Lori Mehlenbacher
Nunda
Overview
28
28
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Office Manager
Weir Logging
11.2002 - Current
- Monitored payments due from clients and promptly contacted clients with past-due payments.
- Maintained impeccable office organization to support efficiency, professionalism, and performance objectives.
- Reviewed files and records to obtain information and respond to requests.
- Managed office budget to handle inventory, postage and vendor services.
- Elevated customer satisfaction ratings by promptly resolving client and case issues.
- Handled scheduling and managed timely and effective allocation of resources and calendars.
- Oversaw office inventory activities by ordering and requisitions and stocking and shipment receiving.
- Developed and maintained successful relationships with vendors, suppliers and contractors.
- Controlled finances to lower costs and keep business operating within budget.
Project Lead /Junior Project Engineer
Global Crossing
01.2000 - 05.2002
- Define project deliverables, develop project timelines, track on-going projects, implement and monitor resource requirements.
- Responsible for all Engineering requests for customers and scheduling on a global network including business integration of 10+ companies.
- Organize project objectives.
- Maintained records for each project and engineering discipline.
- Work directly with team members to develop project structure, resource requirements, work breakdown structure, and baseline plans.
- Serve as a facilitator, communicator, and liaison with the engineers to ensure that projects are delivered on time and according to all requirements.
- Maintained vendor relationships to ensure that all requisitions were paid in a timely matter.
- Facilitated meetings and projects with international participants to ensure delivery of global projects on time and under budget.
- Scheduled priorities as required to progress engineering work.
Financial Analyst
EDS / Xerox
04.1999 - 12.1999
- Reconciled 3 million dollars in contractor invoices.
- Responsible for rectifying customer-billing issues in a timely fashion.
- Ensured contractor files were audit compliant.
- Applied proper codes to invoices, files, and receipts to keep records organized and easily searchable.
- Investigated and corrected errors to resolve discrepancies.
- Directed gathering of required documentation and files for account audits and completed reviews.
- Matched contractor invoices and recorded necessary information.
Process and Logistics Analyst
EDS / Xerox
03.1997 - 04.1999
- Established travel guidelines for consultant travel within the Enterprise Deployment Team.
- Interacted with project managers and engineers to determine resources, training, and capacity to handle the installation for the Xerox customer.
- Managed and coordinated technical contractors for over 453 of the Xerox sites.
- Responsible for tracking financial resources for contract travel, training, and equipment of up to 1.5 million dollars with quarterly reports to Finance Executives within the organization.
- Reviewed master site schedule on a day-to-day basis to ensure site completion.
- Deployed corporate standard workstations up to 3,000 end users within the Xerox Corporation.
Administrative Assistant
EDS / Xerox
06.1995 - 03.1997
- Answered multi-line phone system, routing calls, delivering messages to staff and greeting visitors.
- Interacted with management and outside departments to resolve issues of a confidential nature.
- Reviewed, submitted, and approved various personnel transactions in the Corporate Administrative System.
- Coordinated background checks, drug testing, new hire paperwork, and interviewing.
- Restocked supplies and placed purchase orders to maintain adequate stock levels.
- Scheduled office meetings and client appointments for staff teams.
- Received and sorted incoming mail and packages to record, dispatch, or distribute to correct recipient.
- Managed paper and electronic filing systems by routing various documents, taking messages and managing incoming and outgoing mail.
- Volunteered to help with special projects of varying degrees of complexity.
Education
Associate of Applied Science - Business Administration
Genesee Community College
05.1994
Skills
- Cost Control
- Staff Training
- Scheduling and Coordinating
- Project Planning
- Invoicing and Billing
- Expense Reporting
- Event Coordination
- Customer Relations
- Scheduling and Calendar Management
- Accounts Payable and Receivable
- Data Entry
- Budget Management
- Project Management
- Purchasing
- Supplier Research
Certification
- Customer First Training
- Indispensable Assistant Certificate
- Internet and Network Communications
- Bryant & Stratton - Legal Secretarial Diploma
- Project Management Applications (PMI)
- Negotiation Strategies and Techniques
- Managing Projects Across Cultures
- Project Planning Analysis and Control
- Business Process Analysis Innovation and Redesign
- Contracting for Project Managers
Timeline
Office Manager
Weir Logging
11.2002 - Current
Project Lead /Junior Project Engineer
Global Crossing
01.2000 - 05.2002
Financial Analyst
EDS / Xerox
04.1999 - 12.1999
Process and Logistics Analyst
EDS / Xerox
03.1997 - 04.1999
Administrative Assistant
EDS / Xerox
06.1995 - 03.1997
Associate of Applied Science - Business Administration
Genesee Community College
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