Amanda Laprarie

Experience

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  KBR, Inc.

  Dec 2004 - Jul 2009

  MWR Coordinator / Operations Coordinator / Air Ops Coordinator / HR Travel Coordinator

  Continual growth from an entry level position in Morale Welfare and Recreation managing events, a fitness facility as well as a computer and phone cafe for the military. Moved onto Base Life Support supervising up to ten employees directly in our office and managing up to 50 work crews throughout the post with day to day service orders. Simultaneously managed passenger and cargo manifests for a private charter, military flights as well as ground transport for up to 250 personnel daily. Moved from Iraq to Dubai to work within the HR Travel Department of KBR to plan and coordinate commercial travel for up to 1,000 employees along with entitlements, reimbursements and invoice payments through third party vendors. Show less

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  Global Linguist Solutions

  Aug 2009 - Jan 2010

  Linguist Movement Coordinator

  Managed all incoming employees passing through Kuwait for assignments and leave. Worked closely with other contract groups, embassy and the military to ensure safe passage through Kuwait.

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  Northwestern State University

  May 2011 - May 2012

  Student Worker / Administrative Assistant

  Gained trust of VP of External Affairs and his Administrative Assistant to fill in during her absence. Worked closely with the Athletics Staff and Alumni House with fundraising events, sporting events and overall maintenance of athletic facilities.

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  Henson Fuerst Attorneys

  Aug 2012 - Jun 2013

  Legal Assistant

  Assisted with case research, filings, day to day office operations and organization and general errands.

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  Plates Neighborhood Kitchen

  Oct 2013 - Aug 2017

  Events Director / FOH Manager / HR Director / Media Marketing Director

  Developed Events and Catering Division from the ground up through self teaching of marketing and sales. Promoted within Plates from a Server to a Manager / Events and Catering Director within the first year. Created and implemented the Employee Handbook and Systems of Service Training manuals. Continually collaborated with neighboring businesses and special interest groups to market events and build "community" within our neighborhood. Developed marketing strategies for the overall appeal of "selling the feeling" not just the food. Show less

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  REVGEN

  Aug 2017 - Sept 2017

  Sales Development Representative

  Quickly learned the basics of sales strategy through in depth training, dial campaigns and email. Collaborated with team members on fine tuning our pitch, sizzle and increasing our basic knowledge of Citrix ShareFile and the prospects we were selling to. Continually exceed my own goals and expectations with new innovative ways to reach my client base

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  Dude Solutions

  Sept 2017 - Apr 2020

  During my time as an Enterprise Sales Development Representative at Dude Solutions I have spent most of my career focusing on creating content on the value of our CMMS and training management software solutions through email, phone and social media campaigns. Connecting with municipal government entities, law enforcement agencies, DOD and US Military to consult on business needs that align with CMMS and training management software. Meticulously document needs analysis and assign meetings with relevant representatives across government vertical. On occasions I’ve performed SWOT analysis and product market research on viable verticals while reporting findings to product development and GTM teams for evaluation and further enhancements of software. I’ve had the pleasure of being able to collaborate with multiple levels of the company to include C-suite leaders on prospective client needs as well as assisting me in my own career path navigation. Show less

  • Government Enterprise Sales Development

    Jan 2019 - Apr 2020

  • Account Manager

    Sept 2017 - Dec 2018
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  Cameo Global, Inc.

  Jul 2020 - Dec 2022

  Complete provisioning process by reviewing contracts against invoicing for accuracy. Analyze telecom and data services billing while monitoring variances in usage and rates. Providing support to Telecom Expense Management with vendor onboarding for acquisition accounts, billing review / audits and financial analysis. Work with fortune 100 businesses to ensure any billing issues are remediated immediately. Consult with Budget Analysts to forecast impacts on budgets per billing and credit award trends. Create reconciliations and monthly accruals to monitor anomalies that may occur in billing. Show less

  • TEM Analyst / for Cisco TEMS

    Sept 2021 - Dec 2022

  • Business Support Billing Analyst / for Cisco TEMS

    Jul 2020 - Sept 2021
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  Cisco

  Dec 2022 - now

  Technical Systems Engineer