Lauren Blackburn
Kingwood
Summary
Enterprise Governance Specialist with extensive experience at Chevron Phillips Chemical Company, focusing on corporate governance and regulatory compliance. Expertise in policy drafting and stakeholder engagement, leading to significant process improvements and enhanced operational efficiency. Proven ability to implement compliance monitoring strategies across multiple subsidiaries, driving organizational success.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
Work History
Enterprise Governance Specialist
Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LP
08.2024 - Current
- Serve in role as Assistant Corporate Secretary for operating entities and subsidiaries
- Ensure regulatory compliance and entity management
- Administer third party interface application for Board of Directors and Leadership
- Coordinate materials and documentation for review by Members, Board of Directors and Leadership
- Assist and support due diligence and compliance qualifications of third-party suppliers and vendors
- Handled and maintained confidentiality of company proprietary information
Director, Legal & Compliance
Orion Group Holdings, Inc.
11.2021 - 08.2024
- Served as Assistant Corporate Secretary and legal department administrator for publicly traded parent company and +30 subsidiaries in domestic and foreign jurisdictions
- Reviewed, negotiated and assisted with management of corporate-related contracts for equipment and facilities, real estate, human resources, IT and procurement functions
- Reviewed and negotiated confidentiality, engineering, consulting agreements and NDA’s
- Authored revisions to existing policies and drafted new policies
- Transitioned workflows and department process maps and established benchmark metrics
- Introduced digital tools including electronic signature platform and third-party entity management
- Monitored legal and compliance expenses; prepared and managed legal budget generation
- Coordinated department metrics and performance measurement
Contracts & Legal Systems Manager
Howard Hughes Corporation
02.2021 - 10.2021
- Managed leasing documents review, approval and execution workflow
- Maintained executed lease documentation repository
- Monitored and implemented delegation of authority policy for legal document approvals
- Maintained contract lifecycle workflow
- Managed template library and executed documents repository
- Administered implementation of contract system changes
- Coordinated testing of new system configurations and developed training aids
- Assisted with integration of other systems and processes for organization
- Served as a point of contact for contract policies, requirements and custodian of contract records
- Facilitated documented reference aids and training on contract management system
- Communicated contract and DOA policies
Contracts and Corporate Governance Specialist
ChampionX
08.2020 - 01.2021
- Drafted, negotiated and completed nondisclosure and confidentiality agreements across enterprise
- Develop monitoring and measurement mechanisms and delivered metrics to executive management.
- Assist post-merger entity management initiatives
- Implemented organization interface for contracts request
- Facilitated electronic file organization, electronic signature process and other records management improvements
- Temporary Independent Contractor Role
Manager, Legal & Compliance Department
Orion Group Holdings, Inc.
02.2016 - 08.2020
- Served as Assistant Corporate Secretary and legal department administrator for publicly traded parent company and +30 subsidiaries in domestic and foreign jurisdictions
- Reviewed, negotiated and assisted with management of corporate-related contracts for equipment and facilities, real estate, human resources, IT and procurement functions
- Reviewed and negotiated confidentiality, engineering, consulting agreements and NDA’s
- Authored revisions to existing policies and drafted new policies
- Transitioned workflows and department process maps and established benchmark metrics
Manager, Contracts Administration-Legal Department
Key Energy Services, Inc.
12.2010 - 02.2016
- Served as single point of interface for commercial customer and procurement contracts
- Supported business development towards business capture and vendor qualification
- Collaborated with stakeholders for cross-functional integration of workflow and standardized templates
- Monitor and deliver metrics to management for data-driven decisions
- Draft and negotiate service-related and revenue contracts (e.g., drilling contracts, master service agreements, various forms of commercial agreements, saltwater disposal agreements, trucking agreements, etc.) and established more than 2,000 customer contracts for prospective revenue opportunities
- Prepared negotiation memoranda and supporting documentation
- Assisted with cross-functional teams towards conflict/claims resolution
- Established contract monitoring and performance indicators to leadership team
- Supervised limited staff and facilitated mentorship and personal development of team members
- Contracting efforts yielded $307,258,861.39; equal to 20% of Net Sales in 2012; contracting efforts contributed to $803,941,316 or 57% of Net Sales in 2013
Education
MBA - Global Management
University of Phoenix
Houston, TXB.S. - Sociology
Lamar University
Beaumont, TXCompliance Professional Certification -
Society of Corporate Compliance & Ethics
Skills
- SCCE Certified Professional
- Policy administration
- Corporate governance
- Regulatory compliance
- Policy drafting
- Effective communication
- Attention to detail
- Compliance monitoring
- Problem solving
- Data analysis
- Proficient in [software]
- Continuous improvement
- Business reporting
- Quality assurance
- Process optimization
- Adaptability
- Analytical skills
- Performance metrics
- Operational efficiency
- Process improvement
- Program development
- Training and education
- Investigations and audits
- Risk evaluation
- Stakeholder engagement
- Metrics and monitoring
- Records management
- Third party due diligence
- Business ethics
- Cross function collaboration
- Sensitive information
- FCPA/Antibribery
- Antitrust
- Conflict of interest
- Proficiency:
- Microsoft Suite
- Microsoft 365 CoPilot
- Microsoft Teams/SharePoint
- Adobe Acrobat Suite
- Asana Workflow Management
- Salesforce
- Diligent Boards
- Wolters Kluwer hCue
- CSC Entity Management
- Blue Umbrella
- DocuSign CLM
- Icertis CLM
- PowerBI
- LexisNexis
- TR Westlaw
- TR HighQ
- TR Legal Tracker
- CounselLink
- NYSE Connect
- NYSE listing Manager
- SEC Edgar
- Notary Public (TX)
Education Certifications Memberships
- Contract Management Continuing Education Certification, Villanova University
- National Contract Management Association (NCMA)
- Compliance Professional Certification, Society of Corporate Compliance & Ethics
- MBA - Global Management, University of Phoenix, Houston, TX
- B.S. - Sociology, Lamar University, Beaumont, TX
Earlier Career Progression
- Eni US Operating Co. Inc., Houston, TX, Senior Contracts Administrator and Section Leader
- El Paso Exploration & Production, Inc., Houston, TX, Supply Chain Specialist
- Apache Corporation, Houston, TX, International Paralegal and Legal Assistant
Timeline
Enterprise Governance Specialist
Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LP
08.2024 - Current
Director, Legal & Compliance
Orion Group Holdings, Inc.
11.2021 - 08.2024
Contracts & Legal Systems Manager
Howard Hughes Corporation
02.2021 - 10.2021
Contracts and Corporate Governance Specialist
ChampionX
08.2020 - 01.2021
Manager, Legal & Compliance Department
Orion Group Holdings, Inc.
02.2016 - 08.2020
Manager, Contracts Administration-Legal Department
Key Energy Services, Inc.
12.2010 - 02.2016
MBA - Global Management
University of Phoenix
B.S. - Sociology
Lamar University
Compliance Professional Certification -
Society of Corporate Compliance & Ethics