Assistant Sales

NANCY SHERRILL HUDDLESTON

**** ********** ***** 757-***-****

Norfolk, Virginia 23513-3321 abkoqz@r.postjobfree.com

I am looking for a job that would nurture my love of education and utilize

my skills in communication, networking, and computers.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Enumerator

US Census Bureau, Virginia Beach, Virginia Apr to Jul

2010

Worked in the field taking and checking confidential and difficult to

obtain information for three 2010 Census operations in Norfolk, Virginia

Beach, and Eastern Shore, including Nonresponse Followup (NRFU), NRFU Re-

Interview, and NRFU Vacant Delete Check.

Owner & Secretary/Treasurer

Samurai Painting, Norfolk, Virginia 1999 to

present

Co-own and operate a small painting contracting company that provides

residential and commercial painting services and decorative finishes for

customers. Perform some sales and estimating. Manage financial operations,

customer relations, marketing/advertising, office/administrative duties, as

well as decorative painting production in the field.

Senior Production Specialist

Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, Calverton, 1997 to 1999

Maryland

Produced grant proposals, journal articles, presentations, forms, and other

documents and graphics using WordPerfect, MSWord, CorelDraw, PowerPoint,

Harvard Graphics, and Pagemaker. Edited and proofread documents for

accuracy. Set up templates for proposals and other documents. Created

r sum s for staff and maintained and updated r sum files. Set up and

maintained library and other databases for computer files. Archived all

proposals.

Legal Secretary

Piliero, Mazza & Pargament, Washington, District of 1996 to 1997

Columbia

Assisted partners and associates in government contracting, corporate

counseling, labor and employment law, legislative and agency advocacy, as

well as general civil and appellate litigation. Prepared all briefs under

tight deadlines, maintained full litigation calendar for all partners,

managed law library, supervised production of the firm's newsletter, Legal

Advisor, handled computer input of client mailing list and database, and

administered use of E-mail and the Internet.

Assistant to Executive Director & Administrative

Assistant 1990 to 1995

Millard Fillmore Health, Education and Research

Foundation,

Buffalo, New York

1993 to 1995-Assisted executive director in all aspects of daily office

management. Provided a wide variety of non-routine and complex

administrative functions performed independently in a highly confidential

environment. Managed support staff and coordinated all special projects,

such as a corporate awareness program for education. Cultivated prospective

donors to the Millard Fillmore Health System. Organized meetings for the

Board of Directors and various committees. Produced and edited newsletter.

1990 to 1992-Worked as database specialist for $10-million Capital Campaign

fund. Conducted prospect research. Was responsible for solicitations and

follow-up communications. Recorded all donations and kept detailed computer

reports of all transactions. Created graphic layout of posters and charts.

SKILLS:

Computer Knowledge: Thoroughly familiar with IBM computers and use

Microsoft Office '03: Outlook, PowerPoint, Excel, Word; QuickBooks Pro

2010; Quicken 2005; and MarketSharp 2.0.

Past Computer Experience: Somewhat familiar with Internet and have designed

a Web homepage. Have worked on MAC and Amiga 2000 computers. Have used

Access 2.0, Corel WordPerfect Suite 8, Adobe Photoshop Elements 3, Adobe

Illustrator 7.0, PageMaker 6.5, Photoshop 5.0 Limited Edition, and other

major graphics software including Quark XPress, CorelDraw 7.373, Photo-

Paint 7, and Harvard Graphics 2.0. Also, have worked on Lotus 1-2-3, Donor

II, Endnote2 Plus, and Edit.

Freelance and Other Work: 1990-95-Edited and proofread computer language

textbooks and chapters for book about airplanes; 1992-Wrote article

published in Whole English Catalogue SUNYAB; 1988-89-Worked at Koos Van Den

Akker Atelier, Inc. creating and assembling haute couture sweaters on

Merrow machine for Madison Avenue Boutique; 1985-88-Receptionist, Columbus

Caterers, Inc.; 1983-84-Gallery Assistant, Annina Nosei Gallery; 1982-83-

Artist's Assistant, Linda J. Stein; 1979-80-Paste-up and Mechanicals, Adco

Signs; 1975-DJ WKCR-AM Columbia University radio station.

EDUCATION:

1994 B.A. (cum laude) in Media Studies-State University of New York at

Buffalo.

Also studied: 2005-2006-Ghent Studio of Fine Art (Norfolk, Virginia); 1980-

81-Parsons School of Design; 1979-80-The Art Students' League; and 1975-78-

Barnard College (New York, New York).

AWARDS, GRANTS, SHOWS & CONFERENCES:

1996 Designed and organized The First Holistic Health Career Conference,

Unity Church, Gaithersburg, Maryland.

1995 Produced and edited videotape called Thanksgiving, in 3/4" format,

for The National Poetry/Video Festival, Chicago, Illinois.

1993 Received Outstanding Academic Achievement Award from Department of

Media Study, State University of New York at Buffalo.

1992 Awarded Hallwalls/New York State Council on the Arts Western New York

Film Re-grant for Sidewalk Fishing, in super-8mm film format.

INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE:

My primary interests are in the arts including film and video, writing, and

painting. More broadly, I have a lifelong interest in all aspects of

culture, developed through travel. I have traveled extensively in the

United States and Canada. As a child, I traveled extensively in Europe and

lived in England for a year. I traveled through much of Europe again as a

young adult and lived in Italy for a month and a half. As an adult, I

traveled to Malaysia, where I lived for a month, Thailand, Singapore, the

Philippines, and Egypt.

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