Brown Office Support Services

When you want it done right, right away, call the B.O.S.S.!

Experience

30+ years secretarial experience in office situations where responsibility, first rate skills, a take-charge attitude and interaction with upper management were essential.
20+ years of desktop publishing, graphic design, layout etc.

SKILLS

- Shorthand
- Data processing using Word and WordPerfect
- Accounts payable and receivable
- Payroll, tax deposits and reporting
- Office organization and systems for small business
- Newsletters and manuscripts
- Training end-users on WordPerfect and customized software.
- Customer service
- Purchasing
- Web Design
- Creation of advertisements and PSA's
- Documentation Writer
- Graphics Software: Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro
- Page Layout Software: Adobe InDesign, Microsoft Publisher

Many volunteer positions requiring major, region-wide planning of seminars,
conferences, social events and class reunions.

EXPERIENCE

Marketing Assistant for a non profit responsible for designing all newspaper advertisements, educational brochures, fundraiser flyers/tickets/program books, press releases, PSA’s, and special event displays in the building. Their website maintenance also required.

Direct Sales—Business cards, flyers, invitations, signs, brochures, letters

Manufacturing—Website design, mailing list creation, merge project, line card design and print

Publishing —Graphic design of advertisements and layout for a
municipality publication

Recording Secretary—Dictation and transcription of monthly board of directors’ meeting for a non profit organization

Designer and Print Shop Manager for a non profit organization: Created and implemented an organized and efficient system of reservations for nationwide seminars; Created and managed in-house print shop for production and printing of collateral and marketing materials - supervised 2-3 part-time employees eliminating the high-cost outsourcing; Creation of magazine and newspaper advertisements, flyers, brochures, invitations, signs, greeting cards, business cards, spiral-bound books and other projects as assigned; Scanning, manipulating and processing of photographs to be used in publications

Administrative Assistant to the President of a hotel developer. Responsible for all correspondence, operation manuals, reports, investor mailings (mail merge), website design, Windows NT Administrator

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