Geetha Arunkumar

Geetha Arunkumar

Talent Acquisition and Administration

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Paralegal Clerk | Legal Assistant/Paralegal

  • Education

    • University of Madras

      2006 - 2008
      Master of Business Administration - MBA Human Resources Management/Personnel Administration, General
    • Portland Community College

      2021 - 2022
      Associate of Arts and Sciences - AAS Legal Assistant/Paralegal
    • University of Madras

      2003 - 2006
      Bachelor's degree Business Administration and Management, General
  • Experience

    • OPTLEGANT SOLUTIONS PRIVATE LIMITED

      Nov 2010 - Oct 2013
      Talent Acquisition and Administration

      • Actively participated in all phases of recruitment life cycle including: Conducted phone screens, background checks, and reference checks. Scheduled and coordinated interviews with hiring managers and applicants. Sent offer letters and correspond with new hires.• Led new hire orientation and acted as a liaison for new hires, including employee training and seasonal interns.• Collected, organized, and managed sensitive personnel documents through database management, payroll systems, and both hard and soft file copies.• Administered and tracked employee benefits, including leave, health, etc.• Maintained, developed, and updated company policies and procedures.• Performed data entry of utility bills into Excel spreadsheet. Show less

    • Young Learners Preschool

      Sept 2015 - Jun 2017
      Volunteer Experience

      Assisted Children's in Preschool through kindergarten with reading, writing and math when they need help with assignments. Completed bulletin boards, organized learning materials and other classroom tasks requested by the teachers. Established a trusting and wonderful relationships with teachers and children's through conversations and frequent positive interactions.

    • ESS Teaching Agency (Education Staffing Solutions)

      Sept 2018 - Jun 2020
      Education Assistant

      Classroom Assistant, Education Staffing & Management Solution since September 2018. Help teachers with a wide range of administrative tasks including setting up and cleaning up activities, copying and preparing materials, marking tests, and guiding students through the building in an organized way.Serve as instructional reinforcement by providing more individualized academic assistance to students who require extra help with grasping a concept.Help teachers with the education and training of a child with a focus on self-sufficiency, communication, interpersonal, and mobility skills. Show less

    • NerdPine

      Jul 2021 - Dec 2023
      Immigration Administrative Assistant

      • Strengthened collaboration with immigration attorneys, improved reputation between firm and clients. Stayed on top of inquiries from attorneys, responded in a timely manner and adhering to submission deadlines.• Setup process to manage caseload from intake through processing and filing with attorneys in turn submit them to USICS, assisted in preparing case summary reports.• Outperformed document drafting, application filing for permanent residency and secondary benefits for foreign nationals.• Liaison for updating clients of progress, answering their questions, assist with paperwork to facilitate the processing and filing nonimmigrant and immigrant visa petitions.• Collaborated with external clients, parties to gather and organize petition packets, addressed all email or verbal communication to complete review and filing, which includes appraisal of their cases with respected parties.• Established streamlined process and approach in maintaining hard copies, learnt, and leveraged data management via immigration case management system portal.• Took charge of administrative details in keeping employee's case to move forward, improved coordination in collection, educated visa applicants to reduce queries and disputes, which directly helped attorneys & firm to be more efficient in saving both cost and time. Show less

    • Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

      May 2024 - Nov 2024
      Paralegal Clerk

      In my role as a Paralegal Clerk at Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, I supported high-volume litigation response matters for (client) Amazon by handling document review, drafting, and case management. I conducted legal research, prepared pleadings, discovery, and client correspondence, and managed litigation workflows remotely while coordinating with the Portland / Seattle office.

  • Licenses & Certifications