PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Executive Assistant
Water and Wastewater Equipment Sales & Service: Worked directly under the President. Responsibilities: extensive transcription, proposals, submittals, sales agreements, purchase orders, and presentations using MS Office 95 & 97 Word, Excel & Power Point, as well as phones, filing, and varied office functions. Created Excel databases for organizing sales, installation, and brochure information and logging new jobs. Recreated web site with enhanced graphics, faster download time, and meta tags for search engine submission. Implemented company Intranet.

Administrative Assistant
Worked directly for the area general manager and area operations manager. Used MS - Word, Excel, Power Point, Lotus, and Ami Pro, as well as other miscellaneous software. Maintained office and personnel files. Prepared daily, monthly, and weekly reports. Performed a variety of administrative duties.

Accounts Receivable / Sales Secretary
Used Microsoft Office 97 Excel and Word extensively. Daily responsibilities were to process payments and maintain the files for A/R, fill in as receptionist & repair-call processor (using a 16-line NEC phone system), type correspondence and proposals for the sales department, as well as other various office functions. Created a database system to expedite the dispatch of repairmen and cut the processing time to less than one minute per call. Also created a system that cut proposal preparation time from over 2 hours to approximately 30 minutes. Created an auto-numbering invoicing system for over 60 accounts for A/R.

Real Estate Secretary / Sales Assistant
Licensed Real Estate Secretary & Licensed Sales Associate. Responsible for the reorganization of the office. Implemented and modified polices and procedures to improve quality of listings and to retain leads. Redesigned company advertising to promote professionalism, increasing client/customer inquiries. Raised average pending sales from 10 to 20+. Responsibilities: prepared purchase offers/listings, commission calculations, advertisements, property information sheets, correspondence, office EOM and weekly reports, billing, banking (checking and escrow accounts), client/customer service.

Convenience Store Manager
Nice & Easy Grocery Shoppes Franchise - Directly responsible for all phases of the operation, producing $2,000,000+ in sales. Increased Net Profit Dollars by 48.4% through increased sales, decreased expenses, and decreased inventory loss (Shrink - .038%). Reorganized and implemented new policies and procedures for inventory control, customer service, employee morale, receiving, and internal communication - employee management with fourteen full- and part-time employees.

Office Manager
Surgical Laser/Medical Supplies Sales: Secretary to the President and nine sales, service, and office personnel. Responsible for reorganization of the office. Revised and implemented procedures for checks and balances. Solely responsible for A/R and A/P, inventory control, payroll, and bank accounts. Extensive public relations and customer service.

EDUCATION:
Business College Major - Accounting
President's List, Student of the Quarter, President of the Student Council

Mobile Oil's Total Quality Management Course
Cornell University's Merchandising Course
Floyd Wickman's Sales Training Course
CareerTrack - Business Writing That Works
CareerTrack - High-Impact Communication Skills

COMPUTER SKILLS:

Extensive web site development and graphic design.

Experience with the following programs and operating systems:

Windows 3.1, Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows NT
Microsoft Office 95 and 97 (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Access)
Lotus 123 Release 5
Ami Pro 3.1
Microsoft Publisher and Publisher 97
The Print Shop Ensemble Version 4.2
Web Site Design - Member HTML Writers Guild
FTP
Microsoft Internet Explorer 2.0, 3.0, and 4.0+
Outlook and Outlook Express
CC:Mail 2.04
Paint Shop Pro 3.12, 4.12, and 5.00
Free Lance Graphics 2.1
Imagine 3D
Adobe Photo Deluxe 1.0
Microsoft GIF Animator
Ulead GIF Animator
MS Photo Editor 3.0
Microsoft Paint
Diligence Encounters 97
Goldwave 4.02
PureVoice
Alpha-Page Pro
PaperPort HP 32v.A
Wide-Ranging Other Miscellaneous Software

ADDITIONAL SKILLS:

Transcription (60 WPM), Typing(45 WPM), 16-Line Phone System,
10 Key Calculator, FAX, Copier, Pitney Bowes Machines, and Cash Register