Karen Snedker Email & Phone Number

Vancouver, Canada Area

As a Virtual Assistant and Founder of Virtually Kare, I work directly with businesses to identify their needs and provide administrative support that’s tailored, cost effective and reliable. This may include:• Secretarial and telephone serviceso Coordinate mailingso Typingo Travel arrangementso Seminar registrationso Virtual registrationso Reception serviceo Scheduling meetingso Handle administrative projects • Word Processing, document conversion• Database management & data processing• Transcription:o Medical transcriptiono Legal transcriptiono General business transcription• Writing, editing and proofreading • Bookkeepingo Keep track of accounts payable and receivableo Month end billing• Personnel & human resourceso Write job postingso Receive/review resumes/conduct initial phone interviewo Shortlist candidates and schedule interviews o Help with annual performance reviews

Vancouver, Canada Area

Virtually Kare provides virtual assistant and executive assistant services to business throughout Vancouver and the Lower Mainland. We can replace or enhance your administrative teams, giving you additional resource that’s completely flexible and tailored to your needs.Your virtual assistant allows you to effortlessly meet the needs of your customers while addressing the unique challenges of your business. Whether you need help with answering phones, contacting prospective/existing clients, scheduling appointments or something else entirely, a virtual administrative assistant is an indispensable resource for your business growth.

Landscape, nature and cityscape photographer. Recognized and awarded by my peers.

Vancouver, Canada Area

• Partnered with political candidates to engage the community and electorate to drive positive sentiment and political brand awareness• Managed large volumes of data to provide timely and accurate information and analysis to base strategic decision making• Oversaw all recording secretary duties including attending meetings, recording minutes, maintaining timekeeping and providing accurate and timely finished product• Managed photography and promotional content used in social media, e-newsletters and community outreach initiatives

Vancouver, Canada Area

As a Legal Assistant, I specialised in Administrative Law dealing with financial film closings (‘Hollywood North’). Responsibilities included: • Macro writing, entering merge data, merging closing documents, black-lining, editing• creating and implementing checklists to ensure accuracy, efficiency, productivity and deadline control• Day-to-day document precedent upkeep, pursuant to films’ financial details, and effectively and efficiently managed high volume in fast paced environment• Trained support staff to assist with the production process of the closings and the preparation of Closing Books• Liaised daily with partners, associates and counsel for the other parties, and addressed and resolved issues as they arose• During slack periods performed word processing tasks for Davis & Company by converting legal precedents from one OS system to another • Monitored and billed my time on an hourly basis; prepared monthly statements of account• Composed and typed routine letters of correspondence

Vancouver, Canada Area

My legal career evolved from junior to senior legal secretary, where I worked for a number of law firms including Ferguson Gifford, Bull, Housser & Tupper, and Owen Bird. I also freelanced throughout the downtown core. I have experience in litigation (commercial, family and PI), Marine/Maritime, Environmental, Entertainment, Administrative, Intellectual Property, Corporate Commercial, Wills and Estates, and Labour Law. Responsibilities included:• Liaising with counsel and clients to collect data to draft various court documents, invoices and enclosures at counsels’ request• Composing and typing routine letters of correspondence• Acting as the point of contact for all incoming co-counsel requests• Conducting research of opposing clients to assist process servers and counsel• Assisting in the preparation of examination for discovery documentation, trial briefs, and drafting of pleadings in preparation for trials• Opening and maintaining clients’ files and counsel time entry, monitored lawyers’ calendars, and billed monthly as required• Diarizing and maintained filing systems and travel arrangements assisting up to three lawyers at one time• Wills & Estates: Researching and collecting financial information in preparation for probate and all documentation related thereto. Helped draft wills, declarations, and all other documentation pertinent to Estate law• Corporate Commercial: Assisting with incorporation of companies, annual reports, dissolutions, drafting of corporate agreements and correspondence• Intellectual Property – Patents: Providing support as a legal assistant; prepared, revised and applied for Letters Patent on a regional, national and international basis• Intellectual Property – Trademark: Assisting in trademark applications, amendments, responses, extensions and all necessary filings• Matrimonial: Assisting in the drafting of pleadings and correspondence related to obtaining a divorce, separation and prenuptial agreements

Associate'S Degree, Linguistics

Legal Administrative Assistant/Secretary

Six month full time legal secretarial course

Medical Terminology