OBJECTIVE:

EXPERIENCE:

8/2010 - Present

Industry: Real Estate/Property Management

Desk Clerk

Monitor the property via cameras and walking the property once an hour. Empty trash receptacles as needed and clean community room and management office. Regarding any guests/visitors of the residents, checking for valid ID and ensuring proper sign in. Respond to any and all requests of the residents in a prompt and appropriate manner. Keep a running hand-written log of the activity occurring on your shift and checking for and responding to emails as needed utilizing Microsoft Outlook Exchange.

10/2010 - 6/2011

Industry: Other/Not Classified

Beginning Level Clerk

Processed Healthy Family Medi-Cal applications and reviewed and updated Medi-Cal applications using the PC application CalWIN and a mainframe application named MEDS. Involved heavy filing work, some printing of labels, running of copies and some faxing. The processing and the updating of Medi-Cal applications involved quite a lot of data entry and very good attention to detail. In addition, used Microsoft Outlook to check and respond to emails and did some light work with MS Excel.

6/2009 - 10/2010

Industry: Education

Substitute Clerical

Typical duties consisted of running copies, filing, faxing, printing and typing utilizing both MS Word and Excel to create and/or update various documents. Also, when working at various school sites, kept track of student attendance using an application called AERIES. Lastly, answered multi-line phones and greeted and assisted students, parents, staff and visitors as needed.

2/2010 - 5/2010

Industry: Accounting and Auditing Services

Tax Prep Assistant

Contracted through Ajilon Professional Staffing for a company named Schurman Retail Group to assist them in filing their yearly Business Personal Property Taxes.

Helped Schurman Retail Group to prepare and file their Business Personal Property Tax Returns (2010) for their more than four-hundred retail stores throughtout the U.S. Consisted of a lot of MS Excel usage, light MS Word and the ability to read and interpret detail asset reports in order to complete the tax returns properly. It also involved calling and speaking with property tax assessors and extensive use of the Internet.

10/2009 - 3/2010

Industry: Accounting and Auditing Services

Office/Bookeeping Assistant

Organized and inputted client account data accurately into QuickBooks. Reconciled and balanced accounts; generated and printed reports. Also performed some filing and shredding of documents.

11/2009 - 12/2009

Industry: Staffing/Employment Agencies

Field Data Collection Driver

Drove a vehicle which had computer and electronic equipment hooked up inside; followed predefined routes for the purpose of collecting map data which was to be used for the production of online navigation systems.

3/2009 - 4/2009

Industry: Other/Not Classified

Production Lister

Canvassed neighborhoods based on a specific assigned address list issued to us by the Census Bureau. Purpose being to update the Bureau's address lists and maps using a hand-held computer equipped with a GPS unit. All this work was in preparation for the actual census which took place starting in April of 2010.

11/2007 - 3/2009

Industry: Education

Office Help/Assistant

This was a volunteer position. Typical office duties included running copies, filing, faxing and creating and updating documents using MS Word, Excel and some Publisher. Also performed some light bookkeeping in the form of reconciling the monthly bank statement into the online check register using Quicken. Lastly, answered the phone and greeted and assisted clients as needed.

8/2007 - 11/2007

Industry: Other/Not Classified

Between jobs

I was between jobs. I was not receiving any new assignments from some of the staffing agencies I was signed up with so I decided to do some volunteer work to get some hands-on experience with my new set of skills.

3/2007 - 8/2007

Industry: Staffing/Employment Agencies

Temporary Worker

Typically, most of the assignments involved basic office type duties such as running copies, filing and on one assignment, putting HR packets together. I also worked on one assignment with an engineering company named Cambridge Systematics who did traffic analysis for various cities and counties. Using traffic analysis software, processed digitized videos of vehicles traveling on an actual city street, keeping track of each vehicle's position until it exited the system. This tracking data was further analyzed by the engineering staff.

1/2005 - 3/2007

Industry: Other/Not Classified

N/A

Went back to adult school and completed an Account Clerk certificate. Also received certificates of completion for Microsoft Office Suite of applications; in addition, learned how to type, do ten-key and become more proficient with other basic office type functions.

7/2004 - 1/2005

Industry: Telecommunications Services

Drive Tester

Consisted of driving a wireless technician through various assigned routes for the purpose of testing cell sites and gathering data to be used for further analysis by the wireless engineers. Also helped in the setting up/connecting and the disconnecting of all the equipment.

6/2004 - 7/2004

Industry: Computer/IT Services

Contract Programmer

Contracted through staffing agency for Charles Schwab & Co. Specifications of the project were to create new and update existing reports using Information Management's report generating language called Report Format Table Language. New fields had been added to the online portion of the application (Information Management), and the reports needed to be updated to reflect these new online changes.

1/2004 - 6/2004

Industry: Telecommunications Services

Drive Tester

Consisted of driving a wireless technician through various assigned routes for the purpose of testing cell sites and gathering data to be used for further analysis by the wireless engineers. Also helped in the setting up/connecting and the disconnecting of all the equipment.

12/2001 - 1/2004

Industry: Other/Not Classified

Unemployed

After being let go from Charles Schwab & Co., decided to take some time off to think about what to do next. The mainframe computer field was not doing too well at this time and I started thinking about learning some new skills. I used this time to do a little traveling and then to start taking courses in Accounting and General Office skills.

11/1999 - 12/2001

Industry: Computer/IT Services

Systems Support Programmer

Provided in-house technical support for two IBM mainframe computer applications. Also did some programming to add enhanced features to the supported applications.

12/1996 - 11/1999

Industry: Retail

Operations Analyst/Automations Analyst

As Computer Operations Analyst, monitored the system and the daily batch schedule, performing any trouble-shooting as needed. As computer Automations Analyst, set up IPL scripts and performed some programming which helped automate many computer operations tasks.

EDUCATION:

12/2006 - 4/2008

Certification

1/1983 - 3/1986

Bachelor's Degree

9/1978 - 1/1983

Associate Degree

SKILLS:

Skill Name

Skill Level

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS:

Have a good foundation in the fundamentals of accounting as a result of receiving a Certificate of Completion for Account Clerk training in 2006 from Mt. Diablo Adult Education. Reconciled and balanced accounts using both QuickBooks and Quicken. Also organized and inputted client account data using QuickBooks. General office skills and experience include typing, ten-key, filing, creating and updating documents using both Microsoft Word and Excel. Knowledgable and familiar in the use of Microsoft Outlook and Exchange. Also have experience implementing mail merge using MS Word, running copies, faxing, scanning documents and converting any and all documents to PDF format.