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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, Implement, Initiative,
Interpersonal Skills, Leadership, Logistics, Management, Organize,
Organizational Effectiveness, Personal Computing, Policies, Presentation,
Productivity Effectiveness, Program Management, Project Management, Project
Planning, Quality Assurance, Research, Scheduling, Speaking,
Spreadsheet, Team Player, Test, Train, Teach, Word Processing.
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Current Employment
Summary
of Accomplishments
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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
§ Author of Get Rich Organizing: A Professional Organizers
Survival Guide to Launch, Manage and Grow a Profitable Business
§ Co-Author Get organized Today
§ 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 hundreds of participants
§ Presented numerous 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 NAPO Education Quality Assurance Director
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Memberships
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2003-current
National Association of Professional Organizers (NAPO)
2003-current 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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Holobi
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D.R.E.S.
Style Consultant
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2009
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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 –
Columbus, Ohio
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2010
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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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