Judi Dozier - paralegal

Education:

Paralegal Associate Degree Program at Horry Georgetown Technical College (2 courses left)

Associate Degree Accounting – 2 full semesters – Horry Georgetown Technical College

Winthrop University – 1 year piano major – classical piano

York County Technical College – 1 year Business Program

Honors:

Presidents List – Accounting & Paralegal

Deans List – Accounting& Paralegal

National Deans List

Phi Theta Kappa – Accounting & Paralegal

Who’s Who of American Junior Colleges

Six Platinum Records and Two Gold Records –Billy Idol Band – Keyboards & Vocals – 7 years

Miss Rock Hill – 1970 – (Miss America Scholarship Award)

Most Talented Scholarship – Miss South Carolina Contest – 1971

EMI Records – solo artist with my own material in Hamburg, Germany – records

distributed in eight countries in Europe

Member: Actor’s Equity, AFM – Local 802-NYC, AFTRA, SAG, GEMA

Educational Courses Completed:

Paralegal Studies – HGTC – ABA Approved Program (2 courses from graduation)

New York Real Estate License

Accounting and Business - HGTC

Office XP & QuickBooks

Public Speaking & English Courses

Classical Piano Major – Winthrop University

Administrative Assistant - YCTC

Continuing Legal Education:

Legal Seminar – Real Estate Closings – Columbia, SC

Legal Seminar – Estate Planning & Philanthropic Contributions, Litchfield Beach, SC

Title Abstractor Course – Web Course – www.learnanytime.net

Real Estate Investing Course – Web Course – www.learnanytime.net

Functional Skills:

Typing Speed – 85 - 95 wpm

Microsoft Word, Microsoft Publisher, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Excel

Quicken, QuickBooks, Access Database Management

Design & Marketing Skills – Letterhead, Envelopes, Business Cards, Brochures

2003 – Present

Horry Georgetown Technical College

Part-Time Paralegal Student

Scott B. Umstead, P.A., Myrtle Beach, South Carolina April, 2005 – April 2008

Real Estate Paralegal

Manager of Post Closing Department

Reconciliation of each closing

Bank packages

Disbursements

Document checklists – (for required documents in each RE closing file)

Organization and Reconciliation of each file

Satisfactions of Mortgages and the recording of Satisfactions

Administrator of Real Estate Trust Account

Ledger Management, Reconciliations, Audits

Manager of 1099S Ledger and reporting to IRS

Title Insurance Ledger and Reporting (responsible for sending Title Policies to Title Co.)

Implemented the Installation and use of SoftPro Real Estate Software

Set Preferences for Real Estate Office

Responsible for ordering checks and deposit slips for Real Estate Trust Account

Desktop Publishing

Responsible for design of deposit slips and checks

Orchestrated the new design of company cards and stationery logo

Communicated with designer for Mr. Umstead and submitted for his approval

Helped in the training of receptionist to become useful in SoftPro. Delegate certain

assignments to receptionist for efficiency of closing process.

Assisted in training multiple bookkeepers to Scott’s personal preferences as they were hired

Bookkeeper for Scott B. Umstead February – April 2008

for Scott B. Umstead multiple business accounts

Accounts Receivable – Accounts Payable – separate office from my real estate paralegal office

Daily Banking for Real Estate, Litigation, and Bookkeeping Departments

Other duties performed that were not on job description:

Backed up entire network for Litigation and Real Estate daily (kept off-site storage device)

Physically assisted in Umstead’s move to his new office building

Assisted him in the concept, design, and lighting of his sculpture

Helped him in a wide range of personal issues whenever needed (i.e. taking care of his dog,

passport, shopping, house, car, etc.)

Assisted with various business functions

Assisted with real estate business lunches

The Tice Law Firm – Myrtle Beach – 1.5 years – 35 hours per week 2003-2005

Feel free to call Attorney Renee J. Tice for a reference – 215-5009

(She found it necessary to cut the hours of her employees due to lack of business.)

The duties that I performed at The Tice Law Firm were as follows:

Real Estate Closings

Estate Planning

Probate Administration for Personal Representative

Corporate Set-up, Corporations, LLC’s, PA’s, Corporate Documents, and other

filings, i.e. licenses and tax forms as necessary

Desktop Publishing for publicity for law firm and other document design such as

Letterhead, Fax Cover Sheet, Check Lists, Brochures, Marketing and Promotional materials

2001 – 2002

Horry Georgetown Technical College

Full time student – Accounting - Paralegal

1994 -2001 – Legends In Concert – Myrtle Beach, SC

Keyboards, Sound Synthesis, Musical Scoring, and Vocals

Past Experience: Following please see my employment history in New York City in legal firms where I worked on a long-term temp basis with several firms between musical performances from 1971 until 1992.

RCA Records

Legal Department

Artists Record Contracts

Winthrop, Stimson, Putnum & Roberts

Corporate Law

Word Perfect 5.0

Deadline document creation, editing, Document Management and Correspondence

Shearman & Sterling

Corporate Law – 6 pm to 6 am

Wang (including Columnizer and Informatics)

Corporate Mergers, Acquisitions, Antitrust Group, Litigation, Individual Clients,

Real Estate, Benefits & Compensation Group

Document creation and editing, document management, distribution,

closings, due diligence, minutes and correspondence

Rosenman Colin

Corporate Law

Word Perfect 5.0

Document creation and editing, document management, correspondence

Citizens Committee for New York City

Legal Department

Word Perfect 5.0

Document creation and editing, document management, correspondence

Kissenger Associates – (Henry Kissenger – NYC Office)

Legal

Word Perfect 5.0

Document creation and editing, document management, minutes, and

Correspondence

Security Pacific

Legal

MultiMate Advantage II

Corporate Debt and Trading

Document creation and editing, document management, and Correspondence

Bankers Trust

Word Perfect 5.0 – Latin American Division/Trading

Lotus Manuscript – Real Estate Capital Markets

MultiMate Advantage II – International Private Banking

Document creation and editing, document management

Leber Katz

Ad Agency - Macintosh software - Creation of desktop publishing design art docs

Creation of documents, editing and handling, proposals and correspondence

J. Brown & Associates

MultiMate Advantage II - Creation and editing of ad-copy documents, document

management, Correspondence

Cantor Fitzgerald

Legal Department - Word Perfect 5.0

Creation and editing of legal documents – corporate

References available upon request.

Musical & Performance resume available upon request featuring my body of work and success as a music writer, producer, and performer for 21 years in New York City, independent business skills in promotion and record-keeping, leadership, management, creativity, self-motivation, perseverance, design skills, packaging and delivery of product.

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