SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS:

Experienced project manager, with extensive knowledge of CMS, department trainer/expert, and Global contributor manager of multiple projects, coordinating workflow, meeting deliverables and facilitating relations and training with overseas co-partners and vendors. I am a seasoned editor with 18 years of experience, offering a discerning eye for detail, and ability to maximize quality in a face-paced work environment. I am creative, organized, and have the ability to multitask. I work well independently or in a group setting and require little to no supervision interested in opportunities in information publishing/technology, project management, legal, publishing, editing, copywriting, quality assurance, team management, and customer relations.

PROFESSIONAL SKILLS:

• Global Liaison for Sencor Vendor relations managing updated documentation, and prioritizing their workflow
• Software facility with Microsoft Office, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Westlaw -- Thomson Reuters's specialized legal research system CMS experience familiarity with both xml, html coding, IT testing, UAT Regression Testing of multiple software applications
• Completed Accounting Principles I II, Composition, Business Writing, Intro to Business, Marketing, and Global Citizenship courses and general studies for continued education
• Basic accounting and certified tax preparer Certificate HR block
• Detail Oriented and self-motivated collaborative excellent communications skills with Global Contributors and co-partners
• Confident speaker and trainer
• Five years management experience 8 years customer service background in retail and food service
• Project Management Accomplishments:
• Lead and coordinated a 450,000 government contract with the Nebraska State Revisor
• Reproduced 7 of their bound volume statutes books and three softbound supplemental pamphlets with Index volume
• Received an Above and Beyond Award, including monetary bonus
• Included all aspects of scheduling, production, delivery, communication with the Revisor on expectations, analyzing of incoming data for creation of DTD schemas for data conversion, formatting of text, review of data and pages, creation of cover and front matter design and materials, as well as maintaining state relations for future contracts

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Sr. Publishing Coordinator

• Senior Publishing Coordinator: Project manager of Idaho and Massachusetts products: previous lead on multiple start-up jurisdictions, including Nebraska Recompilations, Alaska, Vermont, Kansas, Illinois Administrative Code, Wyoming and Missouri.
• Leading multiple projects lead to a department wide initiative to co-source daily activities to Manila and have team members lead and coordinate those projects which saved the department money by not having your most experienced people do the most menial tasks
• Coordinated and distributed of workflow to Manila counterparts and Sencor Vendors
• Implemented meetings scheduled via Webex to communicate expectations, delegation and review of their work
• Consulted and negotiated with content providers on allocation of resources to implement such planning
• Project scheduling and scope of products for print, CD and westlaw , meeting production deadlines and deliverables
• Quality control and verification maintaining the highest quality and currency for our customers over our competition
• Performing data analysis revision and research Analysis of manuscript and electronic files creation of TR's premium added features data entry to provide a premium product for our customers
• Worked with interdepartmental personal to facilitate new procedures and process improvements including corrections to historical databases/previously published material
• Managing distribution of workload, revising other's work, training and evaluation of peers
• Resolving coding errors, composition, conversion errors, data acquisition and management to ensure data is converted correctly which supported development, enhancement and maintenance of content for use for CD, print and westlaw media
• Creation and implementation of Documentation spec sheets, manuals, test files for training and use by Global Manila and Sencor partners
• Electronic filing, legal research, cite checking, coding and parsing, manuscript editing, proofreading and copy reading/editing, and data comparison
• Running various PC programs. Daily tasks require working in over a dozen different applications and systems

Confidential

Tax and Accounting Assistant: Certified Tax Preparer by HR Block, prepare tax returns for review and sign off in Drake. Also, accounting and payroll for various local business accounts using Quickbooks. Schedule appointments, client intake, generate dictated correspondence to State and Federal Revenue Services.

Confidential

Store Manager

• Store Manager: Ran all operations for retail store. Responsibilities included opening and closing of the store, receiving product, merchandising and stocking of displays.
• Maintained all bookwork, day end and month end balances, audits and deposits
• Processed time cards and calculating employee hours for payroll.
• Handled all hiring, interviewing, scheduling, and training 15-20 part-time employees.

VOLUNTEER INTERESTS:

• ND/SD/MN Chapter of ALS raised funds and supervised booths for various local fund raising activities maintained and updated Internet webpage/blog and Facebook page for ALS group at work
• Autism Speaks/Awareness fund raising
• Team Activities Organizer organized and planned team functions, treat days, birthday parties and happy hours for team achievements