Kate Carmack Email & Phone Number

San Jose, Ca, Us

After taking 18 months off to travel and visit with family and friends, I am excited for my next challenge. I am currently looking for my next opportunity in projects and programs and am open to hybrid or full time opportunities.

Belmont, California, United States

• Achieved operational excellence by streamlining processes and implementing best practices.• Managed large-scale projects and introduced new systems, tools, and processes to achieve challenging objectives.• Balanced competing priorities efficiently while maintaining focus on critical tasks requiring immediate attention.• Collaborated closely with peers from other departments to drive organizational success jointly as one cohesive unit.• Established strong relationships with clients and stakeholders, ensuring long-term partnerships.

• Ensured compliance with industry regulations and legal requirements by implanting comprehensive policies and training programs for staff members.• Maximized performance by monitoring daily activities and mentoring team members. • Recruited, interviewed and hired employees and implemented mentoring program to promote positive feedback and engagement.• Improved marketing to attract new employees and promote employee stories.• Led change management without compromising employee morale or production levels.• Communicated clearly with employees, suppliers and stakeholders to keep everyone on same page and working toward established business goals.• Gained strong leadership skills by managing projects from start to finish.• Adaptable and proficient in learning new concepts quickly and efficiently.

Belmont, Ca

Belmont, California

Mills College, Oakland Ca

Successfully launched, trained and implemented new Copy Team, and strategized and developed new processes and procedures for post-editing and pre-publishing process. • Copy edit stories uploaded onto WordPress.com that passed through the editing process for pre-print review on a daily basis, according to AP and The Campanil style guides.• Attended newspaper production days every other Friday for final copy editing of stories and final review of entire paper before online publishing and printing.• Train, lead and inspire new copy team to follow AP and The Campanil style guides through training sessions after our weekly pitch meetings.

Mills College, Oakland Ca

Developed and authored a four-part series taking a closer look at a mentored science program at Mills College. The series details student and faculty research completed under the Barrett program through an in-depth explanation of the research process students experienced and their findings.o Coordinated, interviewed and communicated with professors, students and department heads to ensure the accuracy of student’s and faculty’s research, program information and concisely communicating challenging terms in a universal language.o Developed four-part series into a WordPress Blog.

Mills College, Oakland Ca

Successfully conducted informational interviews; planned, structured and authored one to two news stories approximately 750-1200 words on a weekly basis.• Authored one to two news stories per week/edition focused on Mills college policy and department changes, real world news events and campus politics.• Generated new story ideas and presented them to peers at The Campanil’s weekly pitch meeting.• Edited and worked with writers to clarify and correct editorial errors I found in their stories.

Mills College, Oakland Ca

Successfully conducted informational interviews; planned, structured and authored one to two news stories approximately 750-1200 words on a weekly basis.• Authored one to two news stories per week/edition focused on Mills college policy and department changes, real world news events and campus politics.• Generated new story ideas and presented them to peers at The Campanil’s weekly pitch meeting.

San Jose/Walnut Creek

• Presented sub-prime loan updates and requirements to business partners at sales meetings• Increased sales with business partners by 15% at all 7 Prime-loan CW offices assigned to me• Solicited new customers by making cold calls, warm calls, taking over customers for prime- loan officers with sub-prime clients and responding to internet leads• Structured loans into appropriate loan programs according to client’s needs• Interviewed clients and gathered and reviewed documentation to start application process

San Francisco Bay Area

• Performed first review and signed off most underwriting conditions• Communicated with vendors and third parties such as title companies, appraisers and clients• Quoted rates, loan payments and savings benefits to account executives and brokers• Served as liaison for brokers, loan officers and management on loan details and developments• Requested loan fees from title companies and drafted loan documents

San Francisco Bay Area

• Evaluated and supported department’s daily post-audit loan production• Requested erroneous documentation to be corrected from 35 production offices in US locations• Corrected documentation errors, guideline violations, and assisted in avoiding company losses by identifying opportunities that improved operational efficiency• Ensured proper due diligence on loans for the sale to investors on the secondary market• Created, implemented and lead training sessions on departments new Operating Procedures manual

San Francisco Bay Area

• One of top producers in department and Team Lead for 5 auditors• Reviewed loan files confirming documentation information was correct and accurate• Assisted in updating important data in AS400 and Access system to prevent guideline violations

Bachelor'S Degree, English/Creative Writing/Journalism

Activities and Societies: The Campanil - a student run newspaper.Bachelor of Art's in English with an emphasis in Creative Writing.

Associate'S Degree, English

Transferred to Mills College in 2011 for Bachelor of Arts degree.