Paralegal, Executive Administrator

Lisa D. Vallentine

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Saratoga, CA 95070

act9ru@r.postjobfree.com or 281-***-****

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FLEXSTEEL PIPELINE TECHNOLOGIES, INC.

Houston, Texas

Contract Manager

Reports directly to the Chief Executive Officer:

• Applied and received a County Tax Abatement totaling $10 million dollars for the building of a new facility as well as State funding for a Skills Development Fund training grant for new-hires.

• Provide legal review and negotiation of all legal documents, including, but not limited, to contracts, confidentiality agreements, leases, website content, marketing materials and speeches and all other forms of communication prior to release.

• Responsibilities include providing weekly and monthly reports for management, as well as responding to management on any legal matter.

• Evaluate, purchase and maintain commercial insurance policies and liaise with insurer on claims and insurance limits.

• Maintain trademark and patent portfolio. Work with Patent Committee and outside council to file new patents, maintain fees and respond to patent and trademark watches.

• Develop company policies as needed and corporate contracting strategy, (such as insurance requirements for vendors and suppliers, electronic disposal, expense reporting, scholarships and donations, travel, cell phones and blackberries, social media at work, file retention) and interprets policies for management.

• Develop standard terms and conditions for the Company’s use in the domestic and international sales of goods, services and rental equipment.

• Schedule, conduct and facilitate meetings and provide agenda and minutes to the participants.

• Developed data screens to store all contract related data into the Customer Resource Management software.

10/06 to 10/09

WELLSTREAM INTERNATIONAL LTD.

Houston, Texas

Contracts Coordinator

• The direct report supervisor was in Newcastle, UK, so communication was the most important role.

• Weekly updated reports as well as conference calls and emails of the current Houston orders and potential orders were critical.

• Reviewed client contracts for both the onshore and offshore group, based on corporate contracting strategies, negotiated terms with clients in person and in writing.

• Also supported the Houston office team with reviews of consulting contracts, non-disclosure agreements, leases, construction and other miscellaneous contracts and maintained the commercial insurance renewals and certificates.

This company sold the FlexSteel business unit in October 2009. I provided all the legal due diligence pertinent to the sale, and worked with council to finalize the asset purchase agreement.

10/96 to 10/06

NABORS INDUSTRIES

Houston, Texas

Over ten years experience in a large, internationally focused corporation. During this time, I interfaced with many departments including Risk Management, Tax, Legal, Procurement, Health Safety and Environmental, as well as many business units and regional offices across the globe. My professional experience with Nabors includes the following positions: Lisa D. Vallentine

18432 Purdue Dr.

Saratoga, CA 95070

act9ru@r.postjobfree.com or 281-***-****

10/03 to 10/06

NABORS INTERNATIONAL

Bids and Contracts Analyst

Worked with the President and Vice Presidents to:

• Review international drilling contracts for potential risk – Develop commercial exception list with rationales and liaise with the Law Department. Negotiate with clients for beneficial terms based on corporate contract strategy.

• Pro vide corporate support to international field offices – for tender evaluation and coordination of technical, financial and legal information as well as assisted in the diligence and process of business registration in new areas.

• Prepare pricing and technical proposals – Extensive use of all MS Office products and MS Project, internet sources, scanning and presentation software.

• Developed and maintained filing system for proposals and executed contracts for the business unit.

• Designed and edited the quarterly newsletter – Interviewed staff and clients for article content and wrote the “Scuttlebutt” which was printed in English, Spanish, Arabic and distributed to global clients and regional staff.

5/00 to 10/03

NABORS CORPORATE SERVICES

Legal Assistant

Worked with General and Senior Counsel and within the Law Department to:

• Coordinate and support outside counsel – Provide discovery documents, coordinate depositions and statements, maintain Access database.

• Work with outside firm to maintain patent and trademark filings – Research deadlines and feasibility for maintenance of current filings.

• Contract reviews – Provide initial reading and comments on domestic drilling and vendor contracts.

• Technology Consulting – Survey and recommend appropriate software/hardware and coordinate with IT for installation and training.

• Subpoena’s and records requests – Coordinate responses for all incoming subpoena’s and requests for records for international and domestic subsidiaries.

• Vendor Master Service Agreements – Developed the data entry screens in MS Access and workflow agenda for the implementation of a company-wide preferred vendor program.

