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Sharon Melius

North Bellmore,NY

Summary

  • Multi-Faceted Project Manager Specializing in Professional Organizing providing powerful guidance and consulting, from planning to implementation for change management. Expert project manager and natural leader providing oversight and planning to client's life strategy primarily for preparedness, productivity, loss and decisiveness. Within office and homes, de-clutter then create beautiful and highly functional storage systems: specializing in documentation and filing, contact management, time & priority management, space maximization, workflow, family project systemization and roll-out, plus moving & senior relocation logistics and execution. Accumulated additional expertise in medical marketing, health education plus event management and customer service to expand role contributions cumulatively for 30 years. Affinity for working with elderly and pediatric populations. An empath with tech- and business-savvy.
  • Patient Advocacy
  • Guest Services
  • Project Management & Work Flow Management
  • Budgeting & Billing, Specialty Design & Media

Productive Founder and CEO with over 30 years of comprehensive experience generating RFPs and Formal Needs-Assessments, developing customer bases and handling diverse leadership functions. Growth-oriented leader dedicated to developing companies from within. Committed to achieving both short and long-term business objectives in complex and evolving environments.

Entrepreneurial Certified Master-Level Transformational Life Coach offering progressive experience in operations leadership. Skilled at identifying and implementing process improvements to drive efficiency and productivity. Motivating leader with proven success managing cross-functional teams.

Talented Certified Master-Level Professional Organizational Design Consultant with three decades of experience and successful career in planning, developing and executing events and initiatives to achieve maximum potential. Creative and highly strategic with excellent leadership and client relations abilities. Professional and outgoing with success in building relationships and attracting new clientele.

  • Multi-Faceted Project Manager Specializing in Professional Organizing Providing powerful guidance and consulting, from planning to implementation for change management. Master-level life coach, expert project manager and certified professional organizer providing oversight and planning to client's life strategy primarily for preparedness, productivity, loss and decisiveness. Within office and homes, de-clutter then create beautiful and highly functional storage systems: specializing in documentation and filing, contact management, time & priority management, space maximization, workflow, family project systemization and roll-out, plus moving & senior relocation logistics and execution. Accumulated additional expertise in medical marketing, health education plus event management and customer service to expand role contributions cumulatively since early 1990s. Affinity for working with elderly and pediatric populations. An empath with tech- and business-savvy.
  • Direct-To-Patient Advocacy and Healthcare Education
  • Direct-to-Doctor Medical Education/Speakers Bureau Credentialling/Compliance Audit Preparation
  • Project Management & Work Flow Management
  • Budgeting & Billing
  • Guest/Customer/Public Relations

Productive Founder with 30 plus years of comprehensive experience generating RFPs and Formal Needs-Assessments, developing customer bases and handling diverse leadership functions. Growth-oriented leader dedicated to developing companies from within. Committed to achieving both short and long-term business objectives in complex and evolving environments.

Entrepreneurial Certified Master-Level Transformational Life Coach offering progressive experience in operations leadership. Skilled at identifying and implementing process improvements to drive efficiency and productivity. Motivating leader with proven success managing cross-functional teams.

Talented Certified Master-Level Professional Organizational Design Consultant with three decades of experience and successful career in planning, developing and executing events and initiatives to achieve maximum potential. Creative and highly strategic with excellent leadership and client relations abilities. Professional and outgoing with success in building relationships and attracting new clientele.

Goal-driven strategic leader and decisive business professional brings track record of success in start-up companies. Outstanding background managing multiple products from ideation to market launch and profitable monetization. Strong entrepreneurial spirit, open mind and willingness to take on new challenges that require patience and perseverance.

