Kenneth Lavelle

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North Royalton, Ohio 44133

Cell 440-***-****

Home:440-***-****

acwcr0@r.postjobfree.com

Paralegal/Legal Secretary/Receptionist/Legal Assistant

System Administrator.

Computer Operator

QUALIFICATIONS

Experienced Certificated Paralegal and IT Data Center Operations Administrator Professional experienced with computer technology. Highly organized. Notary Public. Embraces change, high sense of ethics and confidentiality. Good written and verbal public speaking presentation communication skills. Article contributor to Parma Observer newspaper. Energetic team problem solver, detailed oriented researcher and self-motivated. Team Player. Can draft agendas for meetings, work with support staff for administrative tasks. Able to prepare legal complex documents using compiled information, charts, proofread them and file for use in court. Can schedule events. Perform general clerical tasks. Historical investigator.

SKILLS

Legal Software: Abacus, Case Map/Time Map, CT Summation, Puritas Springs, Sage Timeslip, PC Law

Legal Research: Proficient in Lois-Law, Lexis-Nexis, Internet, Law library and on-line researcher

Office Equipment:Calculator, HP Copiers, IBM Printers, Laptops, PCs, Tablets and UPS emergency equipment

Software / Tools: Microsoft Office 2010/2013, Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Windows 7, Windows

8.1, Databases, JD Edwards Security Software, EDI, SQL, Scanners

EDUCATION

CUYAHOGA COMMUNITY COLLEGE – Western Campus, Parma, Ohio

Certificate in Paralegal Studies A.B.A. Approved Paralegal Program May, 2014

Elective Courses Taken: Alternative Dispute Resolution, Bankruptcy, Business Law, Conflict Resolution and Peace Studies, Family Law, Intellectual Property, Medical Terminology, Probate, Workers’ Compensation

Associate of Applied Business Degree in Data Processing

Associate of Arts Degree

BALDWIN-WALLACE UNIVERSITY - Berea, Ohio

Bachelor of Arts Degree, Business

LEGAL EXPERIENCE

2016

Community Legal Aid, Akron, Ohio

Paralegal/Legal Secretary

Reviewed attorney’s cases to prepare weekly Monday meeting team agenda for cases update discussion.

Reviewed cases concerned no civil cases filed and only indigent clients from AGMC, Summa, and U.A.

Reviewed attorney’s appointment calendar when staff members checked with me before visiting attorney.

Introduced to staff attorneys’ and IT personnel. Office tour included using printer, letter mail postal meter.

Trained to use existing 10-day letter format to send current letter on behalf of clients for legal action.

Given list of legal codes to mention in messages noted in clients’ files and from on-line phone intake process.

Accomplishments: Status of attorney’s cases were current and up-to-date for further legal action.

LEGAL EXPERIENCE

2016

Curtin & Curtin, LLP, Akron, Ohio

Receptionist/Legal Assistant

Transferred incoming telephone calls to staff attorneys’ offices or to their voice mail daily.

Greeted visitors, signed for legal documents packages / boxes that were delivered to office for staff attorneys’.

Opened daily mail and delivered mail to office staff attorneys’. Filed date stamped legal documents, phone messages received. Checked dates in firm calendar for events that required a court reporter for depositions.

Pulled and tagged client files for staff attorneys’ to use during week. Later returned client files to metal cabinet.

Checked status of Clerk of Court docket case records for specific client names in Ohio counties on-line.

Processed daily mail for firm using Postage by Phone DM200L Pitney Bowes Postage Meter & mailed it.

Accomplishments: Visitors, staff attorneys’, and clients were properly taken care of regarding their legal matters.

LEGAL EXPERIENCE 2014

Assisted Elder Law Lawyer Paul J. Stano to obtain VA WWII Widow Benefits, a Replacement Social Security Card, State of Ohio ID. Card, obtained out-of-state Birth, Death Certificate and funeral home documents for his client, K. Frank before she died 1/19/2016. Kenneth was a co-executor of his aunt’s financial affairs while in a nursing home 2010-2016. He is now the executor of his mother’s financial elder issues upon her death.

Notary Public

Found and returned lost laptop to a law firm in Lake County, Ohio. The Laptop was missing for six years.

