MERCEDES NIEVES

The White House's High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas (HIDTA) Program is a Grant Program from the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP). Created by Congress in 1988, the HIDTA Program coordinates and assists federal, state, local, and Tribal law agencies to address regional drug threats with the purpose of reducing drug trafficking and drug production in the United States.

Funds Assigner & Administrative Assistant

• Reviewed financial documents for accuracy and processed obligations for all HIDTA Budgets initiative's led by Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).
• Prepared and submitted annual budget proposal for DEA Ponce District Office.
• Assisted and supported HIDTA Financial Manager with monitoring of all seven (7) HIDTA initiative's budgets within DEA allocation.
• Compiled and processed reprogramming for all HIDTA budgets.
• Analyzed and recommended reprogramming or other budget actions to HIDTA Program administrative assistants.
• Retrieved information from DEA investigative databases for statistics data entry to HIDTA's Performance Management Program (PMP) and metrics analysis.
• Reconciled budget expenses, including overtime incurred by state & local law enforcement officers.
• Forecasted trend expenses based on previous accounting data.
• Submitted budget Ad Hoc reports to DEA and HIDTA management by monthly basis or when required.
• Provided Investigative and intelligence support to Law Enforcement personnel on tasks such as; images editing, file conversions, translations, PowerPoint presentations, internet/database search, phone toll and travel data frequency analysis.
• Trained new personnel and co-workers in organization's operations, policies and investigative databases and filing systems.
• Increased efficiency and team productivity by promoting operational best practices.
• Investigated and resolved accounting, service and delivery concerns.
• Maintained up-to-date knowledge of product and service changes.
• Sought ways to improve processes and services provided.

Thamar Carrasquillo Beauchamp's (TCB) Consultants Group provided consulting services under the following DBAs: Developers & Consultants Group, Inc. - consulting and developing of housing projects with the help of the PR Department of Housing and
private funding; TML Construction, Inc. - provided independent construction services; Golden Academy, Inc - post-secondary, non-university educational institution that provided educational services to help students to complete their high school diploma among other post-secondary courses.

Administrative Assistant

• Reconciled bank statements with ledger for expenses and revenues for three (3) DBAs; Developers Group, TML Construction and Golden Academy.
• Implemented payroll process by mail merging Excel with Word to improve accuracy on paystubs that resulted in 30% administrative productivity increase by shorten payroll processing time.
• Modified spreadsheet ledger to improve accuracy for bank statement reconciliations that resulted in 30% efficiency increase.
• Designed and implemented Access database for accounts payable query reports.
• Designed TCB Consultants Inc. Golden Academy's logo and promotional flyers.
• Researched, summarized and organized educational material for non-university post-secondary institution.
• Designed and prepared credit transcripts, invitations, and diploma certificates for students.
• Assisted in educational program proposals and prepared institution services invoices.
• Processed accounts receivable/accounts payable obligations, recorded transactions in company checks ledger.
• Prepared and documented construction change orders.
• Revised and corrected discrepancies with vendor payments according to invoices and services provided.
• Prepared checks for vendor and employee payments.
• Answered multi-line phone system, routing calls, delivering messages to staff and
  greeting visitors

• Attended customers in the Kitchen & Bath Department showroom to help them on their remodeling projects
• Provided designing and budget advice tailored to the customer’s need
• Produced 3D kitchen rendered photorealistic images using 20-20 Kitchen Design software
• Kitchen sales and follow up of purchase orders for installation projects
• Sales of plumbing fixtures, laminate, granite and solid surface countertops
• Inventory and sign making
• Accomplishments: Increased kitchen sales in a 10%
• Introduced new design concepts
• Designed brochures to educate customers about the products and store services.