Experience

Premier Talent Partners

• United States
• Staffing and Recruiting
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Recruiting Contractor Supervisor

  • Apr 2021 - Present



Kasian Publishing LLC

• Writer

  • Oct 2017 - Present

  USA Today bestseller, Amazon bestseller, and award-winning young adult author, Kristin D. Van Risseghem grew up in a small town along the Mississippi River with her parents and older sister. Currently, she lives in Minnesota with her husband and a pomsky named Elsie. Kristin also writes a children's picture 10-book series about her dog. Find her as K. D. Van Risseghem.Kristin also loves attending book clubs, going shopping, and hanging out with friends. She has come to realize that she absolutely has an addiction to purses and shoes. They are her weakness and probably has way too many of both.In the summer months, Kristin can usually be found lounging on her boat, drinking an ice cold something. Being an avid reader of YA and Women’s Literature stories, she still finds time to read a ton of books in-between writing. And in the winter months, her main goal is to stay warm from the Minnesota cold!Kristin’s books are published by Kasian Publishing LLC.



Geometric Results, Inc.

• United States
• Staffing and Recruiting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Program Director

  • Nov 2019 - Oct 2020

  • Provide strategic guidance of the overall program, process, improvements, and troubleshoot issues for 2 different clients. Review, analyze, and conduct monthly and quarterly business reviews. Conduct annual business strategic client meeting. Deliver quarterly initiatives around Cost Savings metrics, roadmap, and reporting. Provide key reporting analysis for weekly, monthly, and quarterly data.• Hold weekly staff meetings, Client Meetings, and conduct 1-on-1 meetings with Resource Consultants and Program Manager. Personnel management of 5 direct reports.• Project Manager and Program Liaison for the ongoing IQN and VNDLY Contract Management System. Suggest expansion opportunities. Test new items, enhancements. Provide timely feedback and user testing to Fieldglass team. Submit case enhancement documentation to VMS.• Create and review training materials for Internal (SOP), Users, and Suppliers. Train and deliver key company policies to managers and Suppliers. Assist with troubleshooting invoice, tax, payment issues. Send monthly Newsletters, conduct monthly spotlight calls, training assistance.• Handle escalation issues, provide reports to clients and Suppliers, onboard Suppliers into the MSP Program, send out Customer/Manager Surveys, send and analyze quarterly Supplier scorecards, hold annual Supplier forums, troubleshoot any other issues for Suppliers or for Client re: Supplier Management. Improve processes for Suppliers.



Volt Consulting Group

• United States
• Business Consulting and Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Global Program Manager

  • Jun 2018 - Nov 2019

  • Train and deliver key company policies. Improve policies and processes for Professional Services, Marketing, IT, and Finance divisions. Meet with and provide training to Business Units re: policy updates, software, and procedures. Advise difference between Contingent Labor, Statement of Work and Profile Workers. Training for MSP, client managers, workers, and suppliers. Create all training materials, guides, and decks for MSP and managers. • Project Management and Liaison for the implementation and integration of the Fieldglass Contract Management System. Conduct bi-weekly meetings for input, process, and troubleshooting issues. Provide timely feedback and user testing to Fieldglass team on upgrades and enhancements.• Intake calls for troubleshooting invoices from suppliers, workers time cards, and Worker login issues. Route issues appropriately. • Create custom reports for Finance, Sourcing, and adhoc. Troubleshoot issues for data. Cleanup FG records for accurate data via manually or uploads.• Conduct and attend Quarterly and Annual Business Review meetings. Generate and tun reports needed to create the ppt.



Pontoon Solutions

• United States
• Human Resources Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Procurement Specialist

  • Apr 2016 - Jun 2018

  • Train and deliver key Purchasing company policies. Improve policies and processes for Professional Services. Meet with and provide advice to local Business Units re: policy updates, training and procedures. Advise difference between Contingent Labor, Statement of Work and Profile Workers.• Project Manager and SOW Liaison for the implementation and integration of the Fieldglass Contract Management System. Attend weekly meetings for input, process, and troubleshooting issues. Provide timely feedback and user testing to Fieldglass team.Create training materials for users and Suppliers. Intake calls for troubleshooting invoice, time card, and Worker issues.



