Contracting Specialist

Lakeitha Brooks

*** * ******** **. ******, La. **056

504-***-**** • ***************@*****.***

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Contracting Specialist with six years experience. Accurately maintaining excellent service standards in a fast paced, customer-oriented environment. Respectfully an innovative, personable individual with strong communication and analytical abilities. Student of business with education covering foundational elements of management, administration, and human resources.

Career highlights include:

• 6 years of outstanding service in the Louisiana Air National Guard

• Consistently receiving recognition from management for providing outstanding service. TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Microsoft Office: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook

• PD2 ( Contract Writing System)

• Contract management

ACADEMIC TRAINING

• Business fundamentals and administration techniques such as critical thinking, effective communication, and ethical decision making.

• Tools, principles, and techniques of continuous process improvement to achieve workplace quality and excellence.

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Creativity and Ingenuity

• Methods and tools for energizing creativity as a problem solving tool.

• Exploration of “re-framing” and viewing issues from multiple perspectives.

• Utilizing creativity to build a more engaging, fun, and uplifting work environment. Managerial Experience

Sound Business Judgment

• Acquisition Management

• Experience with various contract types

• Creative Thinker

• Market Research

• Communicate orally and in writing.

• Reconcile differing objectives and viewpoints.

EDUCATION

Associate of Science in Business Administration 2016 Colorado Technical University Online

Relevant Coursework: Management Fundamentals, Business Law, Management of Human Resources, Introduction to Marketing.

CERTIFICATIONS

• CON 090 FAR Fundamentals

• CON170, FUNDAMENTALS OF COST AND PRICE ANALYSIS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Louisiana Air National Guard New Orleans, La.

Contracting Specialist 07/2011-Present

• Conduct market research

• Procure and plan acquisitions for standard or specialized items, services, and/or construction contracts.

• Develop solicitations and evaluate responses.

• Prepare and issue solicitation documents.

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