Experience

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  Rose Keepsakes

  • Purchasing Manager

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  Rose Keepsakes

  • Purchasing Manager

    • 2014 - Present

    - Start-up company. Responsible for wholesale product production, sourcing and purchasing supplies. Provide customer support as needed.

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  Albion Beads

  • Wakefield, MA

  • Independent Business Owner

    • 2002 - 2013
    • Wakefield, MA

    - Independently established and operated retail business- Solely responsible for all aspects of retail business management including leasing retail space, marketing, bookkeeping, sourcing/buying products- Managed all financial aspects of business including accounts payable, reconciled bank and credit card settlement statements, produced income and expense reports; created and maintained Excel files for growth forecasting and tax returns- Maintained Albion Beads' website with class schedules, new products- Hired staff,instructors for classes/workshops

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  Kaplan College

  • Belmont, MA

  • Project Manager/Curriculum Production Coordinator

    • 1999 - 2001
    • Belmont, MA

    - Project manager for course content development within online content management system; supervised 4 coordinators- Proofread, edited, fact-checked, coded (HTML) business and IT classes- Coordinated production, implementation, and tracking of multiple online courses- Collaborated with teams of course developers, school deans, technical staff

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  OraVax, Inc. (now Acambis)

  • Cambridge, MA

  • Regulatory Affairs Associate

    • 1999 - 1999
    • Cambridge, MA

    - Audited/proofread numerical tables against originals- Reviewed protocols for GCP compliance- Coordinated/prepared vaccine product document packages for FDA submission

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  Genetics Institute (now Wyeth Pharmaceuticals)

  • Cambridge, MA

  • Clinical Writing Coordinator in Medical Writing Group

    • 1994 - 1999
    • Cambridge, MA

    - Proofread, copy edited, assembled annual reports, clinical investigators' brochures, clinical study reports, protocols and amendments, for Medical Writing group- Proofread drug labels and drug package inserts for consistency, FDA standards- Assisted in producing clinical sections of INDs for FDA new product submissions- Developed Clinical Research Associates' writing guide for protocol development- Created EndNote reference libraries