JUNE B. SCHAFFER
** ****** *****, *********, ** *2072
***/***-****; Email: ***********@*****.***
PROFILE: Proven excellent Customer Service/Receptionist - First
Impressions Count! Extensive secretarial experience in
business, retail, legal and medical fields. Proficient in MS
Word, Dictaphone, time entry. Strong organizational and
computer skills. Medical experience includes Department
Secretary, Harvard Medical School at Boston City Hospital -
supported research teams, producing grant applications, patient
reports, clinical reports. Legal experience in various
litigation areas. Team player as well as able to work
independently. Dependable, responsible, flexible.
02/12 - Present Receptionist/Planning Assistant
Miller, Allen & Associates, Ameriprise Financial, Wellesley, MA:
Create a warm and welcoming atmosphere to clients, wholesalers,
suppliers, and provide clients with paperwork to review/edit
personal information. Responsible for Reception area and
conference rooms to be well stocked with beverages and supplies
(place order weekly). Print daily calendar and client sheets to
be reviewed by Advisor. Forward voice mails to appropriate
staff. Open, review and enter mail and checks received per SEC
regulations, and distribute. NASD certified (required.) Scan
and update client files in Contact Manager with changes to
coverage, account activities, letters, etc. and then shred.
Report any physical office problems to Management Company.
Create and distribute monthly client birthday cards to staff for
signatures and mail accordingly.
09/11 - 12/02 Administrative Assistant/ at Sloan Valve
Kelly Services/Contract Position, Newton, MA: Administrative
Assistant at engineering research laboratory. Duties include
invoice matching, troubleshooting with suppliers and corporate
accounting office (located in Chicago, IL), receiving and
distributing payroll checks, greeting clients, assisting
employees with benefit questions, ordering supplies, faxing,
photocopying, distributing mail, filing, and any other projects
as assigned.
05/11 - 07/11 Branch Assistant/RBC Wealth Management
Kelly Services/Contract Position, Wellesley, MA: Assistant to Senior
Vice President, Branch Manager, Senior Registered Client
Associates, Brokers. Duties included multi-line
telephone/reception and greeting clients; word processing, use
of Bank Adjustment System; updated client fund accounts with
deposits and fund changes. Daily faxing and filing of documents
for storage and auditing purposes. Assisted Financial Advisors
and Certified Assistants with special projects. Created
correspondence, and handled any administrative task to help the
office run smoothly efficiently, and timely. Responsible for
ordering supplies and maintenance of all office machines.
02/10 - 10/10 Sales Associate/Personal Stylist
Nordstrom, Inc., South Shore Plaza, Braintree: Sales associate,
team environment, dealing with public and all levels of
management. Duties include mastering fit and product knowledge,
follow-up with customers via email, personal notes, telephone
contact, problem solving, and extending excellent customer
service.
04/09 - 12/09 LEGAL SECRETARY/ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT
Richmonds & Co., LLC: Assistant to Litigation Partner
specializing in business/corporate litigation and bankruptcy
matters. Responsible for docketing cases and calendar
management using Outlook, preparation of pleadings, and other
litigation aspects. Assisted in setting up new office filing
system, and other administrative duties as needed.
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04/07 - Present ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT
Abby Sullivan, Photography: (Contract, on an "as needed
basis".) Created filing system; organize office; created
documents (i.e., contracts, price lists, forms - used for
portraits, weddings, brochures). Assisted with marketing ideas
and tools, and the creation of brochures.
11/08 - 04/09 ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT
Summit Dental Consultants: (Contract, on an "as needed
basis Created forms (i.e., contracts for hiring purposes,
company policy handbooks), checked references for hiring
purposes and, created offer letters to potential job candidates.
03/07 - 03/09 VARIOUS LONG-TERM TEMPORARY POSITIONS
Kerstein, Coren, Lichtenstein, LLP: Supported Senior Partner in
all aspects of Family Law, Personal Injury, and various criminal
matters. Heavy client interaction, responsible for docket and
calendar
entries, and Time Slips. Responsible for obtaining medical and
billing releases, dealt with insurance representatives, as well
as creditors. Worked independently as well as part of the team
environment.
Frieze, Cramer, Cygelman, Rosen & Huber: Supported attorneys in
corporate, estate planning, tax, mergers and acquisitions, time
entry (using Tabs), responsible for producing material for
probate, contracts, income tax returns, acquisitions, mergers.
Nutter, McClellen & Fish: Supported Partner in Family and
Business Law. Responsible for all related document production,
financial reports, pleadings, time entry, and heavy client
interaction, assisted in a thorough and timely manner wherever
needed.
Goulston & Storrs: Floater; supported Partners in Real Estate,
Corporate, and Business Law, time entry, wherever needed.
Responsible for all secretarial duties.
06/05 - 02/07 SEEGEL, LIPSHUTZ & WILCHINS, P.C., Wellesley, MA
Legal Assistant in litigation department - focus in various
areas such as business, corporate, professional liability, real
estate. Maintained attorney calendar, filed pleadings with the
courts, drafted and edited documents, maintained client files,
time entry, assisted wherever and whenever needed in timely
manner.
02/05 - 6/05 Temporary Assignments
Temporary Legal Secretary assignments - duties included an
assignment at Sherin and Lodgen, LLP - supporting attorneys in
litigation, corporate matters, securities, real estate, with the
production of pleadings, filings, transcription, time entry -
the full legal secretarial spectrum.
03/04 - 02/05 DONOVAN HATEM LLP, Boston, MA
Legal Assistant in litigation department - professional
liability and insurance defense, responsible for producing legal
documents filed with the courts, maintaining files,
transcription, time entry, and interaction with clients.
12/03 - 03/04 Temporary Assignments
Various temporary legal secretarial assignments, including Mintz
Levin, Cohen, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo P.C.
07/02-12/03 FOLEY HOAG, LLP, Boston, MA
Worked as a floater in the litigation and corporate departments of
the firm. Assigned to long and short-term positions focusing on
all aspects of corporate and litigation law such as business,
tax, mergers and acquisitions, securities and bankruptcy.
Responsible for time entry, maintaining files, calendar and
heavy client contact.