OBJECTIVE

A position utilizing my current skills, acquiring new skills, and providing high-tech, innovative support on the executive level while pursuing my degree in business management.

EDUCATION

Northern Virginia Community College (NVCC), Annandale, VA

Currently pursuing an Associates Degree in Business Management; Current GPA 3.5

EXPERIENCE

February 1996 - Present

TELOS CORPORATION, Ashburn, VA

Web Production/Administrative Assistant

Support the Executive Vice President of Integrated Hardware Solutions (IHS), Sales Director, Portable Products Manager, VME Manager and Technical Director; Create and maintain IHS web pages; Create spec sheets of Telos products; Organize and prepare presentations for government/commercial briefings; Retrieve competitive information from internet and maintain files; Create and maintain database files of prospective leads.

September 1995 - February 1996

BEVERLY HEALTH AND REHAB SERVICES, Leesburg, VA

Human Resources Secretary

Supported the Director of Human Resources, the Labor Relations Manager, and the Associate Relation Representatives in the field; Prepared and organized annual benefits information and disseminated to facilities; Prepared and organized union contracts; Organized processed tuition reimbursement requests to corporate for payment; Coordinated travel arrangements and meeting arrangements for staff; Input quality indicators and submitted to corporate.

May 1993 - September 1995

THE MITRE CORPORATION, Reston, VA

Lead Secretary

Organized, prepared, and completed assignments including typing briefings, working notes, letters, memorandums, technical documents and seminar brochures, including high usage of graphics and advanced features of software; Input employee time cards into automated system on a weekly basis; Coordinated travel for staff and prepared all corresponding paper work including travel orders and expense vouchers; Did registration for department conferences; created a database to register people as well as to generate badges, labels, and reports from the same location; Submited outgoing visit requests (OVRs) to companies requiring security clearances of visitors; Coordinated usage of the EDAC Team Technology Room electronically on Meeting Maker; Retrieved information from the Internet related to our department and competitive information

Received a Corporate Special Recognition Award for my involvement in getting the EDAC up and running on the Internet, specifically for installing Netscape on computers in the division and taking the initiative to learn and teach the internet.

Received Team Excellence and Instant Cash Award for creating a database for EDAC conferences where all pertinent information related to the conference could be maintained and generated--previously, no such database had existed for conferences.

Designed my own WWW home page; assisted others with developing their own.

October 1989 - May 1993

FHA/HERO, Reston, VA

Administrative Assistant/Registrar

Organized and completed word processing and desktop publishing assignments specializing in manuscripts, contracts, proposals, organizational publications, releases, brochures, forms, national meeting programs, newsletters, flyers, charts, reports and miscellaneous projects requiring knowledge of styles, tables, merges, macros, and graphics; Supervised, proofread, and revised correspondence executed by department secretaries and coordinated department workflow and assured materials were sent in a timely fashion; Trained new secretarial staff on software, department policies and procedures, and position requirements; Assisted Meetings Manager with planning five regional and one national meeting; negotiated rates with hotels, planned special functions, and arranged for entertainment at the meetings; Programmed database and entered national and regional event registration totalling over 14,000 people per year; Input department budgets into Harmony for approval by finance department.

October 1986 - November 1987

ELECTRONIC INSTRUMENTATION & TECH., INC., Sterling, VA

Executive Secretary

Organized and prepared word processing assignments for the President, Vice-President, and Marketing Manager including letters, memorandums, charts, purchase orders and spread sheet documents; Maintained the President's calendar; Entered, printed, and sent correspondence on a daily basis to those requesting information about products invented by EIT; Processed staff travel arrangements and expense vouchers; Ordered office supplies and maintained supply cabinet.

Recognized for naming a new patented instrument designed by the president to measure the amount of chemicals in liquid "Chem-Chek".

June 1984 - July 1986

ARAMARK, Leesburg, VA

Human Resources Secretary

Executed payroll for approximately 350 employees; Recorded employee sick, personal and annual accrual and usage; Processed employee profiles including new hires, pay increases, laterals, promotions, and terminations; Added new employees to and deleted terminations from automated system; Entered employee time into computer and printed in spread sheet form; compiled two week payroll manually; sent to corporate headquarters to be processed; and distributed paychecks to employees; Did word processing and other assignments for several managers, including the General Manager; Maintained employee personnel records and assured confidentiality; Acquired references of potential candidates; Interviewed potential candidates and explained benefits package.

Received Perfect Attendance award.

HARDWARE/SOFTWARE

SKILLS

Typing Speed: 80+ wpm

Shorthand: 60 wpm

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

The Exceptional Assistant; Power Point; Advanced Document Preparation Workshop; Desktop Publishing THE EASY WAY With WordPerfect 6.0; The Indispensable, Take Charge Assistant; Microsoft Excel; Advanced Macintosh Techniques; Basic Internet Tools; Internet World 1994, Washington DC, Advanced Adobe Photoshop, HTML II, HTML III

REFERENCES

Excellent references available upon request.

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