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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.

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.

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 and a.

Associate'S Degree, English

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