Amber Koplow

-Coordinated renovation of historic properties.
-Co-managed Evergrand Inn LLC.

-General office operations and bookkeeping for small renovation firms.
-Coordinated supply-chain for renovations and new construction.
-Scheduled and ensured timely workflows; checked on accuracy of crew time accounting.
-Participated in advertising and interviews with staff.
-Bookkeeping for firm and liaison with CPA.
-Maintained material and equipment inventories.
-Participated in evaluation of properties offered for renovation.
-Liaison with two institutional and two private financing sources.
-Jan 2023: Continued with ROANOKE BUILDERS LLC working, remotely from Rockville, Maryland, on bookkeeping and scheduling.

Resident manager of five-unit rental house in which I earned and still hold an ownership share interest.

-Negotiated terms of rental leases; developed rental policies and contracts based on experience.

-Practiced salesmanship in promoting annual leases.

-Developed skill in advertising and selecting media.

-Prepared lease, inventory, and tax forms working with CPA and attorney, formalizing business operations which had heretofore been ad-hoc.

-Honed proficiency in diplomacy and human relations ensuring that house rules were kept, and adjudicated issues among tenants.

-Occasionally handled evictions in landlord-tenant courts.

Performed preliminary evaluation of rental investment opportunities.

-Learned reading of corporate financial filings and stock records to locate and succinctly report data sought by professional staff.
-Learned complex compliance requirements for operation of regulated financial business, and implemented these through new or modified procedures as ongoing task.
-Independently researched firms and financial sectors toward analyses of anticipated earnings for consideration by professional staff.
-Streamlined office procedures, developed marketing brochures, designed website updates, brought document management and retention into compliance with regulatory requirements.
-Participated in professional training on behalf of firm in use of new specialized financial software and in retraining to other office staff.

-Researched environmental statistics for official departmental releases and responses.
-Prepared environmental talking points and presentation materials for departmental staff.
-Organized cross-referencing system for environmental files; www.ipbes.net.
-Worked largely independently on extensions to important environmental programs.
-Directed environmental correspondence to appropriate staff members.