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Overview
Work History
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Mark Thomas Rawdon

Westerville

Summary

16.5 yrs. experience in public administration, 12 yrs. as a landscape architect/horticulturalist, 3.5 yrs. managerial/supervisory experience, 9 yrs. sales experience, proven project-centered troubleshooting and negotiation skills, excellent customer service, interpersonal and communication skills, on-the-job dependability, and a solid work history.

Overview

25
25
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Unemployment Compensation Claims Specialist 1: Interstate and Federal Claims

Ohio Department of Job and Family Services
07.2012 - Current
  • Primary duties include: Troubleshooting UI unemployment and Trade claims, acting as a lead worker, preparing and conducting training sessions with examiners, training new employees, representing ODJFS during UCRC HO level hearings, acting as liaison with Redeterminations department, writing of training manual.

Customer Service Representative/Unemployment Compensation Examiner 2: Redeterminations and Appeals Section

Ohio Department of Job and Family Services
01.2009 - 07.2012
  • Primary duties included: rendering decisions on unemployment compensation appeals, assisting claimants and employers with questions and concerns regarding appeals, troubleshooting of UI claims, active involvement in the writing and preparation of desk aids, training of personnel.

Inside Sales Associate

Kevin McGovern Associates
05.2008 - 01.2009
  • Primary duties include: inside sales of HVAC accessories and boiler room components: assisting principal with job take-offs and bid proposals: administrative, accounting and clerical work.

Landscape Architect

MS Consultants, Inc.
03.2007 - 02.2008
  • Primary duties included: landscape and irrigation design of company projects nationwide, rain garden design for EPA compliance, drafting of feasibility studies and analysis and recommendation reports.

Landscape Designer/Warranty Division Manager

Blendon Gardens, Inc.
03.2000 - 01.2007
  • Company Overview: (Largest landscape design/build company in Ohio at the time)
  • Primary duties included: negotiation of client quality assurance issues and management of personnel and client issue remedies: meeting with clients regarding design and installation of builder landscape packages: assisting principal with the design and renderings of subdivision entryways, buffer zones and residential projects, job estimating.

Education

MLA - Landscape Architecture

The Ohio State University
Columbus, OH
03-1992

BA - Clinical Psychology, minor Botany

The Ohio State University
Columbus, Ohio
06-1986

Skills

  • Windows, Microsoft Word, Teams, Excel, Access, Outlook, Explorer, PowerPoint, AutoCad, and system troubleshooting

Certification

  • Previously possessed Commercial Pesticide License, Department of Agriculture for 6 years.
  • Certificates in hydraulics, electro-mechanical and mechanical, Columbus State Community College, 2008.

References

References available upon request.

Community Service

Worthington Christian Church, Divorce Care Facilitator, 2019, 2022, Secretary of the Board, Tri-Village Sertoma: 1997, 1998, 1999.

Timeline

Unemployment Compensation Claims Specialist 1: Interstate and Federal Claims

Ohio Department of Job and Family Services
07.2012 - Current

Customer Service Representative/Unemployment Compensation Examiner 2: Redeterminations and Appeals Section

Ohio Department of Job and Family Services
01.2009 - 07.2012

Inside Sales Associate

Kevin McGovern Associates
05.2008 - 01.2009

Landscape Architect

MS Consultants, Inc.
03.2007 - 02.2008

Landscape Designer/Warranty Division Manager

Blendon Gardens, Inc.
03.2000 - 01.2007

MLA - Landscape Architecture

The Ohio State University

BA - Clinical Psychology, minor Botany

The Ohio State University
Mark Thomas Rawdon