Deborah Jean Cobb
Lauderdale Lakes, Florida 33311
*******.******@*****.***
Summary Qualifications:
• A Juvenile Detention Officer/Juvenile Detention Senior Officer/Court Order Specialist, working
with the State of Florida for 23.03 years.
• State of Florida Broward County School Board/Department of Corrections/Department of
Juvenile Justice.
• Excellent interpersonal skills with fellow officers, supervisors and public relations. Strong
follows through skills and an outgoing personality.
• Accustomed to remaining calm, maintaining self-control and thinking clearly while under duress.
Stable work history.
Professional Experiences/Time Employed:
7/28/2013 GDKN (Department of Corrections (S.F.R.C.) / Transition Facilitator
• Transitional Educator enhancing inmates of life skills with the State of Florida Education
curriculum, required prior to inmate release from the Department of Corrections
5/23/03 thru 9/16/10 / Broward Juvenile Detention Center Juvenile Senior Detention Officer/Court
Order Specialist/Field Training Officer/Transporting Officer
• Knowledge of laws, legal codes, court procedures, precedents, government regulations, executive
orders.
• Agency rules and the democratic political process.
• Tracking court orders/carrying out court orders from judges.
• Provide data from weekly detention reviews.
• Input information in JJIS system, court orders, juvenile placement.
• Ability to prepare and maintain reports/records relating to the supervision of youths.
• Interact with parents/relatives/counselors/juvenile probation officers/in-court officers and judges.
Working with knowledge of Windows and Microsoft Office products, including Excel, Word and
Power point.
• Work with juvenile detainees with criminal offenses in the criminal justice system.
• Switchboard operator, ten lines or more.
• Discharging detainees from facility. Receiving court orders from judicial judges.
• Escort detainees to/from all activities.
• Transport detainees to Orlando, Palm Beach, and St. Lucie Detention Center from designated
programs assigned by Judges.
• Work on different modules supervising youths with care, custody and control, female/male
detainees. Confined in designated post during shift.
2/2000 thru 3/2002 / Probation Restitution Center Specialist
4/2002 thru 5/2003 / Pompano Work Release Facility Secretary Specialist
• Work closely with Correctional Officer Major (Personal Secretary Assistant).
• Prepare Purchase Request (facility supplies/forms). Handle incoming and outgoing mail.
• Work with inmates concerning their court ordered payments.
• Transport restitution payments of inmates to designated bank.
• Type memos, confidential documents, given as directed.
• Work with different Correctional Officers Major throughout the State of Florida with different
complaints and concerns.
• Working with knowledge of Windows and Microsoft Office products, including Excel, Word and
Power Point. Switchboard operator 8 lines or more.
• Notary to notarize confidential documentation prepared by Correctional Officers and Correctional
Majors. Prepare daily/monthly reconciliations and processing payments.
• Work closely with Correctional Officer Major/Correctional Officer Lieutenants/Correctional
Probation Officers.
• Handle incoming and outgoing purchases using (P-Card) assigned by facility, to designate
different purchases as needed.
• Consult with different vendors, within the State of Florida Contracted system. Handle incoming
and outgoing U.S. mail.
• Work with designated judges, typing warrants /affidavits for residents court ordered to the
Probation Restitution Center.
• Input residents court ordered payments into the court ordered payment system.
• Transport court ordered payments to departments assign bank to be placed into the Cops system.
• Work with residents concerning their court ordered restitution payments.
• Switchboard operator for 8 lines or more. Assign notary to notarize confidential
warrants/affidavits prepared for judge signature.
• Maintain filing records retention for all payments and remittance media received.
8/1995 thru 2/1999 / Department of Corrections Word Processor Operator:
• Type confidential files prepared for adult judges.
• Type recorded dictation of confidential warrants/affidavits prepared by Correctional
Probation/Senior Officers.
• Supervise clerical staff in absence of Word Processor Supervisors. Enter probationers' payment in
the Cops Department Payment System.
• Knowledge of accounts and receivable, cashiering.
• Prepare incoming and outgoing mail, switchboard operator for 10 lines or more.
8/1987 thru 7/1995 / Broward School Board Teacher Aide:
• Work closely with Educator's. Assisting Educator's with school duties/activities.
• Escorting students to different activities throughout school day.
• Work with small reading/math groups. Student Hall Monitor
• Patrol/Dance activity coordinator. Monitor students during lunch/outside recreational activities.
• Clerical duties, copying papers and laminating materials used throughout school day.
Education/Experiences/Certifications
• June/1985 High School Diploma August /2003-2009 Broward Community College Indian River
State College-currently enrolled/ Major: Criminal Justice.
• January/1996-1998 Florida International University/ Major: Criminal Justice. August/1987
Wilfred Academy Beauty School.
• Word Processor, Microsoft, Department of Corrections and Department of Juvenile Justice JJIS
Cops system, Dell, Compaq, Gateway, Word, IBM, Excel Computers
• Minolta copier machine, Office postage machine, Laminator Machine, Dicta-phone machine
Typewriter, power point.
• Switchboard phone system, camera monitoring system, Money machine.
• Certification No: ***-**-****, issued date: 5/23/2003 Juvenile Justice Detention Officer/Senior
Officer/Field Training Officer.
• Employee of the Month: December 2003/ May 2007/ September 2010. Employee of the Year:
April 2008 Cosmetology Certification: 1987