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Malibu, California, United States

Malibu, California, United States

Oxnard, California, United States

• Owned and proactively managed complex, high-volume calendars for multiple executives, scheduling meetings across global time zones and conflicting schedules. Provided “gatekeeper” role, managing executive’s.
• Served as primary point of contact for internal and external associates on all matters pertaining to the Co-Founders while determining appropriate course of action, referral, or response, exercising judgement, and.
• Prioritized people and situations in need of immediate attention, reacted with appropriate level of urgency-providing accessibility outside of a typical workday.
• Planned and managed meetings/events to include; All Hands, Town Halls, employee appreciation activities, charity engagements, product launch celebrations, coordinating technology, logistics, accommodations, catering.
• Arranged domestic and international travel, including flights, hotel/dining reservations, transportation, itineraries, visas and other travel documentation, taking into consideration time zones and logistical details.
• Supported full life cycle of recruiting efforts by coordinating interviews, travel, accommodation and liaising between internal and external constituents. Assisted in onboarding of new hires, securing technology.

Camarillo, California, United States

• Collaborated with Sales, Production, and Planning & Scheduling teams to resolve issues and ensure a cohesive and positive customer experience across all touchpoints, addressing customer inquiries, concerns, and.
• Triaged Customer Service Inbox, assigned team workload, generated quotes/purchase orders, and assisted in drafting/revising departmental SOPs.
• Analyzed production schedules, prepared summaries and reports to derive insights for improving communicated shipping timelines.

Oxnard, California, United States

• Tracked expenditures and receipts, managed and organized confidential information, such as banking, credit cards, personal bills, ensuring accuracy, safekeeping, and accessibility.
• Kept Owner informed about critical dates and deadlines, followed up and provided digital and verbal reminders as necessary, assisted in problem-solving, organizing, decision-making, and prioritizing tasks.
• Transcribed and digitized meeting minutes, verbal and written thoughts/notes, action items and prepared agendas and quarterly presentations.
• Researched and owned CapEx projects, overseeing conception through to implementation. Aided in rapidly and seamlessly sourcing new vendors and manufacturers for personal and professional projects.

Camarillo, CA

• Acted as the central point of contact and “gatekeeper” for daily requests, calendar availability, and high priority meetings, responding and redirecting as needed, providing proactive communication with Executive.
• Orchestrated and managed leadership retreats, lunch-n-learns, employee engagement and holiday events, coordinating aspects such as, attendees, venue research/selection, decorations, preparing conference rooms.
• Managed domestic travel, including flights, hotel reservations, ground transportation and travel itineraries. Created and maintained database of individual travel preferences, reward accounts, and passport/visa/TSA/DL.
• Attended internal meetings to capture, summarize and cascade key takeaways, action items and expected deliverables. Developed presentations, templates, graphics, and spreadsheets at the highest level-creating reusable.
• Partnered with facility maintenance team and external contractors to maintain the office condition, ensuring safety, esthetics and overall functionality of the office space.
• Processed expense reports, reconciled credit card accounts and managed departmental budgets.

Newbury Park, CA

• Project Manage case implementation activities for CA Large Group Pooled and Non-Pooled Renewals, providing timely and accurate installations of group benefit plans.
• Track and drive completion of Case Install and aligned team deliverables to ensure established performance guarantees are met.
• Develop and maintain effective and collaborative relationships with Sales, Underwriting, Enrollment and Billing and various internal partners.
• Create tracking tools and Salesforce reporting to assist in monitoring status of account implementations.

Thousand Oaks, California

• Perform redline reviews, impact analysis, interpretation and operationalization of Managed Care contracts. Assess operational feasibility, resource needs and system requirements to support innovative contracting.
• Enhanced customer engagement and fostered more effective lines of communication-through up-front data exchange-to achieve contractual compliance, discount accuracy and on-time payments for Amgen’s highest value and.
• Team lead during multiple vendor demos that supported enhanced business decisions and drove innovative business solutions.
• Led multiple work-streams and process initiatives, partnering cross functionally with internal and external stakeholders that led to increased accuracy in data cleansing and reporting, increased process efficiencies.
• MCO lead in technology transformation effort, targeting a 50% improvement in operational efficiency and reduction in low value activities through automation (Alteryx). Led to streamlined analytics & reporting.
• Catalogued innovative contracting strategies to provide aligned teams clarity around calculation methodologies, contractual interpretation of such strategies and greater visibility into financial and resource.

Thousand Oaks, California

• Interpret and operationalize discount strategies, cleanse and analyze large data sets, process and report contracted discounts for Senior Care, Specialty Pharmacy and Managed Care customers. Onboard new analysts and.
• Reduced unclaimed property by 92% totaling $50M, through proactive partnerships with internal and external customers, thereby channeling the funds directly back to the customer.
• Authored desktop procedures and process documentation for newly launched payment system and data scrubbing tool, creating a significant reduction in the learning curve for newly hired Amgen staff.
• Efficiently and seamlessly navigated decommissioning of legacy payment system while performing concurrent payments across both the existing and new platforms allowing zero disruption in payments to customers.
• Team leader and audit liaison for internal and external compliance audits. Compiled and reviewed required documentation, consistently resulting in zero audit findings.
• Created SharePoint dashboard to assist management in quickly assessing outstanding payment inquiries, individual workloads and metric tracking which allowed team greater visibility and efficient access to assigned.

Thousand Oaks, CA

• Prepare and process Medicaid invoices for system upload and electronic archival. Conduct audit of electronically stored documentation. Create desktop procedures for current business processes.
• Developed and assessed performance metrics ensuring Medicaid contractual compliance and provided leadership with visibility into team member’s bandwidth and substantiating the ongoing need of contingent staff.
• Reviewed and updated all business processes and created desktop user manual, assisting in smooth transition of new employees.PROVEN SUCCESS IN:
• Identifying and implementing continuous process improvements and training to those objectives.
• Maintaining clear and dedicated focus despite challenging and changing landscape.
• Balancing multiple aggressive and competing timelines with impeccable attention to detail and high caliber results.

Agoura Hills, CA

Execute weekly payments for national sales force, research and provide timely resolution of payment and data related issues, perform variance and trend analysis, manage data integrity. Analyze business processes to identify and implement process improvements.