Michele Brantley
Palo Alto,CA
Summary
Dynamic professional with experience in the legal field, and technology start-ups, high profile clients, and businesses. Highly organized, detail-oriented, promoting a positive environment. Experienced in software applications, calendar management, events, and website maintenance. Excellent support with emotional intelligence. and problem-solving skills.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
Work History
Corporate Law, PGA
Wilson Sonsini
08.2018 - 04.2023
- Corporate Law Group Assistant to fifteen to nineteen attorneys and paralegals, including calendaring, organizing files, printing, scanning, editing, arranging travel, scheduling conference rooms, making outside reservations, and saving matters to internal programs.
- Performed expenses, submitting expense reports. Manage correspondence, including preparing, editing, mailing, and tracking packages worldwide. Coordinate, process, research, new client matters, folder/signature packet creations, redline production, conflict checks, records maintenance, library requests, legal time entry, and database maintenance.
- Volunteered to help with special projects, pro bono, and opportunities for supporting staff of varying degrees of complexity. Submitted ideas to benefit staff and attorneys.
Executive & Family Consultant
Self-employed
06.2013 - 12.2018
- Cultivated trusting, reliable, positive relationships with clients in start-ups, large companies, high-profile individuals, and families in their homes and businesses. Resolved their unique problems streamlining their solutions tailored to their situation and providing advocacy getting results where other methods failed.
- Directed complex, varied projects from design to completion, including hiring and supervising contracted vendors, purchasing materials, and executing design.
- Organized office spaces and stock rooms for efficiency and ease of use, including building custom filing and inventory systems as well as reconfiguring spaces to fit new hires.
- Planned and facilitated events, including researching venues, scheduling vendors, planning and designing spaces, ordering supplies, shopping, budgeting costs, and hiring event staff.
- Conducted market research on retail demographics, products, and traffic results for small businesses. Photography of prospective spaces contributing experience to give valuable insight into their proposed businesses. Marketing research.
- Administered regular operations in personal assistance including running errands, photography, delivering products and services, shopping, researching, organizing, filing, calendaring, emailing, caring for their family's unique needs and advocacy for unique health care needs, coaching clients, and producing detailed spreadsheets. Taking care of animals who were clients' families like they were my own who had unique medical needs.
- From December 2018 - present. Volunteering in this work to give back to my clients who still needed support in mental, and physical healthcare, legal resources, disability advocacy, wellness resources, and marginalization advocacy for individuals, families, and children.
Executive Assistant (Contract)
Bay-Area Anti-Trafficking Coalition
11.2014 - 02.2015
- Scheduled and planned speaking engagements and meetings, with interest groups. Composed boilerplate for FAQs received through email, as well as prioritized, managed, and organized email communications for the Founder.
- Advanced organizational initiatives at the non-profit's anti-human trafficking conference at Levi Stadium in 2015.
Office Specialist III, Engineer Technician II
County Of Santa Clara
06.2013 - 07.2014
- Performed medical credentialing research of hospital staff, manifesting files, and creating databases. Administrative, typing, faxing, filing, data entry, phone support.
- Produced internal employee training videos from conceptualization, planning, filming, and editing through completion. Established visual direction for videos, including photography and graphic design.
Administrative Assistant to the CEO (Contract)
Michael Gray CPA.
05.2012 - 10.2012
- Managed updates to several websites, edited, published online, and emailed monthly newsletters promotions, and ensured confidentiality with sensitive information.
- Created and managed accounts and submitted books for online publishing on Amazon and Apple Store.
- Processed payments, billing clients, and mailed invoices to clients, managed email, calendar, and scheduled appointments, inputted time entry, and oversaw supply management.
- Completed paperwork, recognizing discrepancies and promptly addressing for resolution
Administrative Assistant to FileMaker (Contract)
Volt
02.2010 - 04.2010
- Served as main point of contact for FileMaker 10 on-site at FileMaker for their product launch with Customer Assistance Department. Utilized internal databases to communicate orders, correct errors, and fulfill research requests while maintaining integrity of information.
- Developed and submitted an idea to improve departmental functions that were ultimately implemented.
Education
Bachelor of Arts - Human Development
CSU - East Bay
Hayward, CA2017
Skills
- Executive Support
- Executive Calendars
- Legal Administrative Support
- Workflow Improvements
- Maintain Filing Systems
- MS Office Proficiency
- Travel and Event Coordination
- Corporate law
Timeline
Corporate Law, PGA
Wilson Sonsini
08.2018 - 04.2023
Executive Assistant (Contract)
Bay-Area Anti-Trafficking Coalition
11.2014 - 02.2015
Executive & Family Consultant
Self-employed
06.2013 - 12.2018
Office Specialist III, Engineer Technician II
County Of Santa Clara
06.2013 - 07.2014
Administrative Assistant to the CEO (Contract)
Michael Gray CPA.
05.2012 - 10.2012
Administrative Assistant to FileMaker (Contract)
Volt
02.2010 - 04.2010
Bachelor of Arts - Human Development
CSU - East Bay
Volunteer
Greater Good Haiti
- Board Member
- Fundraising & Event Planning
- Marketing & Media Team
- Website design & maintenance
www.greatergoodhaiti.org
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