Experience

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  Walmart

  • Lead Counsel, Walmart U.S. Omni-Channel Supply Chain

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  Walmart

  • Lead Counsel, Walmart U.S. Omni-channel Supply Chain

    • Jun 2019 - Present

    Providing solutions-driven advice and counsel to Walmart U.S. Omni-channel (Supply Chain and Retail Stores) on wide array of complex legal issues to mitigate risk and enable business success. End-to-End Legal support includes drafting and negotiating complex commercial agreements for 1P e-commerce fulfillment, third-party fulfillment services, fulfillment center operations, 3PL distribution center Operating Agreements, along with providing sophisticated legal support for highly-technical engineering, maintenance, and product/systems teams. Providing legal advice and counsel for automation strategy and procurement, regulatory compliance (OSHA, DOT-Hazmat, Environmental) and safety best practices within Walmart’s extensive Supply Chain network of grocery, ambient, import, and fashion distribution centers, fulfillment centers, and reverse logistics facilities. Providing supplemental legal support for global logistics, international logistics, and transportation (all modes).

  • Senior Associate General Counsel, Walmart U.S. Supply Chain

    • Apr 2013 - Jun 2019

    Managed a team of seasoned and experienced transactional, regulatory, and claims attorneys that support the Fortune-1’s premier transportation, warehousing, and global logistics (supply chain) operations. With an uwavering commitment to providing the highest level of corporate legal advice, our team continuously melds attentive and proactive risk mitigation with pragmatic, solutions-driven business partnering to achieve strategic and transformational goals for the Legal Department and for the business. We apply this effective counseling model to a wide and varied portfolio of complex and industry-leading supply chain operations and services. These include traditional warehousing and distribution operations; cutting-edge automation; world-class private fleet operations; facility and fleet safety and compliance; procurement and third-party carrier (ocean, air, rail, highway) procurement; global and international logistics; last-mile delivery; global governance, and more. Areas of regulatory compliance include DOT, OSHA, EPA, FDA, and ATF.

  • Associate General Counsel, Walmart Logistics & Transportation

    • Sep 2010 - Apr 2013

    Provided legal support for one of the retail industry's leading and forward-thinking supply chain businesses, with special focus on warehousing and distribution, transportation, claims, global governance, and more. Primary legal advisor to senior leadership on issues of private fleet operations, accident investigation, safety, and federal and state DOT and OSHA compliance. Legal subject-matter expert regarding third-party contract carriage, global logistics (including origin and destination cargo management, port drayage, and inland rail), import supplier agreements.

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  McAfee & Taft

  • Houston, Texas, United States

  • Of Counsel

    • Mar 2009 - Sep 2010
    • Houston, Texas, United States

    Handled Regulatory Environmental, Health, and Safety matters as well as commercial transactions and litigation for the Texas satellite office of Oklahoma’s largest firm.

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  Waste Management, Inc.

  • Senior Legal Counsel, EH&S

    • 2001 - 2008

    Managed environmental, health and safety, and DOT compliance functions for Fortune 150 company. With a history of progressive leadership responsibility, I provided advice and counsel to day-to-day operations in the regulatory, compliancek, safety, and claims contexts, as well as managing the legal support for a large portfolio of very complex legacy Superfund site.

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  Foley Gardere (Formerly Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP)

  • Tulsa, Oklahoma

  • Senior Associate

    • 1998 - 2001
    • Tulsa, Oklahoma

    Legal representation of corporate clients on subject matter areas including federal, state and local environmental, transportation, health and safety, and other regulatory aspects, as well as commercial transactions.

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  Rhodes Hieronymus Jones Tucker & Gable

  • Of Counsel

    • 1995 - 1998

    Regulatory compliance, transactional, and claims practice in areas of environmental health and safety, natural resources, oil & gas, Indian law, and agricultural law.

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  Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P.

  • Associate

    • 1993 - 1995

    Provided legal representation to corporate clients on federal, state, and local environmental and other natural resources matters, and supported the firm's products liability defense practice.

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  US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

  • Attorney Advisor

    • 1990 - 1993

    Support headquarters and regional offices on legal aspects of Superfund's (CERCLA's) hazardous waste site enforcement and policy making. Also served on a select team created to develop new agency approaches to multi-media enforcement.