Craig Odegaard Email & Phone Number

Represent Internal Revenue Service as a Collection Representative. Interact with taxpayers using computerized IRS systems and telephone. Troubleshoot taxpayer accounts, initiate collection actions, document taxpayer accounts, identify/correct delinquent returns, and perform taxpayer services. Resolve cases using electronic research tools, taxpayer interface, calculations, and electronic and manual means. Collect and manage return and account delinquencies. Create installment agreements and work… Show more Represent Internal Revenue Service as a Collection Representative. Interact with taxpayers using computerized IRS systems and telephone. Troubleshoot taxpayer accounts, initiate collection actions, document taxpayer accounts, identify/correct delinquent returns, and perform taxpayer services. Resolve cases using electronic research tools, taxpayer interface, calculations, and electronic and manual means. Collect and manage return and account delinquencies. Create installment agreements and work financial statements in assisting taxpayers meet their tax liabilities. Show less

Coeur D' Alene, Idaho

Draft documents and research various complex legal matters. Draft legal briefs. Draft and process motions, petitions and other legal documents. Respond to written, telephonic, electronic, and personal inquiries regarding legal proceedings and records. Prepare legal case file materials; and maintain and analyze case, client, judicial and statistical data.Schedule hearings, meetings and engagements, examine case files to determine sufficiency of documentation and to identify material that may… Show more Draft documents and research various complex legal matters. Draft legal briefs. Draft and process motions, petitions and other legal documents. Respond to written, telephonic, electronic, and personal inquiries regarding legal proceedings and records. Prepare legal case file materials; and maintain and analyze case, client, judicial and statistical data.Schedule hearings, meetings and engagements, examine case files to determine sufficiency of documentation and to identify material that may be pertinent to issues or cases, conduct research for case information through records, reference and historical material, review and retire files, records, and data, as appropriate, and generate, modify, and interpret computer-generated reports.Interpret and apply comprehensive legal regulations, techniques and procedures in conducting searches and composing documents; run, analyze and distribute automated reports; respond to inquiries and complex requests for case-related information; maintain automated legal case management systems.Argue cases and attend hearings. Examine witnesses, cross-examine hostile witnesses and put together testimony and evidence to achieve positive results. Thorough knowledge, understanding, and utilization of case law, statutes and legal procedures. Continuing updating of knowledge and improving of skills.Discuss legal alternatives with clients and direct the appropriate direction of case. Sell myself and the office and motivate the client to gain complete confidence in myself and the office staff. Create complete client satisfaction through positively achieved results. Sell the case, and witnesses, to the judge and the jury members. Maintain absolute professionalism, facilitating client trust. Show less

116Th Engineering Battalion, Lewiston, Idaho

S-2 Section (Intelligence). Perform recon and demolition, military training, operations and weaponry.

Minot Air Force Base

23rd Bomb Squadron, 5th Bomb Wing. Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota. Honorable discharge.Perform flight operations and aircrew duties, to include radar operation in defense of the B-52, operation of B-52 defensive fire control system, nuclear alert duties, and satellite communications operation.

Doctor Of Law (J.D.), Law

Bachelor Of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Accounting And Computer Science (Double Major), Magna Cum Laude

Activities and Societies: President, Computer Club. Veterans Club. Tutor. Computer Operator.