Lynne M. Garcia
_**** Memory Trl. Home Phone 815-***-****
Wonder Lake, IL 60097
********@***.***
OBJECTIVE: I am seeking a position that will utilize my skills, and would
benefit your establishment with my experience, dedication,
loyalty, energetic personality and organizational skills.
SKILLS: MS Word, MS Excel, MS Outlook, MS Publisher, Customer Service,
HR duties, Signing in out clients and visitors, scanning
documents, handling employee confidential files and putting
files together, setting up new employee interviews, set up
meetings, typing, Voice mail/Phone Systems, IEP's, being a
team player, ordering supplies, creating documents and
spread sheets, Grading and progress report templates,
billing and payroll, & creating a positive atmosphere.
EXPERIENCE:
. Gateway Foundation- October 2012 to present
. Administrative assistant :
. Answer phones, sort mail, scan all documents to clients files, help
business office with filing employee files, take minutes for
certain department meetings, create documents and sign people in
and out. Attend all trainings needed such as CPI and CPR. Essential
Learning trainings as well.
. ABTC Residential Receptionist - HR Assistant (2005-2008)/ Fairfield
Academy (2008-present) Dist 120 Therapeutic Day school
School Receptionist-Principal's Secretary/ Receptionist for
Residential
. Typing IEPs and scheduling IEP meeting,
. mass mailings to district and out of district, sorting and
distributing mail in a timely manner.
. Work with other school districts to obtain student records. Greet
visitors and ensure they are signed in and directed to the appropriate
meeting area.
. Maintain the calendar of school events, answer phones, take
attendance, enter grades, submit grades to home district, and submit
attendance for billing.
. Collaborate with principal, teachers, teacher's assistants, and
behavior intervention staff to ensure the school is run efficiently
and any needs are addressed.
. Create and deliver all memos needed for school personnel. Completed
payroll, distribute pay checks, file, sort mail, and schedule meetings
and appointments for the principal. Make sure all mailboxes are
current.
. Compile lists of needed supplies, order supplies, and ensure all
supplies are fully stocked. Meeting with students to address any
requests they may have, typing 35-40 WPM, knowledgeable in the use of
Microsoft word, Microsoft outlook, and Microsoft excel.
. Maintaining and updating all student files. When needed, I would fill
in classrooms that we are short of staff to keep ratio.
. Assisting in the human resource department when needed, scheduling
interviews and calling perspective employees to obtain information and
arrange meetings. Maintaining all employee files and documents. Make
sure all employee documents are up to date and current.
. Obtaining postage and usage readings from postage meters and Xerox
machines.
. Make sure to honor anniversaries, birthdays and special occasions.
Make sure when employees leave or are new they are ordered flowers,
cards etc. or if a death, birth etc to get the appropriate card,
flowers etc. ordered.
. Extensive knowledge and experience with special education students.
Created a comfortable, friendly environment for staff and visitors.
. Wauconda School District 118-Special Education Secretary 2011-2012
. Set up all IEP meetings For Wauconda High School and send all invites
. Call and set up pre-school pre-screenings and send information packets
before screening and after.
. Use NET-IEP on a daily basis and some power school
. File all files for 504's and regular filing
. Answer the district phone and direct calls to proper extensions
. Update calendar for all meetings for all administrators
. Alden Long Grove Long Term Care facility -
. Office Manager 2002-2004
. Responsible for organizing and managing the front office.
. Assist in planning the activities for the building, typing letters and
memos and ensuring their delivery to the correct person(s)..
. Answered a 12 line phone system and direct the calls to the correct
nurse's station. Send and received all mail. Make sure all Dr. and
employee mailboxes are current.
. Assist family members with their concerns and request for family
members and residents.
. Perform all secretarial duties for department heads, used Microsoft
Word and Excel daily to create forms and memos needed. Made sure that
the front office created a comfortable family orientated environment,
make sure coffee and dessert was supplied at all times for families
and residents, rotated weekend administration duties as a Department
head, recorded and typed meeting minutes for daily manager minute
meetings, & assisted HR in alphabetizing checks and handing them out,
plus sat in on interviews for my department.
. Town & Country Claims Service (1994-2000)
. Secretary to the owner of company/Data Entry
. Answer a 10 line phone system
. Enter all claims, file & schedule appointments for customers
. Assist in billing.
. Assist owner at client meetings to create a relaxing atmosphere,
create a good customer relationship with clients, assisted 24
appraisers with their paperwork. Microsoft word/Excel used daily to
enter all claims.
*Education: Buffalo Grove High School class of 1991 &Arlington Academy -
Cosmetology License and degree class of 1991
*Languages: Semi -Bilingual in Spanish(also can read and write Spanish )
*CPR and CPI certified