Mar 2024 – Oct 2025 · 1 yr 7 mos · København, Capital Region, Denmark · On-site

• Participated in a variety of stakeholder management across the Novo Nordisk value chain (ranging from R&D to Commercial). This included helping with legal and compliance issues, drafting and negotiating commercial agreements, and ensuring that legal and compliance risks in digital & A.I. were addressed. This included vendor negotiations from a variety of jurisdictions (including US and European vendors) and a wide range of topics (including SaaS, drug discovery companies, and LLM’s).
• Wrote the corporate requirements for A.I. usage throughout all of Novo Nordisk. This included drafting the language, negotiating with stakeholders across the company, and developing supplemental materials to ensure that the corporate requirements were properly understood and implemented.
• Developed the A.I. risk reporting process for both business and legal risks across all of Novo Nordisk. This included developing the values and risks associated with A.I., training a variety of stakeholders (including legal and non-legal employees), and ensuring that the actual reporting process went smoothly and efficiently.
• Drafted the first-ever set of model A.I. contract appendices to ensure proper compliance with the A.I. Act for any third party vendor negotiations. This included a variety of complex negotiations with the Procurement, Global Legal, and Compliance teams (along with other key stakeholders from R&D and Product Supply). Additionally, I ensured that the A.I. appendices were in complete alignment with Novo Nordisk’s MSA and Data Processing Agreement.
• Represented Novo Nordisk at a variety of digital and A.I. conferences and conventions, including at the IAPP A.I. Governance Conference and a variety of local A.I. conferences across Denmark.
• Conducted ongoing legal monitoring of different jurisdictions to ensure that Novo Nordisk could properly address forthcoming legislation in the A.I. and digital spaces.

Oct 2023 – Mar 2024 · 5 mos

• Aided companies with digital regulatory compliance through activities like GAP assessments, privacy automated analysis, and evaluating companies inew tools to analyze privacy compliance with newer prospective regulations, such as the Digital Markets Act and the AI Act.
• Worked with large multinational companies regarding their cookie compliance policies.
• Drafted and negotiated several multinational contracts for businesses in the data privacy area, including joint-controllership agreements and data processing agreements.
• Worked with several clients to brainstorm privacy risks, which included analyzing their industry and current privacy risk trends to develop potential risks.
• Handled projects aiding with compliance in ISO 27001, NIST, and GDPR frameworks.

Oct 2022 – Oct 2023 · 1 yr

Aug 2019 – Jul 2021 · 1 yr 11 mos · Columbus, Ohio

• Represented the State of Ohio (including state agencies) in civil litigation lawsuits in the Ohio Court of Claims with a primary focus in employment and tort litigation.
• Handled cases from start to finish, including writing motions, coordinating discovery requests and responses, and taking depositions.
• Researched and drafted several appellate briefs at the Ohio 10th District Court of Appeals.

May 2019 – Present · 6 yrs 10 mos · Remote

• Japers Rink Blogger and podcaster for Japers Rink Radio. Particular focus on hockey analytics and the Washington Capitals.

May 2018 – Aug 2018 · 3 mos · Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Conducted research and drafted memorandum on corporate and consumer law topics, including writing memos on successorship liability and the Telephone Consumer Protection Act.
• Performed consumer outreach, including contacting and drafting consumer statements.

Jan 2018 – May 2018 · 4 mos · Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Conducted research and drafted office-wide memorandum on several topics, including administrative law, employment law and statutory interpretation issues.
• Drafted a portion of a motion to dismiss, which included researching and analyzing a plaintiff’s legal claims, along with consulting with the main attorney in the case.

May 2017 – Aug 2017 · 3 mos · Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Researched and drafted several motions, including on topics ranging from whether juror comments impeaching a verdict to when a prior conviction can be used in a trial.
• Conducted research using Westlaw and LexisNexis to respond to legal questions asked by staff attorneys.
• Wrote several plea bargains, which included summarizing police reports and researching the D.C. Criminal Code to find the criminal violations.