Seagate Technology

• United States
• Computer Hardware Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Buyer

  • Aug 2013 - Apr 2016

  • Negotiate Procurement Agreements under $250k for Facility Services, Capital, Tooling, and Supplies for Shakopee, MN. • Review incoming Quotes and Proposals.• Train and deliver key Purchasing/Material company policies. Improve policies and processes. Meet with, and provide advice, to local departments re: policy updates, training and procedures.• Project Manager and Business Lead for the implement and integrate Apttus Contract Management System. Provide timely feedback and user acceptance testing to Apttus team. Train the Trainer and the User Base on the CLM.

• Contract Administrator II

  • Dec 2010 - Aug 2013

  • Draft, negotiate and execute majority of Non-Sales Service, IT, and Supply/Capital Contracts for Minnesota, Oklahoma, California, Colorado, Penang Malaysia and Northern Ireland. Monitor edits for contracts. • Intake and process all WW Sales related contracts.• Review incoming Quotes, Proposals, and Third-Party Contracts.• Create database records for Sales and Non-Sales contracts. Create working files for attorney. Maintain copies and original documents. Maintain accurate database records, hard files, and any contract documentation to ensure that milestones are current and images of contracts are posted. Clean up database from errors, duplicate records, and missing information in preparation of exporting data.• Liaison between the MN Legal Department, the Purchasing Department, and the Commodities Management Team.• Train and deliver key legal and contracting services and company policies. Improve contracting policies and processes. Meet with, and provide advice, to local departments re: policy updates, training and procedures.• Assist attorney on counseling management; getting documents executed with all appropriate information needed.• Implement and integrate Emptoris contract management system. Provide timely feedback and user acceptance testing to ECMS team. Train the user base on the ECMS.• Perform general office duties: filing, faxing, scanning, arrange travel, expenses, and ordering office supplies.

• Senior Paralegal

  • Jul 2006 - Dec 2010

• Paralegal

  • Jul 2005 - Jul 2006



State of Minnesota

• United States
• Government Administration
• 700 & Above Employee

• Appellate Court Clerk

  • Aug 2002 - Jul 2005

  • Enters required permanent record information such as case events, case activity. Initiate new case documents. Prepare, verify, and record legal documents. Determine jurisdiction and acknowledge legal documents. Prepare, type, and distribute satisfactions of judgment. Process, interpret, and distribute court orders, motions, responses, notices, and opinions.• Data entry, copying, filing and other general office work. Receptionist and sort incoming mail. Return trial court files to appropriate counties.• Compose letters in response to inquiries from attorneys, pro se parties, public, and other court agency staff. Contact and assist judges, staff attorneys, judicial assistants, and clerks in obtaining legal documents from within the appellate system, trial courts and agencies within the state of Minnesota.• Monitor and maintain judges and attorneys schedules for Judicial Appeal Panel (mental commitment files) calendar and distribute master calendar upon request. Enter required permanent record information such as case events, case activity. Initiate new case documents upon receipt of the Petition for Rehearing and Reconsideration. Prepares/drafts all court orders and distributes to ensure all parties receive orders. Return files to appropriate counties.



LeVander, Gillen & Miller, P.A.

• Civil Legal Assistant

  • Oct 2000 - Aug 2002

  • Draft proposed orders, monitor and maintain probate and estate planning documents/files. Execute wills and trusts. Prepare and draft purchase agreements, easements, and other business documents. Record documents with county registrars and Secretary of State.• Monitor and maintain civil vehicle forfeitures cases for Inver Grove Heights, South St. Paul and West St. Paul.• Monitor and maintain city housing code violation cases for West St. Paul.• Conduct legal research and title research. Criminal and civil litigation. Municipal projects.



Fish & Richardson P.C.

• United States
• Law Practice
• 700 & Above Employee

• Litigation Legal Assistant

  • Jul 1999 - Sep 2000