Overview

21
21
years of professional experience

Work History

Design Studio Specialist/Customer Service/Sales

Pottery Barn/William Sonoma, Inc.
Melville, New York
01.2019 - 01.2020
  • Collaborated with primarily high-budget clients to craft interior design plans for their personal environment and workspaces
  • Produced floor plans using computer-aided design (CAD) that leverages the Pottery Barn brand to outfit spaces with custom and stock furniture as well as assorted home goods
  • Consistently received five-star ratings on Stella retail survey system for characteristics like going above and beyond, friendliness and professionalism
  • Utilized techniques, such as de-escalation, negotiation and diplomacy, learned during life coaching certification practicums and by having conducted needs assessments as an analyst
  • This background groomed me not only to deliver elite customer service but also to bring mutually satisfying closure to emotionally charged clientele transactions
  • Mastery of required skill set in the following areas: stock room/inventory, store visuals, cash register, returns, online orders and point of sale purchases involving tabletop, holiday and home décor, wall hangings (artwork, frames and drapes) and soft flooring
  • Mandatory non-essential store closures in response to the COVID-19 pandemic created a furlough.

Freelance Professional Organizer

Seriatim, Inc.
New York, New York
01.2001 - 01.2015
  • Managed relocation and decluttering projects for dozens of wealthy and senior clientele using detailed forms such as room manifests for movers, packers and organizing crew
  • Leveraged course work at Parson's School of Design, School of Visual Arts plus experience in instructional design at New York University to maximize space, streamline inventory, create user-friendly paper and electronic systems and automate/digitize contact management
  • Provided compassionate direction and coping tools to clients on the spectrum of obsessive-compulsive disorders to help get them settled, systemized and organized
  • Specialized in hoarding cases for my expressive arts therapy master of art internship in order to study how to make order out of chaos.

Full Time Event Marketing Manager

HealthTalk, Inc.
New York, New York
01.2004 - 01.2008
  • Crafted and executed traditional media plans to attract audiences to live patient education grant programs funded by pharmaceutical clients
  • On average, managed $500,000 advertising budgets quarterly, delivered attendees 25% above contractual goals and under budget by 10%
  • Analyzed program statistics and social media campaigns to measure subscriber membership and program participation to inform production and projection efforts of VP marketing, programming and investor relations departments
  • Initiated strategic partnerships and link sharing with prominent disease support networks and organizations
  • Collaborated with business development group throughout all phases of contracts on pricing and pitches to land profitable contracts
  • Commissioned by president to conduct audience-benchmarking project that helped improve contract deliverables by 35%.

Freelance Meetings Manager

Health Science Communications, Inc., HSCI
New York, New York
01.2003 - 01.2004
  • Independent project manager for meeting logistics: tailoring correspondence, planning travel; consulting budgetary guidelines; heeding medical/legal/regulatory compliance; adhering to meeting attendance targets; negotiating food and beverage contracts, directing audio/visual orders; and supervising educational print collateral to faculty speakers and audience members
  • All eleven Continuing Medical Education (CME)-accredited dinners occurred across the continental United States within 3 months and were targeted to relevant medical experts
  • All events were delivered 15% under budget and received positive feedback
  • The position was mostly autonomous, deadline-oriented and results-driven.

Freelance Compliance Audit Preparer

Harrison & Star
New York, New York
01.2003 - 01.2003
  • Prepared over five hundred official files for Continuing Medical Education (CME) 'audit and application project' for Speaker's Bureau department
  • Leveraged professional organizing skills to meet stringent medical/legal/regulatory compliance
  • Required fierce focus in high-pressure and tedious environment: as such copied, filed, edited, collated and distributed tens of thousands of medical education documents for both divisions on an ongoing basis
  • Project initiative to revamp design and taxonomy of sister company's library caught attention of president, inspiring her to hire me as a direct report as a medical event manager.

Project Associate - Internal Development

Transaction Information Systems, Worldwide, Inc. - HumanActiv Division
New York, New York
01.1999 - 01.2000
  • Fostered increased internal communications, team building, and synergistic group dynamics interdepartmentally
  • Trusted with operating and monitoring security cameras; validated attendance; and performed office management responsibilities
  • Wrote and edited content for dozens of client projects and request for proposals related to infrastructure and systems management; and for dozens of internal projects, for example company intranet; lunch-and-learn sessions; resource library; plus operations and management assignments
  • Spearheaded and implemented human resources department annex, overseeing orientation procedures and mentoring for new hires, including immigration procedures for applicants.

