Contract Specialist

Education

Suffolk University Law School, Boston, MA

Juris Doctor, May 2014; Licensed in State of Maryland December 2014

Criswell College, Dallas, TX

Bachelor of Liberal Arts, Religious Studies, May 2005

Honors: Dean’s List (Two semesters)

Legal Experience/Employment

Contract Specialist – Library of Congress April 2016 - Present

Assisted Acquisitions: review customer requirements; process technical evaluations; manage vendor clarification questions and answers; coordinate with Contracting Officer Representative to fulfill customer needs; analyze contracts for FAR compliance; manage contract solicitation and disburse awards; generate SF 1449, SF 30, Optional 347 Task and Delivery Orders.

Serials subscriptions product line: work with customers to streamline and update current practices; conduct scope assessments on customer’s technical requirements; assemble proposals for legal review; coordinate funding transfers for customers; issue final awards and modifications, further monitor orders to respond to customer needs.

Deloitte Contractor for Department of Justice, Anti-trust Division December 2014-March 2016

Documented review for DoJ investigations; used Relativity and Summation software to analyze voluminous documents for relevant information.

Analyzed corporate records, emails, documents for information in support of anti-trust theories of price fixing, illegal coordination, collaboration, competitor squeezing, collusion, increasing difficulty of entry for new competitors, increasing buy-side power for pro-forma entity, and excessive market power.

Received a Level 4 Position of Trust background clearance for this position.

Pre-Trial Solutions, Inc., Boston, MA February 2012-November 2014

Legal Assistant

•Duties included case management, personal injury legal research, and writing arbitration decisions.

•Organized and scheduled arbitration and mediation hearings to include managing the parties’ schedules and reviewing materials for a vision-impaired attorney. Review included medical records, expense reports and legal memoranda outlining case details.

Independent Contract Work January 2014-November 2014

•Litigation assistance included scanning, organizing, labeling and indexing large volumes of documents in Excel; converted files from various formats into PDF for Bates stamping in Adobe Pro.

Massachusetts State House – Senate Minority Leader Legal Counsel September 2013 – December 2013

Intern

•Conducted research on statutes, regulations, and resolutions; drafted amendments and constituent responses.

•Produced memos and summaries for use by the Senator in hearings and the legislative session.

The Roosevelt Group, Washington, D.C. June-July 2013

Intern

•Conducted in-depth analysis of the National Defense Authorization Act and provided summarized reports for managing partners.

•Assisted with drafting a NASA Authorization Amendment; the amendment passed.

•Provided managing partners with crucial talking points that assisted the firm in acquiring a new client.

Other Employment

Apple, Inc., Dallas, TX October 2007-July 2011

Apple Creative

•Three years experience instructing entry-level through advanced customers on software use; Apple software included Keynote, Numbers and Pages; MS Office suite included Word, Excel, Powerpoint.

•Facilitated training for new employees; included training with hardware and software as well as examining Apple’s philosophy of excellent customer service and how to demonstrate it in every customer interaction.

•Provided customer support for technical issues on computers and iPhones.

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