Leanne Smith

Background

About Leanne Smith

I’ve previously worked in the legal industry greeting and serving internal and external clients for over 20 years. I have extensive knowledge and hands on skills when it comes to handling and archiving confidential sensitive information. I have been responsible for training department employees in RM principles and practices, access system, maintaining accurate inventory pertaining to capture storage retention, retrieval and destruction. I’ve managed on-site and off-site storage, requests from off-site; process; transferred records off-site and maintained inventory sub files. I demonstrate the ability to create policies/procedures/goals, train, review invoices, solve problems, manage project schedules under tight deadlines, manage multiple projects ensuring each project quality of standard and deadlines are met. I prioritize my current daily tasks and take the time to lead in coordinating meetings, worked with the RMP, Lawyers, Legal Assistants, Office Manager, Human Resources Manager, Finance team in generating reports to send less active files to off-site storage to measuring the lineal footage of firms files, workstations, storage, work rooms to allow the office move project team to complete the project ahead of time prior to an office move. In taking this proactive approach, I successfully reduced more than 60% of the on-site files to off-site storage prior to an office move. With approval from the lawyers, RMP and with my guidance and direction the records department sent approximately boxes to off-site storage.(Between January 2016 and April 6th, 2016 an additional boxes were sent to the off-site storage facility). In the end the Records department had only 200 boxes left over to bring to the new office to process. In 2017, I was the United Way Employee Campaign Chair and found it very rewarding raising money to help communities all over the lower mainland and serving lunch for The Salvation Army and donating to Dress for Success through volunteer programs offered.