Lae’Kohn Parker

Phoenix, AZ

562-***-****

ad4wwz@r.postjobfree.com

www.linkedin.com/in/laekohn-parker/

OBJECTIVE: Remote Contract Administrator

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

• Recognized for excellent leadership, organizational, and communication skills (written/oral).

• Highly motivated and results-focused Global Sales Contract professional, interested in working with a fast-paced, innovative company.

• Create/Audit RFP, RFI, and Bid Processing for potential vendors and clients.

• Create, Manage, and track the ongoing full lifecycle of contracts and amendments.

• Collaborate with Executives, Sales, and Legal Team, ensuring all proposals, contracts, permits, WC Insurance, and policies are following State and Federal Laws.

• Health Care Life & Disability contracts-large and small business groups

• Complex problem-solving and critical thinking skills.

• Proactive, reliable, and detail oriented.

• Notary Public: State of Arizona, County of Maricopa; expires July 2026. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Elevance Health/Anthem BCBS Insurance, Remote contract position Contract Administrator Life & Disability Insurance July 2023 – Present

• Create, draft, negotiate, track, audit, and manage Life and AD&D group policy contracts, renewals, and amendments, under legal and regulatory requirements.

• Issue new and existing large and small business group benefits certificates.

• Life and Disability insurance amendments; specialty in financial wellness group implementation. InEight Software Development Company, Scottsdale, AZ Global Contract Administrator/Sales Division

December 2021 – May 2023

B2B SaaS for Business Management and ERP

• Review and analyze customer requests for proposals/quotes, and contracts.

• Process and maintain files for 1000+ customer software sales contracts via Conga/Salesforce, and SharePoint.

• Creating, Drafting, negotiating, tracking, auditing, and managing software sales and services contracts, renewals, amendments, change orders, order forms, POs, SOWs, and NDAs, under legal and regulatory requirements.

• Review and maintain US export and trade restrictions lists for customer compliance. Worked with global suppliers offering a variety of the company's software products.

• Utilized wholesale directories such as Alibaba, and Global Sources. Created purchase requisitions and sent out the standard purchase orders to the suppliers.

• Worked with global suppliers in the USA, Australia, Europe, Sir Lanka, Canada, and Mexico.

• Corresponds with state insurance departments, internal clients, and others. Maintain all Worker’s Comp Insurance/Security certification requests.

• Implement policies and certifications. File all required documents with the State Department of Insurance for approval, ensuring products and procedures are following State and Federal Laws.

• Provide compliance reviews to the Legal team to identify new State and Federal legislation affecting sales products.

MOUNTAIN, LTD, System One Division, Phoenix, AZ

Contracts and Pricing Administrator/Commercial Construction Division June 2019 – November 2021

Leader in telecommunications, providing engineering services, project management, and workforce solutions.

• Bid Processing, formal bidding from potential vendors, sending out standard purchase orders to suppliers, auditing, creating, tracking, and managing service contracts/permits from contractors, engineers, and planners/designers.

• Responsible for the process of RFP, RFI, bidding, re-planning, drafting, redlines, scheduling, requesting permits, and routing to construction for turnover.

• Manage administrative processes for all contracts and bidding, including creating and auditing contracts and permit requests with the Legal Team and The City of Phoenix. System One Staffing, Torrance, CA

Payroll Manager

September 2010 – March 2019

• Managing: Supervised a staff of 3 employees covering HR onboarding and Payroll, executed company policies and procedures for over 400 employees; full-time, contract, and contingent classifications.

• Recruiting: Managed hiring of all levels of employees for temporary assignments, temp-to-hire, and direct hire. organized job fairs to recruit candidates. Interviewed, checked references, processed drug screenings, and other new hire requirements for the candidates. Responsible for negotiating pay rates and contract details between the candidates and the hiring authority.

• Human Resources: Designed and implemented processes and procedures for managing the multitude of tasks necessary for the successful execution of solid customer service and the daily operations of the staffing business. Maintained all personnel files and records, processed all changes for employees, processed new hire paperwork and benefits, provided new hire orientations, and conducted site visits to ensure compliance with OSHA and Labor codes.

• Payroll: Processed all timecards and paychecks for company and clients to 400+ employees; kept records of all changes, and errors and addressed all issues about payroll. Industrial Dynamics, Torrance, CA

Executive Administrative Assistant

December 2009 – August 2010

• Engineering Evaluation Administrator: Procurement, Coordinate with the Product Engineers, and various Executive Staff for operational support activities of the departments. Served as a liaison between departments and operating units in Bid processes and the resolution of day-to-day administrative and operational issues.

• Provide administrative support for the Engineering and Sales departments throughout the bidding process, sending out standard purchase orders to suppliers.

• Operate computer to compose and edit correspondence and memoranda from dictation, verbal direction, and from knowledge of established departments/division policies, prepare, transcribe, compose, type, edit, and distribute agendas and minutes of numerous meetings. Technical Skills:

Salesforce Software/Conga Contract Management; SharePoint; SAP Ariba-(SLP); OnDemand; Compass; Publisher; Spire; MassLD; Brainshark; Microsoft Teams; Zoom; Outlook 365; Word; Excel; PowerPoint presentations; Adobe Acrobat/Adobe Creative Cloud; ADP Payroll Software EDUCATION

Notary Public Commissioned: State of Arizona, County of Maricopa; expires July 2026 UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 2010

Earned 42 credits toward - BS: Business Management CERRITOS COLLEGE, Norwalk, CA 2003

Earned 386 credits toward - AA: Business Administration/Management Earned Business Administration Certifications

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