Experience

Feliciano School of Business - Montclair State University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Executive Assistant To The Dean

  • Feb 2018 - Present

  * Serve as primary point of contact for internal and external constituencies, including business advisory board * Provide high-level administrative support to Dean, conducting research, preparing reports, and managing calendar and faculty hires* Organize and coordinate executive outreach and external relations efforts

• Administrative Assistant Coordinator

  • Nov 2017 - Feb 2018

  * Provide comprehensive support of Becker CPA review course prepayment process.* Manage and process travel authorizations and payments for faculty.



Wennersten Design & Construction

• Woodcliff Lake, NJ

• Office Manager and Accounting

  • 2006 - Feb 2019

  Manage office operations of home construction company, including payroll, purchasing, and accounts payable and receivable. Oversee insurance audits. Coordinate project needs with subcontractors and vendors. Manage office operations of home construction company, including payroll, purchasing, and accounts payable and receivable. Oversee insurance audits. Coordinate project needs with subcontractors and vendors.



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• Professional Organizer

  • 2006 - 2015

  Founded and launched professional organizing business for residential customers seeking to declutter and downsize their homes and offices. * Developed custom-tailored organizing plans and designed functional spaces and filing systems. Sensitively assessed client needs relative to personal and emotional nature of process. Supported and enabled clients as they modified behaviors and established sustainable routines. Founded and launched professional organizing business for residential customers seeking to declutter and downsize their homes and offices. * Developed custom-tailored organizing plans and designed functional spaces and filing systems. Sensitively assessed client needs relative to personal and emotional nature of process. Supported and enabled clients as they modified behaviors and established sustainable routines.



Upper Saddle River Educational Foundation

• Founding Member, Board Trustee and Co-Chair of Grant Committee

  • 2003 - 2007

  * Designed and implemented grant process, collaborating with school district teachers and administrators. * Devised detailed grant proposal application to ensure proper review and allocation of funds ($100,000 annual budget) for K-8 classroom programming. * Designed and implemented grant process, collaborating with school district teachers and administrators. * Devised detailed grant proposal application to ensure proper review and allocation of funds ($100,000 annual budget) for K-8 classroom programming.



Novartis

• Switzerland
• Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Director of Operations, Marketing Operations

  • 1997 - 1999

  Analytical problem-solver in business operations planning roles at Fortune 100 company who excels at building and managing dedicated, resourceful teams. * Developed and implemented a web-based spending analysis tool, working closely with IT and product management. Enabled marketing managers to input data easily and access budget information, track project execution, and monitor prescription sales information all within one database. * Redesigned and launched standardized business planning process for product teams to provide senior management with consistent data and improve allocation of $550 million spending budget. Led cross-functional teams, including product management, finance, IT, sales, and marketing research to assess critical issues and customer needs, facilitating "buy-in" by all key departments. * Supported management consulting group on merger restructuring team (Sandoz and Ciba-Geigy forming Novartis), preparing profit & loss statements (P&L's), integrating systems and prioritizing product portfolios.



Sandoz

• Switzerland
• Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Associate Director of Operations, Marketing Operations

  • 1993 - 1997

  * Managed information flow between finance and marketing, providing monthly budget analysis reports to senior management, assessing key spending variances and identifying risks and opportunities for resource allocation.* Designed, developed and implemented a marketing and sales decision-support database which increased access to information, improved response time to customer needs, and reduced costs by over $2 million annually.* Identified opportunities to leverage $55 million budget for prescription drug samples, leading a cross-functional team to devise and implement a streamlined direct mail program and saving $1 million annually.

• Product Manager

  • 1988 - 1993

  Secured approval for new prescription sleeping aid, launching nationally to over 500 sales representatives. Defended regulatory position with FDA, developed entire marketing campaign and managed $4.5 million promotional budget.Increased sales of antidepressant drug by 150%, implementing strategy and positioning with 300 person sales force. Analyzed market environment and developed sales forecasts.

• Sales Representative

  • 1987 - 1988

  Promoted prescription drugs to physicians, building customer relationships and growing prescriptions within territory.



The Liposome Company

• Biotechnology Research

• Technical Liaison and Patent Coordinator

  • 1983 - 1985

  Designed and managed patent system for start-up biotech firm. Coordinated all patent activity between scientists and outside counsel. Designed and managed patent system for start-up biotech firm. Coordinated all patent activity between scientists and outside counsel.