Tupelo, MS 38804 / Phone: 662-213-3991
efax: 866-207-2102
E-mail:
Melinda McNeel-Seitz
Objective / Seeking a position with a company utilizing my education and experience while acquiring new skills and affording an opportunity to grow professionally.Experience / 12/2000-- Present McNeel & Associates*see below for additional information
● Independent Petroleum Landman
• Due diligence
• Mineral Title
• Drill Site Title / Abstracting
• Curative
• Leasing (surface, ROW and mineral)
• Lease Analysis
• Title Lead and Lease Lead
• Crew Chief and Project Manager for Mineral/ Leasing Project,
Due Diligent Crew, Surface Damages (roads and pads), and
Pipeline ROW
• Worked in Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, West Virginia,
Ohio, Pennsylvania, Kansas, Illinois, Texas, and New Mexico.
1986 – 1995 McNeel & Associates
- Owner
- Preformed contract paralegal/ landman work throughout the State of Mississippi for various attorneys, law firms and brokers throughout the USA specializing in real estate (surface and mineral), contract negotiations, personal injury and medical malpractice litigation and brief writing
- Employed other paralegals, investigators, accident reconstructionist, and a registered nurse
- Reopened in 2000 specializing in all aspects of real estate including mineral and surface title research, lease negotiation, surface damage negotiation, curative, due diligence and ROW.
● Contract with attorneys, title & escrow companies to:
• Resolve escrow accounting
• Resolve policy backlog
• Identify and resolve at-risk files
• Resolve title problems / curative issues
• Train paralegals and attorneys
• Conduct internal audits (identify possible defalcation)
● Contract with attorneys and title & escrow companies to market their
services to local real estate agents, mortgage brokers, lenders and
Developers.
● Real Estate, including surface and mineral title abstracting services
in North Mississippi.
9/2006 – 10/8/2007 Security Title Guarantee Corporation of Baltimore
Mississippi Marketing Representative
- Oversee all title work through my abstracting company McNeel & Associates *see above
- Marketing to potential attorney agents, visiting and calling on existing agents
- Training attorney agents and staff of how to conduct proper title research, conducting supply audits and assisting in yearly audits.
- Planning and organizing seminars throughout the State
- Networking with developers, real estate agents and lenders to increase market share and help increase our agent’s production
- Follow up with all aspects of above services.
- Conducting mini-seminars for Lenders/Realtors
- Attending Community and Economic Development meetings and Barr Conventions, Board of Realtor Meetings
Manager
- Loan Closings, Title insurance and managing title problems in three offices( West Point, Starkville and Tupelo)
- Marketing to Real Estate Agents, Lenders and Mortgage Brokers to increase market share(Underwriters- First American and Security Title)
- Oversee all title work through my abstracting company, McNeel & Associates *see above
Regional Manager
- Opened and managed Tupelo, Oxford and Southhaven offices
- Loan closing duties, title insurance, abstracts of title, including mineral and surface research.
- Marketing to Real Estate Agents, Lenders and Mortgage Brokers to increase market share(Underwriter-MississippiValley)
- Oversaw all title work through my abstracting company McNeel & Associates*see above
2000 - 2002 Prestige Title, Inc. Tupelo, MS
Vice President of Marketing
- Opened Tupelo, MS and Mobile, AL offices
- Oversaw all aspects of title work including mineral title abstracts through my abstracting company McNeel & Associates*see above
- Introduced the company to new areas, increasing market share, attending Board of Realtor meetings, Mortgage Brokers Association meetings and conventions, Mississippi and Alabama Barr Convention meeting and Economic Development meetings (Underwriter-Security Title and Lawyers Title)
Paralegal
- Paralegal specializing in Municipality and Annexation litigation: real Estate: and patient infringement litigation and insurance defense litigation( Underwriter- First American and Lawyers Title)
Columbus, MS
Paralegal
- Real estate, paralegal and title abstractor ( underwriter – First American
Petroleum Landman working in Mississippi and Alabama
- Mineral Title, Abstracting, Leasing
West Point , Ms
Legal Secretary
- Legal Secretary while in high School as a DECA student and continued to work part-time as a legal secretary performing paralegal duties while in college (Underwriter- Mississippi Valley)
Education / 1998 The University of Mississippi, MBA
1996 CLA Certification
1986Mississippi University for Women
BS Degree Paralegal Studies
BA Degree English
1982 West Point High School
Additional Skills /
- Title Insurance (experience with MississippiValley , First American and Security Title software programs)
- Title Problems and Curing Titles
- Abstracting , Mineral Title, Due Diligence, Leasing, Curative, HBP
- Lease Analysis
- Loan closing, brief writing, litigation, annexation and eminent domain ROW
- Proficient with Softpro, LandTech, PALS, ValleyRite, Word, Quick Books, Internet, WordPerfect, Powerpoint, Excel, DLM-PLAN, iLandman, Excel, Access,West Law and Lexis
- Myriad CLE course through the years
- Taught paralegal courses at Mississippi University for Women and Itawamba Community College (litigation and real estate)
- Taught seminars sponsored by The Housing Authority, the City of Tupelo, and Security Title Guarantee Corporation of Baltimore
- Approved by the Mississippi Barr Association to tech CLE courses to Attorneys on Curative, Title Insurance, and Real Estate Law.
- Guest speaker at various civic clubs and highlighted in newspaper articles throughout the years
- Qualified as an expert in Title Deraignment and Curative in Mississippi Chancery Court
- Mississippi Notary Public
- Texas Licensed Right-of-way Agent
Memberships: / American Association of Petroleum Landmen
References
Duwane Kennedy 662-397-2740
Shepherd Breaux 985-373-1047
Kay Barker 601-757-3511