Accomplishments: 1. Nursing home client received her VA WWII Widow Benefits and she received replacement

Social Security Card.

2. Returned lost laptop to a law firm in Lake County, Ohio. Firm did not know laptop was missing.

Student Internship – Legal Department 2014

Cuyahoga Community College District Office, Cleveland, Ohio

Wrote legal memoranda. Researched filing an EEOC complaint, wrote procedure to renew College logo and trademark.

Researched and wrote Legal memoranda used for future FLMA case argument of who completes forms for coverage.

Researched other legal questions related to Student record requests, College’s policy for naming rights and procedures,

foreign public records case requests, and whether the college can transfer funds to non-profit for benefit to students.

Accomplishments: Legal memoranda used for FLMA case argument. College logo and trademark renewed.

RELATED WORK EXPERIENCE

Computer Operator

2015-2016

Akron General Medical Center, Akron, Ohio Robert Half Temporary Contractor

Operated IBM PCS Mainframe computer with TSO/Baxter & Zeke Software, printed reports on a

D125 Printer MMP81, reports prepared for delivery.

Changed employee passwords and issued HEAT service tickets to on-call employees to resolve issues.

Day/Night Shift Help Desk, processed API Payroll Files, purged and backed up files.

Recorded hourly required time file size records

Accomplishments: Helped on-line users from Data Center Operations.

Cuyahoga County Precinct Election Official (PEO)

Cuyahoga County Board of Elections, Cleveland, Ohio

2009-2016

Ensured the Election Process was handled in an orderly, professional, and lawful manner, overseeing all activities performed in the assigned precinct including distributing ballots to registered voters.

Assisted the voters with the Election Process: checking identification, using paper poll books/electronic EA Tablet.

Accomplishment: Recipient of the November 2014 PIN honoring Outstanding PEO providing exceptional service.

System Administrator

The Blonder Company, Cleveland, Ohio

2004-2010

IT Department for Wallpaper Distributor

Position required flexibility to solve issues. Position included computer mainframe operations and network remote PC operations. Coordinated and distributed monthly, quarterly, and annual printed reports to management. Assisted in the installing and updating of software, as well as maintenance of servers. Production Operations. I worked alone on second shift.

Maintained server network 100 + users. Created and deleted computer user logons. Monitored

internet log connections.

Processed EDI daily billing. Performed nightly backups six days/week preparing for possible

disaster recovery on second shift.

Purchased IT department supplies.

Restored deleted or lost files. Stored backup tapes in secure fireproof safe.

Typed daily activity logs.

Purchasing Agent for IT Department who authorized payment of supplies/services provided.

Wrote and updated system manuals as needed for data center.

Monitored company servers, T1 line, websites, and logon user activity.

Batch Job Schedule Monitoring and Ad hoc request processing

IT Infrastructure Monitoring

Enterprise Application Monitoring

Emergency Monitoring & Task Execution Requests

Environmental Control & World Event Monitoring

Level Infrastructure Incident resolution procedures followed

Hot swap / Server repair / part replacement coordination part of Purchasing Agent duties

Data Center facility tasks done as required including updating system user manuals

Equipment Handling Support and setup

Disaster Recovery Testing Support as required by management

Completed a FEMA Emergency Manager Home Study Course

Trained new employees in computer operations, printing of reports, backups as required

Printing company checks as required by Accounts Payable department

Member of the Safety Committee and the Annual Picnic Committee

Accomplishments: Recipient of the Blonder “Mr. Clean Award” for helping clean up trash in the neighborhood area and having low hanging tree branches cut along sidewalks near company

When street lighting at night stopped working, notified management and Mid-Corridor Assn. to restore street lighting as a safety issue

Civic Accomplishments

Local Historian and Archivist for the Parma Heights Historical Society, Parma Heights, Ohio

Treasurer of the Parma Heights Historical Society, Parma Heights, Ohio

Erected Ohio Historical Marker 2003 – First Rural Brick Road in U.S. along Wooster Pike, Parma Twp., Ohio 1896

Recipient of the November 2014 PIN honoring Outstanding PEO providing exceptional service

Subcommittee Head of GCRTA Adopt-A-Shelter Project for placement of business advertising plaques on bus shelters in Cleveland, Ohio

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