Beth Crane Email & Phone Number

Durham, North Carolina, United States

Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

Durham, North Carolina, United States

Overseeing and managing the facilities of a 30 plus person IoT firm that experienced over 50% growth in 2019. Ensuring an effective and smooth-running office facility and being the point of contact for the day-to-day office issues.• Human Resources – Duties associated with active recruitment: job postings, resume reviews, applicant tracking and communications, scheduling interviews, background checks, I-9s, new hire packets, on-boarding and benefits enrollment. Maintaining personnel files.• Purchasing – Researching, preparing cost analysis, negotiating and procuring items and services from vendors – from office and kitchen equipment and supplies to signage to furniture to branding apparel to office cleaning services. Establishing business relationships with vendors to ensure the best possible pricing and services. Making arrangements for disposal of old furniture and equipment. Maintained inventories.• Facilities – Contact person for employees concerning office environment. Planning and organizing office growth and team moves. Creating plan layouts and arranging purchases and delivery of furniture and phone services. Scheduling and overseeing maintenance and repairs of the facilities. Arranging security access. Liaised with building management.• Administrative – Evaluating and creating business processes, scheduling and maintaining company calendar, arranging and coordinating company meetings, arranging for in-house catering, planning company events, assisting with travel itineraries and managing mail and package shipping and receiving.• Bookkeeping – Classifying expenses, reviewing AP invoices, reconciling credit card receipts, preparing expense reports, obtaining W9s and making bank deposits.

Kensington, Maryland

Commercial, 7-person architectural firm specializing in restaurants.ROLESOFFICE MANAGER- Sep 2008 – Feb 2019Oversaw and managed the infrastructure and business processes of the office.• Utilized QB to maintain A/P and A/R accounts • Purchased products and services• Prepared correspondence, proposals, and bids. Created, updated and maintained project spreadsheets, document records, and filing systems• Maintained principal’s professional licenses and business insurance policies• Maintained personnel files and reviewed time sheets• Prepared and posted job listings and reviewed and filtered applications• Supervised receptionistPROJECT COORDINATOR - May 2014 – Feb 2019Team Coordination – Administrative support of architectural projects going from design concept to construction completion. Focus on project processes, through communication and documentation, freeing the architectural team to concentrate on design and construction criteria. Organized and recorded all project documentation and information.• Collected the legal project documentation between the client, real estate brokers, lawyers, landlords and base building architects.• Reviewed leases to ensure client, design team and contractors met requirements set forth by landlord for plan review, permitting and construction• Read, distributed and tracked correspondence, documentation and construction plans related to projects to/from the design team, clients, landlords, vendors, contractors and jurisdictions• Assured clients that their needs were paramount through professional and accurate responsiveness and reliability• Prepared weekly project status reports • Coordinated the permitting, bidding and construction processes with the design team, jurisdiction, general contractor (GC), landlord and clientPERMIT EXPEDITER - May 2012 – Feb 2019Provided building permitting services to clients for jurisdictions across the USA. Permitting approximately 25 restaurants a year.

Mba, Marketing

Graduate Certificate, Human Resources

Bs, Interior Design