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Objective
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To
use all my skills, knowledge and experience to provide confidential and
empathetic advice to clients, identify their individual organizing challenges,
and work with them to create solutions and systems that will increase their
productivity, reduce stress, and lead to more control over their
surroundings.
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Key Skills
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Analysis, Budget, Coaching, Communication,
Contracts Administration, Coordinate, Database, Employee Relations, Human
Resources, Implement, Initiative, Interpersonal Skills, Leadership,
Logistics, Management, Negotiation, Organizational Effectiveness, Personal
Computing, Policies, Presentation, Program Management, Project Management,
Project Planning, Quality Assurance, Recruiting, Research, SAP, Scheduling,
Speaking, Spreadsheet, Team Player, Test, Train, Teach, Word Processing.
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Current Employment
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January 2003-Present SolutionsForYou,
Inc. Portland,
OR
Certified Professional Organizer®
Owner and Founder
Provide organizing consultation and services in the areas of:
§ ADD Organizing Coaching
§ Clearing Clutter
§ Closet Organizing
§ Downsizing
§ Electronic Information Management
§ Kid-size Organizing
§ Paper Management
§ Space Planning
§ Student Organizing
§ Time Management
§ Work-Life Management
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Summary of Accomplishments
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§ Author of Get Rich
Organizing: A Professional Organizers Survival Guide to Launch, Manage, and
Grow a Profitable Business (release June 2009)
§ Among the first 200
people in the world to receive the Certified Professional Organizer CPO®
Designation from the Board of Certified Professional
Organizers (BCPO).
§ Hundreds of
satisfied and successfully organized clients in corporate, home-based
business, residential and small business environments.
§ Founded the
Professional Organizer Training InstituteÔ
ž Developed 27 hours of curriculum on starting a professional organizer
business and working with clients
ž Trained over 170 participants
§ Presented over 45 seminars
on a variety of organizing topics
§ 2003-2005 NAPO
Oregon Chapter Secretary
§ 2005-2006 NAPO
Oregon Vice President/Director of Membership
§ 2006-2007 NAPO
Oregon President
§ 2007-2009 NAPO
Oregon Immediate Past President
§ 2009 – current NAPO Education Committee Quality Assurance Director
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Membership
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2003-2009 National Association of Professional Organizers (NAPO)
2003-2009 Oregon Chapter of NAPO
2004-2009 National Study Group on Chronic Disorganization (NSGCD)
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Education
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B.A. Organizational Communication,
Marylhurst University
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2001
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Certification
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Freedom Filer
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Certified Freedom Filer Consultant
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2008
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BCPO
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Certified Professional Organizer CPO®
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2007
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Coach Approach For Organizers™
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Coach Approach for Organizers™ Training
Program
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2007
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NSGCD
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Level II ADD Specialist Certificate
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2007
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NSGCD
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Level II Chronic Disorganization
Specialist Certificate
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2006
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NSGCD
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Certificate of Study in Learning Styles
and Modalities
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2006
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NSGCD
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Certificate of Study in Chronic
Disorganization
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2005
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NSGCD
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Certificate of Study in Basic ADD Issues
With the CD Client
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2005
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NSGCD
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Certificate of Study in CD Client
Administration
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2005
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Training
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NAPO
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Annual Conference – Orlando, Florida
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2009
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NAPO
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Annual Conference – Reno, Nevada
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2008
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NAPO
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Annual Conference – Minneapolis, Minnesota
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2007
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NAPO
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Annual Conference – Boston, Massachusetts
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2006
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NAPO
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Annual Conference – San Diego, California
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2005
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NAPO
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Annual Conference – Denver, Colorado
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2003
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NSGCD
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8 Processing
Modalities for ADD and CD Clients
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2007
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NSGCD
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ADD and ADDiction
(ADD-260)
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2007
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NSGCD
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ADD/CD and the Organizing
Process
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2007
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NSGCD
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Assisting Clients with LD in Adulthood
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2007
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NSGCD
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Assisting the CD Client with Diabetes
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2006
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NSGCD
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At Your Wit’s End
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2008
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NSGCD
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Basic Chronic Disorganization (CD)
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2004
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NSGCD
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Basic Personal Safety with CD Clients
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2008
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NSGCD
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Boundaries and Ethics
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2004
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NSGCD
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Children and Adolescents and ADD
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2005
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NSGCD
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Conscious
Consuming: Empowering Ourselves and Modeling for Others
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2008
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NSGCD
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Creating Successful Study Environments
for Students
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2006
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NSGCD
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Developing Time Management Skills for
CD/ADD Client
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2004
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NSGCD
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Establishing
Successful Client Relationships
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2008
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NSGCD
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Establishing Successful Client Relationships
(ADM-110)
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2008
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NSGCD
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Heirs of the Chronically Disorganized
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2006
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NSGCD
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Identifying and Locating Additional
Client Services to Assist your Elderly and Physically Challenged Client
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2005
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NSGCD
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Introduction to Compulsive Hoarding
(HRD-100)
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2007
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NSGCD
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Introduction to Learning Styles and
Differences
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2004
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NAPO
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Leadership Forum – National
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2006
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NAPO
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Leadership Forum – National
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2005
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NSGCD
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Letting Go: The Process and Meaning of
Dispossession in the lives of Consumers (CD-375)
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2007
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NSGCD
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Normalizing ADD
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2007
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NSGCD
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Organizing for Personality Types
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2004
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NSGCD
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Overview of OCD Hoarding
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2005
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NSGCD
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Resources for Investigating Physical and
Mental Health Conditions Affecting CD Clients
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2005
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NSGCD
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Running a Clutter Support Group
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2005
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NSGCD
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Safety
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2004
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NSGCD
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Storage Units Pros
and Cons for CD Clients
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2008
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NSGCD
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Storage Units: Pros and Cons for CD
Clients
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2007
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NSGCD
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Strategies and Resources to Assist
Clients with Recycling
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2006
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NSGCD
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Strategies and Solutions for the CD
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2004
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NSGCD
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Strategies for Working with Adult Clients
with Asperger's Syndrome (PHY-170)
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2008
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NSGCD
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Strategies for working with the CD client
with depression
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2005
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NSGCD
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Structure and Time Management Skills for
the Adult and Teen ADD/CD Client
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2005
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NSGCD
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Support for the Clutters:
Understanding 12 Step/Help Groups
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2006
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NSGCD
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The Mindset of the Messie
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2004
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NSGCD
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Trends in ADD and LD in the Educational
Setting
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2007
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NSGCD
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Trends in ADD/CD Client Work
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2004
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NSGCD
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Understanding the Mind Styles Model of
Learning/Processing
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2008
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NSGCD
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Working with Auditory Learners
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2004
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NSGCD
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Working with CD Adults with ADD
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2004
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NSGCD
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Working with Kinesthetic Learners
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2004
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Prior Recent
Employment
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Mentor Graphics Corporation Wilsonville,
OR
Human Resources (HR) Work/Life Benefits Manager
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1988 - 2001
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Special Projects
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§ Project Team Member
for Child Development Center Selection and Design
§ Business Systems Analyst for HRIS implementation with SAP
§
Mergers and Acquisition Corporate Team Leader
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