Dee Garcia
Daly City, CA 94014
Cell: 415-***-****/E mail: ******@*****.***
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Charles M. Salter Associates, Inc., San Francisco, CA 06/2002 02/2018 Office Manager/Executive Assistant (laid off)
• Provided executive support to CEO and Vice President engineers
• Managed professional and personal calendars, meetings, and calls in multiple time zones via Outlook
• Coordinated extensive and intricate professional and personal travel arrangements
• Prepared business expense reports using Concur and Advantage
• Screened and answered calls, emails, and correspondence with professionalism and in a timely manner
• Prepared letters, reports, proposals, spec formatting, email/memo correspondence
• Served as liaison with professional and personal relationships including company executives, Board Members, vendors, recruiting firms and educational and professional institutions
• Interfaced with clients, high level executives, project teams, vendors, and end users on a frequent basis
• Created PowerPoint presentations and Excel reports
• Planned and coordinated department events, such as parties, volunteer activities, dinners and off site meetings
• Managed company renovation projects and company alarm
• Managed employee Vacation Time/Sick Time (authorizations/coverage)
• Researched and purchased business (ordered office supplies, office replenishes, and fulfilled maintenance requests) and personal items as required
• Assisted Audio Forensics in translations/transcripts (English/Spanish cases)
• Handled W 9's, Certificate of Insurance, Commuter Checks, petty cash Cypress Lawn Cemetery/Funeral Home, Colma, CA 06/2008 11/2017 Receptionist (Part time)
• Provided immediate assistance to At Need/Pre Need families
• Assisted Family Service Department with At Need/Pre Need arrangements (funeral/cemetery)
• Handled all general phone inquiries to appropriate counselor/arranger
• Searched locations of deceased, cemetery service requests, payment collections
• Logged all appointments/walk ins, and phone calls Holiday Inn North Hotel, South San Francisco, CA 04/1997 06/2002 Front Office Associate (relocated)
• Provided hospitality to incoming guests
• Provided service to diverse customers, guest relations
• Handled reservations, check ins/check outs, guest complaints
• PBX, received and routed calls, handled data entry, filing
• Balanced all cash and credit card transactions
• Logged all appointments/walk ins, and phone calls
• Trained new employees in all Front Desk procedures SKILLS
Technical: Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Adobe, Google Docs, QuickBooks, Advantage Languages: English, Spanish
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Arts in Communications – Broadcast, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA – 2006
Associate in Applied Science Degree in Business Software Applications, Heald College, San Francisco, CA – 2002