About Me
Who I am
Hi there! I'm Thama Andre
I'm an experienced and well-versed business administration and operations professional with specialized experience in office management, corporate and government communications, project management, non-profit organizations, and human resources. As a skillful developer of strategic administrative communications programs that continually surpass expectations, I have an in-depth project management experience from conception to implementation through team development and leadership skills. I am at ease handling budget limitations, deadlines, and high-pressure situations.
Mail: Thama.Andre@thama-andre.com
Phone: 407-408-9201
My Story
At a very early age, I immediately discovered where my passion and desire for what I wanted to be as an adult – a veterinarian surrounded by animals that I could nurse back to health and hopefully speak to like in the movie Dr. Dolittle. As I matured, I learned immediately that animals cannot respond in full articulate sentences like in Dr. Dolittle and that I don't love ALL animals. I realized I prefer the company of other humans and that I enjoyed leading others through strategic concepts and collaboration while increasing profits. The conclusion led me to mentally retiring the white lab coat with the name Dr. Andre to pursuing my new passion – becoming a leader and supporter of the business & information management administration field.
My Skills
Services
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Creative graphics editing, with the use of custom designed banners catered to the project at hand.
Skilled cultivator of outlining the scope of the event, managing budgets and goals, and crafting designs with either an inhouse or external marketing team, while working with vendors in order to gather bids.
Highly skilled at planning and overseeing projects to ensure they are completed in a timely fashion and within budget allowing for planning and designating project resources and prepare budgets.
Impressive writer at crafting corporate communications geared towards internal and external stakeholders, helping build a company’s reputation and branding, leading to a company’s success.
Assist c-suite, clients, and other staff by either managing or assisting on making the best decisions about travel arrangements. Advising them about their chosen destinations, including weather conditions.
Excellent track-record of preparing and tracking budgets, maintaining records and databases while coordinating, departmental operations, space and office organization.
12
Years of Professional Service
15
Positions Held
10
Years of Administrative Experience
6
Promotions Achieved
Portfolio
My accomplishmentsFrom conception to implementation, I designed and developed the material and content for the Professional Development Resource Guide that highlights the key resources accessible to members to help them advance their professional development.
The Global Council 2019 event brings together IIA leaders from around the world to contribute insight that shape the future of institutes and the internal audit profession. I managed the events, games, and agenda portion of the event.
Alongside with the in-house marketing team, we created the IIA Global Professional Resource guide under my direction. The development of this guide was to develop a toolkit for Affiliates to share and distribute the guide at events and to members.
I drafted a proposal to the CIO to take into consideration the chance to automate the Internal Auditing Education Partnership (IAEP) grant management process which would lead to a potential reduction of 40% of administration time required for grants.
For the COO of IIA, I created a dynamic and interactive presentation for the African Leadership Academy 2019 that would captivate the audience. The presentation focuses highly on the 2019-23 Global Strategic Plan for The IIA.
Alongside marketing and the communications director, we conceptualized and implemented a design to promote the global membership for The IIA. The purpose was to encourage members to invest in their future in the Internal Audit profession by becoming a member of The IIA.
Thama thrives in a pressure‐based work environment, and her teamwork and dedication to meet deadlines were impressive. Her and I were placed together to work on a major project for our sister office in Japan, and during this project, Thama took it upon herself to make sure that any outdated information was researched, re‐done and then executed this project into something not only professional and easy to understand, but interesting to look at.
I have had the pleasure of working with very few individuals like Thama Andre. She is a woman who knows how to get things done and get it right the first time. To anyone considering Thama, I would say they’d be lucky to have such a great co‐worker and team player by their side.
I worked very closely with Thama during her tenure at Jeunesse Global. During her time as a Customer Service representative, her constant molding and developing through each transition has been in awe amazing thing to watch. Through her dedication and effort, Thama has worked through several difficult issues, adjusting to each call to learn, adapt, and ease our Distributors to reduce any call escalation requests to coming to a resolution.
Thama continued to make tremendous strides within our department, from coming out of training in May, to walking the floor and assisting other team members through Skype and on the floor. She has a personality that eases everyone, brings a smile to those in the room when she comes in with how jovial she is. Her sweet nature, but firm understanding for business has been expressed time and time again through the amount of kudos and recommendations for promotion she receives from our Distributors raving about her skills, patience, understanding, and timely responses to their inquiries.
Thama is committed to shared success. She did an outstanding job getting registrants for the Emerging Leaders Forum. She also helped make record attendance for the Diversity Luncheon at GAM Conference! Thama, thank you for your dedication and commitment to the Academic Relations department and The IIA. We could not have had such an amazing year without you.
The success of the IAEP Conference, data consolidation, Leadership Academy, fundraising efforts, and membership engagement and diversity programs were a success in part due to your efforts. It truly is a pleasure working with someone so talented and committed. Keep your great attitude and desire for achievement. I believe that you have what it takes to achieve and surpass all of your goals!
Upon my return to The IIA, I began to work closely with Thama while she was in Academic Relations. Approximately 8 months into us working side by side, I have come to appreciate Thama’s work ethic and dedication. During the development of the Internal Auditing Education Partnership (IAEP) Leadership & Networking Conference, Thama demonstrated how intellectual, motivated she is as well as showing her natural leadership abilities to their fullest extent.
At the time when I was a new member of the team, I never once felt reserved to approach Thama with any questions I had. She is a firm believer in an open‐door policy, ethics, and supporting those around her. Her positive spirit, willingness to assist, and dedication to success led us to have an overall increase in conference attendance by 7.5%.