Lori Galanis Email & Phone Number

Watertown, Ct, Us

United States

Maintaining and monitoring project plans, project schedules, work hours, budgets, and expenditures.Sourcing, quoting, purchasing, proposals, organizing, attending, and participating in stakeholder meetings. Meeting documentation and follow up. Deliverables. Gantt charting, action plans, responsibility assignments, presentation preperation, developing project strategies. Ensuring projects adhere to frameworks and all documentation is maintained appropriately for each stage gate of the project. Assess project risks and issues and provide solutions where applicable. Ensure stakeholder views are managed towards the best solution. Chair and facilitate meetings where appropriate. Create a project management calendar for fulfilling each goal, objective and deadlines.

Streamline daily workflow across several companies through a broad range of high-level administrative responsibilities to maximize CEO’s productivity and efficacy in an extremely fast-paced environment, research, identify, and qualify key subcontractors with specialized construction capabilities, provide vendors with project background and context, drafted RFP invitation, scheduled on-site visits, bid evaluation, and participated in final vendor selection, Compose and edit contracts, proposals, presentations, reports, meeting minutes, and miscellaneous correspondence, complete, and provide COI’s and maintained AIA license, gather performance metrics of marketing investments to confirm results were in line with projected growth objectives and revenue targets, Interact with Clients, Project Managers, Engineers, Estimators, Lawyers, Brokers, Accountants, Insurance Companies, Newtown Savings Bank Board Members, and municipal town officials on a daily basis, participate and contribute to senior level management initiatives including employee recruitment and selection, access to and management of confidential documents including personnel records, company financials, permits, licenses, and applications, practiced and maintain utmost discretion when dealing with confidential, personal, and sensitive issues, maintain evolving calendar management, plan and schedule all travel, meetings, conference calls, and personal appointments, managed meeting logistics, organized attendee list and agenda, heavy, constant email review, response, and execution of deliverables in a timely manner, compose and edit contracts, proposals, presentations, reports, meeting minutes, and miscellaneous correspondence.

Watertown, Connecticut, United States

Established procedures for collections to reduce delinquent accounts while monitoring aging reports, collecting outstanding balances, and researching billing discrepancies, Developed paperless environment by implementing an online system to manage data, process contracts, and work orders improving efficiencies of 45%, slashed office expenditures by 30% by negotiating favorable terms, pricing agreements and vendor contracts, reviewed and responded to emails | phone calls in a timely manner, managed and prioritized projects, under strict deadline constraints, processed sensitive data and handled all correspondence with uncompromised integrity and confidentiality, managed complex project calendars coordinating job assignments, facilitating communications and logistics, organized sensitive files to be sent to accountant, orchestrated SBA | PPP loan and forgiveness applications with financial institution, maintained equipment lease agreements, vehicle registrations and insurance policies, researched, prioritized and followed up on incoming issues and concerns addressed to the Owner, interacted with customers to provide and gather information in response to inquiries about company services, drafted, prepared, and edited contracts, proposals, permits and all correspondence, developed project schedules, allocating resources, and coordinating team efforts

Prospect, Connecticut, United States

Served as highly successful liaison and first point of contact for Design-2-Part multi-level media products, developed and maintained excellent relationships through extensive networking abilities, created and maintained long term integrated marketing solutions for contract manufacturers aligned with their business goals and objectives in the government defense, medical, aerospace, semiconductor, automotive and electronics industries, promoted and reinforced features, benefits, and value proposition of Design-2-Part sales tools, identified and monitored area competition with extensive research abilities, managed client expectations with constant educational contact, studied new technologies and processes to help contract manufacturing customers promote their services to original equipment manufacturers (OEMS), managed and serviced client contracts on a quarterly basis with exceptional time management skills, directed ongoing client design and production with multi-level departmental collaboration, coordinated supportive services with high accuracy under strict deadline constraints, worked closely with senior management within a team environment to identify areas of new and established revenue targets.

Newtown, Connecticut, United States

Primary point of contact for top four national sewing companies’ advertising in Threads bi-monthly Magazine and digital products including Husqvarna, Janome, Brother and Singer; maintained and renewed contracts of annual advertising customers, designed annual action plans, and worked with many ad agencies.

Waterbury, Connecticut, United States

Grew business through high level of service, customer satisfaction, people and operations management, promotional marketing and financial management. I had the responsibility of identifying the needs of everyday operations, situations and complications while readily integrating change sometimes midstream in a high-speed environment. In addition to managing the entire dining experience of 50+ tables; I managed, trained and retained 15+ talented employees, established protocols, policies, and procedures, managed administrative duties including strict budgets, payroll, financials and handled all marketing. Our restaurant was a significant part of the community and resulted in being voted 'Best Restaurant of the Year' (three consecutive years) with our local paper, The Waterbury Observer.

Miscellaneous Classes

Associate Of Arts - Aa, Fine Arts With Emphasis In Graphic Design, High Honors

Certificate Of Business Accounting