Scott Kirycki

kirycksc@umich.edu

SUMMARY:

Document Management / Administrative Professional with many years experience; key skills are problem solving, organizing, and communicating; approaches projects from the perspective of team member success and pleasing the customer; experienced in MS Office Suite, entering data into an AS/400 system, and using database programs such as Concordance; successfully developed solutions to unique customer requests and used strong communication skills to help co-workers implement the solutions; created and maintained documentation; acted as the liaison between customers and the production teams; kept projects on schedule and on budget.

Currently enrolled in the Master of Science in Information program at the University of Michigan School of Information – expected completion Spring 2017.

EXPERIENCE:

UMSI Internship

University of Michigan School of Information, 5/2016 - present

• Research Associate I / Bicentennial App Content Curator

• Locating, selecting, and organizing historical materials such as photos, films, and text that will be included in an app designed to celebrate the bicentennial of the University of Michigan

UMSI Alternative Spring Break

Detroit Historical Society, 3/2016

• Helped to organize a collection of video tapes and transfer them to archival storage

UMSI Service Day

Detroit Sound Conservancy, 1/2016

• Site Leader for a team that organized the periodicals and clippings collection

Reader

Measurement Incorporated, Wyoming, MI, 4/2015 to 7/2015, 12/2015

• Responsible for handscoring student responses to standardized test questions

Data Entry / Customer Specialist

KForce, Grand Rapids, MI, 8/2014 to 11/2014, 1/2015 to 3/2015, 7/2015 to 8/2015

• Responsible for processing school lunch applications at National Heritage Academies

• Verified that the applications were filled out correctly and entered data from the applications into NHA’s database

• Called parents or schools if information was needed for the applications and also answered questions from parents and schools

• Entered data from test forms at NHA

Project Manager

Pitney Bowes Management Services, Grand Rapids, MI, 5/2010 to 4/2013

• Responsible for helping to design solutions and workflows for new projects

• Day-to-day liaison between customers and the operations and production teams

• Communicated schedule needs, maintained work orders, prepared final deliveries, and entered billing information

• Managed one long-term project and several short-term projects simultaneously

Department Manager

Pitney Bowes Management Services, Grand Rapids, MI, 12/2008 to 5/2010

• Managed the Coding department, which consisted of approximately 50 full-time and temporary employees who worked to capture data for databases used in trials and commercial applications

• Responsible for staffing, schedules, cost control, and personnel matters such as employee evaluations and time entry

Supervisor

Compulit, Inc. (purchased by Pitney Bowes in 2005), Grand Rapids, MI, 3/2003 to 12/2008

• Supervised a variable team of 5 - 25 full-time and temporary employees who worked to capture data for databases used in trials and commercial applications

• Responsible for making sure projects were completed on time with acceptable quality

• Helped the department manager adjust staffing, schedule work, and control costs

Coder / QCer

Compulit, Inc., Grand Rapids, MI, 9/1996 to 3/2003

• Responsible for entering data from documents used in legal proceedings

• QCed the work done by other team members

EDUCATION:

• MA, English, Clark University, Worcester, MA

• BA, English, Calvin College, Grand Rapids, MI