Abstracting Resume



Justin Bossert

953 Irwin St Apt 12, Morgantown, WV 26505 (304) 761-4604 justindbossert@

Qualifications

• 4+ years title abstracting experience in West Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Ohio

• Worked as team lead managing crew, reviewing files, and communicating project developments to client

• Right of way project experience

• Active AAPL member

Education

Valparaiso University

Bachelor of Science with honors

September 2004 to May 2008

Employment

Kegler's Sports Bar

November 2015 to Present (Morgantown, WV)

• Stock supplies, food, and drink products and assist with general upkeep of restaurant

Larkspur Land Group, LLC

August 2015 to October 2015 (Belmont County, OH)

• Ran client-requested parcels back to 1860’s to establish chain of title for all acreage under lease

• Located, examined, and interpreted various courthouse documents including deeds, deeds of trust, leases, rights-of-way, wills, appraisements, heirship affidavits, circuit court dockets, landbooks, and surveys

• Organized and presented historical documents, maps, and tax records to file review staff in digital format using Adobe Acrobat and Google Sheets

• Checked online databases and in-county circuit court records to confirm that mineral ownership was not affected by court rulings

• Compared county tax maps, Ohio DNR/GIS, and recorded plats to ensure that subject property was accurately described under lease

Steptoe and Johnson, PLLC

May 2013 to August 2015 (Doddridge, Taylor and Ritchie counties, WV)

• Produced title reports both remotely and in-county to be used by oil and gas attorneys in the creation of certified title opinions

• Worked to complete all research as quickly as possible while maintaining high degree of accuracy and thoroughness

• Assisted with division order project, confirming that parcels were part of proposed drilling unit by comparing county tax maps with maps delineating the boundaries of the drilling unit

• Linked GIS parcel data to client matter numbers in Quorum Land System

• Overlaid maps from various sources to obtain best picture of the real world boundaries of subject property

Daxton Irving

February 2013 to May 2013 (Marshall and Wetzel counties, WV; Greene and Westmoreland counties, PA)

• Responsible for collecting information pertaining to leased mineral rights in West Virginia and Pennsylvania counties

• Worked collaboratively with other title abstractors on groups of parcels that might share common documents as to eliminate duplicated work

• Moved quickly from trainee to certified abstractor

• Selected for promotion to Steptoe and Johnson, PLLC

JRT Land

April 2012 to October 2012 (Stark, Summit, and Holmes counties, OH)

• Performed due diligence and title curative work for client seeking to purchase oil and gas rights in Ohio

• Sought to quickly determine if a given parcel was currently under lease and whether extraction of oil and gas was taking place by examining recorded leases/assignments and Ohio Department of Natural Resources well production data

• Fulfilled team lead responsibilities by monitoring file output, managing parcel assignments, relaying information between client and abstractors, and submitting status reports

• Continuously updated spreadsheets to reflect our findings for 700+ parcels

Samuel I. White, P.C.

September 2011 to March 2012 (Morgantown, WV)

• File and account handling for Morgantown-based law firm specializing in loan defaults and foreclosures

• Prepared foreclosure and bankruptcy documents for attorneys’ signature

• Coordinated information transfer with major banks such as Bank of America, Wells Fargo, JP Morgan Chase, and Sun Trust

• Promoted to payoff and reinstatement department

InTitles

June 2010 to August 2011 (Lewis and Upshur counties, WV)

• Abstractor on historic right-of-way project

• Traveled between Lewis and Upshur counties, WV to perform courthouse research pertaining to the surface ownership of all parcels through which a natural gas pipeline ran

• Ran ROW ownership chains to confirm that they came into Chesapeake Energy

• Compared all findings with county maps, making note of parcels for which right of way grants were missing from the public record

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