Project Manager Sales

Ian Robert Steves

*** **** ***** ** **** Avenue, Suite 334 ? Decatur, Georgia 30030

Mobile: 917-***-**** ? e-Mail: abif82@r.postjobfree.com

Profile

Ian Steves is a lawyer with significant hands-on experience in complex

civil litigation, business transactions, and technology law. He has broad

experience as an attorney with a general practice law firm, as in-house

counsel to a publicly-held software company, and as a solo practitioner.

His experience in the manufacturing and software industries before becoming

a lawyer informs his approach to business transactions and provides the

basis for his recognition of the client's need for the efficient delivery

of quality legal services with clear and timely communication.

Experience

Ian R. Steves, Attorney at Law - Decatur, Georgia

Solo Practitioner, January 2010 - Present

Provide legal representation and business planning services to companies

and individuals. Provide contract litigation services to law firms.

Simtrol, Inc. - Norcross, Georgia

Senior Corporate Counsel, Product Manager, March 2007 - November 2009

Served as in-house attorney to publicly-traded software company.

Represented company and provided legal guidance to senior management.

Negotiated and drafted commercial and technology-related agreements,

including purchase, distribution, licensing, escrow, product

maintenance/support, confidentiality, independent contractor,

outsourcing, employee separation, waiver, and lease agreements.

Supervised outside counsel and approved invoices. Drafted internal

company policies. Provided product management and domain expertise for

the design and development of a criminal justice software application.

Schoeman, Updike & Kaufman, LLP - New York, New York

Attorney, March 2004 - March 2007

Advocated for clients in state and federal courts in several areas of

litigation, including complex commercial, contract, securities,

construction, employment discrimination, and products liability matters.

Represented clients at court appearances, including conferences and oral

arguments. Advised clients regarding litigation strategies, potential

causes of action, claim viability, and potential settlement in lieu of

litigation. Researched and drafted pleadings and motions, including

complaints, petitions, answers, orders to show cause, dispositive

motions, affidavits, and stipulations. Developed settlement scenarios,

valuations, accounting summaries, and interest-on-judgment calculations

using spreadsheet analysis. Negotiated on behalf of clients at

settlement conferences. Provided transactional services to clients,

including the drafting of independent contractor agreements, shareholder

agreements, business plans, litigation disclosures, and opinion letters.

Successfully completed National Institute for Trial Advocacy (NITA)

deposition skills program.

Manhattan Associates, Inc. - Atlanta, Georgia

Senior Consulting Manager, November 1997 - August 2000

Directed software development and consulting teams on international,

multi-million dollar projects for the design and implementation of an

enterprise-level supply chain execution software package. Twice

promoted, from positions of project manager and consultant. Assisted

sales team with closing business opportunities by serving as application

engineer during critical points in the sales cycle.

Hayward Industries - Kings Mountain, North Carolina

Operations Planning Analyst, July 1995 - November 1997

Responsible for planning, reporting, and analysis of enterprise

manufacturing operations.

Abbott Laboratories, Inc. - Laurinburg, North Carolina

Manufacturing Supervisor, September 1994 - July 1995

Supervised operations of a 100-employee medical device manufacturing unit

for a major international pharmaceutical company.

Education

University of Pittsburgh School of Law - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Juris Doctor, December 2003

Dean's Merit Scholarship recipient (2000-2003); Best brief award and oral

argument semi-finalist (Northeast Region), Giles Sutherland Rich Memorial

Patent Law Moot Court Competition (2003); Legal Research Assistant to

Dean W. Edward Sell (2002); Awarded CILE fellowship for international

study (University College Dublin, Ireland, and University of Ulster,

Northern Ireland) (2001).

University of Pittsburgh

Katz Graduate School of Business - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Master of Business Administration, December 2003

Certificate in Valuation and Corporate Finance.

Clarkson University - Potsdam, New York

Bachelor of Science, Interdisciplinary Engineering and Management,

August 1994

Matriculated through the Clarkson School early college program following

junior year of high school.

Admissions

New York (2004); Massachusetts (2004); Georgia (2008); Connecticut (2010).

U. S. District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York

(2004).

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