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Online retail store selling rehabilitated purses and women’s accessories to a community of 50 million users and 5 million sellers. Top 10% performing stores, top seller, fast shipper with an overall average customer satisfaction rating of 4.9 out of 5 stars. Daily management of online site, inventory purchasing, inventory preparation, repairs, cleaning, supplies, advertising, social media promotions, product photography, photo editing, product descriptions including research for style, model and cost when new, determine listing price, customer service, promotional marketing, and sales.

Perform duties associated with scheduling, organizing, and operating classes, conferences, seminars, and events by working closely with the Stanford GSB departments, event owners and event managers, to plan, execute events, seminars, conferences, executive programs, reunions, and other university related events. Served as back-up Events Manager during the summer programs. Assisted the Events Operations team with scheduling, conflicts, coordination of equipment, catering, venue setup management and cleaning. Calendaring: daily prepare detailed day porter schedule using date and time data extracted from the Oracle EMS (Events Management System), ensuring consistency, and determine appropriate action(s) needed. Respond to inquiries, determining appropriate actions as required. Serve as a resource for venue reservation inquiries using the event management system (EMS).

Plan and schedule calendars without prior consultation, resolve calendaring conflicts, and arrange travel in compliance with departmental, university, and sponsor policies. Oversee a variety of complex financial transactions; produce, monitor, and reconcile budget statements; research, identify, and resolve discrepancies after completing required training. Created complex reports and spreadsheets which utilizing Microsoft Office applications. Meet & Greet visitors and route them to appropriate destinations, answer SAVP office phone lines, and serve as a resource on departmental procedures and general inquiries. Perform general office duties including, but not limited to, handling of incoming and outgoing mail, making copies, monitoring and ordering of office supplies, creating and maintaining office files and filing system. Act on behalf of the SAVP in regard to establishing priorities and identifying and resolving problems that are administrative in nature.

Experienced Student Services Professional with an in-depth understanding of student academic advising. Ability to problem solve through analysis of unique issues, formulating strategies and administering policies and processes.Successfully advised graduate students on the most complex issues, providing guidance to entering & continuing students on Academic, Degree and Major requirements while assisting students with planning of program completion, requirements for degree. Created reports to easily identify student progression problems, resolve scheduling conflicts, determined alternative academic options resulting in 100% students within normative time. Reviewed and recommended petition exceptions. Quarterly, worked with students, faculty, and the Registrar to set-up and administer the distribution of Independent Study Courses for both individual and group studies.Annually developed, coordinated, planned and implemented recruitment and orientation program, events and projects for both the department, and division(s). Advised prospective applicants on necessary academic preparations utilizing in-depth knowledge of the admissions criteria while evaluating domestic and international transcripts for degree eligibility; initiates and arranges student recruitment visits.Curriculum planning in collaboration with Chair / Dean / Faculty, Department Manager and other department staff members utilizing advanced expertise of course content, facilitated new course approval through interaction with the Coordination of College Policy, Academic Senate, or similar organization.Served as source of information for prospective students regarding application process, degree requirements, course selection, leaves and readmission, transfer credits, normative time, qualifying exam (QE) procedures, and Ph.D. candidacy.Managed the funding sources and payment distributions within budget with multiple funding sources.

Established goals for program growth and annual targets for admitting new students. Coordinated annual graduate recruitment in conjunction with Graduate Admissions committee, including compilation and monitoring of offers. Organized events introducing new graduate students to the department. Advised new and continuing students regarding campus and program information, course offerings, course enrollment, major deadlines, transferability of previous academic work, graduate support opportunities, advancement to candidacy, thesis requirements, housing, support services, residency status. Identify problems relating to progress toward degree for faculty consideration.

Responsible for the collection and distribution of $6 million in monthly receivables handling such medical plans as Anthem, Blue Cross, RxAmerica, Cypress Care, SaveRx and several more Medicare part D plans.Turned troubled and failed processes into a viable operation and reduced receivable by 75 % Led customer satisfaction efforts in order to restore credibility and gained efficiency. Reconciled all cash transactions from Third Party Insurance companies to Longs Drug Stores Provided management with timely reporting and met all deadlines Prepared Journal Entries and performed various ledger adjustments Spearheaded period ending duties for month end and quarter end Recipient of the Longs Drugs Honoring Excellence Award December 2007

Contracts Administration: Served as a member of the Legal Department as liaison between Scientists, Engineers, Project Managers and outside legal counsel on Intellectual Property matters. Managed negotiations, revisions and amendments pertaining to SuperGen's technologies, including third-party relationships, technologies and public funding research grants.Successfully negotiated and organized multiple world-wide clinical study agreements through Phase I, Phase II and Phase III of Clinical Trials. Negotiated contracts’ legal terms with vendors and worked closely with business teams when negotiating business terms and conditions. Analyzed contracts and conferred with various business, technical, senior and executive level management to resolve complex contractual issues and negotiate targeted terms and conditions into final contract position and resolution. Identified problem language, suggested modifications and explained corrective actions. Finalized execution of documents by both parties and handled internal distribution of contracts.Intellectual Property, Patent Portfolio and Trademarks Administration: Worked directly with Law offices ensuring all documents were timely executed and updated. Provided up-to-date patent and trademark information using timeline tracking system. Responsible for the timely request of Trademark extensions. Investigated facts, researched contracts, grant laws and institutional policies and requested pertinent documentation to assist with the filing of the patents and trademarks. Responsible for maintaining filing system for all legal files, Trademark applications, Patent portfolios, Research Agreements, Non-Disclosure Agreements, Manufacturing Agreements and Service Contracts.

Contracts Administration: Responded to written and telephone requests for review and comment on provider Material Transfer Agreements, Confidentiality Agreements, Research Agreements, Government funding contracts and provider boilerplate agreements. Reviewed all incoming agreements to detect ambiguities, inaccurate statements, omissions of essential terms and conflicts with possible legal prohibitions or UC Policy. Identified problem language, suggested modifications and explained corrective actions on provider agreements ensuring consistency with UC Policy. Negotiated the use and language of the Standard University and Office of the President boilerplate agreements.Intellectual Property: Advised faculty and students concerning patentability of their inventions, infringement of patents, validity of patents and UC Intellectual Property procedures. Conducted research utilizing the United States Patent and Tracking Office database, as well as, UC Davis and various other institutions grant files, archives and various other databases analyzing and determining potential outstanding intellectual property rights and responsibilities. Determined if a relation of materials obtained from private industry and other forms of public funding, research grants and research agreements are subject to disclosure. Independently advised faculty, inventors, UC personnel, licensees, and industry representatives about UC Intellectual Property policies and procedures, displaying judgment and sensitivity. Provide such advice taking into consideration of the protection of confidential proprietary information and rules regarding the loss of U.S. and foreign patent rights. Prepared confidential and non-confidential information agreements to potential licensees, attendees of Conferences and Meetings.