CORPORATE IN-HOUSE COUNSEL
A goal-oriented, results-driven in-house attorney who utilizes twenty
plus years of legal, project management, and engineering skills and
experience with a proven track record of excellence in organizational,
communication, and interpersonal skills in providing strategic consultation
and advice to senior management relevant to business operations and risk
management matters.
PROVEN AREAS OF EXPERTISE
. Identifying problems, finding solutions, establishing procedures, and
employing best business practices for fast pace companies within an
entrepreneurial environment.
. Proven ability to achieve positive results and provide timely legal
solutions responsive to rapidly changing priorities.
. Adept at analyzing and integrating differing viewpoints and building
consensus to attain acceptable company results.
Achieving strategic business objectives, while identifying, managing
and overcoming material legal and business risks in growth and
contraction.
Managing all aspects of: (a) claims and litigation and (b) domestic
and international M&A practice, including acquisitions, divestitures,
joint ventures, partnerships, and strategic alliances.
Demonstrating superior client service orientation and commitment to
the highest professional standards.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Cubellis Inc. (Boston, MA) Formerly Nov
2005 - Nov 2009
Corporate Counsel
The company's first Corporate Counsel responsible for all internal
corporate transactional work including corporate and professional
corporation formations both domestically and abroad, mergers and
acquisitions (6 mergers and 2 acquisitions), bank financing, corporate
governance matters, shareholder agreements (six fold-in ownership in three
years), drafting and negotiating contracts including joint venture
agreements, consulting agreements, employment and severance agreements, and
payment agreements. Developed procedures and protocol to manage corporate
and governmental compliance matters related to all matters specific to
licensing for both professionals (45 professionals) and corporate entities
(55) within the architectural/engineering profession. Additional
responsibilities included the negotiating and drafting of commercial leases
and other landlord/tenant agreements for the company's twelve (12) offices.
Cubellis Inc. (Boston, MA) Dec
2003 - May 2005
Project Manager/ Structural/Civil Engineer
A result oriented Project Manager focusing on technical, and
managerial skills to provide Clients with professional, competent, and
quality engineering and architectural consulting services for civil,
environmental, structural and architectural design projects valued in
excess of $100 million dollars.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE continued
SEA Consultant's Inc. (Cambridge MA) Sept 1998 -
April 2003
Project Manager/Structural/Civil Engineer
A competent professional engineer utilizing sixteen years of
engineering expertise to provide structural design, managerial oversight
and construction administration services, as the Structural Engineer of
Record for commercial, industrial, water/waste water and residential
construction projects with estimated construction costs up to $25 million
dollars.
Bay State Design, Inc (Boston MA) Jun 1996 -
Jun 1998
Structural/Civil Engineer
A highly motivated civil/structural engineer with strong communication
skills necessary to aggressively market the wireless telecommunication
industry and the procurement of consulting service contracts with major
telecommunication companies worth in excess of $1 million dollars.
Consulting services include civil site designs, structural engineering, and
regulatory review and compliance for over 400 telecommunications sites
located throughout the United States.
Los Angeles County
Department of Public Works (Los Angeles, CA) Jul
1987 - Jan 1995
Structural/Civil Engineer
An energetic civil engineer with the Los Angeles County Building and
Safety Division responsible for the management and supervision of staff
specific to the review and County approval of construction documents for
Los Angles County projects with an aggregate construction costs in excess
of $100 million dollars annually.
EDUCATION
New England School of Law
Boston, MA
Juris Doctor
May
2002
University of Massachusetts
Amherst, MA
Bachelor of Science Civil Engineering
May 1987
United States Army
Fort Belvoir, VA
Officer Basic Course Engineering Branch
January 1988
PROFESSIONAL LICENSES
Massachusetts Bar December 2002
Professional Civil Engineer Massachusetts, California
(Structural)
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
Massachusetts Bar Association Present