversal and remand - to be published in

Westlaw and Lexis. Two more appeals pending.

SEVERN TRENT SYSTEMS - Houston, Texas

08/00

- 03/03

In-house Counsel and Contracts/Licensing Attorney - for multi-national

software development company, with

U.K. parent firm. (no longer in business)

+ Practice areas: Contracting, licensing, intellectual property,

computer law, internet and e-commerce law,

general corporate and employment law. This contract

work included negotiating, drafting, revising and

administering. Very successful management/resolution of high-

profile contract disputes; saved multi-M$.

+ Contract types: Included, but are by no means limited to,

Licensing, Maintenance, Development, Beta,

Confidential Disclosure, Sales and Marketing, Web

Site, Partnering, Joint Venture, Escrow, Loan,

Distribution, Original Equipment Manufacturer, and

Support agreements. Many of these were revised

as needed for application in various foreign

jurisdictions. Frequent RFI/RFP solicitations/responses

typically involved in conducting business. Software and

computer systems have been a specialty.

CHRISTIAN HILL & ASSOCIATES - Houston, Texas

08/97

- 07/00

Litigation Attorney: 160-200 file caseload in a very fast-paced

civil litigation and workers' compensation practice: Success rate:

98% - hearing, trial and appellate. A billable hours leader with

approximately 2500 annually. (firm is no longer practicing)

INFORUM, INC. (Div. of Medstat, Inc., Thompson Corp.) - Nashville,

Tennessee 06/95 - 02/97

In-house Counsel and Contracts Manager: Negotiated joint venture

agreements, teaming contracts, software and technology licenses,

various confidential disclosure agreements, letters of intent,

maintenance agreements and installation. Implemented contracting

policies and procedures to improve efficiency and enable enhanced revenue

production and recognition. Freed up pending business held up in customer

Legal Depts. Participated in responding to numerous RFP's. (firm is no

longer in business)

CHARLES J. WILLIAMSON, Attorney At Law - Houston, Texas

01/92 - 6/95

Solo Practitioner & Contract Assignments Attorney - While handling a

broad variety of legal matters for my own clients, accepted short-

term and long-term assignments from other attorneys for litigation and

transactional support. Large cases: regional toxic tort (Colonial

Pipeline case) and MDL products liability (nation-wide Polybutylene

Plumbing case).

INTERNATIONAL MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS LIBRARIES - Houston, Texas

02/88 - 01/89

Legal Services Representative for 300-employee software company.

Provided legal support to sales, marketing, human resources and

management. Negotiated, drafted and administered client licenses,

joint venture, joint marketing and sales distribution agreements.

Intellectual property matters (copyright, trademark and trade secret).

Established trademark registration and monitoring system for

both domestic and international trademarks.

Supported growth into foreign markets in Europe and Japan.

Pre-Legal Accomplishments

IBM CORPORATION - National Accounts Division.

09/81-

05/87

Strategic Account Representative. Computer Systems - hardware and

software - sales to NASA, Johnson Space Center and its supporting

large aerospace engineering and construction corporations (i.e.,

Ford Aerospace, Lockheed, Martin Marietta, others). 100% Club

recognition (exceeding annual revenue quota) selling multi-M$

systems. U.S. Secret clearance (currently inactive).

TEXAS INSTRUMENTS, INC., - Strategic Accounts, Semiconductor Division.

08/78 - 09/81

Senior Sales Engineer. Worldwide semiconductor procurement contract

negotiations and account and relationship management. Exceeded revenue

quota each year while boosting annual revenue from 17M$ to over 36M$.

NCR CORPORATION, INC. - Strategic Accounts, Industrial and Commercial

Division. 06/75 - 08/78

Sales and Marketing Associate. Computer system hardware and software

marketing and sales to large industrial and commercial accounts in and

around Hartford, Conn. First of group of new hires to sell a major

computer system.

Travelers Insurance Co.; Hartford National Bank - Hartford, Conn.

