MELODY A. SANDOR
Teaneck, NJ **666
201-***-**** (home)
201-***-**** (cell)
********@***.***
WORK EXPERIENCE
Volunteer Coordinator, Senior Services Division (February 2007 – Present)
Jewish Family Service (JFS) of Bergen County and Northern Hudson County
Responsibilities:
Manage Bergen County’s Kosher Meals on Wheels (KMOW) program.
o Recruit and interview new volunteers and oversee over 200 existing volunteers.
o Order, receive and distribute over 100 meals each day to homebound, older adults in
Bergen County and Northern Hudson County.
o Maintain progress notes for more than 100 Elder Care Department clients.
o Create, distribute, and maintain monthly KMOW volunteer driving schedules.
o Create and distribute monthly information letters to KMOW volunteers.
o Create and oversee distribution of monthly donation and information letters to KMOW
recipients.
o Assist the agency with KMOW fundraising and community awareness.
o Organize a yearly KMOW Volunteer Recognition dinner.
o Create volunteer opportunities for people with special needs, referred to JFS by
individuals and agencies.
o Create monthly, quarterly and semiannual reports for various government and social
agencies outlining goals met, clients served and food units ordered and distributed.
Manage and recruit for the following volunteer programs, matching volunteers with older,
homebound adults:
o Friendly Visitor Program
o Adult and Teen Telephone Reassurance Programs
o Sabbath Meal Delivery Program for Holocaust survivors
Assistant to the Director, The Living Room (September 2006 – February 2007)
Jewish Family Service (JFS) of Bergen County
Responsibilities:
Organized luncheons and informational seminars for older adults for The Living Room, a
health, wellness and healing center.
Responsible for all advertising to promote The Living Room programs ranging from the
posting of flyers to creating ad copy.
Organized an Asperger’s Awareness Day in Teaneck, NJ, with an attendance of over 200
people. Responsibilities included finding a forum, making all arrangements for break out
sessions, securing speakers, registration and refreshments.
Office Manager / Medical Billing (2000 – 2006)
Summit Eye Center, Hackensack, NJ
Responsibilities:
Oversaw the greeting of patients, creation of patient files, and proper input of patient data by
the office staff.
• Responsible for all staff hiring and training.
• Knowledgeable of HIPAA regulations.
• Initiated practice public relations programs, e.g. design of practice brochures, mailings and
speaker programs.
Generated insurance claims, checked for accuracy, and electronically transmitted to
Medicare and insurance companies.
Interpreted insurance company and Medicare medical claims error reports, correcting and
electronically resubmitting claims as needed.
Designed, programmed, tested, implemented and supported a Windows-based database
billing system for the ophthalmology practice.
Manager, Technical Support and Training (1986 – 1990)
Convergent Solutions, Inc.
Responsibilities:
Manager of software programming, technical support and training department, supporting
the company’s relational database package and its proprietary programming language.
Supervisor and instructor of employees in technical information and client support
techniques.
Developer and instructor of training course and related documentation for advanced
programming techniques.
Introduced and designed instruction courses to serve as an adjunct for finalizing software
purchases.
EDUCATION
Georgia State University - BA in Sociology/Management minor
32 hours completed towards an MBA in Business Information Systems
KNOWLEDGE OF:
Relational Database systems, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Office Word, Excel, Access,
PowerPoint, Windows 98, Microsoft Vista, FoxPro Professional