Cathy Serventi Email & Phone Number

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US

Directed vendor teams in Pittsburgh and India responsible for verifying and organizing merchant provided product data for display on Google Shopping and for use in machine learning search & advertising algorithms. Wrote engineering specifications, designed and implemented automated & manual, unit & integration test plans, and prioritized bug fixes for all.

Reporting to the Vice Presidents of Project Management and Engineerings for the global Google Shopping organization:Managed the headcount allocations for 800+ people across 40+ engineering, testing, project management and operations teams in Pittsburgh, California, Zurich, Waterloo, Florida, India & China. Made timely & actionable data available about.

In addition to standard Administrative Assistant responsibilities related to calendaring and travel for one Vice President, one Director and 3+ Managers: Served on promotion and calibration committees to evaluate the performance of executive and administrative assistants company-wideHired and trained 3 additional administrative assistants for the.

Acted as local point of contact and host for all visits involving Local, State and Federal government officials, including Governor Tom Corbett, Senator Bob Casey, Senator Pat Toomey, Congressman Mike Doyle, Mayor Bill Peduto, Mayor Luke Ravenstahl and a State Senate Leadership delegation. Founded the Google Pittsburgh K-12 Outreach program, which was used.

Managed the calendars, travel arrangements & reimbursements for two Directors and multiple senior managers and any visiting speakers. Responsible for verifying that all employee expenses were in-line with corporate policies via delegated expense report approval authority from the Site Lead. Generated Purchase Orders, check requests etc. for all local.

While serving as the administrative staff member for the graduate student organization:Worked with multiple university departments to revise the travel grant process, reducing processing time from 2 months to 2 weeks.Redesigned and rebuilt the website for the Graduate Student Organization and integrated it into the University of Pittsburgh web.

During the summers of 2003, 2004, 2005 managed the logistics for 6 week long field schools for 20-30 undergraduates including:Acting as principal research and dig lead for the Mahaney Site in 2005 responsible for setting research priorities and maintaining official documentation.Training & supervising undergraduates in archaeological excavation techniques..

Acted as teaching assistant for the advanced graduate student Teacher Training Seminar including lecturing and grading.Visited classrooms to video tape and provided feedback on teaching to graduate student instructors.Collaborating with another teaching fellow revised the graduate student teaching handbook. Authored the section on diversity and inclusive.

Lead: Jan 2001 - May 2002As lead TF, in collaboration with the lecturer, wrote the syllabus & grading rubric and designed classroom activities used by 6+ teaching follows for 12 lab sections. Managed the Blackboard site and grade reporting for all sections. Taught multiple sections of required Research Methods in Psychology introducing students to.

Maintained and added to comparative faunal collectionsAssisted with the wind down of the laboratory when the CCRM was dissolved.

Taught multiple review sections of Introduction to Archaeology

Entered financial transactions into the UC accounting system and verified that they were consistent with University policies. Generated purchase orders as required. Processed travel and reimbursement requests for faculty members and/or Student Organizations as required. Balanced accounts monthly and closed out accounts annually. Gave workshops to 60+.

Under supervision of the owner, entered transactions, generated checks, balanced accounts and created monthly reports for 12+ small businesses. Prepared quarterly and annual payroll and 1099 IRS forms.

Master Of Arts (M.A.), Anthropology

B.A., Anthropology