SHARLOTTE P. DENNY *****B Gardens Blvd. Hammond, LA 70403 504-***-****

EDUCATION

September 2007- 2009 Paralegal Program - University of New Orleans

****- **** ******* ********* *******/ City Park (Business Admin.)

1998 – 2002 Northern Virginia Community College- Alexandria, Virginia (Bus. Admin.)

1977 - 1979 Associates Degree/Washington School for Secretaries –

Various educational and skill-building seminars throughout my career

SKILLS

Writing and drafting of legal documents, typing 85 WPM, dictaphone, various office machines including IBM PC and Macintosh. Software: Quickbooks, Word 97-2013, Word Perfect, Excel, PowerPoint, Maximizer, File Pro, Adobe Elements 6, Photoshop, Photo Impressions, Conductor, Adobe Professional 7 and 8, Calendar Creator, Lotus Suite, Tele-Call Center Answering System, Visio, Outlook, Internet Netscape Navigator, AOL and Entourage and Quickbooks. Familiar with audiovisual, camera and recording equipment.

Special skills include project completion, follow-up of same, quality interpersonal skills and attention to detail.

January 2019 – Present. Legal Secretary and Paralegal

Silvey Law Firm

Metairie, LA

Preparations of real estate closings and general secretarial duties. This position carried on as Mr. Marsiglia died late 2018. Mr. Silvey picked up his clients and carried on his work with them.

August 2011- December, 2018 Legal Secretary/Office Manager

John V. Marsiglia & Associates, Inc.

New Orleans, LA

Rehired to do the same job as hired from October 2004- 2008---Administrative/legal support for two corporate and real estate lawyers. Responsibilities Real estate closings, preparation of closing documents, preclosing duties as well as post closing, including writing insurance commitments and owner and loan policies, phone, calendaring, travel arrangements, filing documents, on-line research, preparation of trial notebooks, interviewing of clients, discovery accumulation and documentation, organization of files, ordering supplies, special event planning and general office duties.

November 2008 – August 2011 Legal Secretary/Paralegal

Dorsey & Bossetta

New Orleans, LA

Legal Secretary-Paralegal support for two lawyers: Responsibilities include all basic administrative/secretarial duties as well as writing title/owner insurance policies for real estate closings, full preparation for closings, including bank requests, document preparation (HUD), signatory assistance, abstract work and skip-tracing. Preparation of successions, wills and trusts. Debt collection, as well as drafting of pleadings (discovery and other), court filings, research of real estate laws, property management duties. Familiar with local, state and federal court systems. Project specification – blighted property purchases from City of New Orleans. Corporate/Secretary of State filings and pleadings. Desk-top publishing. Strong customer-client communication base.

October 2004- November 2008 Legal Secretary/Office Manager

John V. Marsiglia & Associates, Inc.

New Orleans, LA

Administrative/legal support for two corporate lawyers. Responsibilities include phone, calendaring, travel arrangements, filing court documents, on-line research, preparation of trial notebooks, interviewing of clients, discovery accumulation and documentation, organization of files, ordering supplies, special event planning and general office duties.

June 2002 – October 2004 Office Manager

Martin, Ottaway New Orleans, LA

Administrative support for Marine surveyor/investigator. Responsibilities included processing marine insurance claims, reports and desktop publishing-graphics. Maintain New Orleans based paperless office, (nationwide chain), accounts receivable/payable, maintenance of filing system and strong client/customer contact.

February 2002 – June 2002 Business Office Manager

Summerville Senior Living, Kenner, Kenner, LA

Business Office Manager for senior living facility. Responsibilities included processing payroll for 100 employees. Human Resources: hiring and termination process, health, dental, vision and 401 K applications processing, review and employment verification, Workmen’s Compensation and OSHA claims. Accounts Receivable: tracking daily revenue, reconciliation of bank statements, resident invoicing (103 residents), collection of past due accounts, maintaining resident files, move in/out, process all level of care changes and other charges associated with customer billing and tracking, petty cash reconciliation. Accounts Payable: processing all company invoices, maintain ledger, coding invoices, maintain files for each vendor, vehicle registration and property tax and insurance policy claims and payments. Provide administrative support to Executive Director and other general office duties.

May 2000 – October 2001 Executive Assistant to CEO, COO and Medical Director

Psychiatric Institute of Washington, Washington, DC

Management of all facets of administrative duties for Chief Executive Officer, Chief Operating Officer and Medical Director of 104 bed psychiatric facility. Duties included scheduling travel, organization of offices, monitoring of staff functions, communications external and internal. General secretarial/administrative duties. Also responsible for attending all committee and board functions, taking, transcribing and follow-up process of all minutes and staff functions, including retention of same.

Phone Numbers Of Each Organization and Personal Letters of Reference available upon request

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