Kelly Foster

Operations Associate

Denver, Colorado, United States29 yrs experience

Key Highlights

  • Proven expertise in event planning and execution.
  • Strong background in administrative support for executives.
  • Extensive experience in curriculum development and teaching.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a skilled administrative professional with a strong focus on event planning and educational support.

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Skills

Core Skills

Administrative SupportEvent PlanningTeachingCurriculum Development

Other Skills

calendar managementmeeting planningproject managementprocess developmentSharePoint creationTeams collaborationbudget managementvendor managementcollaborationlogistics managementteam collaborationpublic speakingmentoringassessment creation

About

I am an administrative professional with experience supporting multiple executives and their teams. My experience includes calendar management, meeting planning and execution, large and small event planning, small project management, process development, SharePoint creation, Teams collaboration and more. I pride myself in being proactive, being the go to person for company knowledge, having a high level of EQ, having discretion, and bringing a positive attitude to work. Prior to that I was an ESL professional for 11 years. Through this position I gained extensive experience teaching, training and mentoring both international students and graduate students. I developed dozens of courses, developed class and standardized testing materials and wrote and adjusted curriculum. I was the site coordinator for the accreditation process of the school and was responsible for coordinating between the school and the accrediting body and making sure faculty and staff submitted their corresponding material in a timely manner. I honed my public speaking, presentation and writing skills. In addition to the experience I gained as an instructor, I have an event planning, purchasing and managerial background. I promoted and executed a number of in-store artist meet and greets, several in-store performances, large scale sales events which included massive give a ways and radio DJ presence. I handled all logistics, including marketing, ticket sales, budgeting, product purchasing and artist relations.

Experience

29 yrs
Total Experience
4 yrs
Average Tenure
10 mos
Current Experience

Zscaler

Executive Assistant

Aug 2025Present · 10 mos · Denver, Colorado, United States · Remote

calendar managementmeeting planningevent planningproject managementprocess developmentSharePoint creation+3

Red canary

Executive Assistant

Sep 2024Aug 2025 · 11 mos · Denver, Colorado, United States · Hybrid

Optiv

Administrative Assistant

Oct 2022May 2024 · 1 yr 7 mos · Denver, Colorado, United States

Convercent by onetrust

Executive Business Partner

Jul 2021Feb 2022 · 7 mos · Denver, Colorado, United States

Autodesk

Administrative Assistant

Jul 2018Feb 2021 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Greater Denver Area

  • Supported 5 Senior Inside Sales Managers, including 9 frontline managers and 100 individual contributors
  • Planned and executed a wide range of meetings (weekly team meetings, forecast meetings, all hands, battlefield calls, planning meetings)
  • Outlook calendaring
  • Regularly checked for conflicts and moved as necessary
  • Managed and sent invites across multiple time zones
  • Kept a calendar color-coding system up to date
  • Coordinated conference rooms
  • Invites
  • Agenda creation
  • Zoom webinar and conference producer
  • Took notes, action-items and sent reminders of key deliverables
  • Event planning
  • Major event: Lead planner holiday party for 400+ guests at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science.
  • Co-planner of the experience center for a large regional sales conference
  • Lead planner for several smaller internal and external events
  • Co-planner for several large internal and external events
  • Lead planner of the HERO award program
  • Worked with outside vendors for items ranging from awards to printing
  • Planned travel using Egencia for Sr. Managers
  • Reported expenses using Concur
  • Kept budgets for Sr. Managers, Frontline Managers, and the Denver Hub
  • Created excels with formulas to keep track of expenses
  • Managed requests for funds
  • Maintained org charts and territory maps for sales rep’s geographical territories
  • Lead site liaison for all employee resource groups and committees
  • Designed several SharePoint pages for various teams
  • Onboarded new hires (supplies and sales tool access)
  • Ordered and set up food for manager lunches, team meetings, new hire breakfasts, end of quarter events and many other on-site and offsite events.
  • Company culture champion
  • Learned organizational information about how to do things and became the go to person for internal company knowledge
  • Used multiple different software programs and systems including, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Teams, SharePoint, Draftr, LUMA, Mural
event planningcalendar managementbudget managementvendor managementteam collaborationAdministrative Support+1

