SUMMARY:

• Attorney and Project Manager with over seven years of focused business experience. Career is directed towards building business skills that interrelate to, and complement excelling in both the legal and corporate spheres. Effectively builds and improves client relationships, manages and drives programs as a versatile leader across multiple disciplines and industries, improves processes, and solves business and legal problems.
• Issue and Problem Analysis
• Risk Evaluation and Mitigation
• Program/Project/Performance Management - PMI Methodology
• Client and Stakeholder Relations
• Team Coordination and Relationship Building
• Process Development and Improvement
• Budgeting and Forecasting
• Systems Development LifeCycle (“SDLC”)
• Contract Negotiation
• Contract Analysis and Drafting
• Regulatory and Operational Compliance
• Management of Legal Projects
• Legal Research and Governance
• Legal Concept Communication
• Conflict Resolution
• Securities Regulatory/Compliance Legal Analysis
• Electronic Trading Technology Research and Analysis
• Securities/Derivatives Exchange Research and Analysis
• Intellectual Property Research and Analysis

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Project Manager

• Searching for the perfect role that more fully utilizes the blend of my legal, technical, and business background
• Maintaining an industry edge through research and examination of historical issues, potential changes, and developments across multiple industries including the financial, tech, logistics, and legal industries
• Communicating and coordinating with company executives across a broad range of industries to better understand current issues and future issues, and potential strategies
• Preparing for the USPTO registration examination to become a licensed Patent Attorney
• Developing business plans and strategies for multiple businesses including my own law firm
• Managed care for elderly family member

Consultant/Legal Project Manager

Confidential, New York, NY

• Managed multiple attorneys, and teams across a variety of work streams to meet project deadlines
• Coordinated and strategized with Metlife PMO to attain project goals
• Coordinated attorney legal review of employee benefits plans, and related plan/financial services contracts, agreements, trusts, and other funding vehicles
• Coordinated with a Metlife Procurement, HR, and other resources across the company to gather information and legal documentation for review
• Managed quality control of legal review work product to ensure proper legal changes addressed
• Developed tool to organize and screen legal documents preventing scope creep, and identifying information gaps to ensure contracts received proper changes
• Developed risk management strategies to account for changing project requirements
• Developed and established new, efficient, processes to the handle additional work streams and the changing project landscape
• Developed enhanced metrics to measure and chart team/project progress utilizing Microsoft Office products including Excel, and Access
• Presented weekly status reports using self-developed metrics

Account/Project Manager

Confidential, New York, NY

• Coordinated cross functional teams to meet deadlines and prevent scope creep
• Managed engagements utilizing multiple teams in multiple disciplines
• Presented weekly and monthly status presentations to both internal and external executive management
• Utilized a multitude of Project Management applications and tools to manage projects, and deliver reports utilizing PMI methodology
• Developed a compliance program to record, review, report, and approve the resolution of incidents for a financial services and risk management company
• Drafted and negotiated Statements of Work (“SOW”), Business Requirement Documents (“BRD”), Client Transition Plans, Master Services Agreements, and Work Orders with large Financial Services/Insurance firms, and IT/Data services vendors
• Reviewed vendor contracts to help establish rates, resources, project terms, work streams, project life cycles, milestones, and proper legal protections and terms
• Developed and maintained client relationships
• Developed and improved business processes to increase efficiency
• Identified and triaged issues for quick resolution

Senior Consultant / Project Manager

Confidential, New York, NY

• Reviewed and negotiated vendor contracts to establish rates, resources, project terms, work streams, project life cycles, and milestones
• Completed Request for Proposals, SOW, Project Definition Plans, and Change Control Documents
• Coordinated with staff through a SDLC of an accounting and e-commerce solution
• Presented status reports, and offered efficiency and mitigation advice to management
• Streamlined client business processes by eliminating non-valued activities
• Researched applicable laws within client’s industry, and implemented compliance procedures

Legal Intern

Confidential, New York, NY

• Assisted Legal Department managers with the revision of legal documents
• Coordinated with managers across the globe to ensure compliance with policies and procedures
• Researched Securities, Banking, International, and Insurance Law and provided insights
• Reviewed employer’s and competitors’ corporate structures to facilitate structural simplification