Pharmacy Technician Apprentice

Walgreens Boots Alliance, DBA Walgreens Pharmacy
Bethpage, New York
  • In training utilizing on the job training and online learning for core competencies in pharmaceutical services
  • Serve in several capacities in a deadline-driven, process-oriented retail environment with an unusually high volume of guests
  • Comply with HIPPA regulations; execute the required physically-intensive tasks including restocking shelves as well as retrieving and storing medicines
  • Process most of phases of the prescription lifecycle: from scanning a script and refills to deleting pharmaceuticals back-to-stock on the computer and in the stocking area
  • Intricate cashier responsibilities include swift jargon-focused communication skills to team of fillers, pharmacists, interns and managers to deliver accuracy as well as first-rate customer service in order to champion the Walgreens brand.

Founder, M.A./NYEA-Certified Life Coach, UCI-Certified Professional Organizer

Transform180, LLC
North Bellmore, New York
  • Partner with clients to systemize, streamline and beautify homes and offices, specializing in spatial logistics
  • Create structured sessions leveraging best practices in professional organizing for adult clientele to discover logical solutions to obstacles, disruptions and milestones faced during significant transition and loss like divorce, aging, ailing, death, firing and relocation
  • Apply best practices set by the International Coaching Federation and National Association of Productivity and Organizing Professionals in order to resolve stagnant thinking patterns as well as to repurpose and redesign chaotic environments
  • Leverage years of peer supervision practice sessions to bolster presentation skills and to gain trust and credibility with the audience
  • Over 2500 individual and groups sessions delivered successfully.

Education

MA - Expressive Arts, Psychology, Independent Study in Coaching, Consulting And EducationThesisHonors

European Graduate School (EGS), Div Health Society
07-2001

Bachelor of Science - Marketing, Inductee And Graduate With Honors of Dean’s Program For Psychology in Management, Specialty OrgBeh

Boston College, School of Management
05-1992

Skills

  • Patient Advocacy/DTD Medical Ed/Credential Renewal
  • Coaching & Consulting
  • Project Management & Work Flow Management
  • Budgeting & Billing
  • Guest & Customer Service
  • Medical-Legal-Regulatory Compliance
  • Team Building & Group Dynamics
  • Media & Public Relations Google API
  • Design thinking
  • Chart and Graph Development
  • Microsoft Office Suite – Moderate to High Proficiency in Microsoft software: Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Word
  • Office Management: Reception Scheduling Typing: 70 WPM Inventory Management Negotiation & De-Escalation Leadership Organizational Design/Ergonomics/Spatial Design
  • Recovery/AddictionStress Management
  • Externalization/Life-Loss-Transition
  • NeuroLinguistic ProgrammingSales SupportNew Business Development
  • Instructional Design Information Architecture User-Friendly Design/GUI

Phone

646.204.0040, 516.809.9703

Timeline

Design Studio Specialist/Customer Service/Sales

Pottery Barn/William Sonoma, Inc.
01.2019 - 01.2020

Full Time Event Marketing Manager

HealthTalk, Inc.
01.2004 - 01.2008

Freelance Meetings Manager

Health Science Communications, Inc., HSCI
01.2003 - 01.2004

Freelance Compliance Audit Preparer

Harrison & Star
01.2003 - 01.2003

Freelance Professional Organizer

Seriatim, Inc.
01.2001 - 01.2015

Project Associate - Internal Development

Transaction Information Systems, Worldwide, Inc. - HumanActiv Division
01.1999 - 01.2000

Pharmacy Technician Apprentice

Walgreens Boots Alliance, DBA Walgreens Pharmacy

Founder, M.A./NYEA-Certified Life Coach, UCI-Certified Professional Organizer

Transform180, LLC

MA - Expressive Arts, Psychology, Independent Study in Coaching, Consulting And EducationThesisHonors

European Graduate School (EGS), Div Health Society

Bachelor of Science - Marketing, Inductee And Graduate With Honors of Dean’s Program For Psychology in Management, Specialty OrgBeh

Boston College, School of Management
Sharon Melius