Timothy G. Cross

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Lancaster, Massachusetts 01523 act5mm@r.postjobfree.com

LEGAL PROFESSIONAL & EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT

PROFILE A seasoned professional and effective leader with a proven ability to create long-term relationships:

Over twelve years of in-house legal representation, sales leadership, business management, & key

account development

Excellent verbal and written presentation skills

Goal in negotiations is to create partnerships and develop long-term relationships

Honest and straightforward approach to closing deals fosters respect and loyalty from clients

EMPLOYMENT

2002 Present Vice President Operations & General Counsel Legacy Publishing Group,

Clinton, MA

As sole in-house counsel for closely-held business, responsible for negotiating and drafting all major legal

documents, including license agreements, loan agreements, employment agreements, and other business contracts.

Responsible for general corporate maintenance and providing corporate management with advice concerning legal

implications of all major policy decisions. As member of senior executive management team, involved in all facets of

decision-making process for growing, social expressions manufacturer, including sales, branding, product

development and financial matters.

Key Achievements Include:

Working with outside counsel, drafted and negotiated all major documents for partnership with outside

business partner to develop new product utilizing patented intellectual property.

Drafted and negotiated well over 100 intellectual property license agreements and completely revamped and

streamlined licensing tracking and control procedures and database to ensure protection of intellectual

property rights.

Helped launch and continue to oversee and champion cause-related marketing campaign that provides

donations to hunger relief organizations based on sales of greeting cards, providing close to one million

meals to poor families and children in less than three years.

Directly worked with several national key accounts to develop packages for yearly seasonal product

introductions, growing key account business by over 82% in three year period.

Managed inside customer service department, establishing benchmark goals of top-level service, initiative

and problem-solving among customer service staff.

2000 2002 Contract Attorney Brown Rudnick,

Providence, RI

Represented clients in a variety of general commercial leasing and secured lending matters with a concentration on

the development of telecommunications facilities and related infrastructure, including leasing, site development,

zoning, permitting and title matters.

Key Achievements

Represented client in key zoning board meetings to ensure construction of telecommunication facility in sensitive

area

Negotiated lease for telecommunications site with major local university to ensure client had coverage in key

metropolitan area

1998 1999 Associate Editor Lawyers Weekly USA, Boston

Researched, wrote and edited articles and interviewed nationally-recognized experts for breaking stories on a variety

of legal topics, including employment, product liability and constitutional law.

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1996 1998 Associate Attorney Choate, Hall & Stewart, Boston

Drafted and negotiated office, retail and medical office building leases, assisted client in mergers and acquisitions,

performed corporate maintenance work, researched legal issues for partners and corporate clients and drafted legal

memoranda analyzing complex legal issues.

Key Achievements

Involved in all facets of complex, multi-state secured lending and sale-leaseback transactions for the

financing and development of assisted living facilities

Represented NASDAQ-listed client in all facets of mergers & asset purchase transactions ranging in price

from $2 million-$25 million

EDUCATION

Boston College Law School, J.D., Law, 1993 1996, graduated magna cum laude

Activities and Societies: Boston College Law Review, Notes & Production Editor, 1995-1996, Staff Writer, 1994-

1995

University of Southern Maine, B.A., History, 1990 1993, graduated summa cum laude

Activities and Societies: Phi Kappa Phi, National Honor Society

Phi Alpha Theta, National History Honor Society

Middlesex Community College, A.S., Liberal Studies, 1990 1991

MILITARY EXPERIENCE

Signal Intelligence Analyst, U.S. Army, 1985-1989

1986-1989 Specialist/Assistant Section Leader/Russian Linguist 319th M.I. Battalion, 525th M.I. Brigade,

18th Airborne Corp, Ft. Bragg, NC

Maintained and operated advanced computer center for identification, analysis and classification of voice-intercepted

and signal communications. Wrote and edited intelligence reports and assisted company officers in briefing battalion

and brigade staff officers on actions by forces identified as potentially hostile to the United States.

1985-86 Private/Signal Intelligence Analyst/Linguist Trainee Goodfellow Air Force Base, TX

Defense Language Institute, Monterey, CA

Studied Russian language and trained in voice-intercept techniques against Soviet-bloc military assets.

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