Software Sales

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December 23, 2014

Tom Flores

Relevant Legal Experience:

• Highly skilled attorney with over seven years of combined in-house and law

firm experience in technology transactions, commercial transactions,

intellectual property, and policies and procedures.

• Strong experience in technology transactions, including reviewing, drafting

and negotiating end-user license agreements, software distribution

agreements, SaaS agreements, data licenses, and master service

agreements and statements of work for software-related services; audited

third-party software contracts for compliance with licensing model, and

advised on strategy to amend existing contracts.

• Well versed in commercial transactions, including reviewing, drafting and

negotiating sales agreements, vendor agreements, channel partnership

agreements, hardware distribution agreements, nondisclosure agreements,

and consultant contracts.

• Knowledgeable in intellectual property, including advising business units and

managers on best practices regarding third-party intellectual property, open

source software and product documentation; developed and implemented

internal process for engineering team to protect company’s intellectual

property.

• Experienced in policies and procedures, including creating standard contracts

and proposals for sales and marketing teams; defined software distribution,

order fulfillment, documentation and software packing policies; worked with

engineers and product managers to implement software licensing policies;

developed company privacy policy.

• Adept at communicating with engineering and business team members to

clarify legal requirements for compliance with licensing and royalty

agreements; developed technical and functional project requirements for

electronic contract execution with in-house legal team.

Relevant Career Experience:

2013 – 2013 Juniper Networks (through Incoln), Software Licensing Attorney

2012 – 2013 Servio, General Counsel (Contract)

2011 – 2012 Earl Carter & Associates, Staff Attorney

2008 – 2012 Law Office of Tomas M. Flores, Esq., Principal

2007 – 2008 Tulare County District Attorney’s Office, Deputy District Attorney

1998 – 2001 Various technology companies, Quality Assurance Software Engineer