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Office Manager

Location:

Elgin, IL, 60124

Posted:

March 30, 2010

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Christie M. Kuefner

**N*** Oliver Drive ▪ Elgin, Illinois 60124

H: 847-***-**** ▪ C: 847-***-****

a6kris@r.postjobfree.com

Qualifications Summary

Skilled and dedicated Executive Assistant with more than 12 years experience coordinating, planning and supporting daily operational and administrative functions.

• Demonstrated capacity to provide comprehensive support for executive-level staff; excel at schooling meetings, coordinating travel, and managing all essential tasks.

• Proven track record of accurately completing research, reporting, information management and marketing-support activities within demanding time frames.

• Adept at developing and maintaining administrative processes that reduce redundancy, improve accuracy and efficiency and achieve organizational objectives.

• Highly focused and results-oriented in supporting complex, deadline-driven operations; able to identify goals and priorities and resolve issues in initial stages.

• Computer literate performer with extensive software proficiency covering wide variety of applications.

Professional Experience

VHT, Des Plaines, Illinois – April, 06 – July, 09

Office Manager-Provide high-level administrative support to CEO, COO and Sales Director of visual marketing company.

Directed all administrative and project-support efforts. Conducted in depth business development research and compiled results for review by management team. Created presentations and scheduled all executive-level board meetings and travel. Prepared daily and weekly revenue reports for upper management. Maintained CRM (Salesforce.com). Prepared weekly sales attainments and month-end commission calculations. Assisted marketing department with design projects, mailings and website updates. Assisted HR department with new employee hire paperwork, resume screening, new employee orientation. Trained all staff on advanced features of Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft Excel. Organized all company events.

Gossman Consulting, Inc. (GCI), Hampshire, Illinois - Jan. 01-Aug. 05

Executive Assistant-Served as Executive Assistant to President and Vice President of consulting firm.

Oversaw a wide variety of administrative functions in support of all projects and information-management processes. Compiled and analyzed data from kiln burns and submitted extensive reports to US EPA and facility managers. Accounts payable and accounts receivable. Performed application upgrades and weekly backup.

Safety-Kleen Corp., Elgin, Illinois - Apr. 97 – Jan. 01

Executive Assistant-Served as Executive Assistant to Vice President of Operations.

Directed all administrative and project-support efforts. Arranged bi-annual facility managers meeting which included travelling to various cities researching hotels, entertainment, dining, activities, etc. Coordinated international travel arrangements and managed calendar. In charge of coordinating reporting activities for 20 geographically dispersed facilities based on production volumes and gathered necessary information to present quarterly bonuses to over 1000 employees. Traveled to area schools presenting “Earth Academy” a company sponsored program. Member of 5 person task force that developed an Employee of the Year Program at all facility locations and presented the program to Senior Management.

Skills

Extensive experience with Windows NT/98/95 and XP, MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Publisher), QuickBooks, Crystal Reports, WebTrends, Internet, Lotus Notes, .SQL, XML, HTML, FTP, CSS, Dreamweaver, InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop CS2, Adobe Acrobat. Working knowledge of Visio, JavaScript, C#, MS Access.

Typing skills of 90-100 wpm .

Education

Graduate of Maine East High School, Park Ridge, IL

Judson College, Elgin, IL – Classes: Business Presentations, Sociology, General Accounting

Elgin Community College, Elgin, IL – Website Design and College Level Chemistry

Personal

Hobbies – Golf, horseback riding, bike riding, baseball, football and basketball

Treasurer of High School Booster Club since 2005.

References

Brannon Lambert

President, VHT

1350 E. Touhy Ave, Suite 110W