Kate Duffey Email & Phone Number

Bend, Or, Us

Portland, Oregon

Portland, Or

Accomplishments: Support the Erickson team as a whole, providing excellent customer service, event planning, administrative support, and assistance on team projects and tasks.− Provide excellent customer service to guests and employees.− Effectively manage projects for various teams as needed.− Provide administrative support to staff.− Keep a running log of inventory regarding kitchen and office needs.− Helped create a new badge and front desk log in system to keep badges accounted for and organized as well as improve security within Erickson.− Ensure mail and packages go to the appropriate staff.− Coordinate and ship interoffice mail and all other packages as needed.− Assist and complete expense reports for various team member.− Excellent written and verbal communication skills.− Proficient in Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Office.

Denver, Colorado

Accomplishments: Played an active role in successfully assisting with planning and executing one of the University’s biggest events of the year, the Founders Day Gala. Per attendee feedback, it was one of the most successful Founders Day Galas to date with 441 people in attendance. − Assisted in the planning, set up, and execution of university events.− Fulfilled administrative work for event planning and donor relations.− Assisted in updating and maintaining accurate donor records within the University of Denver database through collaborative teamwork with other university departments.− Recorded survey results regarding Endowment Reports and university events to determine areas of success and areas for growth.− Regularly assisted with university letters and mailings to donors.− Maintained accurate and up to date excel spreadsheets for events and the university donor database.− Participated in weekly team meetings and teamwork to successfully reach the goals of the Advancement team as a whole.− Assisted in donor research for upcoming events and for accurate donor records in the University of Denver database.− Assisted with special projects for the Advancement team as needed.

Portland, Or

Accomplishments: Was part of a team responsible for fundraising close to $7,000,000 with an operating budget of $12,000,000 in 2016. Successfully operated pivotal programs for the Oregon Humane Society including the PAWS program which had 2,309 donors by the end of 2016 and annually brought in $670,000. The Autos for Animals program had 988 vehicles donated in 2016 with an annual income of $650,000. The Workplace Giving program brought in $520,000, which includes corporate matching, employee campaign gifts and employee fundraisers. I directly worked on each of these programs to successfully maintain and grow the organization’s fund raising efforts.− Operated and coordinated all vehicle donations to OHS including the initial vehicle donation from the donor, coordinated the pick up of the vehicle, mailings, fiscally reconciled all sold vehicles and provided tax receipts to all donors and maintained accurate excel spreadsheets of fiscal reconciliation for all vehicles.− Maintained PAWS accounts (a monthly withdrawal system). Made sure that all account information was up to date and accurate including contacting donors if monthly withdrawal was denied as well as promoted PAWS to those that had expressed interest.− Maintained the Workplace Giving program by visiting numerous corporations and giving public speeches about the OHS to encourage donations in addition to entering all workplace giving and corporate matching gifts accurately in OHS database. − Maintained the One Cool Thing program by coordinating the auction of donated high value art and jewelry with local galleries to ensure OHS received the most profit possible in addition to creating and maintaining a relationship with an animal shelter retail store to sell OHS in kind donations that benefit both animal shelters.

Tualatin, Or

Accomplishments: Successfully represented Kershaw Knives at numerous trade shows that maintained and grew the business. In addition, I helped managed Kershaw’s third largest account, Snap-On Tools, which resulted in the best company report card since 2009. − Maintained extensive knowledge of company philosophy and products in both sport and kitchen lines.− Helped manage the third largest Kershaw account, Snap-On Tools, with day to day customer relations, order placement, fulfillment and website updates –resulted in best company report card since 2009.− Assisted with design and copy of Kershaw sales catalog and website distributed nationwide.− Represented Kershaw annually at numerous national trade shows, participated in client meetings, product knowledge presentations and customer service inquiries.− Regularly shared new product knowledge, financial updates and general account status to sales representatives, buyers and customers. − Oversaw inventory availability and prioritized customers by diligently following up on time sensitive orders and fulfillment. − Wrote, edited and designed press materials for Cabela’s, a major outdoor retail chain.

Portland, Or

Accomplishments: Qualified for the highest honor in my position called “Super Elite” after only a few months of employment due to outstanding sales numbers.− Communicated with customers daily on travel needs – securing vehicles and adhering to all customer requests.− Briefed customers on rental contracts so they remained in compliance with all company policies.− Helped manage monthly rental account financials and secured overdue payments.− Participated in regular management trainings on company philosophy and sales techniques.