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Tel.: (905) 840 – 7631

e-mail: abqhne@r.postjobfree.com

HIGHLIGHTS OF SKILLS & EXPERIENCE:

Creative Skills: Designed, developed and stream-lined a Purchase Order system at Maritime Ontario right from inception. Periodically reviewed sourcing of materials to reflect better pricing and quality of products.Constantly reduced costs of ordered items by negotiating quantity discounts, or ordering recycled supplies.Responsible for: setting up a frequency schedule of ordering supplies based on user consumption; placing orders, expediting them, creating a preferred list of vendors that were constantly monitored in a JIT purchasing environment.Consulted with warehouse and production in order to develop orders for MRO requirements Developed and created form letters to be given to drivers and brokers outlining the corrective/remedial action to be taken regarding recovery of payments from clients.Processed on a timely basis Daily Payment Reports summarizing the various types of payments received from clients.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:

Job Title: Data Entry Operator

Responsible for: Data entry of Canadian Tire Invoices into the CTFS (Canadian Tire Financial System) System.

Adjustment of Taxes by removing shop supplies or removing PST charges from Certain invoices and then having the master total accordingly adjusted.

Preparing a tax deduction form in Excel format.

Term: June 2004 to November 2011

Maritime Ontario Freight Lines Ltd. Mississauga.

Job Title: Office Clerk (A/P and Purchasing)

Responsible for: Accounts Payable activities of the Parcel Division of a Transport Company relating to recovery of payments from clients payable to Canada Post Corp. Sourcing and purchase of office, warehouse and industrial supplies for a company employing about 250 employees (full-time, temporary and contract); Data Entry.

Term: February 2000 to November 2002.

Financial Concepts Group, Toronto.

Job Title: Administration Associate.

Responsible for: Assisting in the set-up of a new department that bridged support to the clients, brokers and Insurance Companies FCG represented.

Term: May to December 1999.

Government of Ontario (Ministry of Correctional Services) Mimico, Etobicoke.

Job Title: Administration & Filing Clerk.

Responsible for: Maintaining a filing system (manual & computerized) for 400 inmates.

Term: August 1996 to June 1998.

Government of Ontario (Ministries of Education, Citizenship, Environment & Energy, Management Board Secretariat), Toronto.

Job Title: Administrative Clerk,, Surplus Assets Officer, Parking Co-ordinator. Purchasing Clerk, Filing Clerk

Responsible for: Accounts payable, reconciliation of A/P, purchasing of goods and services for the office;

co-ordinating all the parking requirements and related activities (new parking allotments, cancellations, monthly payment receipts and reconciliation) of the Ministry of Citizenship.

Term: April 1994 to July 1996.

Revlon Corporation, Mississauga, Ontario.

Job Title: Data Entry Clerk

Responsible for: Data Entry operations and other related office work such as word-processing, preparing spreadsheets, etc.

Term: September 1993 to March 1994.

Job Title: Collections Officer

Responsible for: Collection of delinquent accounts receivable.

Term: July to December 1990.

Petroleum Services Company, Kuwait.

Job Title: Tender Co-Ordinator/Purchasing Supervisor.

Responsible for: Supervision of the entire tender and purchasing operation of a trading firm importing oil country goods for the oil companies and Ministries of the Government of Kuwait.

Term: October 1981 to January 1990.

EDUCATION:Successfully completed a Canadian Government Customs Brokerage course and exam in 2007 and have regularly passed the quarterly Quizzes offered by CCS since 2007 until today.

Completed 2 courses towards a PMAC (Purchasing Management) Certificate 1993-94.

Institute of Catering Technology & Applied Nutrition, Bombay, India

Completed a 3-year full-time course in Hotel Management & Catering

Matriculation Certificate 1960

OTHER SKILLS & TRAINING:

Computer: MSWord, PowerPoint, Access, Excel, MS Outlook.Planning and organizational skills.Ability to work both within a team and individually.Detailed attention to minute details.Excellent verbal and written skills.

REFERENCES: Available upon request.

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