Administrative Assistant

Posted on: 2006-06-10

Cheryl Wilson 281-701-2111 [email protected] PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: Present: Online retail store Set-up template for home page, set up items to sell on site with description of item and pricing, on a daily basis remove out of stock items and auto populate (re-stock) items to sell, track visitors on a daily basis, created discount coupons for first time purchasers and keep up with best selling items and post to home page. 1992 - 2004 City of Pasadena Pasadena, Texas Administrative Asst./ Buyer - Purchasing 1992-1996 – Secretary to Mayor’s Assistant and Budget/Financial Officer§ Answering phones, typing letters, memos, scheduling appointments and calendars. § Time-keeping for employees, travel arrangements, file/copy confidential documents§ Event organizing for company, extensive customer service 1996-2004 Buyer for Purchasing Department• Purchased items to $15,000.00 for city Departments• Reviewed requisitions thru system and turned these into Purchase Orders• Trained employees on system to enter requisitions for items needed in each department. • Weekly visits to outside vendors – cold calling/ regular City vendors• Received bids on leasing copiers for City Departments – (48) and made decision of which document company to lease from – (saved City $80,000 for a contract we had by pooling departments together on copies),• Trained employees on copiers• Handled Nextel cell phones for the City – approximately. 250 phones – We purchased thru Nextel and I separated the monthly invoices between what employer paid and employee personal calls that had to be paid(500+ pages) and saved the city monies by pooling phones.• Created a filing system for Purchasing department• (by vendor, items we purchased and city departments). Mail room is under supervision of Purchasing; we had a mail clerk position open for 1 year and purchasing (between 2 employees including myself had to run copiers, mailing apparatus and folding equipment on a daily basis besides making city mail runs for departments outside City Hall. We ran large volumes of mail outs to citizens from city departments. 1986-1992 Vessel Fabricators, Inc Houston, Texas Administrative/Personal Assistant to CEO Typed letters, memos and invoices• Answered phones for President and Vice President • Time keeping for employees• Travel arrangements• Scheduled testing for vessels• Personal asst. to President and V. President Ability to work independently with minimal supervision. Customer service is one of my strong points; I enjoy being around people. Ms Word, Word Perfect, Windows 95/97, Pentamation (a purchasing system), MS Excel, Internet user, email and data entry. EDUCATION: 1979 - 1983 Sam Rayburn High School Pasadena, Texas 1984 San Jacinto College/South REFERENCES: Andy Helms – Budget/Financial Officer - city of Dayton, TX Johnny Isbell – Previous Mayor/ CEO of Apache Oil 281-487-5400 Emily Escobar – Assist. to City Secretary/Pasadena 713-475-5513 Interests and activities: Running, working out, reading, cooking, searching internet to find leads for Online Business (on a daily basis) Volunteer experience: Habitat for Humanity E-mail [email protected] Cheryl Wilson