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Recruited to overhaul the west coast offices, and revive the administration of a Service-Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business (“SDVOSB”) focused on professional construction services in the A/E industry for US Government Contracts. Oversee company finances, contractual agreements, vendor management, compliance and employment and contract life cycle. Management of 39+ staff on a $98 billion government contract through a joint venture. Manage major company platforms while conducting business in CNMI, Guam, Australia, Japan, and Hawaii, including setup of remote work options and manage employment life cycle from hire to termination. Summary of Key Accomplishments:Improved Employment Benefits Programs: Initiated a system wide change to engage new vendors to better serve company's military veteran and civilian employees abroad and across the international dateline. Streamlined benefits program to better serve employee needs and provide 100% coverage company wide.Foundation of Company Culture and Business Management: Contacted vendors to consolidate company spending, modernizing infrastructure and P2P practices along with B2B management. Increased company retention of employees by 80%. Team Building & Organization: Implemented new software company wide to assist in communications, file management, storage, data retention and data loss prevention. recruited staff to revitalize home administrative offices. Coached and mentored new members with policies to encourage forward thinking, preemptive action, and collaboration, leading to the development of an organizational chart and structure to deal with all company matters. Migration of company data to promote accessibility, scalability and decrease costs.Client Management: Acted as liaison and negotiator on day-to-day management of client interactions with contracting matters and employees. Brokered and coordinated efforts to assist compliance with the contract and logistics as they pertained to their enforcement.

Legal drafting, research and documentation under the supervision of partners in a Woman Owned Small Business focused on Family, Civil, Will and Trust, and Contract Law primarily in the state of California. Oversee the management, preparation, and coordination of over 50 active client files, prepare pre-trial briefs, court filings, routinely engage in discover and post judgment matters related to enforcement. Full management of case files from inception and prescreening of clients to archive of record utilizing PACER, WestLaw, LexisNexus, CFLR Propetizer, Law Insider Contract and Clause Search and other case management software.Notable Accomplishments:• Conducted and managed entire Trustees Sales for clients in Norther California Area consisting of rental homes and properties in legal disputes.• Prepared Request for Orders (“RFO”) for clients, civil motions, declarations, temporary restraining orders (“TRO”), and findings and orders after hearing.• Assisted a client in a cold case matter involving stolen funds from a dissolution of marriage and worked with private investigators to track down respondent, enforce the judgment and manage the coordination and orders to have funds and property returned after several years of respondent in hiding.• Prepared and enforced wage garnishments, discovery management for evidentiary prove up cases, and as California is a community property state, as part of post judgment work prepared and filed joinder documents for retirement plans and shared benefit plans.• Worked on several union-based cases as they pertained to dissolution of marriage and thus familiarized with benefits and vesting options in these groups.

Manage client calendars and case files. Engage in program and product development scaling and streamlining services for the purposes of improving effectiveness of client databases to source to identify customer needs and meet client and employer expectations. Develop databases and coordinate with vendors and interested stake holders for the purposes of discovery, post judgment, notarization and identify useful leads as determined through client database for case files to prioritize. Oversee HR Department and work with outside legal counsel on workers compensation law issues, pending litigation and establish internal process for legal compliance, employee management and interdepartmental communications.Key accomplishments include:• Engaged in credit and audit functions for financial institutions supporting debt collection firms and post judgment accounts, notarizing satisfactions of judgment and negotiating with client and debtors to reconcile over 200 case files.• Successfully established a procedure and process to catalogue all sister state judgment filings viable within the clients database to return a 100% success rate on filings with the information scrubbed from various internet sources and filings.• Conducted and prepared all hands meetings, coordinated client and vendor management to improve P2P and S2P experiences and expectations. • Established operating procedures and administrative guidance for all interdepartmental functions and led the creation and implementation new procedural elements for contract and client compliance.• Successfully passed the February 2015 California Bar Examination.• Cut $50K in cost and expenses from client by streamlining vendor process and assisting in the renegotiation of contract elements to migrate expense and consolidate some matters from the client to their vendors and their consultees.

Manage operations on large scale projects for clients in the financial credit industry. Lead project teams and large- and small-scale engagements to close out and meet client needs consistently on active and inactive files coordinating through a unique intranet system to manage client relationships, project delivery and project success.• FDCPA regulatory compliance and legal research. • Federal filings and motion drafting, trial declaration preparation, sister state judgments, motions to vacate judgment, hearing scheduling and discovery. • Manage database for claims and files in JST and COGENT to coordinate regular communication with New York office through this system. • Prepare payment plans for clients and schedule Attorney on Demand (AOD) for court appearances, in addition to the management and collaboration of calendar clerk’s input on these matters.

Recruit and lead over 48 members of a diverse team, mostly within the continental United States, in the establishment of an art, website design, digital media & entertainment, review and design community focused on providing such content to consumers. Oversee and organize collaborative large scale projects requiring team management and leading, in order to accomplish forecasted goals within set time frames on a regular basis and hectic schedule to meet consumer demands, stay relevant and attract new and unique talent. Utilize social media and numerous avenues of current software and content to include Adobe Cloud, Microsoft Suite, Zoom, Wix, Discord, YouTube, and Facebook, etc. to produce high quality content, and assist in the establishment of content creators.• Spearheaded collaboration and team management, leading to the successful establishment of consistent team productivity, placement and achievable goals.• Overhauled identity, access, marketing and public image for 8bit-Ramen formerly TMV using modern design and management architecture to receive a 70% gain on results, interaction and success measured through an increase in viewership, site visits and marketing engagement by at least five times than normal in previous years.• Created a solid foundation for community growth as a space welcoming of all colors and creeds with a focus of expression in the form of art and media.• Led and built performance assessment tools for the purpose of scaling infrastructure and managing human resources to not only strengthen the foundation and community involvement, but to endeavor fund raising for charities located within the continental United States.• Transformed roles, participated in community engagement, marketing, and the establishment of roles and duties within 8bit-Ramen.• Conducted collaborative meetings and set clear goals to assist in the direction, culture, and focus of 8bit-Ramen.

Engage in administrative form filing/drafting and preparation of legal documents under the direction and aid of supervising counsel. Oversee and assist in contractual agreement drafting and negotiations between parties towards conflict resolution, strategy and execution. Engage in discovery, legal research, and support of supervising attorney(s). Manage team members on active projects.• Organized and directed teams to resolve complex issues and divide tasks to manage and bring client files to resolution to the satisfaction of clients.• Screened calls and client to best vet, source and scale response time and resources to assigned projects.• Tracked projects utilizing various software and allotting time for legal research, client review, and meeting engagement to set weekly and monthly schedules for team members allotting time for quality control in assigned projects.

Oversee contract and data management services in a high paced environment supporting legal, financial, and marketing divisions. Maintain and coordinate client database as they relate marketing, product placement and trademark related issues – conducting in person meetings while keeping minutes closely working with software engineers to assist in QA/QC of product development, direction, and contractual limitations. Maintain sourced information from these endeavors in the corporate intranet database for ease of access and scalability and to provide and answer RFIs.Select achievements:• Exceeded then client’s expectations converting contracting position into a full-time hire within the company.• Assistance with electronic discovery and database management assisted in successful win in lawsuit against ASCAP/BMI• Completed LSAT exams and enrolled in Law School

Act as temp agent for many law firms in the bay area, usually in admin positions performing discovery, filing, and assisting in depositions.

Work part-time to prepare subpoenas, demand letters, memorandums, special and judicial interrogatories, and assisted in filings with the court. Convert a hard copy database of an entire filing system into a digital network of files accessible by computers on and off site, and conduct legal research in CA state codes to assist with cases.