DEBORAH NENDICK

96 Townsend Circle

 

SUMMARY

 

Paralegal and real estate project manager offering extensive experience in commercial and residential real estate, corporate and business transactional matters. Superior organization, communication and leadership skills.  Capable of managing a high volume of complex real property transactions independently and within a team setting.  Capable manager of real estate data systems and business entity status. 

 

·   Closed $1 Billion/real estate value to date in purchase, sale and exchange transactions, including $48 Million corporate complex sale	·   17 years’ experience in real estate trans-action management, business acquisitions, corporations, tax and lease management
·   Transactional experience in United States, Canada, Puerto Rico and India	·   Closed consolidated sale of 20 condo-miniums located in Cook County, IL, in-cluding assumptions of FHA/VA loans; time-line of 20 days

TECHNICAL SKILLS

·   Corporate - hCue; Secretariat

·   Microsoft Office Suitee including Word, Excel, Outlook

·   RealQuest Professional

·   SharePoint; Virtual Dataroom (Dropbox)

·   Courses in title/survey review, conservation easements, aerial surveys, commercial lease management

·   Lease Administration - Lease Harbor

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

 

WASTE MANAGEMENT INC., Lombard, IL    2000 to 2014

National supplier of integrated waste and recycling services

 

Senior Paralegal (2000 to 2004)

·   Drafted contracts for purchase, sale, exchange, escrow, easement, lease and license of commercial properties; funded and closed commercial transactions.

·   Managed due diligence for purchase and sale transactions; performed title research, survey review, resolution of liens, land consolidation and/or subdivision, corrections of ownership challenges. 

·   Researched corporate authority and succession for real estate closings and transfers; corrected errors in title chains; reregistered assets into appropriate subsidiary names following corporate contributions.

Real Estate Transaction Manager (2004 – 2008)

·   Designed process for integration of newly-acquired properties into corporate real estate database, tax management program, audit program, insurance program and lease administration/database; 100% success rate.

·   Designed catalogue of form templates currently in use by Corporate Real Estate Department and Companywide, including letters of intent, sale and purchase contracts and amendments, exchange, option, lease,  easement agreements; covenants, mortgages, notes, releases. Designed specialty forms to meet transaction requirements. 

·   Managed 4 interns in deep dive into assessor websites to create 70,000 reliable statistics of the Company's buildings; catalogued in the Real Estate Database and relied upon by risk managers for insurance purposes, by site managers for repair schedules and permit purposes.

·   Cultivated network of third party real estate professionals for use by Corporate Real Estate Department.  Sponsored and conducted seminars for education of real estate managers.  Developed training procedures for the Department.  Maintained on-line catalogue of tools for use by managers in transactions.

·   Responsible for financial reporting on closed sale transactions to VP of Real Estate

 

 

Senior Manager – Real Estate (2008 – 2014)

·   Managed real property requirements for 300 sites as Project Manager for Closed Site Management Group.  Generated revenue by selling/leasing surplus properties. Produced $5.242 Million in surplus sales.

·   Wrote policies/procedures adopted by the Company for Real Estate Department, requiring Companywide compliance.

·   Constructed and managed Company’s web page for Corporate Real Estate Department.

·   Member of divestiture team; conducted real estate due diligence for business acquisitions and divestitures (stock, membership or asset); recommended correction and/or exclusion of defective properties prior to acquisition. Interaction with virtual data room.  Integrated properties into Company’s data systems.

·   Member of team responsible for design of controls for Department’s compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley Act.  Ongoing management of all newly-acquired properties to ensure that transaction are closed in compliance with the WM Authorization Matrix and documented appropriately for Sarbanes-Oxley and internal controls testing.  Achieved 100% compliance.

·   Drafted and negotiated income/expense leases for offices, industrial facilities, residential properties, vacant and subsurface land.   Reviewed mineral rights for lease disposition to oil/gas companies for fracking in Pennsylvania and Ohio.  Developed process for integration of leases into lease administration program.  Analyzed leases; abstracted lease terms in spreadsheet form for acquisitions.

·   Designed e-product to map location of land parcels within a particular site and provided research on tax parcel, land area, ownership history; included a vesting document file; defined third party ownership outside the site perimeter.  Audits provided the basis for database correction and unification of ownership; used by project managers and field personnel for permit and sale decisions.

·   Drafted easement documents for access, utility, water, telecommunications equipment, gas & oil, parking.  Monitored document through signature, recording, and registration in corporate databases.  Most notable projects: 1) preserved access to California landfill by negotiating renewal of expired railroad crossing lease; and 2) created less expensive alternate access to New York transfer station.

 

PRIOR EXPERIENCE

 

Real Estate Paralegal, GOLDSTINE SKRODZKI RUSSIAN NEMEC AND HOFF LTD., Burr Ridge, IL

·   Drafting of contracts, leases; due diligence and closing of commercial real estate transactions

Legal Secretary, HINSHAW & CULBERTSON, Lisle, IL

·   Medical Malpractice  - Hospital and Physician defense

·   Real Estate and Estate Planning

Real Estate Assistant, JOE KEIM LAND DEVELOPMENT, Wheaton, IL

·   Subdivisions and post subdivision governmental compliance

·   Closings of land transactions

Paralegal/Office Manager, WAYNE L. MULAR, ESQ., St. Charles, IL

·   Closings of residential real estate transactions; title examination/drafting of title commitments and policies for attorney, as a member of Attorneys Title Guaranty Fund

·   Corporate, Estate & Trust, Divorce and Family Law

Various, FEDERAL HOME LOAN BANK OF CHICAGO, Chicago, IL

·   Supervisor of Word Processing; managed 5 employees in production of high speed document, interoffice mail and messenger services

·   Executive Assistant to the President

·   Personnel Assistant, involved in the hiring, review and termination of hourly employees, payroll and benefit administration, maintenance of personnel files for 80 employees

 

EDUCATION

Paralegal Certification

American Institute of Paralegal Studies, Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL

 

Non –Degree curriculum focused on business, economics, accounting and management

Chicago City Colleges and College of DuPage

 

Pursuing Project Management Certification through North Central College, Naperville, IL

 

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

National Association of Professional Women