Administrative Assistant

Posted on: 2010-05-13

Objective:

 

To work in a challenging environment where I can demonstrate my current skills and enhance what I have learned from my education and work experience; and have the opportunity to serve the community in which I live.

 

 

Skill Summary

 

Typing: 55 wpm                    Microsoft Office Suite          Microsoft XP 97       

Data Entry                             Customer Service                Bilingual (Spanish)

Presentation Skills              Front Desk                            Microsoft Outlook

Multiple Phones                   Filing                                      Ordering Supplies

Scheduling                           Purchase orders                  Lotus Notes

 

 

Strengths

I am a motivated and hard-working individual with excellent communication and interpersonal skills.  I’m able to develop ideas into workable plans that improve effectiveness and efficiency of the work to better achieve the objectives of the organization.

 

 

Professional Experience:

 

 

Administrative Assistant              School District of Lancaster            2004 – 2008

• Coordinate schedules for the Principal and Assistant Principals
• Prepare and maintain confidential employee and student records for 180 staff    

      members and about 1,500 students

• Organize substitute teachers to ensure adequate coverage for all classes

      each day

• Prepare purchase orders for most departments within the high school
• Verify and print progress and report cards each marking period
• Supervise and coordinate the work of five other central office secretaries
  • Certified interpreter in Spanish, with responsibility for translating correspondence and interpreting for students, parents and teachers as needed
  • Compose correspondence to staff, teachers and students
  • Interaction with students, teachers, and parents on a daily basis

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Data Entry Clerk                             Core Source Health Insurance      2003 – 2004

• Input employee health medical information onto computer system
• Updated any medical record on a monthly basis
• Filed, faxed, and mailed correspondence
• Reviewed guidelines, policies, and procedures with new employees

 

 

Accounts Payable Assistant      New Holland Credit                         2002 – 2003

Kelly Services - Lancaster, PA

• Responsible keeping track of department spending/budgets
• Prepared PowerPoint presentations for Budget meetings
• Prepared and processed all checks for vendor payments
• Composed written correspondences
• Prepared showrooms with new product
• Answered phones, typed, faxed & filed correspondence

 

 

Licensed Insurance Agent          Great American Life Assurance    2001 – 2002 

Patillas, Puerto Rico

 

Administrative Assistant              Kelly Services                                   2000 – 2001

Guayama, Puerto Rico

 

Administrative Assistant Fund for the City of New York        1995 – 1996

 

 

 

Education & Training

 

Associates in Arts                            Harrisburg Area Community College      

Major - Business Administration

 

Computer Processing Specialist   SCS Business & Technical Institute