Meredith Calloway

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Contract management professional with 11 years of experience negotiating and administering complex commercial, government, and SaaS agreements across technology and defense sectors. Specializes in risk mitigation, vendor governance, and contract lifecycle management using Apttus and Ironclad platforms. Reduced contract cycle time by 38% and avoided $4.2M in liability exposure over the past three years through proactive clause standardization and cross-functional alignment.

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Senior Contract ManagerMar 2020 - Present

Veridian Systems Group, Austin, TX

Negotiated and executed 120+ enterprise SaaS and professional-services contracts annually, reducing average cycle time from 47 to 29 days by redesigning the internal review workflow in Ironclad.
Identified and remediated non-standard indemnification and IP ownership clauses across a $68M vendor portfolio, eliminating an estimated $4.2M in potential liability exposure over 24 months.
Led a cross-functional team of six (legal, procurement, finance) to implement a contract repository migration, achieving 100% audit-readiness for a SOC 2 Type II review completed on schedule.

Contract ManagerJun 2016 - Feb 2020

Halcyon Defense Solutions, San Antonio, TX

Administered 85 FAR/DFARS-compliant government contracts with a combined ceiling value of $310M, maintaining zero compliance findings across four consecutive DCAA audits.
Negotiated teaming agreements and subcontract flow-downs for 14 prime contracts, reducing subcontractor disputes by 62% through clearer statement-of-work language and milestone-tied payment schedules.
Developed a contract risk-scoring matrix adopted company-wide, cutting executive escalations by 40% and enabling the legal team to prioritize review bandwidth on high-exposure agreements.

Contracts AnalystAug 2013 - May 2016

Praxis Technology Partners, Dallas, TX

Reviewed and abstracted 200+ NDAs, MSAs, and SOWs per year, flagging 97% of non-standard terms within agreed SLA windows and maintaining a 99.1% accuracy rate on contract data entry.
Supported three senior contract managers during a $45M ERP implementation engagement, coordinating change-order documentation that prevented $780K in disputed scope charges.
Built a clause library of 140 pre-approved fallback positions in SharePoint, reducing outside-counsel review requests by 28% in the first year of deployment.

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