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Marcia McCraw

SUMMARY

Cell: 206-***-****

Email: aczld7@r.postjobfree.com

Dynamic, focused professional with passion for technology. Worked as attorney in private practice, served as in-house counsel for public and private companies and served as appellate-level administrative law judge for the New York Labor Department. Exemplary organizational skills, proven management skills and keen attention to detail. Builds cohesiveness even among team members with divergent opinions. Leads projects from idea through completion and analysis.

HIGHLIGHTS

• Licensed to practice law in California, Hawaii, New York and Washington state

• Conversationally fluent in Mandarin, some French and Spanish

• 10+ years business transactions, including SAAS, franchise law, trademarks and M&A

• 10+ years real estate development, including multi-phase condominiums, construction, commercial leasing and BE-13 compliance

• 10+ years corporate law for private and public, for-profit and not-for-profit entities, including entity creation and maintenance, advising start-ups, board policy development, board fiduciary duties, proactive risk management

• 10+ years employment law, including employment agreements, policies, separation agreements, noncompetition agreements, employee benefits and employee vs. contract labor issues

• 10+ years overseeing outside counsel to ensure expected company benefit justifies fees and costs

• Proven ability to improve efficiency and productivity. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

HARMAN UNITED LTD., CO., Senior Vice President, Bellevue, WA 2016-2017

• Advised Chinese Company’s US subsidiary on mission and policy development and various legal issues

• Planned US-China law forums on topics including IP issues impeding US business in China and the use of cross-examination in Chinese legal procedures

• Developed strategic relationships

A.J.E. FINANCE CO., General Counsel, Seattle, WA 2008-2015

• Analyzed potential investments and acquisition/sale of various interests, including an airport, aircraft and vessels

• Assisted with complex international tax litigation and implemented a strategy that US District Court judge referenced as the basis for not imposing additional sanctions

• Title review, zoning analysis and real estate development

• Commercial leasing

• Aviation and maritime law

• Corporate law, including entity formation and maintenance QUID PRO QUO, Attorney and Executive Search Consultant, Seattle, WA 2007-2008

• Attorney and executive search consultant with emphasis on developing relationships with law firms and businesses in Asia

AEGIS LIVING, Director of Legal Affairs, Redmond, WA

• Construction and operation of assisted living facilities

• Reviewed and revised employee manual

• Developed company policies and procedures on risk management THE NATHANSON GROUP, Associate Attorney, Seattle, WA 2005-2006

2004-2005

• Financing and transactional work for groups of senior living facilities throughout the US, including title review, construction law, management, compliance, corporate law and employment law

• Led firm to finish in first-place among all Seattle law firms, large and small, in the firm’s first attempt at team fundraising in Seattle-wide law firm fundraising competition that benefits Northwest Harvest, a nonprofit that provides food for those in need AFM HOSPITALITY, Dir. Admin. & Legal Affairs, Seattle, WA 1993-2003

• Purchase, sale, lease and all aspects of operating franchised hotels and restaurants throughout US and Canada for public company

• Local, state and federal lobbying

• Employment law, including employee manuals, employment agreements, separation agreements and employee benefits

• Proactive risk management, including developing company-wide checklists and procedures

• Corporate law, including entity formation and maintenance and preparation of SEC Form D Notice of Exempt Offering of Securities

NEW YORK STATE LABOR DEPT., Appellate Administrative Law Judge, Albany, NY

• Ruled on employment law cases appealed to Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board 1992

• Instituted and led projects to strengthen esprit de corps among New York Labor Dept. appellate administrative law judges, including printing cookbook and encouraging participation in various charity events

LAW OFFICE OF STEPHEN PECHENIK, Attorney, Troy, NY 1992

• Business and real estate law and both civil and criminal appeals WAGNER WATSON & DIBIANCO, Senior Associate Attorney, Honolulu, HI 1986-1991

• Represented developers in purchase, construction and operation of multi-phase resort condominium projects, including defending resort against over $55 million in claimed mechanics liens

• Compliance with US Commerce Dept., Bureau of Economic Analysis, mandatory BE-13 reporting requirements triggered by foreign investment in US businesses and in US real property

