Summary of Skills & Experience

General Management Legal & Regulatory Compliance, Real Estate

Team Building & Leadership

Results-driven senior real estate and administrative management professional offering 10+ years experience in real estate and business office and legal administration. Success in driving and building operational growth, leading start-up and turnaround operations, garnering and maximizing business opportunities, ensuring re-engineering strategies to fulfill stated and unstated objectives by using practical legal theories and applied regulatory compliance with Department of Housing & Urban Development (HUD). Lead role in helping to generate multi-million dollar revenues for legal real estate departments.

Professional Experience

SOUTHSTATE PARALEGAL SERVICES LLC, Atlanta GA, 1997-2009

Business Manager/Legal Assistant, Title & Escrow Officer

Oversaw multiple functions and activities with regard to real estate transactions, including full budget and disbursement responsibilities, monthly agency accounting and escrow reconciliation functions. Ensured compliance with local title agency's underwriting guidelines, and HUD and RESPA federal regulations. Managed all residential and commercial land and property closings for seven real estate law firms, including REO properties and secondary/capital markets. Managed issuance of title policy opinion letters, final short and long form ALTA-endorsed policies with legals, riders, exclusions, exceptions, and endorsements, and clearance of all prior liens and tax payments, property, transfer, and federal and state liens.

Business Development

Created policies and administrative procedures created and/or restructured business processes in order to transform or situate legal department into corporate structure for title regulations.

Compliance & Legal Matters

Resolved all performance-specific contract compliance issues for residential, land and commercial properties while working directly with sellers, purchasers, borrowers, third party vendors, various attorneys, local, state and federal agencies for zoning, title, survey and RESPA and truth-in-lending (TIL) matters.

Assisted in-house counsel with light litigation and administrative matters pertaining to UCCs, correspondence, collections, tax and 1099 reporting, 1031 escrow exchanges, and formation and Secretary of State filings of limited liability companies and corporations.

Staff Development

Recruited, hired, and presented final hiring recommendations for team members and temporary employees to meet team-building objectives.

Trained hired team members for their specific duties, such as pre-closing, closing, and post-closing, as well as title policy reviews and issuance of commitments to insure.

Organized and re-organized real estate department to improve overall function, performance, and efficient use of legal and real property software and systems.

Business & Operations Development

Functioned as key player in business development and client account management.

Managed successful daily processing of 60+ closing statements and funding disbursements, totaling $100k-plus per month.

Cost Reduction & Avoidance

Developed data and calculating Excel spreadsheet for the tracking and maintenance of collected premium payments and monthly title agency reporting, as well as title premium splits and for tracking disbursed and mailed payments.

Education & Credentials

Paralegal Certification/Real Property Law, 1996

The National Center for Paralegal Training, Atlanta, Georgia

Associates Degree/Business Administration-Accounting, 1990

Phillips Junior College, Columbus, Georgia

Certifications o'Desk – Certificate in Management Skills, Email Etiquette certificate, Creative Writing certificate, Certificate in Windows XP, US English Basic Skills, and English Spelling.

Brainbench: Certificate in Business Writing.

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