VoteKISS

* With my husband built a 20’x60’ equipment shed/barn and 26’x48’ greenhouse
* Raised broilers for local sale part time; butchered  at the farm

* Received excellent or outstanding performance ratings during my 11 year tenure
* Created via Microsoft Access and managed real property inventory and facilities maintenance project databases; prioritized projects, authorized and tracked spending for several programs with funding totaling several million dollars

* Acted as Operations Division real property specialist; prepared documents, researched deeds, and followed State procedures for acquisition, disposition, and lease of property
* Developed and implemented a project to upgrade lighting in all state garages, including gathering inventory, working with vendors to determine appropriate replacements, working with Buildings and General Services Division to obtain funding through their energy efficiency revolving loan fund, working with Contract Administration to develop the Request for Proposals (RFP), working with Efficiency VT to receive rebates, working with contractors and districts to ensure proper installation
* Created and implemented an energy use tracking system for over 100 Agency facilities and reported quarterly to State-wide energy tracking committee
* Operations Division quarterly newsletter editor for over eight years. Solicited and gathered information, edited, created layout
* Special projects member for Agency and State-wide projects requiring technical writing and/or facilities management skills:
* Major contributor to the Agency’s Annual Report for five years, receiving certificates of achievement for two of those years for saving the Agency thousands of dollars by doing the work in-house
* Major player in organizing Vermont State Employee Greenup for six years, which required soliciting volunteer litter pickers, working with Agency district people to use the volunteers effectively; received public service recognition award for this project
* Committee member in state-wide effort to identify and implement greenhouse gas reduction strategies for state government activities (including promoting telework--now called virtual work)
* Active team member in promoting electronic documentation:
* Developed an indexing system for all building plans to incorporate them into the Agency’s large document imaging system
* Acted as Operations’ liaison with the Agency’s electronic small document management system, OnBase (Hyland Software). Worked with other Agency employees to develop an agency-wide indexing and scanning process

* Taught emotionally disturbed boys ages 6-14 using hands on and innovative methods

* Taught secondary school students (mostly 7-8th grade)
* Developed integrated curriculum combining civics and environmental studies
* One of the first teachers to use the Internet to teach environmental studies

* With my husband started a wholesale and retail bakery from scratch. I was in charge of accounting and sales. Sold the business in 1991.

* 703d Maintenance Battalion, 3rd Division. Honorable discharge at rank of Sgt E-5.

* In 2010 I studied the US Constitution as annotated by the major US Supreme Court decisions as well as reading books discussing solutions to various governmental problems

* Weeklong conference for OnBase electronic document management system (Hyland Software)
* Microsoft Office level 2 and 3 in Access, Excel, Level 2 Powerpoint, Word, and Outlook, Microsoft Page self-taught
* ArcView and ArcGis coursework
* Adobe Pagemaker 2 day course
* Efficiency Vermont conferences on building energy efficiency as well as annual conferences of the National Association of State Facilities Administrators, where I also presented on several occasions
* Self-taught various software applications for business process mapping, project and task management, website design
* Received two major summer study stipends in environmental education while teaching at South Royalton: VT Governor’s Institute of Science and Technology (lead learner) and Simmons College (using the Internet)

3 years at community college while working full time at various jobs