Software License Analysis and Negotiation

After attending software license seminars, I established a license agreement standard and policies related to negotiation and related software processes.  The following are some of the software procurements I initiated and followed through to completion:

·     Digital Feedwater Control System

·        Digital Turbine Control System

·        Customized scheduling software (I incorporated a "money back guarantee" clause in the agreement, with the provision that we get our money back if they couldn't pass the Final Acceptance Test after a certain period of time.  They couldn't do it, and we got all of our money back);

·      Custom Plant Computer Systems for TMI and Oyster Creek Nuclear Power Plants (over $1.5 million each, mostly software development).  On this project, I also served as ghost writer for the technical software specification;

·        Nuclear airborne contamination prediction software (with an in-house escrow agreement on their source code)

·        GPU Nuclear developed their own software for tracking training of employees (this was a regulatory requirement of the NRC, and our software made it easy).  I wrote the license from scratch and negotiated use of the software and further upgrades with utilities.  After it became more important in the industry, I contracted with an outside firm to upgrade it (over $1,000,000 worth).

·       As 2000 approached, I was selected to be the commercial liaison to the GPUN Y2K Compliance Committee, ensuring that our software was Y2K compliant, and that all existing licenses included the new Y2K warranty and that all new licenses addressed this important issue.  I wrote the warranty, which received only minor changes after Intellectual Property attorney review.

In 2004 I joined Software House International, Inc. managing software licensing issues.

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