• Analyzed, organized and managed claims in large, complicated bankruptcy proceedings

• Maritime law

WILLIAM STEVENS JARVIS, INC., Attorney, Palo Alto, CA 1981-1986

• Corporate law, including compliance, preferred stock issuance, corporate reviews and maintaining corporate books

• Business transactions, including drafting and reviewing contracts in international transactions

• Wills and trusts

EDUCATION

WESTERN NEW ENGLAND COLLEGE SCHOOL OF LAW

JD, emphasis on tax and international business transactions, 1981 Springfield, MA

UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG SCHOOL OF LAW

Summer course on China’s developing law, Summer 1980 Hong Kong CORNELL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES

BA, Asian Studies (Chinese), 1977

Ithaca, NY

HONORS

Presidential appointment to five-year term on US Holocaust Memorial Museum Council, Wash., DC Managing Editor, Western New England Law Review

• Developed more equitable work distribution procedure among law student staff, leading to more efficient production

• Connecticut Supreme Court cited case note authored as a law student Nominated by law school faculty to Who’s Who in American Colleges and Universities Chosen to serve as Washington state’s GOP candidate for lieutenant governor

• Endorsed by both leading mainstream newspaper and by leading liberal newspaper Numerous community awards

COMMUNITY SERVICE

US HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM, Wash., DC, Council Member

• Collections Committee, helped acquire significant pieces

• Bylaws Committee, reviewed and corrected bylaws

USO NORTHWEST, Seattle, WA, Board Chair

• Chosen by chairmen of national chapters to serve on national committee that advised USO.org

• Board development, leading to board including community philanthropic companies and individuals

• Secured grant to refurbish airport facility and to establish 2nd location

• Secured grant of mobile canteen

JUNIOR LEAGUE OF SEATTLE, Seattle, WA, President & Board Chair

• Strategic review of organization; revised finance and membership policies, procedures and programs

• Promoted diversity; amended bylaws to welcome women of all sexual orientations (first Junior League to do this)

WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE, Israel, Member of Local Board

• Designed & hosted “friend raising” event; presentation by Dr. Doran Lancet (scientist in charge of International Human Genome Project’s work on genomes for taste and smell) with wine tasting PACIFIC SCIENCE CENTER, Seattle, WA, Festival of the Fountains Chair

• Set record, not surpassed to date, for annual gala fundraiser’s net profit; highlighted alien exhibit, including mayor of Roswell, NM, as honored guest

YWCA SEATTLE KING SNOHOMISH, Seattle, WA, Opportunity Pl. Bldg. Committee, Donor Recognition Chair

• Reviewed community donor recognition; issued request for proposals to local artists; selected and installed sculpture as donor recognition piece

• Established art collection for the building that includes large pieces for building’s public areas and smaller pieces from which women moving from homelessness to the building’s transitional housing units may select for their units and may take when they move to a permanent home WOODLAND PARK ZOO, Seattle, WA, Jungle Party Audience Dev. Chair

• Sold all tickets to annual fundraising event even before event invitation was mailed WESTERN NEW ENGLAND COLLEGE SCHOOL OF LAW, Springfield, MA, Trustee

• Created annual event that brings together alumni and graduates and fosters continued affiliation JUNIOR LEAGUE OF HONOLULU, Honolulu, HI, Board Member and Parliamentarian

• Helped successfully raise funds through lobbying and traditional fundraisers to refurbish the only shelter on Oahu at that time and begin creation of a second shelter

• Training on parliamentary procedure

STANFORD UNIVERSITY TRADING POST, Stanford, CA, Board Chair

• Revitalized organization that rents equipment to Stanford Univ. Escondido Village international graduate student families, including board development

• Designed and implemented survey to assess graduate student families’ rental equipment needs, replaced worn inventory items and added new inventory items per analysis of survey results

• Developed budget and policies to enable inventory refurbishment and replacement as needed CORNELL UNIVERSITY VON CRAMM HALL, Ithaca, NY, Treasurer

• Examined history and formation, discovered facility was not in compliance with Cornell University regulations and worked with Cornell leadership to bring facility into compliance

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