Michelle A. Sarsfield
Denver, CO 80218
Skilled, detail oriented, hard working assistant and team player.
Proficient in Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Raiser's Edge.
WORK EXPERIENCE
TOTAL COMMUNITY OPTIONS FOUNDATION-DENVER, CO December 2008-Present
Development Assistant
. Provide administrative and personal support to Executive Director.
. Duties include heavy calendar management, travel arrangements,
maintaining donor database, data entry of volunteer applications,
frequent correspondence, recording meeting minutes, event planning and
submission of expense reports.
. Responsible for processing monetary assistance requests, fundraising
and researching grant options.
SCRIPPS NETWORKS-NEW YORK, NY
May 2006-September 2008
Office Coordinator
. Provided administrative and personal support to Senior Vice President
of Pricing, Planning and Advertising.
. Duties included answering phones, heavy calendar management, travel
arrangements, data entry, internet research, generating daily ad sales
reports and maintaining financial and HR files.
. Responsible for submission of department's expense reports.
. Organized and created files for several years worth of financial
reports.
TOTAL LONGTERM CARE-DENVER, CO
September 2002-May 2006
Administrative Assistant/Personal Assistant
. Provided administrative and personal support to CEO, Vice President of
Operations and Director of Center Operations.
. Duties included heavy calendar management, creating and maintaining
files, travel arrangements, event planning, scheduling interviews and
orientation, recording meeting minutes, data entry, internet research
and frequent correspondence.
. Helped train new hires.
. Event planner for annual holiday party for 4 consecutive years.
Researched and secured facilities, catering and entertainment.
Coordinated invites for 500 plus employees.
Corporate Receptionist
February 2002-September 2002
. Answered phones and directed all incoming calls on multi-line system.
. Maintained front desk, including greeting visitors, coordinated mass
mailings and ordered supplies. Facilitated all print and media
orders, and fax and copier maintenance.
. Researched and implemented new coffee and parking vendors to provide
lower costs for the company, and started a recycling program in the
corporate office.
. Other duties included scheduling of meetings, shipping, cell phone and
pager system management, insurance coding, and physician on-call
scheduling.
CURIOUS THEATRE COMPANY-DENVER, CO February
2002-June 2002
Prop Master and Stagehand
. Responsible for securing all props for production of Cloud
Tectonics.
. Setting and striking props for production of Fuddy
Meers.
JACKSON MERCHANT SPECIALISTS-DENVER, CO August 2001-
February 2002
Sales Support Manager
. Responsible for liaison between Jackson Merchant Specialists and Nova
Corporation.
. Duties included sales assistance, customer relations, application
processing, scheduling of installs and data entry.
RICH MEDIA TECHNOLOGIES-ENGLEWOOD, CO October 2000-
June 2001
Merchant Banking Associate
. Responsible for liaison between Rich Media Technologies and Nova
Corporation.
. Duties included application processing, customer relations,
marketing programs, promotions, telephone sales assistance and
general data entry.
NOVA CORPORATION-ARVADA, CO & ATLANTA, GA December 1995-
August 2000
Relationship Manager
. Responsible for reviewing underwriting guidelines and expediting the
application and approval process by working with contracts submitted
by merchant service providers.
. Provided ongoing sales support and trained new employees.
. Maintained specific merchant accounts; responsible for fraud
monitoring and customer service.
. Promoted over course of five years from entry-level representative
to associate to specialist to manager.
ADDITIONAL WORK EXPERIENCE
Make a Wish Foundation-Greenwood Village, CO
2003-2006
Assisted at various events, including annual holiday store at Denver
Children's Hospital
Starz Denver Film Fest-Denver, CO
2003-2005, 2009
Responsible for distributing and collecting festival ballots. Collected
tickets and directed filmmakers and attendees to proper screening areas.
Also worked in the filmmaker's hospitality suite.
EDUCATION
Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven, CT
Study Focus: Liberal Arts
REFERENCES AVAILABLE
UPON REQUEST