Melissa Giles Email & Phone Number

Lebanon, Indiana, United States

Promoting responsible, thoughtful, active, and interactive play with our flagship game, Chika Chaka. More than ever, it is crucial for kids AND adults to embrace imagination, social interaction, and play. It's good for the body and soul. As parents, we noticed a growing disconnect among friends and families. This back-to-basics approach fuels our enthusiasm for this product and this industry. As we grow, we look forward to fostering partnerships with community/national organizations that further these attributes.

Greater Indianapolis

Indianapolis, Indiana Area

Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Indiana Realty is dedicated to providing progressive, quality real estate services with the highest level of professionalism throughout Indiana.These services include residential real estate sales of existing homes, new construction, and condos. We have specialists available for transferring buyers, corporate relocation, third party relocation, acreages, commercial real estate and other niche markets.Formed by a few experienced agents focused on taking the real estate brokerage business to a higher level of professionalism in 1982, we have grown to be among the most successful real estate service firms in the state, with more than 400 agents in 19 offices and growing!Our agents are dedicated to providing the highest level of service to our sellers and buyers using highly specialized professional expertise and experience in order to make the process a rewarding one. They are committed to maintaining an open line of proactive communication, providing information on market data and trends, and creating that all-important trust between client and agent to lead to long term relationships.With more than 400 licensed agents in 19 offices around the state, we have an agent to meet your needs regardless of the style, price, or age of the property you are looking for.We at Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Indiana Realty conduct our business with the highest regard for good business ethics, fair housing practices and a fundamental belief in the right to own real property.We look forward to helping you sell your home or find that dream home you are looking for. We believe in each other and ourselves. We understand that trust is earned and that good professional service is an essential part of that.

Indianapolis, Indiana Area

Manage and assemble first- and third-party commercial property loss documentation for claim resolution and negotiation with the Company’s commercial property insurance broker, insurance company, and captive; to monitor property damage for subrogation opportunities; to respond to questions from the field regarding loss reporting and coverage issues; to prepare and review documents for those files that require legal action; to develop reports concerning the status and result of property damage recovery.Accomplishments:• Developed and currently operate the Third-Party Recovery Program for the largest publicly-held real estate company in the United States.Results:o Exceeded property insurance broker’s subrogation efforts by over 400% in the Program’s first year.o Recovered and negotiated over $18.2 million in subrogation funds while averaging a recovery ratio of 83%.o Authored Third-Party Recovery Program training guide for thousands of field employees at over 205 Simon-insured properties. This training guide promotes efficient use of the Program to help preserve the respective properties’ annual budgets.o Created and performed multi-media presentations of Third-Party Recovery Program use at numerous Corporate regional meetings, with audiences of up to several hundred field employees. These presentations were used as an ancillary method of disseminating information to clarify understanding of policies and procedures.o Contributed several articles to the quarterly Risk Management Department newsletter. These articles provided strategies to increase likelihood of claim recovery thus motivating and encouraging employees’ successful use of the Program.Created business forms, instruction manual, form letters, and intracompany newsletter articles in support of the Risk Management Department and more....

Indianapolis, Indiana Area

LUVYourSpirit started in 2015 as a health and wellness website bringing its social media followers and newsletter subscribers entertaining and thought-provoking meditation, spirituality, and yoga information from around the web. More and more information is coming to light about how life is getting increasingly stressful and overwhelming. Our minds need a release or this stress will create forgetfulness, anxiety, and unbalanced emotions – not to mention long-term physical health problems. Reading that, we felt called to do something about it. The mission of LUVYourSpirit is to teach people relaxation practices to give them higher energy, improved concentration, stronger immune system, more restful sleep and decrease bad habits without interrupting their daily lives. That’s why we come to you. Love, understand, and value your spirit.

Indianapolis, Indiana

As an independent writer, I create persuasive content for written and audio-visual media. The words are written with the client's message conveyed in such a way to capture their audience's attention and generate recognition and sales. Products include, but are not limited to newsletters, website content, newspaper, magazine, and television ads, direct mail campaigns, radio announcements, and blogs. As a researcher, I utilize the Internet and its databases to provide clients with information, statistics, and fact-checking for projects and business strategizing.

Indianapolis, Indiana Area

Assisted four insurance agents with processing personal lines insurance products

Columbia, Maryland

Manage office as a licensed insurance agent; Sales; Writing and marketing experience in this position include creating and implementing marketing materials and strategies for insurance product promotion; Researched demographic information of desired client base, created target list of several hundred, and designed letterhead and content for sales letters. The result was an approximately two-percent response rate. Created flyers and informational brochures to distribute in fastest-growing Baltimore, Maryland chain of grocery stores. Result was an approximately two-percent response rate.

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Law & Society/Minor - English

Activities and Societies: Shoemaker Cooperative

Certificate, Paralegal Studies

H.S. Diploma

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