DEBORAH E. SWEET
**********@*****.***
580-***-**** - cell
Strong marketing, legal, real estate and sales ability; team player with computer, organizational, and communication skills; highly motivated with strong desire to succeed.
4/15 – 6/17 – Alorica, Durant location. Worked for College Board taking incoming calls from students and educators regarding SAT, AP tests for college entry.
1/11 to 2/14 – AXZM, a full service, multidisciplinary digital marketing agency specializing in Branding, Website Design, Web Development, E-commerce and Online Video Production as well as Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Pay Per Click Advertising (PPC), Social Media and Email Marketing. We are a brick and mortar (2940 Commerce St, Dallas, TX 75226), BBB accredited, A+ Rated business with over 10 years experience creating online marketing solutions for start ups and fortune 500 companies alike.
3/07 to 1/11 - Braxton Commercial Floor Services. Director of Marketing - Direct marketing efforts for company, using door to door, telephone, and internet marketing techniques directly to businesses in the Dallas Fort Worth area in order to establish perpetual cleaning accounts for a commercial cleaning company. I have worked both part and full time during these years intermittently with working part time and occasionally full time at Dillard’s.
8/05 to 6/07 - Dillards, Inc. Sales Expert - Seasonal. Worked both part time and full time during these years as sales expert for Dillard’s in Lewisville. Made top sales, or in top three of the department every month.
11/01 to 1/05 – Realtor for Century21/Judge Fite in Carrollton and Evans, Flower Mound. Consistently secure all saleable listings and exclusive listings within my market area, follow up to establish company credibility and the rapport essential to retaining clients in a competitive marketplace. Evaluate homes as prospects for company purchase for several real estate companies for speculative purposes. Negotiate final sale price and date of possession, secure appropriate lending institution for buyers. Deal directly with buyers and sellers negotiating contracts for consummation of sale. Develop marketing material for each listing. Market properties using the internet, telephone, and canvassing techniques. Developed methods to accurately evaluate homes and to expedite and affect the closing of the sale.
7/99 to 7/01 - Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld - - Paralegal – Legal Secretary for two or more associates in the litigation section before floating for 6 months. Organized and set up client files, obtained reports or documents needed from clients, arranged for service of process, drafted pleadings, set up depositions, draft notice or subpoena and arrange for reporter, arrange for clients to get to and from their depositions, draft outline of materials received from clients in, take notes and assist with documents, locate and assist attorney in selecting expert witnesses, schedule and notify witness requested by attorney and assist in preparing for deposition testimony. Trained on Litigators' Notebook for electronic organization of documents and preparing for trial. Organize trial notebooks, filing documents with civil district and federal courts. In addition, I sometimes was called upon to cite briefs, conduct research (Westlaw, Lexus, Courtlink, Courtstream), and prepare correspondence, calendars, maintained master docket and system tickler system for each case.
8/98 to 5/99 - Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue - Legal Secretary for two associates in the litigation section who were assigned to complex intellectual property suits and tobacco class action suits. Organized the files, set up players list, located players if necessary, filing pleadings in state and U. S. District Courts.. I also entered time and billing, prepared expense reports; maintained calendar; filing; arranged travel.
Software: Wordperfect Word, P.C. Docs, Docs Open, Timeslips, Westlaw Certified, Lexis Certified, Keysite, Citecheck, PowerPoint, Microsoft Excel. Internet savvy.
EI Centro Jr. College
Brookhaven Jr. College
Program underwritten by University of North Texas 1997 - Paralegal Certificate Program with "A" for the program.
Leonard-Hawes Real Estate School 2001 - Real Estate license in May 2001
References available upon request.