Jun 2014 – Jun 2016 · 2 yrs · Cincinnati, Ohio Area

• Report and analyze digital analytics content for a variety of clients, including Bush's Beans, Lasikplus and Dollywood theme parks.
• Optimize digital media campaigns utilizing programmatic buying tools like x+1 and The Trade Desk.
• Work with digital media team at Empower to develop strategic objectives for digital media campaigns.

Jan 2014 – May 2014 · 4 mos · Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Conducted media outreach research and produced media contact lists for several healthcare-based clients, including Siemens and the American Dental Association.
• Led research activities for a variety of clients, including General Motors, where the net impact of cars in New York City was calculated using database research and formulas generated in Microsoft Excel.

Aug 2013 – Dec 2013 · 4 mos · Columbia, Missouri Area

• Researched and wrote the situation analysis for the MOJO Ad client, Walmart.
• Worked with account planners to conduct research and develop consumer insights about YAYA's and sustainability.
• Developed a multi-touchpoint advertising campaign with nine other team members that emphasized Walmart's sustainability efforts. This included helping to design and create content for a website, mobile app, social media efforts and PR campaigns.
• Won the 2013 Larry Powell Award, which is given to the staff member that "has demonstrated selflessness, gone above and beyond what's expected, took on duties outside of his responsibility and best represents the spirit of MOJO Ad."

May 2013 – Aug 2013 · 3 mos · Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Developed and executed Google Adwords campaigns for Generation Progress content.
• Wrote and published several political pieces, including topics such as legal issues and health care.
• Conducted public policy research and reports on Race to the Top and other education-related policy issues.
• Wrote a comprehensive SEO guide to help future staff writers optimize their written content.

Sep 2012 – Apr 2013 · 7 mos · Columbia, Missouri Area

• Directed all secondary research for the Mizzou’s NSAC team, including researching on target markets for the client, Glidden Paint.
• Helped to lead all research team meetings, including delegating research and working with research team mem- bers to enhance their research abilities.

Apr 2012 – Aug 2012 · 4 mos · Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Aided in constituent services, including writing letters about specific legislation, taking constituent calls, giving tours to constituents and performing advance duties for events that the Democratic Leader attended.
• Conducted research in different legislative issue areas, including the 2012 Farm Bill and the 2010 Affordable Care Act. Research included attenting issue briefings and meetings on behalf of the office and writing memorandum about public policy issues.

Jan 2012 – May 2012 · 4 mos · Columbia, Mo

• Leveraged Twitter, Facebook and traditional blogger outreach to promote Newsy content, tagging and classifying videos for increased SEO.
• Collaborated with the Vice President of Marketing to create a Reddit strategy to enhance the content of the Newsy Twitter and Facebook sites.
• Developed the Spring 2012 Newsy Marketing strategy, centered on promoting their iPad application and social media platforms such as Twitter and Facebook.

Oct 2010 – May 2011 · 7 mos · Columbia, Missouri Area

• Led a lobbying campaign in the Missouri capital to develop legislation for the creation of a voting Student Curator for the University of Missouri.
• Wrote letters, lobbied lawmakers, and developed fact sheets to drive support for the above legislation (HB 848). Eventually was referred to the House Education Committee.

May 2010 – Aug 2010 · 3 mos · Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Authored legislative memos to congressional staffers highlighting key features of upcoming legislation that Rep. Clay was asked to co-sponsor, including memos for the 2010 Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act and the National Guard Equality Education Act of 2010.
• Briefed Rep. Clay before sub-committee hearings, including authoring a report before a hearing on the funding problems in the US Postal Service.
• Wrote constituent and advocacy letters, including writing a letter supporting St. Louis baseball icon Stan Musial’s Presidential Medal of Freedom bid, which he won three months later.

May 2009 – Jul 2009 · 2 mos · Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Canvassed and phone banked potential voters.
• Organized volunteers and worked with campaign managers on campaign strategies.

Aug 2008 – May 2009 · 9 mos

• Wrote 70 stories and over 50 blog posts for the publication, including covering 5 beats: Women's Soccer, Women's Basketball, Softball, 9th Congressional Race, and the Missouri state budget beat.