08/72 - 06/75

Computer programmer and systems analyst: designer-builder; commercial

systems.

Education

LL.M. - Intellectual Property & Information Law - 3.4 GPA - University of

Houston Law Center (*All course work

completed; need to submit Master's Thesis to finish)

J.D. - Law - South Texas College of Law, Houston, Texas - 3.0 GPA - May,

1991

+ Honors/Activities:

. Academic Achievement Grant

. Law Review, Note and Comment Editor .

American Jurisprudence Award - Evidence

. Phi Delta Phi (Academic Honors Fraternity) .

Law Review Scholarship

. Dean's Honor List (multiple)

. Inns of Court - Federal Practice

. Board of Advocates Member and Quarterfinalist in Moot

Court Competition

. Law Clerk with well-regarded law firms, 40 hrs./wk.

(i.e., full-time work and full-time student)

+ Publications:

. Law Review Case Note - CERCLA, as Amended

by SARA, Abrogates State Immunity Under the

Eleventh Amendment, Rendering States Liable for

Money Damages in Federal Court ; 31 S. Tex. L. Rev.

723 (1991)

. Chapter 8, Private Judging, Handbook of ADR (2nd Ed),

State Bar of Texas (1991) (updated in 2001 for

3rd Ed.)

. Cited contributor to first edition of O'Connor's Texas

Rules: Civil Trials (1991), Jones and McClure pub.

+ Law Clerk Experiences:

. Fisher, Gallagher, Perrin & Lewis, LLP - Plaintiffs'

product liability and negligence cases. Deposition

planning, summaries, special projects, legal research

and memoranda, client interface. 1987-1988.

. W. Lyons & Associates, LLP - Insurance defense. Deposition

summaries, legal research and memoranda,

special projects. 1990-1991.

. Robert G. Friedman & Associates, LLP - Plaintiff and

Defense work. Deposition summaries, legal research

and memoranda. 1988-1989.

M.B.A. - Concentrations in Marketing & Finance -- 3.5 GPA - University

of Connecticut, Graduate School of Business.

. Magna Cum Laud (evening classes while working

full-time) - May, 1978

B.S. - Mathematics and Computer Science - 3.2 GPA - State University of

New York at Albany - August, 1972

. Dean's List - Multiple

. State University Scholarship.

. N.Y. State Scholar Incentive Award

. Invited for graduate work in Mathematics at UCLA.

. Worked part-time and full-time summers in

computer programming.

Other

Activities Of Note

. The Enron Handbook - With the Dean of University of Houston Law Center,

worked on a textbook entitled "Enron:

Corporate Fiascos and Their Implications," Foundation Press (released

2/9/04).

. Adjunct Professor of Law and Management - University of Phoenix, MBA

program, Houston campuses. Corporate

Governance, Enterprise Risk, Sarbanes-Oxley.

. Business Formation and Start-Up - (1) Software development firm; (2)

Online Learning firm.

. Compliance Counseling - Sarbanes-Oxley, Patriot Act, Gramm Leach Bliley

Act, OFAC, FCPA, Can-Spam.

. Landman Work - Shale Oil; partial buy-out of Chesapeake interests by firm

in France.

References

. Robert Bench, Senior Associate Attorney, Fleming, Nolen & Jez, LLP,

Houston, Texas

713-***-**** ******.*****@*******-***.***

Association: Mr. Bench has been my project supervising attorney on

different pharmaceutical product liability

litigation projects for Fleming. We have been friends since 2005.

. Kathy Humbird, Senior Paralegal, Schlumberger, Inc., Houston, Texas

713-***-**** *.*******@***.***

Association: Mrs. Humbird was my project manager at UHY-FLVS,

Inc. (UHY Forensic Litigation and Valuation

Services) for 2006 through 2008. The project was handling discovery

review and special projects for plaintiffs'

organizations in the civil litigation against AIG, Inc. Have known

and been friends with Mrs. Humbird since 2006.

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