Residential real estate consultant. Working with sellers, buyers, and investors.

Find me at Preservation Properties (a green agency)439 Newtonville Ave Newtonville, MAServing Greater Boston and the suburbs. Sales and Rentals are welcome. Looking to buy, sell, rent, or lease? Find me at masha@preservationproperties.com

Helped create and was in charge of production at project called Club Caribe. Club Caribe is a weekly Salsa night club event. Responsibilities included: coordinated/managed all staffing, marketing, DJ/music, set up, financials, breakdown, etc. Additional events under this umbrella: Several sold out New Year's Eve events, one weekend-long "congress" dance event, and a number of other larger happenings.

Freelance Bookkeeping Tasks

I am a freelance Bookkeeper, available to help you with small projects, account reconciliations, and other bookkeeping needs on a one-time or ongoing basis. No job is too small... so send me what you are looking to get accomplished, and I will get back to you. I will get your books ready for the CPA without charging hundreds of dollars.

* Worked with Program Managers to identify business needs and requirements for new systems * Analysed business requirements and convert to functional specifications * Processed Payroll for up to 30 employees for one client * Researched payroll issues as part of providing customer service to providers * Developed and maintain project outline based on resource availability and Program Manager requirements * Assisted with development of Technical specifications, to confirm Functional requirements are met * Maintained all communication with Program managers and other involved parties (Development manager, COO, CTO, or Customer) * Ensured system development deadlines are met * Facilitated schedule changes when required by resource availability changes * Developed or aided in development of new system solutions proposals to existing clients * Performed some administrative functions, such as development of PowerPoint presentations, proofreading presentation materials, reports, and proposals

This position involves hands on event planning and coordination as well as raising and coordinating the use of available resources.

SKILLSMicrosoft office suite: Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Project, Access, VisioSocial media and web applications: Prostores, QB online, ADP, Paychex, Weebly.com, Facebook, Constant Contact, LinkedIn Accounting and database software: Peachtree, QuickBooks, ADP Enterprise, MasterBuilder, Goldmine, ACT!, Maximizer, Navision, CCS

AnswerSmart provides accounting, bookkeeping, taxes, controllership and payroll services to businesses nationally. We remove the headache and worry associated with your financial record keeping so that your team can regain their focus on growing the business!

• Responsible for running and improving the overall financial health of the business• Obtain new sales leads, manage growth, and build brand by: researching, recruiting and hiring new talent; developing website; creating standardized pricelists and strategy for profit optimization; creating and maintaining client and talent databases; preparing monthly newsletters; and editing proposal content for client presentations. • Lead all steps in the event organization process: event booking, planning and coordination.• Developed 100% of the content for a new company website as well as monthly newsletter• Researched and implemented new CRM solution (Maximizer) to aide in client and event tracking as well as scheduling• Consolidated and refinanced all existing debt without taking on additional liabilities• Initiated development of new contracts as well as filed for LLC formation to protect business from liability

• Managed all financial and office managerial functions such as: financial and tax statement preparation and management; hiring and training employees; payroll processing; showroom design, and customer project design assistance • Developed and implemented a successful plan to reduce the company’s tax debt by $350,000 and collect over $200,000 in bad debt • Increased the company’s earnings by designing and implementing A/P and payroll systems