10/96 to 5/00

NABORS OFFSHORE CORPORATION

Contract Administrator

Work directly with the President, Vice President-Chief Financial Officer to:

• Receive and coordinate bid tenders and contracts for offshore drilling – Extensive use of scanning, optical character recognition and word processing with MS Word’s redlining and version control.

• Prepare proposals for domestic and international offshore drilling markets – Coordinate information from Engineering, Legal, Accounting and Executives.

• Maintain rig fleet information – Interpret information from the field and communicate data to various reporting services in-house and outside using MS Excel.

• Develop and maintain 2000+ vendor database for Master Service Agreements and Minority/Women Owned Business reporting – Comprehensive Access database screens and reports.

• Design and edit the quarterly newsletter – Seek stories, write articles, scan pictures, provide layout to third party printer.

• Prepare training and administrative presentations – Extensive use of MS Power Point and Corel Draw to provide visual and hard copy presentations.

• Conduct and coordinate in-house computer training – Brown-bag seminars to assist in skill development for MS Office products. Lisa D. Vallentine

18432 Purdue Dr.

Saratoga, CA 95070

act9ru@r.postjobfree.com or 281-***-****

8/97 to 9/96

SDM ENTERPRISES, INC.

Houston, Texas

Office Manager, Executive Administrative Assistant, Marketing Sales Worked directly with the President and Vice President to:

• Write HR Policies, vendor contracts and outside communications.

• Plan strategy for drafting projects, sales meetings and events.

• Schedule sales appointments and create marketing histories.

• Develop marketing analysis and profitability studies.

• Schedule and track domestic travel arrangements and expenses.

• Prepare proposals and project documentation.

• Produce technical engineering documentation – Lockout/Tagout procedures.

• Maintain document backup and file system on LAN.

• Produce technical demos and sales presentations utilizing various software programs.

7/95 to 8/97

INITIATIVES FOR CHILDREN, INC.

(a non-profit child care resource

and referral agency)

Houston, Texas

Consultant

• Wrote a federal grant proposal and received award. Implemented the program which included home visits to over 50 individuals in the Houston area and documentation of their child care routines.

• Designed informational flyers, training newsletters and brochures.

• Maintained database files regarding clients and needs assessments.

• Planned and conducted corporate brown-bag informational seminars to local businesses.

8/93 to 5/95

TOMBALL I.S.D.

Tomball, Texas

Substitute Teacher

• All grades and classes

1/83 to 7/93

VOLUNTEER

Texas

• As the mother of 2 children, and no acceptable child care in sight, I began doing child care in my home. Over this six year period, I maintained my home-based business, (providing pre-school activities and home-cooked meals for up to 8 additional children).

• Served on an ad hoc committee with the Texas Department of Protective and Regulatory Services to develop minimum standards for in-home Child Care Providers in Texas. Over the course of 3 years, we travelled around the state conducting focus group meetings with providers in their communities to understand their concerns and issues around the minimum standards.

• In addition, the ad hoc committee became the beneficiary of a training grant, which helped the group become the first professional organization for home child care providers in Texas. I was elected the first president of the group, which is still in existence and providing training and representation for this group.

• Under my direction, the Texas Professional Home Child Care Association became a tax exempt 503(c)3 organization, maintained an enrollment of over 1,000 members, received multiple grants from the Hudson Foundation and other corporate sponsors for training events conducted throughout the state. In addition, I developed the V.I.P. News, the quarterly training newsletter that provides child care workers training in every issue.

• I also became the Regional Representative for the National Association of Family Child Care and presented training at conferences throughout the US.

Lisa D. Vallentine

18432 Purdue Dr.

Saratoga, CA 95070

act9ru@r.postjobfree.com or 281-***-****

6/75 to 7/81

G.T.E. VALERON

Houston, Texas

Office Manager, Sales

Responsibilities included complete staff support for a field sales office and over thirty salesmen. Duties included extensive:

• Telephone sales

• Manual inventory control for metal cutting tools.

• Scheduling and planning resources for events such as the annual Offshore Technology Conference.

• Preparation of quotations and proposals.

EDUCATION • Graduated High School – Midland, Texas

• Associates Degree – University of Texas at Arlington, University of Houston, North Harris Montgomery Community College and Wheelock College (Boston)

• Extensive technical and leadership training

• Over 10 years of statewide and national volunteer work

• Paralegal Certificate

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