Experience

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  Big Santa Anita Canyon Permittees Association

  • Los Angeles County, California, United States

  • Board Member

    • Feb 2023 - Present
    • Los Angeles County, California, United States

    Board member of the Big Santa Anita Canyon Permittee's Association, BSACPA, that helps raise awareness of concerns and needs of a 50+ member association of cabin owners that coordinate with multiple government agencies and several private businesses to improve our experience as neighbors and fellow stewards of a century old tradition in Southern California. As a permit holder from the United States Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, i have come to enjoy a really unique and fun part of the Angeles National Forest near our home in Big Santa Anita Canyon. We have a group of cabin permit users that own recreational cabins in an area that requires walking 1+ mile to your cabin, living mainly off grid, and working with nature and the elements as we enjoy our rustic cabins in the woods. In my case, we have stone cabin in a large clearing with one main room and a large fireplace. Working with our fellow cabin owners and friends, we hold regular meetings, share tips and guidance, communicate with the government groups and agencies to address questions and needs of our neighbors.

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  Coldwell Banker

  • Pasadena, CA

  • Realtor

    • Jun 2019 - Present
    • Pasadena, CA

    Real estate broker with a concentration and focus on the Los Angeles and San Gabriel Valley areas of Southern California. 10+ years of experience with sales 15+ years of experience with residential income property purchase, management and sales. I work by referral and have skills well beyond the average realtor.

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  Pasadena-Foothills REALTORS®

  • Pasadena, California, United States

  • Board Member

    • Jan 2022 - Present
    • Pasadena, California, United States

    As a volunteer member of the board of directors, I help the association with their strategic directions, member outreach, business improvement and helping agents and our affiliates succeed.

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  Pasadena-Foothills Association of REALTORS®

  • Pasadena, CA

  • Technology Trainer

    • Jan 2015 - Dec 2019
    • Pasadena, CA

    Teaching technology tools to Realtor members of the Pasadena Foothills Association of Realtors and incorporating best practices with the experiences and advice of several committees and employee managers at the Association. Classes include Multiple Listing Service (MLS), Data Integrity courses to explain and assist with preventing MLS rule violations and using ZipForms tools from the California Association of Realtors (CAR). Extensive experience with using all components of the Flex MLS system, Rappatoni Systems I-Tech MLS, Docusign digital signature tool, zipLogix Digital Ink, Realist Tax tools, Touch CMA, Cloud CMA, TrendGraphics analysis tools, and explaining higher level combinations of all the components and how they work together. Most students are new Realtor members but there are a significant number that attend to learn more detailed techniques and the courses tend to be highly interactive with a set syllabus but allowing for the questions and skill levels of the students to dictate the pace and content of the coursework within the framework of teaching them to better use the myriad tools. Subsets:- Presentation of new technology products- In-depth learning about several inter-related technology tools for real estate agents- Deep experience with digital signing and forensics research- In class learning- Adult education- Course preparation and improvements with input from outside groups

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  Deasy Penner Podley

  • La Canada Flintridge, California

  • Office manager and Real Estate Broker Associate

    • Sep 2018 - May 2019
    • La Canada Flintridge, California

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  Podley Properties

  • United States
  • Real Estate
  • 100 - 200 Employee

  • Office Manager

    • Aug 2017 - Sep 2018

  • Realtor

    • Aug 2013 - Aug 2017

    As a realtor with Podley Properties in Pasadena, California, I focus on the town I live and love. Help property owners learn about the market, understand how to develop and market their properties to maximize income and sale prices. Assist buyers who are interested in learning about the process and houses for sale.

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  Redfin

  • Greater Los Angeles Area

  • Partner Agent

    • Jun 2012 - Dec 2015
    • Greater Los Angeles Area

    Working in conjunction with the best real estate brokerage website in the country I assist buyers and sellers of residential property referred to me by Redfin.com.

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  Arroyo Apartments

  • Property Manager

    • Jan 2009 - Mar 2014

    Leasing to high quality tenants, credit verification, Collected rents, arranged repairs and maintenance requests, reconciled bills, juggled economic constraints at buildings requiring more investment than income allowed.

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  Keller Willams Realty

  • Pasadena, California

  • Real Estate Agent

    • Jan 2012 - Jul 2013
    • Pasadena, California

    Assist property owners and property buyers with transactional support and advice, negotiated contracts, performed inspections and due diligence on property investments.

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  Flying Pigeon Los Angeles

  • Pop up manager

    • 2013 - 2013

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  Bain & Company

  • IT Support

    • Mar 2004 - Dec 2009

    At Bain and Company I worked in the Los Angeles office of a global company managing all manner of technology services and support. Our internal group, named Technology Services Group, handled all local IT needs including phone system maintenance, server management, email and mobile data integration with Blackberry systems, WAN/LAN management and every related need for a highly mobile workforce using a combination of local and regional teams for round the clock support and repair tracking. Heavy involvement in customer service and training, purchasing and procurement and the build out of a second floor office space and corresponding 'move' of all employees. We went through 2 major server system upgrades (Windows 2k Server and Linux) as well as 3 major desktop re-deployments. While at Bain I also supported the build out of our New Delhi offices and regional work in San Francisco and Boston. I am most proud of receiving the "Spirit of Bain" award 3 times as voted on by my customers and colleagues.

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  Broadcom

  • Irvine, California

  • Contract IT work

    • Jul 2003 - Mar 2004
    • Irvine, California

    Working for a national contracting firm I was sent to Broadcom's corporate headquarters in Irvine California to work on a full deployment of Windows XP and MS Office. In a team environment worked to collect, back up and re-build 600+ desktop systems across the enterprise and ensured quality control by using world class migration tools including Ghost, Active Directory and in house data collection. One especially challenging part of this job was the many customized software tools in use by the clients. This non-standardization required heavy emphasis on correctly checking licensing and permission tools to prevent 'license-creep' across the organization.

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  Deloitte

  • IT Support

    • Jan 1998 - Mar 2003

    At Deloitte Consulting I worked within the internal IT department to handle all aspects of the computing environment including procurement, training, customer support, incident tracking, elevating systemic issues to a national support team, working in partnership with the larger Deloitte & Touche group on infrastructure and network needs. During my 5 years we managed a full office move, 3 hardware migration cycles and a dramatic increase in mobile applications as access to the Internet transformed global consulting work. Towards the end of my time at Deloitte, we built an independent operating company called Braxton that failed to split from the parent company. Shortly afterwards I left the company.

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  Wedbush Securities

  • Los Angeles, California

  • Network Administrator and Correspondent Trading Liason

    • Aug 1996 - Jan 1998
    • Los Angeles, California

    At Wedbush I enjoyed the opportunity to begin working with 'real world' uses of computers after 2+ years of hardware and software repair. Hired initially to assist with technical support I worked to improve my skills in networking and became the Novell network admin. At this time, our computer environment was not using TCP/IP (Windows 3.1 was the lay of the land) and our systems comprised of linking desktop terminal emulation to the IBM mainframe as well as managing 3270 terminals at some departments. Exposed to the mainframe world I remained in shock that people didn't want to buy Windows 95 and join the future of computing on the internet. We managed limited roll outs of Windows 95 using floppy disk installations (no fun). Little did I realize how rapidly things were changing at the time. After 1 year, I began to work directly with a department at Wedbush that handled stock broker services for outside financial advisers. These companies dialed into our terminal services to access the trading systems and I spent my days doing telephone based customer support for them. As a smaller IT department, we had the opportunity to support our 8 person team and I learned a number of things about the IT industry and my role within it. I consider my experience at Wedbush to be deeply influential on my career as it made me conversant in the tools that businesses used.