Objective
Part-time telecommuter position requiring creative thinking and strong communication and organizational skills.
WORK HISTORY
Nov. 2005-Present Administrative Assistant, Computer World, Tulsa, OK.
Answer phones, take orders, bill customers, maintain scheduling, payroll and taxes.
Dec. 2000-Oct. 2005 Collector, Metris Companies, Tulsa, OK.
Taking inbound and making outbound collection calls in a high volume call center. Work extensively with Magellan and Evolve Autodialer and FDR database to obtain commitments to pay in a constantly changing work environment.
Nov. 1999-Dec. 2000 Account Executive & Reporter, The Oklahoma Eagle, Tulsa, OK.
Maintained current customer accounts and made calls to attract potential clients. Worked with clients through fax and personal interviews to provide a newspaper ad to get the readers attention. Prepared classified advertising for publication and layout for the classified section.
Covered stories from school board and city council meetings to executions in McAlester. Wrote human interest and feature stories. Took photographs to accompany stories and spoke to people daily through in-person or phone interviews to report the news in the North Tulsa community.
Related Experience
Worked for Tulsa Community College’s school paper, The TCC Connection, for two years.
Skills
Problem Solving
Diffusing angry customers and employees
All Windows applications including Excel, Access and Publisher
Quark Express for Macintosh
Some desktop publishing
Typing (approximately 40 wpm)
EDUCATION
May 1999 Associates of Arts Degree-Journalism, Tulsa Community College
May 2005 Associates of Arts Degree-General Business, Tulsa Community College
May 2005 Associates of Arts Degree-Liberal Arts, Tulsa Community College
May 2005 Bachelors of Science-Major, Marketing---Minor, Management, OSU-Tulsa
Tulsa Community College Honor’s Scholar
Cumulative GPA 3.211