Samara Mildner

I began my role as a Sr. Administrative Assistant, Library Technical Services in 03-16-2018 as a casual employee, and later both applied and secured the role as a permanent employee 04-23-2018.  Prior to Yale, I spent all of my career in the Corporate sector; I can honestly say that I enjoy both equally. I managed to come up to speed pretty quickly on Yale's processes, procedures, and policies as they concern Library TS, and I'm interested in broadening my knowledge-base within other divisions/departments.

I hold a BA in French and a Masters in Education.

Committees

• Library Technical Services - Workplace Culture Group
• YUL Administrative Assistants Committee

Volunteerism

• New Haven Reads - Tutor
• Habitat for Humanity of Coastal Fairfield County Youth United 

Experience/Areas of Interest

• Sourcing Operations & Procurement
• Event Planning
• Immigration, global mobility, domestic relocation
• Demonstrated strength in customer focused service orientation to meet high customer expectations 
• Ability to develop trust & cultivate working relationships to shape & influence others 
• Ability to multi-task & adapt to rapidly changing priorities, technology, processes, and procedures 
• Ability to utilize judgment/discretion to determine when to escalate issues, according to risks & circumstances, within the  environment

Technologies (includes those used outside of Yale):

• Workday (procurement/expenses)
• Office 365 (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Sharepoint, Yammer, Skype, Box) 
• Egencia
• Zoom Meetings
• Qualtrics 
• GSuite (Gmail, Calendar, Docs, Slides)
• Oracle Purchasing 
• Concur (travel/expenses)
• Support Central (collaboration & document management/repository tool)
• Cisco (TP, CMR, WebEx, Jabber) 
• ServiceNow (Contingent Workers)
• IDM (Identity Manager) 
• DropBox (cloud file storage/sharing/collaboration)