Legaltech product strategy, legal AI, and contract systems.

Work History

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1. July 2026-Present Expert Institute Senior Product Manager
2. September 2025-May 2026 LexisNexis Manager, Drafting Strategy

   AI-enabled legal drafting strategy

   • Drove strategy for AI-enabled legal drafting in litigation workflows.
   • Turned market, customer, and competitive insight into product and go-to-market recommendations.
3. May 2020-September 2025 Docusign Product Manager / Associate Product Manager

   Contract intelligence and clause systems

   • Served as a legal subject matter expert for clause management, playbooks, legal risk analysis, and CLM workflows.
   • Led roadmap work around AI-powered clause capture, extraction, comparison, risk profiling, and playbook rule application.
4. August 2019-May 2020 Seal Software Legal Analyst

   Legal NLP and contract analysis

   • Trained and implemented legal-focused NLP and machine learning models for clause extraction and contract analysis.
   • Tracked legal technology tools and competitor functionality to inform product and market understanding.
5. 2016-2019 NPR and UNC Copyright legal intern; research and library roles

   Copyright, media, and legal research

   • Analyzed copyright, licensing, and fair-use questions for NPR, including domestic and international research memos.
   • Supported UNC School of Media and Journalism research projects and Kathrine R. Everett Law Library patrons, faculty, students, and legal researchers.

Education, bar admission, and certifications.

Legal AI, contract systems, and research workflows.

My work centers on useful legal AI: clause modeling, drafting workflows, knowledge management, provenance, and product decisions that hold up in real legal work.

• Legaltech and useful AI

  High-level work on legal AI, legal research workflows, and product strategy.

• Contract and data modeling

  Contract analysis, clause organization, metadata, playbook concepts, and CLM workflows.

• Knowledge management

  Reusable legal knowledge, source trails, structured information, and provenance.

• Product practice

  Cross-functional product work, customer problems, market context, and strategy.

Public examples that support the resume.

Examples from legal AI, contract analytics, document modeling, media research, and legal technology product work.

• Patent applications

  Named inventor on published Docusign-assigned patent applications

  Public filings connect my work to AI-assisted document modeling, document generation, and hierarchical compliance analysis of electronic working documents.

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• Recognition

  Winning UNC team member, Duke Law AI Showdown with Seal Software

  Part of the winning UNC team using AI contract analytics to review indemnification, liability caps, cyber insurance, and breach-notice provisions across a large contract set.

  Read Artificial Lawyer coverage

• Publication

  Peer-reviewed media research on interlocking newspaper organizations

  Peer-reviewed article, "Interlocking among American Newspaper Organizations Revisited: Pressure from the Top and Its Influence on Newsroom and Content," published in Mass Communication and Society, 24(3), 441-469, on how ownership structures, boardrooms, and business interests can shape newsroom practice and content.

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Published patent applications.

Named inventor on published Docusign-assigned U.S., international, and European patent applications concerning AI-assisted document modeling, document generation, and hierarchical compliance analysis of electronic working documents.

• Document Structure Extraction US 2025/0238604 A1
• Document Template Generation US 2025/0238605 A1
• Document Generation Rules US 2025/0238607 A1
• Document Structure Extraction, Document Template Generation, and Document Generation Rules WO 2025/159880 A1
• Hierarchical Compliance Analysis of Electronic Working Documents EP 4687085 A1