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New York, New York, United States

New York, New York, United States

James & Co. was a boutique Executive Search firm specializing in placing C-level executives in the media/entertainment, sports, digital, and consumer sectors.• Scheduling meetings, creating & updating progress reports, formatting resumes, developing job descriptions• Drafting emails on behalf of leadership• Updating the Applicant Tracking System (Cluen) and daily reports with each client/candidate interaction• Clients include: 313 Presents, BSE Global (Brooklyn Sports Entertainment), EverPass, Washington Spirit, 88rising, BMI (Broadcast Music Inc.), Sunset Studios, MLS (Major League Soccer), OceanX, Oak View Group, Sesame Workshop, Athletes Unlimited, Firebird Music Holdings, LA28, and Ntertain• UTA acquired James & Co. June 2023. Contract-to-hire via Beacon Hill Staffing from May 2022-Jan 2023

Brooklyn, New York, United States

• Operations Manager for brand and digital product agency• Process improvement, project support, and administrative assistance to ensure company operations ran smoothly - Planned and executed company office move within 2 weeks- Migrated company telephone services from Dialpad to Google Voice and configured live receptionist services- Travel arrangements with updates on Covid-19 protocols- Studio maintenance and point of contact for any facility issues to maintain a welcoming office experience • Computer inventory management- Established, implemented, and documented protocols for computer procurement and leasing- Organized and maintained a spreadsheet of 100 machines to track lease details and employee usage

New York City Metropolitan Area

• Order Management for home and garden décor retailer• Daily review and submission of purchase orders, ranging from 200 to 400 orders per day • Ensured order acknowledgements were accurate, especially for freight deliveries • Followed up on backordered items and aging drop ship orders; acquired supplier updates on stock availabilities and informed staff and customers of delays and discontinued items • Updated the warehouse database and website with price changes • Proofed the website, warehouse database, and physical seasonal catalog for grammar, accurate pricing and dimensions • Created and maintained a book of digital item forms detailing pricing, dimensions, and materials for each product • Maintained stock lists, notifying customers of upcoming freight deliveries, general filing

New York City Metropolitan Area

• Formatted and produced Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents to comply with Company branding standards for client deliverables for all sectors in the New York office (candidate resumes, resume books, status reports, pitch decks)• Set up and ran mail merges for company, client, and candidate meetings (badges, labels, letters, cards)• Created, combined, edited, watermarked, and redacted PDFs• Data manipulation and extraction using Excel for various projects, occasionally utilizing pivot tables• Maintenance, organization, and inventory management of the Production Department• Provided technical support for Microsoft Office Suite for the New York office for Company branded documents• Compiled and drafted a weekly publication for the Office Manager to send to multiple North American offices focused on the New York office’s business developments, achievements, and accomplishments and grew to include sections such as a book corner, player of the week, new hire biographies, and various office news usually amounting to 30-40 pages

New York City Metropolitan Area

• Monitored the process and accurate completion of all engagements and business development opportunities• Ensured required documentation was complete and processed to open and close engagements in SAP and the company’s proprietary database, Searcher.• Triggered timely candidate degree verifications and background checks.• Maintained and updated Salesforce opportunities and generated monthly reports.• Drafted and produced bound client-ready documents: engagement proposals, candidate resumes, status reports, candidate assessments, reference reports, and pitch presentations.• Organized travel and logistics and prepared detailed itineraries for client-candidate meetings.• Calendar management for assigned Senior Client Partner, which involved frequent meetings, conference calls spanning multiple time zones, video conferences, and travel arrangements.• Accounting duties included: assembling bi-monthly expense reports, tracking project expenses, reviewing and approving monthly client invoices, and monitoring accounts receivable aging and unbilled expenses to assist with timely account collections• Provided backup reception desk support.

