1. Michelle L. Gassert
11565 Sunset Knolls Road
Lakeside, CA 92040
(619) 933-1259 (cell)
PERSONAL SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS
• High energy team player, well organized and able to
support cross functional coordination in a fast-paced
environment, demonstrating excellent judgment, reliability
and trustworthiness
• Ability to work well with all levels of internal management
and staff as well as outside clients and vendors
• Effectively manage multiple tasks and projects with
competing priorities and deadlines
• Excellent problem solving skills
• Screen and prioritize communications and opportunities
from external and internal sources
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Proven project coordination expertise
• Travel logistics
• Advanced Microsoft Word
• Advanced Microsoft Excel
• Advanced Outlook
• Intermediate Power Point
• Material Transfer Agreements
• Kronos Workforce Time and Attendance System
• SciQuest Procurement System
• CERT Trained (Community Emergency Response Team)
EMPLOYMENT
2014 – pres. The Scripps Research Institute – Sr. Administrative Assistant/Lab
Manager
• Process administrative details on a daily basis
• Manage a lab consisting of 40+ postdocs and graduate
students of various diversity
• Coordinate calendar for administrator, schedule
appointments, meetings and travel arrangements (domestic
and international)
• Type and/or draft correspondence, proofread and check
material for accuracy and completeness
• Project, monitor and maintain monthly budgets
• Prepare and submit research grants/fellowships for funding
• Process Material Transfer Agreements
• Maintain pertinent information of extremely confidential
nature
• Plan, organize and carry out all aspects of event/seminars
for faculty and visiting scientists

2. • Purchase products and equipment for the lab
• Develop and implement filing systems
• Generate and process new hire requisitions
• Process timesheets and Personal Assignment System
2011 – 2014 The Scripps Research Institute (‘TSRI’) - Executive Assistant to the
President and CEO
• Represent the President by welcoming visitors, reviewing
correspondence, arranging dinners and other corporate
functions, answering questions and meeting requests
• Anticipate the needs of the President and act accordingly
and efficiently in a fast-paced environment
• Manage the daily schedule of President, ensuring that he
knows his schedule 24 hours in advance, keeping
appointments and meetings on time, or changing schedules
when necessary
• Manage President’s travel arrangements and proactively
coordinate the pre-planning of trips to include various
meetings and functions, including travel arrangements,
domestic and international
• Trusted to handle details of a highly confidential and critical
nature
• Resolve issues and complaints from the public or faculty
and/or direct to the appropriate department
• Work with the Philanthropy Department to coordinate and
track donor meetings, financial contributions and events
• Work closely with the President and Board of Directors as
required to arrange and plan meetings and events
• Responsible for the coordination of operations and planning
activities, and ensuring timely flow and accuracy of
information to and from the executive office
• Ensure that various administrative tasks are done in an
effective and efficient manner, including copying, reviewing
outside mail, drafting correspondence, screening phone
calls and maintaining executive files
• Process and maintain expense reports for President
• Help key executives make consistent decisions by advising
them of historical precedents; serving as liaison between
them and the President
• Supervise President’s large laboratory
• Type and/or draft correspondence, proofread and check
material for accuracy and completeness
• Process timesheets and Personal Assignment System
• Prepare and submit research grants/fellowships for funding
• Plan, organize and carry out all aspects of event/seminars
for faculty and visiting scientists
• Work as liasion with vendors, negotiating all aspects for
events (price, date, space, food, etc.). Ranging from 25 –

3. 1500 people
2002-2011 The Scripps Research Institute - Grants Application Coordinator
and Administrative Assistant, Sr.
• Train and supervise over 40 Administrative Assistants how to
submit Research Grants to the National Institutes of Health
and other organizations
• Prepare and teach grant classes to TSRI personnel
• Process administrative details on a daily basis
• Coordinate calendar for administrator, schedule
appointments, meetings and travel arrangements
• Supervise large laboratory
• Project, monitor and maintain grant budgets
• Responsible for reconciliation of all grant budgets
• Prepare and submit research grants/fellowships for funding
• Process Material Transfer Agreements
• Process Animal and Human Subject Protocols
• Responsible for program administration, organizational
analysis, and special projects
• Maintain pertinent information of extremely confidential
nature
• Purchase products and equipment for the lab
• Develop and implement filing systems
• Generate and process new hire requisitions
• Process timesheets and Personal Assignment System
• Plan annual Lab BBQ and luncheons for visiting scientists
EDUCATION
Business Administration, Grossmont College, El Cajon, CA
Diploma, Paint Branch High School, Burtonsville, MD