Management Project

TAMI PURDUE, PMP

Executive Summary

Results-focused project management professional offering 23 years of progressive leadership experience. Transforms high-potential staff into outstanding leaders who demonstrate the creativity and savvy that is critical to operational and financial success. Skilled Operations Manager with financial background adept at increasing work process efficiency and profitability through functional and technical analysis looking to join diverse, collaborative and innovative group.

Core Qualifications

Business performance improvement

Professional Experience

Legal Administrator/Operations Manager Coats & Bennett, PLLC Created and oversaw all aspects of the administrative operations and financial reporting of a multi-million dollar intellectual property law firm. Accountant Rhodes, Coats & Bennett, LLP Managed team of five professionals. Served as mentor to junior team members. Built financial systems for new and rapidly growing private law firm. Paraccountant Ray L. Clinebelle, CPA, PA Assisted senior accountant with year-end audits. Prepared payroll taxes for firm's clients. Increased profits by initiating and managing client-side accounting software sales and implementation.

Education

Associate of Science: Accounting Wake Technical Community College Political Science/Accounting North Carolina State University

Accomplishments

Operations Management:

Integrally designed the basis for the operations/infrastructure of a medium sized intellectual property law firm including all systems of the firm. Beginning with the time and billing and general ledger system overhaul, moving to the docketing and document management systems creation, on to facilitating a new records management system, then completely redesigning the firm's electronic HR and payroll system, and finally, to implementing an e-discovery software solution/database with IT and litigation support personnel.

Project Management:

Initiated the conversion of disparate document management, docketing and accounting systems to single firm management software which resulted in one of the only collaborative tools used by the owners to quickly look at a snap shot of their business

Strength in financial planning

Operations management

Change management

Initiated the conversion of the firm's in-house payroll system and human resource information which resulted in an on-line one stop shop for employees to view, enroll and edit their personal information, benefits and salary information

1931 New Bern Ave, Raleigh, N C 27610 H: 919-***-**** C: 919-***-**** *******@*********.***

Process implementation

Staff leadership and development

Payroll/compensation/benefits administration

SQL database administrator

06/1999 to 08/2012 Cary, NC

04/1989 to 05/1999 Raleigh, NC

01/1986 to 03/1989 Raleigh, NC

2013 Raleigh, NC, USA

Raleigh, NC, USA

Affiliations

Certified Project Management Professional

Member of Association of Legal Administrators, Project Management Institute, Society for Human Resource Management and Triangle Real Estate Investors Association

Community Service

Twelve years of service to Wake County Public Schools as PTA treasurer, advisory board member, safety committee chair and volunteer Host to the International Affairs Council summer lUS State Department leadership exchanges NC State Cooperative Extension Master Gardener volunteer Habitat for Humanity volunteer

Initiated all aspects of the firm's two moves, including working with managing partner on lease negotiations, handling all details of vendor interface for the moves and orchestrating the attorneys and staff throughout the move periods

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