Veronica Vera
Chicago,IL
Summary
Detail-oriented Administrative Professional with extensive experience supporting operations, managing budgets, coordinating projects, and streamlining workflows. Proven ability to handle scheduling, reporting, financial tracking, and organizational skills with a background in technology, business operations, and customer service.
Overview
2027
2027
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Contract PM/Project Lead
Veronica Vera Consulting
01.2008 - Current
- Coordinated project schedules, timelines, and deliverables for remote teams
- Maintained documentation, workflows, and client communications
- Streamlined administrative processes to improve efficiency and organization
- Act as primary point of contact between clients and technical staff
Bartender - Part-Time/Evenings
Tin Whistle Irish Pub
2022 - Current
- Managed daily transactions, cash reconciliation, and POS reporting with 100% accuracy
- Opened and closed operations following established procedures
- Maintained organized, clean work environment and inventory restocking
- Delivered high-quality customer service while multitasking in a fast-paced setting.
Developer/Business Analyst
American Medical Association
01.2000 - 01.2008
- Develop and enhance applications and databases by securing performance, standards compliance and scalability.
- Determine if additional staff resources are necessary and assign tasks matching appropriate priorities and level of expertise. Ensure projects are within budget and schedule. Monitor staff to ensure proper testing is done and documented.
- Assisted in major website redesign by developing code for content editing template enhancements. Overhauled workflow process and instituted role-based access control and task notification.
- Collaborated with business units to understand IT business needs and prepare requirements for solutions. Mediate business requirements between IT staff and business units.
- Consistently assist business users with automation and business template enhancements.
Contract/Budget Administrator – CIO Office
American Medical Association
01.1998 - 01.2000
- Anticipated needs and initiated actions to support management with projects and finances within the Information Technology (IT) group.
- Managed IT’s multi-million dollar budget by assuring accurate coordination and consolidation of annual planning and budgeting processes.
- Reviewed and processed contracts to ensure AMA standards were met and within budget.
- Supervised department administrative team to ensure efficient and thorough support for IT units at all times.
Digital Specialist
Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA)
01.1997 - 01.1998
- Review and edit manuscripts for JAMA and Archive Journals for publication.
- Convert manuscripts to appropriate software compatible with editorial databases.
- Coordinate production process of manuscripts to ensure materials conform to AMA editorial style
Education
Northwestern University
Business Administration, minor in Computer Science
Roosevelt University
Skills
- Project Scheduling
- Cost Control
- Meeting facilitation
- Scope definition
Certification
Paraprofessional
I have successfully passed the Illinois Parapro Assessment (1755) as of March 27, 2006 and am currently awaiting the final issuance of my paraprofessional license (Educatior ID 1500207), which is expected by mid to end of April.
Timeline
Contract PM/Project Lead
Veronica Vera Consulting
01.2008 - Current
Developer/Business Analyst
American Medical Association
01.2000 - 01.2008
Contract/Budget Administrator – CIO Office
American Medical Association
01.1998 - 01.2000
Digital Specialist
Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA)
01.1997 - 01.1998
Bartender - Part-Time/Evenings
Tin Whistle Irish Pub
2022 - Current
Northwestern University
Business Administration, minor in Computer Science
Roosevelt University
Training
- Architect and Administration of the Vignette Content Suite V6
- Fast Track to XML, XSLT and Java
- Fast Track to Java and Servlets/JSP
- Perl with CGI
- Advanced UNIX Techniques
- Foundstone Ultimate Web Hacking