Experience

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  Oracle

  • Managing Counsel

    • Feb 2021 - Present

    I am a managing counsel for Oracle within the JAPAC legal team.I work on complex and highly technical transactions and legal issues, with the Vice President (Legal). I am also the subject matter expert for Cloud in JAPAC representing the region among Oracle Legal's global Cloud leaders. I am assisting in the management of the legal services group (JAPAC LSG) based in KL Malaysia among my other technical tasks.Specialties: Cloud, IT law, IP law, corporate and general commercial law

  • Senior Legal Counsel

    • Jun 2015 - Present

    I am a senior legal counsel for Oracle within the 'ANZ Legal'​ team.Negotiating and settling Oracle contracts with top tier financial institutions, telcos, retail, Government and other sector enterprises.General '​in-house' commercial work within the ANZ Legal and JAPAC Legal teams. Some specifics: - IP/IT licence, services, Cloud, hardware, and managed services transactions. - providing legal compliance training. - managing dispute resolution to settlement. - mentoring junior staff.- real estate contracts. - procurement contracts.

  • Legal Counsel

    • Nov 2012 - Jun 2015

    Legal Counsel for Oracle within the 'ANZ Legal' team.

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  Dell

  • Sydney, Australia

  • Lawyer - (Contracts and Compliance team for ANZ)

    • Dec 2010 - Oct 2012
    • Sydney, Australia

    I worked for the Public Sector and Large Enterprise teams within Dell (on average on deals valued at $500k and above).Advising sales staff, directors of Dell and managing risk in relation to customer facing contracts was my primary function.On a day to day basis my tasks were:- Reviewing, negotiating and drafting contracts. This includes contracts for the sale of products, services, and third party software and peripherals, non-disclosure agreements, and teaming agreements. - Assisting in tender submissions. This includes working with the bid team to prepare a response to the customer’s request for tender, following internal deal governance processes, and obtaining necessary approvals to submit a response.- Negotiating complex customer contracts include both face to face and over the phone negotiations.- Providing succinct and relevant advice to stakeholders.Also as part of my role, I did the following:- Research legal content as required;- Work with other lawyers within the business and prepare ‘Playbooks’ with standard legal positions;- Provide training to sales staff; and- Preparation of reports for internal management.

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  Bartier Perry

  • Lawyer - Corporate / Commercial / IT / IP

    • May 2008 - Dec 2010

    General commercial work including:- Assisting startup technology companies to commercialise its Intellectual Property by preparing the necessary agreements.- Advising an online software company and prepared a master services agreement (MSA) to govern its future relationships with its clients.- Advising a New Zealand insurance distributor, as to its obligations when expanding operations into Australia for selling financial products.- Trade Marks Practice tasks which include, preparing trade mark applications; attending to the maintenance of client’s trade marks including renewals and responding to adverse reports from IP Australia; drafting cease and desist letters; and engaging and managing overseas agents in relation to trade marks registered in overseas jurisdictions.Other work performed:- Advised and prepared documents for trustees of property trusts, in relation to change of trustee of the trust.- Advised a large club on Liquor Licensing laws including changing of premises boundary and admitting minors to certain areas of the club.- Performed company secretarial tasks for a budget airline.- Assisted in negotiating and drafting a factoring agreement for a $10 million facility.- Assisted in a $90 million litigation,

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  Blake Dawson

  • Development Manager

    • Sep 2005 - May 2008

    The job was to manage the technical aspects of an online legal compliance system, ‘Salt’, including its efficient and effective day to day operation.Vendor and contract management including managing projects to meet both time and budget targets was part of the job.Achievements include managing the creation of a multi lingual ‘Salt’ system for the purpose of international markets, and the strategic change in direction of the software development methodology, negotiating and formalising a new Master Services Agreement (MSA).

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  Emerging Systems

  • Support / Business Development Manager

    • Oct 2004 - Sep 2005

    SalesBusiness DevelopmentProject Management

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  Freehills

  • IS Manager - Operations

    • Jun 1999 - Oct 2004

    Overseeing IT operations in three offices and tasks included recruiting, training, assessing performance and leading a team of IT specialists and support staff. Project management and meeting Service Level Agreements. Conceptualising strategies, preparing business plans and key performance indicators for the varying IT functions. Forecasting financial requirements, preparing and negotiating budgets, managing allocations, authorising expenditure, reporting on end-year performance. Contributing to the development of overall company directions as a member of the senior management team. Vendor relationship management.

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  Various IT roles

  • IT

    • Jan 1991 - Jun 1999

    Varying IT roles from client support to IT management