Melissa Stango

Experience

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  Frenchtown Elementary School

  Jan 2012 - Jun 2013

  Student Teacher

  Intern and student teacher working in grades K-5

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  Darien Public Schools

  Aug 2013 - Aug 2018

  Elementary School Teacher

  - Managed & maintained a safe learning environment for 24+ students by creating relationships with individuals as a mentor to help develop problem-solving and critical thinking skills to boost both academic and social performances.- Designed & documented interdisciplinary units of curriculum by collaborating with colleagues across the district and implementing differentiated instruction strategies.- Communicated with 24 parents on a daily & weekly basis with clear and concise written and verbal interactions and reviews, providing updates on student behavior, academics, and other day-to-day happenings to monitor student growth throughout the year.- Analyzed monthly progress of individual students’ growth across all 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade levels by implementing assessments, creating progress notes, and offering support & interventions to meet benchmarks that were chosen in the first week of the school year. Show less

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  Concenter Services, LLC

  Aug 2018 - Jul 2021

  XLR8/ Salesforce Consultant

  - Maintained daily org configuration & support, customization of fields, page layouts, and reports within Salesforce for 50+ clients, as well as other objects for individual client needs.- Trained new clients on the Salesforce platform including conducting 3 in depth training sessions per week.- Created training framework, agendas and all other relevant training materials including Training Slides, Practice Opportunities, Reference sheets and Video Recordings.- Conducted and produced all materials for ‘Refresher Training’ 2x per month for existing clients. - Documented Salesforce releases & configuration which included reading through and documenting all relevant updates from Salesforce releases to share with the internal team as well as clients.- Configured Salesforce orgs with updates needed for both the company CRM and multiple client orgs.- Kept documentation up to date with Release History from all prior Salesforce releases. Show less

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  Yurgosky

  Jul 2021 - Mar 2023

  Project Manager

  - Complete projects on-budget and under budget. - Monitor several tiered task-level effort allocations daily to ensure budget alignment across project tasks and deliverables. - Reallocate time between tasks based on effort used and needed.- Proactively identify creative solutions to potential budget issues and share with clients to be resolved quickly and efficiently. - Projects are completed on-time. - Communicate upcoming milestone dates with internal and external stakeholders to ensure efficiency.- Track which tasks need to be completed on any given day in order to meet agreed upon deadlines.- Maintain client relationships for a positive business-to-client experience and ongoing rapport.- Draft and send comprehensive weekly project summaries to clients while being the point-person for all client communication strategically looping in internal staff as needed.- Demonstrate superb clarity and attention to detail in all client communications, written and verbal. Show less

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  Prolocity

  Mar 2023 - now

  Project Manager