Spring international language center

English as a Second Language Instructor

Jun 2006Jul 2017 · 11 yrs 1 mo · Denver, CO

  • Instructor 2006-2017
  •  Taught all levels and all sections of courses in a 7 level program
  •  Wrote diagnostic tests for grammar and reading and writing
  •  Evaluated and rewrote grammar, reading and writing and listening and speaking finals
  •  Presented at COTESOL: Inspiring the Inner Reader (2012)
  •  Presented at COTESOL: Using Movies to Enhance Reading and Writing (2008)
  •  Presented at COTESOL: Enhancing Reading and Writing Through Music (2016)
  • CEA Self Study Coordinator and Sub-committee Chair 2013
  •  Attended CEA guidelines seminar in Dallas, TX
  •  Presented information from seminar to the faculty
  •  Acted as liaison between CEA and Spring
  •  Met with CEA leadership committee to assess progress of report
  •  Proofread report
  •  Led team of 7 people for the subcommittee
  •  Evaluated if the school met the CEA standards for our subsection of the accreditation guidelines
  •  Wrote the report for the subsection
  • Assessment Committee 2014-2015
  •  Evaluated teacher created assessments
  •  Created curriculum checklists to help teachers in assessment creation
  • Materials Coordinator 2012-2017
  •  Vetted all teacher created teaching materials
  •  Created extensive folder of teacher created materials
  • Graduate Student Mentor (Practicum Students) 2006-2014
  •  Coached graduate students in teaching skills
  •  Evaluated their lesson plans
  •  Evaluated their teaching practices
  • Curriculum Committee 2009, 2010, 2016
  •  Evaluated new text books
  •  Evaluated sections of the curriculum
  •  Rewrote curriculum when necessary
  • CEA Sub-committee chair 2008
  •  Led team of 5 people
  •  Evaluated if the school met the CEA standards for our subsection of accreditation guidelines
  •  Wrote the report for the subsection
curriculum developmentpublic speakingmentoringassessment creationTeachingCurriculum Development

Northern arizona university

Office Specialist

Jan 2002May 2006 · 4 yrs 4 mos

  • Office Specialist, Registrar
  •  Enrolled students in classes
  •  Troubleshot enrollment problems for students
  • Graduate Instructor, Program in Intensive English
  •  Taught a multi-skill ESL class to international students
  • Fixtagger, American National Corpus
  •  Identified and labeled grammatical forms in the corpus
  • Credentials Evaluator, Sr., Undergraduate Admissions
  •  Evaluated transfer transcripts
  •  Entered test scores and other pertinent information
  •  Provided customer service
  •  Evaluated student applications and made admission decisions
  • Transcript Office Assistant, Office of the Registrar
  •  Provided customer service
  •  Filled student and departmental requests
  •  Researched data that was not in the updated system

Gs bookstore

Music Department Manager and Event Coordinator

Sep 1993Oct 2000 · 7 yrs 1 mo · Tucson, Arizona Area

  • Music Buyer and Department Manager
  •  Planned and orchestrated music events and promotions
  •  Met with music company representatives and ordered new product
  •  Kept department budget
  •  Ran reports for backlist orders
  •  Entered orders and new product in computer
  •  Maintained presentation of department
  •  Supervised employees assigned to department
  •  Presented at staff meetings
  • Store Trainer
  •  Trained new employees
  •  Evaluated employee performance
  •  Addressed procedural issues at staff meetings
  • Special Event Coordinator/Assistant to the Music and Book Buyer
  •  Secured, set up and decorated venue for event
  •  Promoted event
  •  Entered product orders for event
  • Accounts Receivable
  •  Filed customer account statements
  •  Recorded payments to accounts
  •  Generated and sent monthly statements
  •  Monitored special trade agreements and layaway agreements
  •  Trained employees in Accounts Receivable procedures
  • Customer Service Manager
  •  Supervised and trained new customer service employees
  •  Ordered and maintained stock level of products sold in Customer Service
  • Customer Service Clerk

Education

Northern Arizona University

Master of Arts - MA — TESL

Northern Arizona University

Bachelor of Arts - BA — Speech Communication

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