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Cope Thomas
Contracts Expert, Attorney at Law
Florida
FL
""excellent work and communication was great""
About
My focus also includes webpage terms, user agreements, web development, high tech equipment lease, sale and maintenance, independent consultant, intellectual property, confidentiality agreements (NDAs), non-compete and requests for proposals.
I'm also a contracts law and natural language processing (NLP) researcher. I produce the data sets used to train machine learning models that extract clauses… read more from legal contracts and evaluate their accuracy.
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Client Reviews
""excellent work and communication was great""
Posted on Dec 1, 2017
"Nov 2017 5 stars rating "Very prompt and top professional!""
Posted on Dec 1, 2017
Work History
Contract Reader
Owner
Jan 2013 - Present
• contracts law and natural language processing (NLP) researcher developing artificial intelligence algorithm that reads contract documents, displays risk issues, in a plain language format
General Electric
Senior Contracts Manager
Sep 2008 - Sep 2012
• structured, negotiated, and implemented numerous multinational consortium agreements for construction of large infrastructure projects in the U.S., Germany, Korea, Egypt, Brazil and Australia
• successfully lead international-consortium t&cs bid for the supply of turnkey electric power to the Ichthys LNG Project
• ranked among the most significant oil and gas projects in the world
Teachers College of Columbia University
Contracts Attorney and Risk Manager
Jan 2005 - Sep 2008
• negotiated all College contracts, including supply, construction, independent consultant, IP, partnership, leases, RFPs and federal grants
• represented College interests with respect to all insurance coverage matters
Teachers College of Columbia University
Lecturer
Sep 2006 - Sep 2007
Center for Educational Outreach and Innovation
• created and conducted continuing education course “The Keys to Successful Contract Negotiations”
• attended by executives, managers and professionals responsible for contract terms and conditions
Siemens
Contracts Analyst
Jun 1999 - Dec 2005
• led commercial negotiations in development of over 4 billion dollars of domestic and international gas power plants
• evaluation of requests for proposals, negotiation of construction, equipment supply, operation and maintenance contracts, financial security instruments (demand bonds and letters of credit), and confidentiality agreements