New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
gwrome { at } gmail (.) com
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Professional Experience
Manager, IT Asset Management • Entergy • 2023–Present
- Leads software and hardware licensing and maintenance contract practice.
- Oversees a robust software compliance program.
- Defends license audits.
IT Vendor Alliance Manager • Entergy • 2019–2023
- Managed key technology vendors, including software and outsource partners.
- Negotiated large, global outsource contracts.
- Subject matter expert for technical scope and commercial content of technology contracts.
- Developed vendor governance to drive compliance and performance.
Law Clerk • Hon. Kirk A. Vaughn, Louisiana 34th JDC • 2007 – 2018
IT Contractor & Software Developer • Straylight Development, LLC • 2002 – 2009
Education
MBA, Finance Concentration • University of Louisiana Lafayette • 2024
Capstone: Outsource and Back Again: An Information Technology Journey
JD & Civil Law Certificate • Tulane Law School • 2009
BS, Computer Science • Loyola University New Orleans • 2006
- #1 graduate, summa cum laude
- Percy A. Roy, S.J., award for highest GPA university-wide
- Outstanding Computer Science Major departmental award
- President, Association for Computing Machinery chapter
- Minor: political science
Publications
- Louisiana Civil Law Dictionary (Quid Pro Books, 2011) (with N. Stephan Kinsella).
- A Call for Mediation Casebooks, presented at the Ludwig von Mises Institute’s Austrian Scholar’s Conference, March 2011 (with Gil Guillory).
- An Elegy for Emphyteusis, 1 CIV. L. COMMENT. 2, 1 (2008).
Industry Certifications
- Admitted to practice law
- Louisiana state and federal courts
- U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals
- U.S. Supreme Court
- ITIL 4 – Axelos Global Best Practice
- Strategic Leader
- Strategist: Direct, Plan, Improve
- Digital & IT Strategy
- Foundation in Service Management
- Professional Agile Leadership – Scrum.org
- Project Management Professional (PMP) – Project Management Institute
- Private Pilot, Instrument Rated – Federal Aviation Administration
Professional & Comunity Organizations
- Louisiana State Bar Association
- Spirit of St. Bernard Foundation, Director and Scholarship Committee (2021 – Present)
- Batture Park Charitable Foundation, Director (2012 – Present)
- Kiwanis Club of St. Bernard-Arabi, Director (2017 – 2021)
- St. Bernard Parish Public Library Board, various offices (2012 – 2020)
- Louisiana State Bar Association House of Delegates, Member (2015 – 2021)
- Lynn Oaks School, Director and Treasurer (2012 – 2020)
- BSA Eagle Scout & Adult Leader (1998 – 2008)