Harriet M. Brenner, CMRS, CRI
Agent, Instructor and President of The Realtime Center For Learning
 Beginning
with her first freelance court reporting assignment in the
mid-1960s, Harriet Brenner, CMRS, CRI, has been on the forefront of
innovation in the court reporting field. Harriet has held a variety
of positions, from court reporting in court and in the freelance
field to owning an agency and a court reporting school, to serving
as vice president of one of the largest court reporting companies in
the country. There she was in charge of training, management and
quality control of seventy-five reporters, writing the company's
format book, instituting an intern program, and a level system of
reporters based on their expertise, changing the industry's way of
scheduling work for court reporters.
Harriet is a lifelong learner and a born educator. Her teaching
experience includes several schools such as the Verbatim Court
Reporting School and the
Academic Business Institute,
private court reporting tutoring, and realtime court reporting
teacher for BOCES of Nassau County, New York. She has taught speed
classes in which students received dictation at speeds ranging from
60 to 225 words per minute; created and taught deposition-court
procedures and four-voice classes; and trained inexperienced
reporters after completing their formal training. During her
extensive career, Harriet also developed and coordinated an intern
program for a multi-million-dollar court reporting business, which
she continues to oversee in her present company.
Seeing an urgent need for further changes in the court reporting
industry, Harriet made a decision to open a new kind of court
reporting agency, one that addressed the need for highly technical
computer-aided court reporting skills. Realtime Reporting, Inc. was
incorporated in May of 1997 and opened for business in January of
1998.
As president of Realtime Reporting, Inc., Harriet has cultivated
trusting, long-standing relationships in the legal community,
including attorneys, law firms, administrators, support staff, and
other professionals. Along with her partner, Ellen Birch, Harriet
embarked on a mission to provide the legal field with the most
professional, courteous and experienced court reporters available in
the industry, and to provide court reporters with an everlasting
opportunity for professional and personal growth through
state-of-the-art technology and a supportive staff to meet the
reporters' needs.
Harriet is an Agent, Instructor and the President of The Realtime Center For Learning. She received her Certified Manager of
Reporting Services from the NCRA on August 3, 2001 and her Certified
Reporting Instructor on June 30, 2003.
Ellen P. Birch
Agent and Vice President of The Realtime Center For Learning
 Prior
to establishing Realtime Reporting, Inc. in 1998 with her partner,
Harriet Brenner, Ellen Birch amassed fourteen years of outstanding
performance in various service, sales and management positions.
As co-owner and vice president of Realtime Reporting, Inc., Ellen is
responsible for providing attorneys with competent, professional
court stenographers to record testimony of depositions, arbitrations
and hearings.
In addition, Ellen provides personal attention to clients and
develops new business, while managing the overall operations of the
company.
Prior to founding Realtime Reporting, Ellen held the position of
vice president of a multi-million-dollar court reporting business,
where she rose from office administrator to office manager,
ultimately assuming responsibility for all operations at the
business' Long Island location as vice president. In 2006, Ellen was
recognized by Long Island Business News as one of 40 rising stars in
the Long Island business community under 40 years of age.
Ellen is an Agent and Vice President of The Realtime Center For Learning.
Kathryn Dittmeier
Agent and Instructor at The Realtime Center For Learning
Kathryn Dittmeier has been a Stenograph Certified
Independent Training Agent since 1994, training Long Island, New
York court reporters on Premier Power, Case CATalyst, and CaseView
software systems. She developed Phoenix Theory and Case CATalyst
classes for Stenograph University Online (SUO), co-developed SUO's
Speedbuilding Online course, and has taught online court reporting
classes for Brown College of Court Reporting and St. Louis Community
College.
With a background as a realtime transcription agency owner, court
reporting school teacher at Midstate College in Peoria, Illinois,
and Stenograph's Education Program Manager, Kathy opened Steno
Solutions, an educational product development company for the
machine shorthand industry, in 1994. Steno Solutions provides
educational information and products for the field of machine
shorthand as well as novelties and gifts related to court reporting.
Kathryn has authored several textbooks including Getting Started With RapidWrite Pro, EZ Transcripts With Case CATalyst, Pocket Practice
Dictionary Building, Pocket Practice Numbers, Making Money With Your
Electronic Shorthand Machine, Learn To Use Case CATalyst, and also
authored the popular Road to Success audio tape dictation series.
Her articles have been published in the Journal of Court Reporting,
and she has been a seminar speaker at numerous state conventions as
well as the National Court Reporters Association Convention.
Kathryn is an Agent and Instructor at The Realtime Center For Learning.
Debra Neiderfer
Agent and Director of The Realtime Center For Learning
Through her seventeen years in the court reporting field, Debra
Neiderfer has been involved in numerous areas of the industry. She
has served as an advocate and leader for court reporters and has
developed relationships with reporters and reporting services
nationwide. Debra is currently the director of business development
at a city court reporting agency,
a position she has held for seven years. In this role, she generates
new business and maintains excellent relationships with the
company's existing clients.
Debra was previously associated with two other court reporting
agencies for ten years. She progressed in leadership positions from
office manager to account executive to vice president of sales.
Debra is an active member of the NCRA (National Court Reporters
Association) and STAR (Society for the Technological Advancement of
Reporting). She is a graduate of the State University of New York at
Oneonta.
Debra is an Agent and Director of The Realtime Center For Learning. |
