Monique Hohn

Experience

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  Pride Communications

  Jan 1999 - Dec 2000

  Traffic Director WLLI / WBVS
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  CNA Insurance

  Jan 2001 - Nov 2007

  Business Communications Specialist

   Assistant to the SVP, Risk Control/Business Communications Specialisto Daily calendar management and expense support.o Extensive travel support as manager lived in Atlanta and worked from Chicago.o Maintained project plan to assist manager in keeping track of each director’s initiatives, deliverables, and key conference dates.o Worked with various private and government insurance groups to secure conference speaking engagements for the SVP to advance thought leadership goals. Part of 3 person team that rolled out the School of Risk Control Excellence which continues to be one of CNA’s most successful thought leadership initiatives. Managed all marketing initiatives for Risk Control including securing speaking engagements, writing technical content for brochures, presentations, articles and white papers.  Handled expense approval process for entire Risk Control team (360 people). Managed the annual Talent Review process, traveling to train managers across the country on how to approach development planning and categorizing their staff within the Talent Review criteria. Show less

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  Andrew Corporation

  Nov 2007 - May 2009

  Office Administrator - International Tax

  o Head assistant for the international tax department, Executive assistant to the VP International Tax and CFO.o Coordinated weekly Chinese travel including working with the Embassy to maintain visa requirements.o Extensive calendar management for managers attending meetings in time zones all over the world. o Managed and maintained state tax filings for various Andrew entities. o Completed European tax filings on behalf of the VP of International Tax.o Helped management team to streamline their reports when working with large amounts of international data on various spreadsheets. Show less

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  Beazley

  Jul 2009 - Mar 2012

  Team Administrator

  o Provided one on one administrative support for Head of Global Property, providing daily calendar support, expense reporting, direct customer contact on his behalf, and set up of regular video conferencing.o Provided extensive travel support mainly to and from our London head office. Very adept at handling various international visas, European secondment procedures, and up to date on travel policies on numerous airline and hotel chains.o Local meeting support including scheduling, compiling data from various resources, and taking and distributing minutes.o Managed 50+ person customer and internal meetings. Tasks included, but were not limited to:  Presentation support including creation, compilation, and distribution both visually at the meeting, and via hard copy attendee books. All catering and restaurant bookings ensuring any physical ailments and allergy restrictions were attended to. Travel and hotel support for all attendees. Participated on a project management team to build two systems for E&S and Builders Risk insurance product lines.o Provided User Acceptance Testing (UAT) support both remotely and within the office environment.o Wrote and distributed user manuals for the two systems.o Continued to work on the reporting aspect of the system, providing UAT and working directly with the software development team to fix data inaccuracies and submit change requests. Trained Underwriting Assistants around the country on Beazley Corporate Mission and Expectations and specific team operations and IT systems. Wrote the operations manuals for two Underwriting teams.  Managed entire office operations including vendor management, technology upgrades, social events, supply maintenance, lunch ordering, and any and all travel and expense support for managers and above.  Key contact for the creation of underwriting controls reports for Solvency II and train to these reports on at least a weekly basis for other business units. Show less

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  Knowles Corporation

  Apr 2012 - Jul 2015

  Executive Assistant to the President

  o Provide one on one administrative support for the President of the largest arm of Knowles, supplying 75% of company revenue. Administer daily calendar support, expense reporting, direct customer contact on his behalf, meeting minutes and handling his personal social calendar. o Extensive travel support. Very adept at handling various international visas (both US individuals visiting other countries and invitation letter requirements for those visiting the US), European & Asian secondment procedures.o Numerous meeting planning responsibilities, normally handled concurrently. Managed 75+ person sales incentive meetings in Las Vegas, Kota Kinabalu, and Singapore. • Managed all air travel, ground transportation and hotel accommodations for attendees, providing detailed instructions to guests, hosts, and vendors.• Liaised with CVBs in cities to schedule entertainment running the gamut from city tours and golf outings to elephant rides and snorkeling excursions. • Designed exquisite dinner experiences such as dinner cruises on the Huangpu River overlooking the skyline, wine cellar dinners in Napa, and private lunch in the Raffles Hotel world famous Bar & Billiard Room.  Facilitated logistics for CES in Las Vegas 2014 & 2015 – the largest technology tradeshow in the world with 250,000 visitors each year.• Designed and built booth to accommodate multiple demos, meetings, and hospitality simultaneously.• Managed meeting calendar, investor relations demo presentations, and any and all entertainment requests.  Managed 75+ person internal training and sales meetings.• Performed requisite, round the clock communication with attendees from Denmark, Vienna, Japan, Malaysia, China, and Taiwan. • Exercised complete logistical and financial control over site selection, budgets, registration, branding, entertainment and ISO reporting post-event. Show less

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  RSM US LLP

  Sept 2015 - Nov 2016

  Administrative Manager

  o Managed 6 administrative employees – handled all HR aspects regarding these employees including one performance cycle thus far, succession planning, hiring, performance goals, regular checkups, training, and administrative monthly meetings.o eCRM trainer and marketing liaison for entire Rockford office and all partners.o Managed all office and facilities procedures, issues, and technology including:  All video conferencing needs Direct contact with building management to handle issues such as lighting, HVAC, plumbing, cleaning, outdoor construction, etc. Keys / keycard access to the buildingo Extensive domestic travel support.o Daily catering management for entire office through 4 months of tax season including personalized dinner orders and desk delivery.o Management of non-profit sponsorship budgets and approval process. Coordinate numerous client events and large-scale volunteer efforts for these partners including annual Special Olympics Golf Skills Experience with over 100 athletes, 5 residential special needs facilities, and numerous customer volunteers. Show less

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  Blue Shield of California

  Dec 2016 - Dec 2019

  Sr. Administrative Assistant - Premier Accounts
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  Tulsa Regional Chamber

  Mar 2020 - Dec 2021

  Executive Assistant To Chief Executive Officer
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  Williams

  Dec 2021 - now

  Executive Assistant to Treasurer