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This may seem like a silly question, but I've seen it before: is your resume formatted the way you have it here in the actual resume itself, or did you just drop the formatting to paste it into the Cellar?
I have watched several people have their resumes immediately tossed in the trash because the formatting was just plain text, hard on the eyes. There's no excuse for that with the number of Resume formatting wizards out there. In Word, several options are available under New Office Document --> Other Documents tab.
The trick is you want to be able to skim it and visually pull out the most important parts. It also helps to get rid of less important parts. For example, "Entails meeting extensive dead lines" is pretty useless--especially because a deadline cannot be extensive. They can be frequent, critical, or tight, but the very implication of a deadline is it does not stretch over an extended period of time. And "Combine the needs of the project manager and consultants/vendors needs into a contract" could just be shortened to "contract drafting," as could several others. In theory your potential employers know what is involved in contract drafting and don't need it spelled out for them. On the other hand, "Effectively improved (shortened) the (average) contract approval process from (2-3 months to 3 weeks.) a 2 - 3 month process to a 3 week process" is good because it is something above and beyond the normal business duties. However, this is tossed in with the job responsibilities. I'd have two bulleted lists, one of job responsibilities and one of special accomplishments, and keep it to about four points each.
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