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Cheryl Anderson
SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATION
. Accomplished professional offering 20 years of experience
coordinating, planning, and supporting daily operational,
administrative, legal and customer service functions.
. Demonstrated capacity to provide comprehensive support for
attorneys, department heads, and management team.
. Adept at developing and maintaining procedures that reduce
redundancy, improve accuracy and efficiency, and achieve
organizational objectives.
. Proficient user of MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access and
Outlook). Type 65 WPM.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Home Diversity 2/2011 to Present
Atlanta, Georgia - Executive Assistant
. Assist with CEO communication by reviewing and formatting
communications (presentations, emails, speeches, reports, Excel
spreadsheets).
. Schedule meetings, and organize and maintain calendars with the
ability to intuitively understand challenges regarding time
constraints and priorities.
. Oversee events, meetings, and working sessions, manage agenda
creation and participation standards, arrange meeting space,
catering, audio-visual equipment and other tools when required and
track completion of deliverables.
. Responsible for all logistics of travel, which include creating
professional itineraries and calendar notifications, verifying all
travel arrangements, managing memberships to airline clubs,
processing expense reports, and ensuring timely and accurate
submission according to expense guidelines where necessary.
. Anticipate and prepare materials needed by for conferences,
correspondence, appointments, meetings, telephone calls, etc.
. Read and route internal and external emails and mail using
appropriate communication method based on situation, urgency, and
message content.
. Transcribe dictation with the ability and comfort to edit grammar
and make substantive changes as appropriate to ensure that the
CEO's message is clear and well written.
. Maintain department directory contact database and email
distribution lists.
. Create and maintain electronic/hard copy filling system for easy
access and retention.
. Answer and screen incoming calls in a professional manner while
providing assistance and obtaining accurate information.
Fulton County DFCS 2009 - 2011
Atlanta, Georgia - Family Assistant Specialist
. Interviewed clients to determine initial or continued eligibility
for public assistance programs.
. Scheduled clients for appointments by written notices and/or
telephone contact.
. Conducted in-depth personal interviews with clients to obtain
pertinent information related to eligibility factors based on
policies and procedures manual.
. Explained programs to each client, emphasizing the laws,
regulations, rights, responsibilities, and reporting requirements.
. Processed applications and/or reviews using appropriate criteria
and policies consistently and according to established guidelines.
. Explained claims process to affected client/vendor and negotiates
repayment plans in accordance with applicable policies/regulations.
The Cochran Firm 2007 - 2008
Birmingham, AL - Legal Secretary/Administrative Assistant
. Provided support to two attorneys in worker's compensation and
personal injury department.
. Ability to anticipate the needs of the division and proactively
bring together appropriate people and resources.
. Organized, sorted, delivered and maintained records of mail
distribution for department.
. Scheduled and coordinated meetings, interviews, appointments,
luncheons, development presentations, events and other similar
activities, which included travel and lodging arrangements and
processed all reimbursements.
. Reviewed, organized and summarized discovery, depositions, medical
records and witness statements.
. Ordered medical files, worker's compensation files and other
related documents.
. Heavy communication verbally and in writing with clients, defense
and third parties (i.e. insurance companies) regarding cases.
. Scheduled depositions, mediation and various meetings for cases.
. Compiled data from various sources for incorporation into special
reports for interoffice meetings.
. Managed calendars and coordinated multiple calendars for
appointments, meetings and conference calls. Independently made
decisions essential to resolve meeting conflicts.
. Operated switchboard to relieve receptionist, which included
screening phone calls for entire firm.
Bradley Arant Rose & White 2005 - 2007
Birmingham, AL - Legal Secretary/Administrative Assistant
. Provided legal and administrative support to two senior level
attorneys in litigation department.
. Established, maintained, and updated files, databases, records, and
interoffice documents.
. Directed phone calls to appropriate parties in accordance with firm
policies, which included notifying appropriate party when difficult
situations arose.
. Responsible for weekly time entry for billing purposes.
. Updated law books, manuals, and administrative procedures.
. Prepared administrative and legal correspondence, memos, check
request, reimbursements, and conflict forms.
. Maintained client contact list.
Arnall Golden Gregory 2000 - 2005
Atlanta, Georgia - Administrative Assistant
. Provided legal and executive level support to managing partner and
healthcare litigation department.
. Created, transcribed, revised and maintained a variety of legal
documents to include charts, subpoenas, pleadings, contracts,
employment agreements, exhibits and correspondence.
. Maintained a status report on all active cases and
archived/destroyed documents on settled cases in compliance federal
guidelines.
. Screened phone calls for founding and managing partners.
. Ordered all office supplies from vendors.
. Provided light accounting, which included accounts payable,
accounts receivable, check reconciliation, bank deposits, paying
vendors, etc.
EDUCATION
Associate Degree in Business Administration, University of District of
Columbia, 1993
COMPUTER SKILLS: MS Excel, MS Word, MS Access, MS PowerPoint, WordPerfect,
Acrobat Adobe PDF, Softwise, Deltaview, CMS, DTE, Hummingbird, PC Docs,
DocsX, E-Filing in State and Federal Courts, Time Matters, ICMS,
Quickbooks, CSSLive and Summation. My typing speed is presently 65 wpm.