Customer Service Sales

PAULA BEDNER ______________ 703-***-**** Oak

Hill, VA ablb0d@r.postjobfree.com

CORPORATE CONTRACTS leveraging corporate management and legal expertise on

a wide variety of legal issues to coalesce company strategies, sales goals,

and visions while protecting company legal interests in the marketplace.

Champions company interests in contracting, litigation and regulatory

compliance.

~ Broad background including contract drafting/negotiation, contract

management $13M+,

RFP bidding, pro se litigation management $50K+, IT and Telecommunications

Management ~

PROVEN LEGAL CONTRACT STRATEGIST: Protecting corporate interests and net

worth through compelling advocacy

. Partnered with HR/outside counsel to create/implement company program for

government ethics compliance

. Delivered excellent customer service with effective/efficient contract

drafting/review and negotiation

. Competent management and flexibility when faced with conflicting

requirement/deadlines in highly pressurized and often chaotic legal and

business environments

. Provides reliable and substantive legal support for revenue generating

initiatives with special attention to conflicts between business

objectives and regulatory/legal compliance objectives

ASTUTE DEPARTMENTAL LEADER: Balance business priorities/strategic goals

for maximum productivity

. Established short and long term goals and objectives for employees to

balance work deadlines within budget parameters.

. Managed work/relationship/budget with outside counsel to control costs

. Mentor support staff to expand their skills for providing a wider range

of customer legal and business support

JD Concord Law School, Los Angeles, CA

B.S. Speech Pathology James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA

A.A.S. Computer Information Systems No. Va. Comm. Coll., Alexandria, VA

California Bar Virginia Bar (Corporate Counsel)

PROFESSIONAL OVERVIEW

Corporate Counsel Global Tel*Link Corp. (initially through Legal

eStaffing)

2009-Present

. Corporate Counsel for corporation providing Inmate Telephone Systems.

. Provide a broad range of in-house legal services including:

o Contract Drafting and Negotiation of Sales Agreements with State

and Local government agencies, NDA's, Subcontracts, Teaming

Agreements, Procurement Agreements, Vendor Agreements, SOW's,

RFP/Bid review, legal rep RFP red team

o Legal Research, Bid protests, FOIA requests multi-state FOIA

protests

o Human Resource and Employment Legal support

o Coordination with Outside Counsel for out-of-state legal

litigation

Legal - Contracts Administrator/Procurement Mgr. Nextlink Wireless, Inc.

/XO Communications 2006-

2008

. Contract drafting, review, negotiation and finalization of all

Corporate Agreements, including:

o NDA's, Professional Services Agreements, Statements of Work, and

Master Purchase Agreements, license agreements, teaming

agreements, software agreements and other legal documents.

. Negotiation of contractor fee rates resulted in $50-100K in savings

over 2 years.

. Interactive support to engineering, sales, marketing, finance,

procurement and IT departments for e-commerce applications and

governmental administrative compliance.

. FCC spectrum licensing filing of substantial service compliance via

FCC's on-line Universal Licensing System, new LMDS lease filings

protecting the company's multi-million dollar investment.

. Provided the legal and regulatory and IT support for develop/launch of

web-based spectrum link sales tool.

. Trademark protection litigation and legal research.

. Created and implemented account payables, purchase requests, purchase

order tracking and receiving procedures.

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Mgr., Network Financial Systems Management WorldCom/MCI/Verizon Business

1999-2006

. Manager of up to 11 systems analysts and programmers for MCI's network

inter-carrier compensation applications.

. Managed capital budget: initial capital acquisition, monthly

forecasting, tracking/reporting of capital budgets of $1.3-6.2M

. Contract Manager for MCI/EDS contract managing budget and work product

delivery.

. Implemented Sarbanes/Oxley and Bankruptcy court required Internal

controls.

. Planned and executed department ethics training to comply with Chapter

11 Bankruptcy court requirements.

. Negotiated contractor pricing for contractors and vendors for IT

services.

. Represented MCI at quarterly Telecommunications Industry Ordering and

Billing Forum (OBF).

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