LEIGH'S RESUME
ALEITA J. "LEIGH" MORTON
Carson City, NV 89706
abgz6h@r.postjobfree.com
Aleita J. "Leigh" Morton
Carson City, NV 89706
abgz6h@r.postjobfree.com
Experience:
9 years at writing for Bread of Life Christian Fellowship's Family Journal
both in print and blog formats, 9+ years in Supervisory or Managerial
Positions. 6+ years as a Customer Service Representative. 6+ months as a
Bookkeeper. 5 + years as a Cashier. 1 years as a Staff Writer for a
small local newspaper. 2+ years as a respite care giver for disabled
children. 2 + years as a Cook/Dietary Aide in Convalescent Hospitals/Guest
Homes. 2+ years as a Volunteer Office Assistant. 7 years as an Associate
Minister. Elance Provider - Writing & translation section: 3 months
Employment History:
Elance Client: writingzombie
Job: 5 gardening/preserving articles
Duration: Last six weeks I have written 15 articles for this job. We had an
ongoing commitment for 5 articles at 750 - 1000 words per article. Price
for job is $125/5 articles = elance fees @ 8.75%
Elance Client: writingzombie
Job: 6x Blog Posts on a Bi-weekly Basis
Duration: Just sent my second weeks articles, we have an ongoing commitment
for 3 articles/wk, 300-350 words per article. Price for this job is
$13.50/article + elance fees @ 8.75%
Employer: HDFSI
Title: Service Representative
Location: Carson City, NV
Duration: 10/05 - Present
Job Duties: Answering Phones, Servicing Customer Loans, Processing
Payments, Transferring Calls To Other Departments, Entering Titles/Liens,
Data Entry For Underwriting - Pre Deallink, Overtime For Collections At
Year End 2006 And 2009 - Dialer Trained And Outbound Calls Made, Back-Up
For The SR/Supervisor Line For Customer Service, Managing Hold Time,
Meeting Quality And Service Level Goals, Assisting My Team As Needed,
Training/Assisting New Associates To Learn Our Systems, Policies And
Procedures.
Employer: Spherion - temp for HDFSI
Title: Temp in Titles and High Density
Location: Carson City, NV
Duration: 9/05 - 10/05
Job Duties: Filing Contracts And Titles, Setting Pending Contracts Aside
For Funding, Document Preparation For Scanning.
Employer: West Corporation (Third Party Vendor for Cingular Wireless [A
former AT&T wireless site])
Title: Customer Service Representative
Location: Reno, NV
Duration: 7/04 - 8/05
Job Duties: 8 Months As A "Standing Rep" Answering The Questions Of Reps On
The Phones As An Interim Team Lead And Being Liaison Between Reps And The
Supervisors, Running Credit For New Lines Of Service For The Reps On My
Team, Answering Phones, Placing Orders For Cellular Service And Equipment,
15+ Proprietary Systems And Software Programs, Data Entry, Customer
Assistance, And Routing Calls To Various Other Departments
Employer: Regent Care Center
Title: Dietary Aide/Prep Chef
Location: Reno, NV
Duration: 4/2004 - 7/2004
Job Duties: Preparing Residents Meal Trays, Washing Dishes, General And
Monthly Kitchen Clean-Up, Preparing Desserts, Condiments, Etc For The Cook,
Maintaining And Organizing Food Pantries And Refrigerators/Freezers,
Organizing Various Storerooms.
Employer: Wal-Mart 1648
Title: Cashier
Location: Carson Valley, NV
Duration: 9/2003 - 3/2004
Job Duties: Cashiering, Customer Service, Assisting In Various Other
Departments, Continued Training On Computer Based Modules (CBL's)
Employer: Bangor Tavern
Title: Assistant Manager/Bartender-Cook
Location: Bangor, CA
Duration: 2/1995 - 2/2002
Job Duties: Served Drinks, Prepared And Served Food, Short Order Cook,
Cashier, Ordered Supplies, Picked Up Orders From Suppliers, Banking, Record
Keeping, Necessary Cleaning, Bouncer (as needed)
Volunteer Experiences:
Employer: Bread of Life Christian Fellowship
Title: Associate Minister
Location: Mound House, NV
Duration: 11/2003 - Present (not leaving)
Job Duties: Assisting The Pastoral Staff With The Running Of The Church,
Counseling And Comforting Congregation Members And People Of The Community,
Writing And Presenting Messages From God's Word, Holding Bible Studies,
Meeting Members Of The Community And Issuing Invitations To Worship With
Us. Handling Public Relations For Advertising And Promoting Various
Events.
Writing for the Family Journal both print and blog editions, you can see
these at:
http://leighslifelessons.blogspot.com/
http://bolcfkidskorner.blogspot.com/
Employer: S.A.R.A. - Advocates to End Domestic Violence
Title: Volunteer Office Assistant
Location: Carson City, NV
Duration: 1/2003 - 8/2004
Job Duties: Filing, Maintaining And Updating Stats/Files, Answering And
Placing Phone Calls, Crisis Call Team, Court And Hospital Advocate
(Accompanying Victims To Court And Hospital Appointments).
Employer: Classy Seconds - Thrift Store
Title: Donations Associate
Location: Carson City, NV
Duration: 8/2002 - 8/2004
Job Duties: Sorting Donations, Arranging Displays, General Cleaning And
Store Maintenance With Regard To Storage Areas And Displays, Assisting
Customers With Their Purchases.
I also spent time on the Mound House Business and Community Organization
2005-2006 AND The Lyon County Healthy Communities Coalition 2006-2007 as a
representative for our church, Bread of Life Christian Fellowship of Mound
House.
Higher Education:
School: WNCC
Location: Carson City, NV
Major: General Ed
Degree: None
School: Long Ridge Writers Group
Location: West Redding, CT
Major: Fiction Writing/Journalism (correspondence course)
Completion Date/Diploma Received: 3/11/2002
*As well as various other Community Colleges since 1977.
Skills and Abilities:
1. Supervising and scheduling up to 15 employees, daily record keeping and
banking, hiring and firing of staff as well as job skills training and
educating in company policies and procedures. Holding emergency response
drills and site inspections
2. Running various types of cash registers and office machines, meeting the
needs of customers and using various types of tenders.
3. Customer Service, answering phones, data entry, servicing customer
loans, maintaining and updating stats and files, call center for account
set up of corporate and individual cellular phone service, 18+ proprietary
software and systems, crisis call team, victim's court and hospital
advocate.
4. Writing newspaper articles as a part time staff writer [Westwood Pines
Press] and short stories for fun and pleasure.
5. I have also written and published five books [Print On Demand] and many
articles over the years, which takes quite a bit of effort at thinking
outside the box.
* All of which required Multi-tasking at various levels!
Honors and Awards:
2003 Volunteer of the Year - S.A.R.A/Advocates to End Domestic Violence
3/6/2005 Ordained into the Ministry - Bread of Life Christian Fellowship,
10042 EAST US Hwy 50, Mound House, NV.