Katrina Bell

Experience

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  Staffwise Legal

  Sept 1999 - Apr 2001

  Paralegal/Legal Secretary

  Worked various legal secretary/paralegal roles for a variety of Staffwise Legal's customers. Experience includes: • Answering phones, scheduling appointments, entering receipts and processing employee reimbursements• Dictation and data entry• Scheduling travel• Maintaining detailed spreadsheets on various projects, perform legal research on various topics.

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  American Express Government Affairs

  Apr 2001 - Aug 2022

  Administrative Assistant/Legislative Researcher

  Administrative Assistant/Legislative Researcher who supported Vice President and another lobbyist in their representation of American Express on various legislative issues. Experience includes:• Answering phones, scheduling appointments, entering receipts and processing employee reimbursements.• Dictation and data entry• Scheduling travel• Maintaining detailed spreadsheets on various projects, preparing project documentation on various issues, research pending/new/old legislation pertaining to various issues. Show less

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  TECH USA, LLC

  Aug 2002 - now

  Contracts Manager/Paralegal

  Paralegal/Contracts Manager who supports our General Counsel in his representation of our various corporate entities across several industries on a variety of matters. Experience includes:• Assisting with the drafting, negotiation and management of a high volume of contracts for commercial business partners in the IT/Engineering/Construction fields, including master services agreements, consulting agreements, confidentiality agreements, teaming agreements, proposals, and other business agreements• Assisting with ongoing litigation, preparing and drafting legal filings, pleadings and pleading clips and maintaining a detailed filing system for all active and closed litigation. • Performing research on various legal/legislative topics using Westlaw, etc. • Monitoring court decisions, laws, regulations, etc. that could impact the company• Developing reports, presentations, spreadsheets, memos and other documents for the Legal Department and/or the senior management team.• Supporting the establishment and maintenance of corporate entities, including drafting articles of organization, operating agreements (with company’s General Counsel), and resolutions.• Maintaining company ITAR and SAM registrations. Keeping company up to date (and train internal AEs and Recruiters) on compliance requirements in relation to contracts and recruiting. • Preparing internal training and procedural materials for contracts and security matters, EEO and VETS compliance, employee handbooks, OFCCP requirements, Affirmative Action requirements, etc. • Completing VETS-100 and EEO-1 reports annually and compiling the necessary data for company’s annual Affirmative Action Plan. • Assisting with leases, lease renewals/amendments, and lease tracking for the company’s twelve offices.• Ordering, processing and tracking of all Certificate of Insurance (COI) requests/renewals.• Completing special projects as requested, such as collaborating on department-wide or company-wide initiatives. Show less