DEAN VALLERY
Colleyville,Texas
Overview
29
29
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Legal Content and Programming
DIRECTV, LLC
Dallas, Texas
08.2021 - Current
- Draft extensions and amendments to existing agreements (e.g., content distribution, studio, retransmission consent, and general commercial agreements)
- Prepare initial drafts of agreements
- Draft notices (e.g., MFN certifications, MFN audit requests, force majeure notices)
- Proofread agreements
- Review and interpret contracts and summarize comparable contract provisions from applicable content agreements
- Maintain content templates (e.g., affiliation agreement, retransmission agreement, tech specs) and other reference materials
- Format documents
- Prepare amended and restated agreements
- Create and maintain document indexes and ensure version control is tightly maintained
- Exposure to Federal acquisition Regulation (FAR) and Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation (DFAR) agreements.
Sr. Contract Manager
AT&T Mobility, LLC
Dallas, Texas
09.2012 - 08.2021
- Manage, negotiate, monitor, and source vendor contracts/sub-contracts
- Responsible for $250M+ in mobile accessory spend
- Averaged $15M in annual savings through reduction in negotiated vendor pricing
- Collaborate with cross-functional groups across multiple departments
- Manage an average of 25 projects concurrently
- Provide interpretation of terms and conditions of contractual obligations, as well as negotiate contract modifications, follow-up quotations, revisions, terms and conditions with vendors and cross functional team members
- Review and administer long-term and or blanket purchase contracts, commercial contract issues, negotiations and or licensing agreements including but not limited to renewal, new business, invoicing, credit holds, receivable issues, and consolidations
- Manage strategic relationships, understanding of applications of corporate policies and stakeholder groups
- Identify and mitigate complex legal and compliance issues
- Administer contracts in accordance with company and customer policies and procedures
- Provide interpretation and analysis of contract documents
- Review and evaluate customer requests for changes in or revisions of contracts that involve technical specifications, cost, or schedule impact to the company
- Develop goals and budgets for areas of responsibility
- Memorializing AT&T initiatives and objectives through negotiations and executed contracts
- Ensure that programs and efforts are directed toward achieving company goals
- Initiate corrective action to assure objectives are met and assist in the establishment and administration of unit policies, procedures, and systems
- Exercise judgment in selecting methods and evaluation criteria for obtaining results that meet the objectives of AT&T
- Exposure to Federal acquisition Regulation (FAR) and Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation (DFAR) agreements.
Attorney
Warren & Migliaccio, LLP
Richardson, Texas
09.2008 - 09.2012
- Managing family law cases intake to completion
- Managing estate planning cases from intake to completion
- Managing civil cases such as landlord tenant disputes, credit disputes, and medical disputes from intake to completion.
Extern
City of Dallas, City Attorney’s Office
Dallas, Texas
08.2008 - 12.2008
- Managed legal research
- Drafted memorandums, motions, and briefs for employment cases
- Prepared for and attended conference hearings, trial board hearings, administrative law judge hearings, city manager hearings, and legislative counsel hearings
- Prepared for and attended trial courts and the district court of appeals.
Legal Clerk
The Law Offices of Steven W. Dulan, PLC
East Lansing, MI
01.2008 - 08.2008
- Conducted legal research and drafted memorandums, motions, and briefs for civil and criminal cases.
Legal Clerk for the Republican Legal Policy Office
Michigan House of Representatives
Lansing, MI
05.2007 - 12.2007
- Performed legal research and wrote proposed legislation on recusal, term limits, ballot proposals, state budget shortages, call of the House, bribery, and election issues.
Principal Consultant
Vallery International Consulting, Inc.
10.1998 - 08.2005
- Established a corporation to promote technology and management consulting
- Analyzed and designed methods for extracting data from AS400, Hyperion, JD Edwards, Oracle, SAP, and Siebel systems for aerospace, banking, bottling, energy, food processing, hardware, insurance, medical, oil & gas, pharmaceutical, sales, software, and telecommunications clients
- Designed and built processes to extract and load data from source systems to the target systems
- Planned and executed system tests to ensure data integrity against an Oracle database
- Designed and built universes using Business Objects for companywide reporting
- Designed and built databases
- Administered daily IT activities
- Set up and maintained wireless networks
- Architect in system integration and design
- Constructed data models
- Mentored and trained developers and clients
- Created system integration design documents
- Rolled out systems worldwide
- Developed and enforced the budgets, resources, and timelines of multiple projects.
