This document is a resume for Kamikco Perkins-Stewart that outlines her professional experience and qualifications. She has over 20 years of experience in legal, accounting, credit analysis, and business roles. Her most recent role is as the CSOM at McGraw-Hill Education, where she services accounts and provides customer support. She also owns her own company, Duces Tecum Fiat, LLC, where she performs contract work, negotiations, and client assistance.

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7451 Old River Drive !Blacklick, OH 43004! Phone: (614) 256-3054 / (424) 302-7002 !
lady_law@att.blackberry.net
Professional Summary
Dynamic, results oriented leader with a strong track record of performance in turnaround and high-paced organizations. I utilize keen
analysis, insights and a team approach to drive organizational improvements and implement best practices. Superior interpersonal skills,
capability of solving multiple and complex issues, and motivating staff to peak performance are additional key characteristics that I
possess. Moreover, I can analyze a business situation, determine which type of business organization would be most advantageous and
possess superb contractual language understanding.
Core Competencies
❖ Strong negotiating, influencing, analytical and
facilitation skills
❖ Ability to approach and solve problems in a
quantitative and qualitative manner
❖ Ability to maintain a high degree of confidentiality
❖ Ability to establish and maintain effective
relationships with and gain the cooperation of
employees and managers to resolve routine problems
and provide advice and assistance on routine matters
❖ Ability to prioritize, organize and meet time sensitive
deadlines
❖ Outstanding research capabilities
❖ Proficient in MS Office Suite, SaaS (SFDC), Oracle,
Six Sigma, LexisAdvance and SharePoint
❖ Database management
❖ Data collection and analysis
❖ Report generation
❖ Problem resolution and due diligence
❖ Process improvement
❖ Planning and preparation of an operating and master
budget
Education
Taft Law School
o Coursework included but not limited to:
❖ Business Organization, Agency & Partnership Law
❖ Contract Law & Remedies, U.C.C.
❖ Intellectual Property Law
❖ Alternative Dispute Resolution
University of Phoenix
o Completed some Masters level coursework in industrial and organizational psychology.
DeVry University
o Bachelors of Business Administration / Accounting – with courses included:
❖ Managerial Accounting, Auditing and Finance, Fed.
Taxation, Cost Accounting
❖ Principles of Management and Economics
❖ Database Essentials for Business w/Lab
❖ Accounting Information Systems
❖ Data Analysis with Spreadsheets
❖ Statistics for Decision Making

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Professional Experience
McGraw-Hill Education, Inc. 4/2015 - Present
CSOM
• Serviced McGraw-Hill accounts that are buying and utilizing educational products within the market.
• Placed orders, provided pricing and availability and provided solutions to customer inquiries.
• Researched service issues such as selling rights and inventory restrictions, invoicing, shipping, billing and credit based guidelines.
• Provided technical and direct support, via telephone, email and chat, to end users on products and services, including instructors,
teachers, administrators, students, & marketing staff of partner companies.
• Observed and supported developmental and company standards for conduct, communication, and record keeping and cross train.
• Processed invoices, purchase orders, sales tax, and credit/debit memos through Oracle software
• Reviewed and processed RFP's and RFQ's and negotiated pricing as part of bids and contract process.
• Negotiated key terms of bid proposal process resulting in a multi-million dollar sale known as the Idaho Adoption.
Duces Tecum Fiat, LLC 6/2013 – Present
Owner
• Interprets and drafts contracts
• Prepare and review RFP's and RFQ's and complete bid proposals
• Negotiate contract terms
• Entertainment and sports management/coordination
• Client crisis management and personal assisting
• Manage A/P, A/R, and asset accounts; Ensure all balance sheet accounts are reconciled on a monthly basis; Develop and maintain
budgets; Complete numerous projects achieving increased efficiency and reduced expenses; Tax preparation, filing of tax returns,
and preparation of 1099s; Analyze data to identify inefficiencies, discrepancies and potential fraud; Verify payments and match
invoices; some IFRS knowledge
• Database management and legal research
Tyack, Blackmore, & Liston LPA 6/2007 – 8/2008
Paralegal – Legal Secretary
• Reported directly to 6 attorneys with broad ranged responsibilities that encompassed the timely and complex preparation of cases
through all phases and maintained attorney schedules including travel arrangements and itineraries.
• Coordinated multifaceted office functions encompassing court calendar management, retaining of court reporters and scheduling of
conference rooms for deposition proceedings.
• Processed documents in a timely and efficient manner in compliance with laws, regulations and ensured open lines of
communication and satisfaction of deadlines through execution of dated correspondence.
• Served as liaison between attorneys and clients; including but not limited to meticulously researching and gathering information
via computerized and law library research.
J.P. Morgan Chase 9/2005 – 8/2006
Home Loan Specialist
• Assessed, evaluated and corrected delinquency issues with mortgage loans while maintaining excellent rapport.
• Consistently earned repeated recognition by managers of exceeding management goals for refinancing, productivity, and customer
expectations allowing for top monthly bonus achiever consecutively and additional duties with increased responsibility and
complexity.
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• Served as liaison between clients and attorneys/collectors that represented lender by reporting findings of research regarding
delinquencies, possible foreclosures, bankruptcies and other legal matters.
• Promoted business by maintaining good customer relations and referring customers to appropriate department for new services.
Nationwide Children’s Hospital 8/2004 – 9/2005
Managing Paralegal / Senior Assistant Buyer (Floating Temp)
• Improved gross margin rate and negotiated costs, vendor margin support, and wholesale pricing resulting in increased revenue of
5% over previous year.
• Developed, trained and supervised a staff consisting of three assistants, ensuring optimal performance and compliance with
company goals and objectives.
• Successfully trained employees on a complex database management system.
• Managed staff of purchasing department and facilitated reorganization of legal department by ensuring that the departments were in
compliance while reporting directly to the Lead Purchaser and General Counsel.
Weltman, Weinberg, & Reis 1/2002 – 2/2004
Legal Assistant – Team Lead
• Created a culture of excellence and leadership by providing constant coaching, feedback, and skills development training.
• Operated as team leader responsible for communicating strategies to department heads resulting in increased cohesiveness,
improved efficiency and enhanced effectiveness while improving management team productivity by organizing monthly meetings
that provided forum for discussing accomplishments, forecasts, and issues.
• Maintained ongoing communication with attorneys and clients from point of referral/discovery to trial phase, facilitating and
expediting case settlements that awarded clients a minimum of 80% in recovered funds.
N.R.C. – Deluxe Corp. / American Express 2/1998 – 12/2001
Managing Credit Analyst
• Achieved an 82% paid rate on invoices being paid in less than 60 days while monitoring accounts receivable balance of more than
$10 million while preventing write-offs by negotiating successful buyouts and payment plans with delinquent accounts.
• Effectively valued and monitored credit risk/exposure by developing and launching follow-up action plans.
• Consistently met or exceeded organizational expectations and metrics for CR- increase requests and bad debts.
• Maintained a compliance level at or above 87.8%.
• Saved nearly $1.2 million in loss prevention with process improvement such as identifying gaps in credit process by reviewing,
analyzing and effectively acting on organizational and financial data to optimize retention rates, repayment rates, team growth,
loan success, customer satisfaction and to protect against losses.
• Efficiently extended $750,000 in credit increases with bad debt of just 3%.
Affiliations / Memberships
❖ American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (Associate Member)
❖ American Bar Association (Since 2011)
❖ State Bar California (Student Registration)
❖ GRAMMY Foundation (GRAMMY U)
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