Management Sales

Kelly Vela

Email: *********@********.***

Address: **** ***** ****** *****

City: Colorado Springs

State: CO

Zip: 80917

Country: USA

Phone: 940-***-****

Skill Level: Management

Salary Range: $38,000

Willing to Relocate

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KELLY *************@********.***

5240 Wagon Master Drive Colorado Springs, CO 80917 940-***-****

Professional Profile

Acquired knowledge as a graduate of the American Commercial College on how to utilize various accounting, bookkeeping, creative productions and other office skills. A creative problem solver and team player who can deliver an array of computer skills with accuracy and attention to detail, along with a positive attitude and good strong work ethic. Experienced in a variety of work environments.

Management Solid background in planning and foreseeing sales. Hands-on manager with highly developed communication skills and experience in shipping and receiving. Equally strong in team leadership and budgeting.

Accounting Proven ability to perform general accounting procedures, manual and computerized. Broad knowledge of general ledger entries, accounts payables and receivables, expenses, financial statements, and large account reconciliations.

Team Building Decisive team leader with extensive experience in recruiting and hiring sales teams, developing talent and creating effective training programs.

Communications and Marketing Persuasive communicator with well-developed presentation and negotiation skills. Able to develop productive relationships with colleagues, elected officials, department heads, liaisons for outside agencies, customers and staff at all levels. Demonstrated ability to communicate with media and public on numerous items while maintaining secure confidentiality.

Experience

WICHITA COUNTY Wichita Falls, Texas 3/10 present

Executive Secretary to the County Judge

Maintain County Judges docket and calendar. Handled administrative office duties to include ordering office supplies, travel arrangements, expense reimbursements, maintain petty cash fund, technical support for computer and cell phone, and office equipment support. Daily interaction with the public, including media, working closely with elected and appointed officials in county government, lawyers, law enforcement, detention agencies and local outside agencies. Discreet and confidential attitude and capable of handling sensitive materials concerning personnel and projects. Capable of working alone on a high volume of various issues and capable of working with others on assigned projects. Capability of prioritizing tasks to completion. Capable of handling emergency issues for the County Judge/County Courthouse as the issues arise.

Demonstrated ability to handle emergency issues during disaster, personnel and media.

Created and established a manual for Emergency Management Office that assisted in streamlining communication, track and assess damages and coordination of organizations.

Ability to coordinate large meetings and promote attendance of seminars and workshops, including working with outside agencies for location support.

Appointed as Secretarial Officer for Wichita Falls Area Disaster Recovery Committee as a representative for Wichita County, maintained minutes and assisted victims in applying for potential grants to assist in recovery.

Volunteered on numerous occasions to assist other departments on technical support for computer programs and various cell phones, was asked to conduct training sessions for Microsoft Office.

Created and maintained the Wichita County Facebook page, as well as redesigned the Wichita County Government handouts.

CENERGISTIC (FORMERLY KNOWN AS ENERGY EDUCATION, INC.) Wichita Falls, Texas 4/05-12/09

Administrative Assistant to Marketing

Served in supporting and providing materials needed in the Sales Marketing Division; responsible for assisting the Marketing Division for the purpose of assuring growth and communication, provide assistance to entire Division, including Division/Regional Presidents, Vice Presidents, Marketing Consultants and Executive Management including the CEO. Handled material requests for proposals, board packets, presentation materials, PowerPoint presentations and other collateral materials needs; data analysis/maintenance, scheduling, client support, reporting.

Demonstrated ability to perform as back-up for Director of Marketing Support, during travel or unavailability, and to maintain a running division to support up to twenty individuals either road based or in house.

Reduced shipment costs by redesigning our scheduling processes, and ease in tracking progress.

Created and managed electronic templates, monitored printed materials inventory to allow substantial and accurate amount of time for purchasing purposes.

Assisted in streamlining the process for verification and processing of commission checks for Marketing Consultants.

Assisted Public Relations with brand management and updates.

Accomplished coordination of a corporate retreat with activities for more than 260 people.

DK COMMUNICATIONS, INC. Colorado Springs, Colorado 1/04-3/05

Executive Assistant

Responsible for all office duties, handled all incoming calls, scheduled tasks for engineers and technicians and delivered items to the job site. Handled accounts payable, receivables, deposits, collections, credit card audits, track expenses, filed small business returns, paid quarterly taxes and dues; ordered office supplies, job materials and kept inventory. This was a technical/construction type company, familiar with creating proposals and invoices to include labor costs and materials.

Implemented the use of Microsoft Project for the sole purpose of making the task of Project Management more effective and efficient, provided timelines and maintained cost analysis, for both client and internal purposes to assist in future proposals.

Demonstrated the ability to manage the office and team of engineers in order to complete tasks for President/CEO in her absence. As well as worked by her side as her assistant on a daily basis.

Created cost analysis and research process for in house hardware or new and upcoming parts that would be beneficial to the company and its purpose for our customers.

BEACON NATIONAL INSURANCE COMPANY Wichita Falls, Texas 3/02-12/02

Accounting Clerk

Performed accounting activities primarily consisting of multiple company large bank reconciliations and other duties such as maintenance of the general ledger, preparation of various accounting statements and financial reports; money market, accounts payables, cash report, refunds, and unclaimed funds, assisted with month end, quarterly and annual statements for three companies.

Reconstructed the bank reconciliation process, to ease and minimize time spent on the three different large accounts.

Minimized the outstanding balances to minimal amounts, due to investigation and cross referencing to eliminate the floating item.

Created schedule of incoming bank statements to properly assist department to develop a timeline for when month end and quarterly statements will be available for Executive Management review.

ALL FREIGHT POOL DISTRIBUTION SERVICES Wichita Falls, Texas 12/99-2/02

Claims Assistant

Analyzed and researched possible freight claims. Implemented data entry for proof of deliveries and new claims, supervised and assisted various customers in the research so that we could eliminate claims, participated in various tasks from every department.

Redesigned filing systems and practices to allow additional space and improve effectiveness when tracking claims and accounting for shipments.

Designed and conducted weekly accounting status and summary reports for claims purposes. In which assisted in the improvement of receiving payment for outstanding claims against carriers.

Education

Computerized Accounting Specialist American Commercial College (formerly known as American School of Business), Wichita Falls, TX 1999

Proficient in the following programs: All Microsoft Office 7 and 2010 programs, Lotus, Oracle, AS400, Adobe PageMaker, Quicken Deluxe, Quick Books Pro, Peachtree, and SpyVision.

Received training on Microsoft Vizio and Project, 2004-2005

Administrator role in SalesForce.com (a web based CRM management tool)

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