• Acted as liaison between employees and clients to match employees with best job opportunities.
• Responsibilities included interviewing, hiring, developing, counseling and placing employees while developing client relationship through strong sales performance.

Academic Director, Kaplan, Inc.,
Florida Territory          
1998-2000

• Recruited, hired, trained and managed all teachers for South Florida courses.
• Trained public school instructors in groups of over 100 to prepare students for the FCAT.
• Served on various handpicked, special project teams to develop a company intranet and other teacher-related training devices.  

Selected Accomplishments

• Won appeal as Appellee after trial Court dismissed Plaintiff’s Complaint with prejudice in favor of School District and three individual employees (4D02-3390, decided PCA April 30, 2003).
• Obtained voluntary dismissal in equine negligence suit brought by trainer against horse owner prior to hearing on our Motion for Summary Judgment.
• Won breach of contract lawsuit on Motion to Dismiss brought by lawn maintenance company against School District and three individual employees.
• Won appeal as Appellee/Cross-Appellant of deficiency decree that was improperly reduced by $200,000.00 by the trial court.  McCollem v. Chidnese, 832 So. 2d 194 (Fla. 4^th DCA 2002)
• Won appeal as Appellee at the 11^th Circuit Court of Appeal based upon verdict in favor of School District on failure to hire reverse discrimination claim. Martin Vann v. School District of Palm Beach County, 45 Fed.Appx. 876 (11^th Circuit 2002)
• Obtained dismissal of premature appeal in the 4^th DCA.  Defendant had improperly appealed a denial of defendant’s motion for summary judgment.
• Conducted various employment-related seminars for private and public employers, including non-profit organizations.  Topics included the Fair Labor Standards Act (overtime issues) and anti-harassment and sensitivity training.
• Obtained dismissal of action with prejudice for plaintiff’s failure to prosecute tortious interference claim against municipality and for failure to provide proper notice of suit under Florida Statute Section 768.28.  
• Drafted fireworks ordinance for municipality.
• Drafted and edited Employment Handbooks and Personnel Policies for corporate, non-profit, and governmental clients.
• Successfully defended several unemployment compensation claims including those against a private company in the equine industry and government clients.
• Won appeal as Appellant of adverse jury verdict based upon new cause of action entitled tortious interference with parent-child relationship.  Brown v. Brown, 800 So. 2d 359 (Fla. 4^th DCA 2001).
• Recently awarded with the 2007 Human Resources Professional of the Year Award presented by the Human Resources of Palm Beach County.

Education

• University of Georgia School of Law, Athens, GA
  Juris Doctor, 1996 (cum laude)
• Journal of Intellectual Property Law
  Senior Patent Editor, Managing Board and Editorial Board Member Publication [3 J. Intell. Prop. L. 161 (1995)] Medical Process Patents: Can We Live Without Them?  Should We?
• University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
  Bachelor of Science, Public Relations, Business Administration Minor, 1990

Bar Admissions

• Florida, 1996
• Georgia, 1998
• Southern District of Florida, 2001
• 11^th Circuit Court of Appeals, 2006