745 Star Pointe Drive
Seffner, Florida 33584
(813) 655-1312 or (813) 786-3757 (cell)
[email protected]
EXPERIENCE
Central Florida World War II Museum
Tampa, Florida
Director of Education, November 2005 � Present
Effectively coordinate artifact exhibition and living history program with educational organizations.
Develop educational center housing artifacts and historic records to be utilized for teaching and research purposes.
Interpret World War II military history and exhibit historical artifacts for public/private educational events.
Pawlowski, Clifford & Brewer, P.A.
Tampa, Florida
Paralegal / Case Manager - Personal Injury/Workers Compensation, April 2004 - November 2005
Magro Law Firm, P.A.
St. Petersburg, Florida
Paralegal / Case Manager - Personal Injury, April 2002 - April 2004
Prepared pleadings, memoranda, and letters and composed routine pleadings and letters to ensure the timely, accurate, and professional completion of documents.
Organized and maintained case files, research files, form files, and miscellaneous files to enable quick and efficient retrieval of documents.
Maintained calendar and case management system for assigned attorney to ensure that deadlines were met, work was completed in a timely manner, and matters were monitored on a routine basis.
Contacted state agencies, clients, attorneys and court personnel to schedule hearings, meetings, depositions or conference calls, and to direct parties to the appropriate entities.
Effectively negotiated with medical providers and medical facilities for reduction of outstanding client balances.
Managed client case files from intake through file closing, including coordination of benefits, case management, and trust accounting.
Developed, documented and implemented processes and procedures to streamline case related tasks, while ensuring their timely and detailed completion.
Intermedia Communications, Inc.
Tampa, Florida
Business Analyst Engineering / Vendor Management, July 2000 - November 2001
First point of contact for new Engineering vendors. Solicited background information from vendors to allow engineers to measure their abilities to successfully service Intermedia�s requirements.
Tasked with compiling and reviewing the maintenance budget and equipment. Acted as centralized contact point for Engineering. Created a central repository of equipment information. Realized more than $3 million in savings over original proposed budget by reducing support levels and negotiating rate reductions.
Received Quarterly Department Excellence Award for this project.
Responsible for generating and completing all non-disclosure and trial agreements. Proposed alternative language for vendor revisions.
Had primary responsibility for reviewing purchase and maintenance agreements.
Created Vendor Management Process and Procedure Book.
Assisted in hosting quality service reviews for Engineering�s hardware (Cisco, Nortel, Lucent) and backbone access provider (Williams Communications).
Administered the vendor database in MS Access to track new and existing vendor and contract information. Multiple departments within Intermedia used the database to track vendor information.
Generated monthly reports updating departmental progress. Prepared and distributed department-specific tracking documents for weekly meetings.
Managed and maintained work processes and tracking tools.
Nextel Communications
Tampa, Florida
Property Coordinator Site Development, August 1999 - July 2000
Reviewed lease packages before submitting to Legal, coordinated information between Site Acquisition and Legal departments and facilitated information transfer for lease approvals. Information and document processing point for all leases.
Coordinated with outside Site Acquisition consultants.
Worked closely with Nextel�s Engineering department, mapping each candidate to verify accuracy of information, communicating comments from Field Site Acquisition personnel and printing maps to accompany Site Selection Work Sheets (SSWS). Tracked status of all outstanding issues and brought issues to the attention of the Engineers when necessary.
Processed, distributed and maintained all search rings for 250+ sites. Coordinated with departments to maintain current correct search rings for reference by multiple departments.
Maintained and updated spreadsheet of all SSWSs (1000 sites). 250+ sites and 750+ SSWSs.
Created and maintained collocation database of 50 different entities covering 5000+ sites for use with mapping software. Identified potential sites through this database.
Handled solicitations by landowners wishing to lease space to Nextel. Mapped, placed in database and compared to current rings all potential ground sites. Provided responses in a reasonable time frame.
Coordinated all steps of every site prior to zoning/permitting, including coordination of two outside Site Acquisition firms.
Prepared and distributed department-specific deployment tracking documents for weekly meetings.
Created work processes and tracking tools, which were previously non-existent.
Telesis Consulting, Inc.
Tampa, Florida
Consultant Site Development, June 1999 - August 1999
Assisted Site Development Manager.
Provided general administration of lease and memorandum of agreement documents.
Coordinated legal services, i.e., title policies, non-disturbance agreements, etc.
Performed file maintenance.
Monroe Middle School, Hillsborough County School System
Tampa, Florida
Social Studies and Dropout Prevention Program Instructor, October 1993 - May 1999
Olan Mills
Lansing, Michigan
Training Manager (promoted from Manager), September 1991 - May 1992
Tampa Wholesale Furniture
Tampa, Florida
Administrative Assistant, September 1989 - May 1991
Barnett, Bolt, & Kirkwood
Tampa, Florida
Office Clerk, August 1987 - April 1989
EDUCATION
Eckerd College
St. Petersburg, Florida
Major: History
G.P.A.: 3.89/4.00
Recipient of the Pinellas County Historical Society scholarship
Hillsborough Community College
Tampa, Florida
Associate of Arts, June 1989
TRAINING
The Effective Negotiating Course (Karrass), Intermedia Communications, January 2001
Diversity and Non-Harassment Training, Intermedia Communications, July 2000
ACTIVITIES, CLUBS, AND ORGANIZATION
Certified open water SCUBA diver
Sigma Chi Fraternity - Alumni Chapter President
C�rculo Cubano de Tampa, Inc. - Board of Directors
LANGUAGES
Fluent in Spanish
REFERENCES
Available upon request