J. Rivers Birmingham, AL Ph: 205-***-**** Email rcm3w6@r.postjobfree.com

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Increasing Bottom Line Profits and Executive Management Capabilities Through

Superior Administrative Expertise

•Provide personal administrative support to various management levels within regional and Fortune 500 companies.

•Executive administrative, office and project management experience enables me to work closely with the President/CEO in both an administrative and executive management alliance.

•Expert communication and presentation skills free time for the President/CEO to focus skills in other areas.

•Ability to work unsupervised with superb multi-tasking abilities.

•Exceptional administrative expertise including clerical, project management, accounting, event management, tracking and reporting eliminates administrative concerns.

•Experienced in forming and providing leadership to project teams and individuals.

•Previous executive management of marketing, research and publishing firms has placed me in the position of recognizing, understanding and responding quickly to negative situations and potential winning opportunities.

•Ability to maintain complete confidentiality in both business and personal assignments.

•Accurate Budgeting, Forecasting and Accounts Payable / Receivable

•Microsoft Office capabilities.

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I offer over thirty years of executive administrative, marketing and project management experience. After fifteen years of employment with both small and Fortune 500 Companies (including positions from Executive Assistant to Account Executive) I founded and managed a small, yet profitable, marketing firm located in Birmingham, AL. During the following fifteen years I also founded Children’s Media, Inc. Publishing to develop children’s character development books and Controlled Risk Marketing a new qualitative research technique which was utilized exclusively by Message Factors, Inc., one of the southeast’s largest research firms.

The expertise I have gained through working for other firms and managing all aspects of my own businesses provides me with an in-depth understanding of a CEO or President’s real needs in an Executive Assistant. The most crucial needs, aside from superior administrative skills, are experience, a clear understanding of the management process and the crucial functions of the CEO/President. Additionally, it is critical that the Executive Assistant be able to serve as a “right-arm” and a confidential sounding board. My experience allows me to provide these functions.

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Delivering World Class Administrative, Management, and Project Experience Through

Project management Communications (oral/written) Preparation of accurate reports

Research/analysis SEO Management Attention to details

Budgeting/forecasting Personnel management Communications

Team management Scheduling/Time management Budgeting/Accounts P/R

Experience

2010 – Present: Owner of The RiversGroup, providing administrative, project management and marketing services to a variety of clients both virtual and on-site. Project examples:

•Serve as the Executive Assistant to the Owner of Black Project, a web development and photography company. I handle all proposals, scheduling, correspondence, expense reports and accounting. Additionally, I source and direct additional talent including designers, writers and software programmers as needed. Ongoing assignment.

•Created a new accounting and database program for Bluff Springs Farms. The system saved over $20,000 in one tax audit. Ongoing assignment.

2008 – 2009: Sabbatical to provide full time care to terminally ill parents.

1986 - 2008: Founder of J. Rivers and Company, Inc., Marketing / Project Management, Birmingham, AL

Projects Included:

Family Media, Inc. – Publishing Division of J. Rivers and Company, Inc. – Developed concept and enlisted private funding ($300,000.00) for the successful development of a “character building” book and audio book series. The formation of sales and marketing alliances with two national publishing firms assisted in pre-sales of 60,000 volumes for the first publishing. I served as project manager from concept through implementation.

Taylor Realty Associates, LLC, Dallas, TX – Reposition a small, realty firm with 19 sales representatives, a savvy founder and a non-existent budget utilizing public relations, targeted area marketing and intense sales training. Within six years Taylor Realty reached its 1,000th transaction, listed 120 sales associates, established a branch office in San Salvador and plans to open offices in Greece, Albania and Macedonia. 2009 sales reached $260 million placing them among the top 30 real estate organizations in North Texas.

Digital Convergence, Dallas, TX – Project: Gain entrance and sell a new digital marketing concept to a specific list of Fortune 500 Companies. Through unique contact and entrance strategies and targeted, aggressive sales

presentation I acquired 11 clients including Proctor & Gamble, 3M, Cross, SC Johnson, Oberthur and G-Tech among others. Total potential revenue to company estimated at $28M plus.

Medical Interactive, a division of J. Rivers and Company, Inc., Birmingham, AL – Development of the first national, on line medical product introduction and training program. The project acquired over 20 corporate medical participants within the first year. Clients included companies such as Bayer, 3M, Miltex, Becton Dickinson and Steris Laboratories among others. The program was specifically designed to assist sales representatives in the presentation and training of new products and procedures. Average sales increase achieved was 18%.

Daniel Realty, Birmingham, AL – Served as Project Director on an international real estate offering program for Daniel Realty (division of Daniel International) resulting in an immediate cash infusion of $37 million from property sales and a continuing revenue stream through building management contracts.

Substance Abuse Program – Developed concept and acquired participation among 26 medical facilities in a syndicated marketing program targeting substance abuse and clinical depression. The program provided marketing

tools, project management and staff training. The result: patient admissions increased an average of 18% within a 12 month period. A strategic alliance with Northwestern University provided program oversight and direction.

Controlled Risk Marketing – Research Division of J. Rivers and Company, Inc. – Developed a proprietary qualitative research technique which I utilized for my own clients and clients of Message Factors, Inc, one of the largest southeastern research firms. The program required development and management of an outbound call center housed in my Birmingham, AL office.

U.S. Capital Corporation, Columbus Ohio – Crisis Management; spinning an environmental attack on a luxury resort development into a massive publicity campaign, U.S. Capital Corporation achieved $28 million (40%) in pre-construction sales within a ninety day period. Project featured on the Today Show.

Durr Fillauer (Division of Bergen Brunswig) Birmingham, AL – Acquired 21 medical manufacturers/distributors as members of the first on-line, medical sales, product presentation and training network, “Sales-Link”, developed for a division of Bergen Brunswig. Results: average sales increase of 11% within 16 months and significant reduction of sales time.

InTouchCare – a new product concept developed by J. Rivers and Company, Inc. for the health care industry. The product concept is a method to keep family members, physicians, nurses and patients aware of care administration “in real time” through the use of new technology. The business plan included operational procedures, implementation process, marketing plan, budgets and profit forecasts. Product still in development.

Additional Experience

•Wendy’s Old Fashioned Hamburgers, Cincinnati, OH; Advertising Consultant to R. David Thomas

•Cooper & Golin Public Relations, Chicago, IL, Jr. Account Mgr / McDonald's Hamburgers

•McDonnell Douglas Corporation, St. Louis, Executive Assistant to VP of Sales

Clients Have Included:

Daniel International U.S. Capitol Nestle (Medical Division) 3M

Bayer SC Johnson P&G Becton Dickinson

Smith & Nephew Durr Fillauer St. Jude’s Hospital CHR Telecommunications

Civic Work

•University of Alabama Fund Raising Board of Directiors – 6 years

•Alabama Industrial Development – 7 years

•Birmingham, AL Women’s Abuse Center – 5 years

•Alabama Muscular Dystrophy Fund Raising – 4 years

Education

•1974 – University of Alabama in Birmingham, Associates Degree, Business Administration

•2011 – Present, Project Management Certification, Boston University Online, completion expected October, 2013

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