Melinda Shaw Email & Phone Number

Seattle, Wa, Us

Seattle, Wa

Drafting architectural plans from as-built through schematic design to construction documents, including research, code compliance, design review, interior design, and BIM modeling.

Seattle, Wa And San Fransisco Bay Area, Ca

• Space planning and interior schemes.• Review remodeling projects and recommend designs to match budgets and lifestyles.• Draw plans to convey concepts and ideas.

Seattle, Wa

• Mentored my successor and provided administrative support to the entire leadership staff.

Seattle, Wa

• Provided administrative leadership and support to the school Founder and Executive Director.• Managed significant site relocation, supervising realtors, architects, and contractors.• Created scheduling and calendars, expense reports, budgets, organization and filing systems to enhance collaboration among all school constituents - staff, board, parents, students, volunteers and donors.• Onboarded, educated and advised employees on health plans, voluntary benefits, and 403(b) plan.• Upgraded core business systems with the latest digital tools saving hundreds of work hours. Includes accounting to QuickBooks, human resources to HRIS, student records from database to SIS (Student Information System), and fundraising to CRM. Organized and maintained confidential and compliance files of multiple types on Google Drive.

• Guided expansion of organization from homeschool cooperative to successful state-recognized independent school, overseeing three relocations through significant growth periods. • Created and customized relational database for student records and registration.• Interpreted and administered contracts. Oversaw compliance.

• Promoted to full-time employee and supervised significant office reorganization. Hired an assistant. • Responsible for all accounting, payroll, benefit plans, receivables, payables, purchasing, fundraising, human resources, student registration and transcript protocols.• Developed office policies, procedures, and workflow systems.

• Managed innovative educational endeavor, creating a school, from founder’s conceptual phase to reality as part-time employee.• Identified and completed all required business documents: business permits and licenses, organizational bylaws, employment agreements, tax requirements, etc.• Supervised and directed organization’s successful application to be recognized federally as a nonprofit corporation.

• Served as the inspiration, guide, and project manager for a major residential remodel that improved flow, added square footage, and increased market value. • Designed extensive new kitchen and bathrooms, expanded dining room, moved staircases as well as added new entryway and circular driveway with landscape lighting. • Hired, supervised and coordinated architects and contractors to deliver remodel on time and on budget.

Bellevue, Wa

• Answered phone and scheduled appointments. • Correspondence, applicant tracking, records tracking, filing and management of confidential and secure documentation.• Handled receivables and purchasing.

• Designed sportswear for young men and boys.• Drew-up details and spec sheets for samples and production.• Traveled nationally and internationally to Europe and Asia to check on production.