Greater New York City Area

• Acted as the face of Wella World Studio to greet visitors and escort them to the appropriate studio room• Managed event logistics for custom seminars and monthly evening events for 80-100 people, such as arranging catering, photography, disc jockey, flowers, gift bags, lighting, and paperwork• Managed calendar and aided students and account managers with seminar schedules and registrations• Tracked inventory and requested orders for 200-4000 items totaling $1500-$19,000 per month• Completed profit and loss, marketing and support expense reports for each seminar and event• Acted as a point of contact for audio-visual and studio issues and needs• Responsible for model coordination, which included developing a more systematic method to streamline model booking for seminars and events, scheduling appropriate hair models (80-130 per month) according to seminar needs and requirements, ensuring completeness of model paperwork and forwarding files to the appropriate department, and designing and distributing flyers to recruit stylists and models• Created, maintained, and updated daily seminar files• Provided telephone reception, mail distribution, and studio tours

Greater New York City Area

• Telephone reception on a 2-line phone system for an office of 25 professionals• Filed purchase orders and expense reports and delivered mail and incoming faxes• Checked PowerPoint slides for correctness• Placed food and coffee orders for office meetings• Ensured tidiness of office and kitchen

Pasadena, Ca

• Established rapport with patients while reviewing or updating their medical histories and monitored patient comfort• Removed calculus, administered anesthesia, processed radiograph films• Maintained client confidentiality in accordance with HIPAA standards• Recorded extraoral, intraoral, dental, and periodontal findings• Educated patients on how to improve their dental hygiene• Managed telephone reception, appointment confirmations, patient chart preparation

Greater San Diego Area, Pasadena, Ca

• Recommended entrées, beer or alternative beverages based on guests’ preferences • Maintained guest satisfaction and quickly handled guest complaints • Aided coworkers whenever possible to ensure the restaurant’s overall efficiency • Ensured all areas of the dining area were clean and well-stocked

La Jolla, Ca

• Involved in 9 rotation projects that ranged from 6-10 weeks in various UCSD laboratories. Each principal investigator assigned a rotation project related to his or her research. • Designed and presented 18 PowerPoint slides on laboratory results and journal articles. - Led or participated in discussions on how each affected the lab’s research and answered questions following each hour-long presentation. * Topics included: ~ TAX-6’s role in dauer formation and aging of C. elegans ~ Mechanisms of how pathogens utilize the Type III Secretion System to manipulate and infect host cells ~ Genomic screening for novel interaction partners of mammalian circadian clock components ~ Cloning an affinity-tagged lethal factor (of anthrax toxin) to screen for novel interaction partners ~ Saccharomyces cerevisiae’s transcriptional response to itraconazole ~ Pimecrolimus’ effect on vitamin D metabolism and Toll-like receptor expression ~ Characterization of myotubularin and Atg1 interaction in Drosophila melanogasterBIOCHEMISTRY TECHNIQUE EXPERIENCE • tissue culture and transfections (C2C12, 293T, HepG2, NHEK) • total RNA isolation • PCR and TaqMan real time PCR • Centrifugation and ultra-centrifugation • FPLC (size-exclusion, ionic exchange, and affinity columns) • Hydroxyl radical DNA footprinting • Utilizing radiation safety techniques in various protocols• microarrays • Western blot • RNA interference and dauer formation in Caenorhabditis elegans • Plasmid preparation (mini-, midi-, and maxis) • Site-directed mutagenesis and supercompetent cell transformations • DNA purification from agarose gel

Williamstown, Ma

• Managed several projects simultaneously using molecular techniques to analyze DNA and protein - Investigated how the alpha subunit of the Bacillus subtilis RNA polymerase binds to the recA promoter region and how the proteins ComK and LexA affect alpha’s binding. - Cloned damage inducible (din) genes that encode for unknown proteins to overexpress, purify, and discover the function and possible interaction(s) of such proteins. - Used din genes in mobility shift experiments to determine whether they specifically bind alpha. - Cloned the B. subtilis recA gene promoter into an E. coli vector to characterize the promoter via binding studies, hydroxyl radical footprints, and mutagenesis. • General laboratory clean-up, maintenance, inventory tracking, and order requisitioning • Supervised 5-10 undergraduates at a time - Exposed and trained students in lab techniques and explained the concepts behind them - Students worked 20-40 hours per week, each working on their own projects or involved in my experiments • Compiled a binder and DVD of 42 detailed commonly used protocols for future organizational reference

Williamstown, Ma

• Configured students’ computers for the college’s network, which served 2000 students • Resolved students’ computer problems over the phone and in person

Williamstown, Ma

• Helped 30 students with their assignments and their understanding of how to program in Java during weekly 4-hour laboratory periods. • Graded student homework based on coding style, semantics, and correctness.

Ph.D Candidate, Biological Sciences

Activities and Societies: Asayake Taiko

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Computer Science

Associate Of Science Candidate, Dental Hygiene

Education record

prerequisites for dental hygiene programs