Performed administrative and general office duties of a complex and confidential nature. Coordinated meetings for multiple Market Sector Managers and their respective teams with minimal direction and oversight. Provided calendar management, meeting location, and supply provision. Researched and coordinated with management and team members to compile reports and prepare agendas, Recorded and distributed minutes promptly; initiated and followed up to track action items to completion. Performed Contract Management. Assisted in development of electronic contract file nomenclature system to reduce electronic file redundancy and promote ease of electronic file location. Served as backup to Receptionist processed mail, answered multiline (>100 extensions). Assisted with event planning and coordination. Assisted with employee training and on boarding preparation.

Dependable Senior Administrative Assistant contracted to Thermo Fisher Scientific (formerly Life Technologies) since June 2013. I supported the IT Director of the Digital Technology Delivery Group and his global team, and Director of Food Safety until August 2014. As Senior Administrative Assistant, I provided meeting coordination, ongoing budget monitoring and reporting for contingent workforce assigned to various projects - and monitored the overall project budgets exceeding $400K. Provided travel and expense report support to the Director of Genome Information Systems in Austin, TX, and his staff in Austin and Carlsbad, CA; In addition, I assisted 2 Administrative Assistants in supporting other departments that do not have administrative support personnel assigned on a permanent basis for a campus of approximately 300 employees. Since August 2014, I supported the interim Director of Operations, and the Project Manager overseeing a special project transferring manufacture of products from Austin to Vilnius, Lithuania. I served as the lead logistics coordinator for employees during training by arranging domestic and international travel, local meetings including coordination of meeting facilities, catering, transportation, lodging, and special activities for large groups over extended periods requiring interaction with all levels of employees and executive leadership regarding confidential information. Thermo Fisher Scientific has extended my contract end date in June, and again in August in order to retain me to assist with activities associated with the acquisition of Life Technologies by Thermo Fisher Scientific, and the relocation of the IT Manager for Digital Technology Delivery to the corporate headquarters in Philadelphia. As these special projects phased out, my contract expired on November 14, 2014.

As Program Assistant, my roles included direct support of more than 20 full time professional biologists, ecologists, geologists, and planners. Assistance included travel coordination , meeting planning, and ensuring employees were educated on company policies and procedures, including the safety program. Served as the assistant to the Project, Program and Division Managers and Board of Directors. My duties included preparation of correspondence, liaison with Project, Program, and Division Managers in our offices located nation-wide; directing incoming phone calls, records management, typing expert-witness testimony and response to requests for interrogatories regarding projects in litigation. Prepared Work orders, performed contract review, obtained certificates of insurance, assisted scientists with all aspects of mobilization and preparation for fieldwork, including lodging, fleet maintenance (field equipment such as 4-wheelers and trucks), equipment rental (gps, and other high-tech scientific equipment). Assisted Project Managers with contract and project financial management, coordinated all facets of public meetings throughout Texas.