Team Lead/Consultant
IBM Global Services
04.1997 - 09.1998
- Training database administrator for military, manufacturing, and telecommunication clients
- Created, developed, and rolled out the SAP online help
- Created, developed, and rolled out SAP (FI, PP, MM, and SD) training materials
- Delivered training to 300+ end users.
Team Lead/Consultant/Technical Writer/Web Developer
DDS: Client ~ Eli Lilly
Indianapolis, IN
03.1996 - 09.1997
- Created, developed, and delivered SAP (FI, MM, and SD) training materials for a major pet food manufacturer
- Reengineered many of the business processes
- Delivered training to 400+ end-users.
Team Lead/Consultant/Technical Writer/Web Developer
DDS: Client ~ M/A-COM
Lowell, MA
09.1996 - 03.1997
- Created, developed, and delivered SAP (FI, MM, and SD) training materials for a major microwave and electronics manufacturer
- Reengineered many of the business processes
- Built a 1500-page Intranet
- Delivered training to 200+ end users.
Discrepancy Analyst
Shell Chemical
Houston, TX
09.1995 - 03.1996
- Audited the SAP system
- Adjusted pricing for solvents and olefins
- Addressed customer discrepancies.
Education
J.D. - Legal Studies
Thomas M. Cooley Law School
Lansing, MI12-2008
Skills
- Drafting and amending agreements
- Proofreading agreements
- Reviewing and interpreting contracts
- Maintaining content templates and reference materials
- Formatting documents
- Managing, negotiating, and monitoring vendor contracts
- Collaborating with cross-functional groups
- Providing interpretation of contractual obligations
- Reviewing and administering long-term and blanket purchase contracts
- Managing strategic relationships
- Identifying and mitigating legal and compliance issues
- Administering contracts in accordance with policies and procedures
- Reviewing and evaluating customer requests for contract changes
- Developing goals and budgets
- Memorializing initiatives and objectives through negotiations and contracts
- Ensuring programs and efforts align with company goals
- Initiating corrective action
- Establishing and administering unit policies, procedures, and systems
- Conducting legal research
- Drafting memorandums, motions, and briefs
- Preparing for and attending hearings and trials
- Performing legal research for civil and criminal cases
- Analyzing and designing methods for data extraction
- Designing and building processes for data extraction and loading
- Planning and executing system tests
- Designing and building databases and universes
- Administering daily IT activities
- Setting up and maintaining wireless networks
- Architecting system integration and design
- Mentoring and training developers and clients
- Creating system integration design documents
- Rolling out systems worldwide
- Developing and enforcing project budgets, resources, and timelines
- Training database administrator
- Creating and delivering SAP training materials
- Auditing SAP system
- Adjusting pricing and addressing customer discrepancies
- Proficient in Oracle, UNIX, SAP, SQL, JavaScript, Business Objects, Data Integrator, MS Office Suite, Visio, HTML, and ProDoc
Education
2009, 1995, 2023, 2023
Bar Membership
Admitted to State Bar of Texas (2010)
Certification
- Privacy
- State Bar of Texas
Timeline
Legal Content and Programming
DIRECTV, LLC
08.2021 - Current
Sr. Contract Manager
AT&T Mobility, LLC
09.2012 - 08.2021
Attorney
Warren & Migliaccio, LLP
09.2008 - 09.2012
Extern
City of Dallas, City Attorney’s Office
08.2008 - 12.2008
Legal Clerk
The Law Offices of Steven W. Dulan, PLC
01.2008 - 08.2008
Legal Clerk for the Republican Legal Policy Office
Michigan House of Representatives
05.2007 - 12.2007
Principal Consultant
Vallery International Consulting, Inc.
10.1998 - 08.2005
Team Lead/Consultant
IBM Global Services
04.1997 - 09.1998
Team Lead/Consultant/Technical Writer/Web Developer
DDS: Client ~ M/A-COM
09.1996 - 03.1997
Team Lead/Consultant/Technical Writer/Web Developer
DDS: Client ~ Eli Lilly
03.1996 - 09.1997
Discrepancy Analyst
Shell Chemical
09.1995 - 03.1996
J.D. - Legal Studies
Thomas M. Cooley Law School
- Privacy
- State Bar of Texas