Real Estate Manager

CURRENT AND PAST EMPLOYMENT

*/** - ******* ******'s Evangelical Lutheran Church, Oreland, PA

Parish Secretary

. Established and continuously enforce previously unknown

deadlines with 98% success

. Created stationery, ritual forms, and mailing pieces,

thus reducing annual printing expense by $5000

. Organized long-neglected administrative office,

archiving records and church publications in the process

3/01 - 7/02 St. Peter's Episcopal Church of Germantown, Philadelphia, PA

Parish Administrator (church closed)

. Reduced expenses by 25% in an effort to keep the church

solvent

. Developed methods of cost-effective church-wide

communications

1/96 - 12/99 Ludwig Corporation, Bala Cynwyd, PA

Office Manager/Bookkeeper/Editor: regional

commercial/residential real estate appraisal firm

. Created forms which reduced repetitive typing work load

by 50%

. Created stationary, thus reducing annual printing

expense by $2500

. Effectively negotiated copier lease, saving annual $1700

toner expense

10/87 - 12/95 Marshall & Stevens, Inc., Philadelphia, PA

Proofreader/Editor and trainee Real Estate Appraiser for

national commercial appraisal firm

. Created proofreading form to ensure 100% report accuracy

and consistency

. Used Excel to create formulae for multi-location

appraisals, to expedite and ensure accurate valuation;

helped bring jobs in under budget by average of 10%

CUMULATIVE EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

. Answering multi-line phone systems, taking messages, relaying calls to

voicemail; updating voicemail messages routinely

. Preparing all correspondence and publications, from editing through

final production

. Designing/creating brochures and flyers as well as spreadsheets

. Checking and running totals for long lists of inventoried machinery and

equipment

. Managing outside vendors/contracts, as well as tenant and equipment

leases

. Ordering supplies, handling shipping/receiving, troubleshooting

equipment

. Working with and directing other employees and volunteers

. Scheduling of building usage, maintaining and archiving records,

general office duties

. Handling accounts payable and receivable, including billing, payroll,

and taxes

JOB-RELATED SKILLS / COMPUTER KNOWLEDGE

Have worked with and can troubleshoot printers, copiers, duplicating

machines, folding machines, adding machines, multi-line voicemail-equipped

telephone systems, electric staplers, limited access security monitoring

system, and sound system.

Can type 40 words per minute with accuracy

Professionally tested numerous times by employment agencies for efficiency

in:

Microsoft Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Access) and QuickBooks

Scored Intermediate to Advanced in all areas

EDUCATION

May 1987 LaSalle University, Philadelphia, PA

Bachelor of Arts (English - Commercial Writing)

Public Relations Dept. Internship (St. Agnes Medical Center)

JOB-RELATED TRAINING COURSES

. The Perils of Proofreading - Seminars International - 1994

. The Essentials of Credibility, Composure and Confidence - SkillPath

Seminars - 1994

. Fundamentals of Personnel Law for Managers and Supervisors - SkillPath

Seminars - 1996

. Annual Attendance at Parish Secretaries' Seminar - NEPa/SEPa Synods -

2005 to present

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