Assistant School

Kaitlin Devaney

**** ****** ***** **.

Suwanee, GA 30024

Home Number: 678-***-****

Cell Phone Number: 619-***-****

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

Objective:

To help provide children with the necessary care and education to be a successful learner and individual. Dedicated to creating an atmosphere that is safe, encouraging, fun and adaptive to each child’s individual needs.

Qualifications and Goals:

Skill-oriented person, good professional attitude, highly motivated individual with great communication skills.

Positive and friendly attitude, excellent interpersonal skills, and a great team player.

Always willing to go above and beyond to help other coworkers.

Extensive background in working with preschool, primary, and elementary school children.

Very good at maintaining a healthy and safe environment for children to explore without risks.

Very Clean and Very Organized.

Very good with time management.

Three Years of being a personal nanny to families.

Over three years’ experience as an assistant teacher in a preschool room at The Goddard School.

Three and a Half years’ experience working at Core Kids Academy

Four and a Half years working at Montessori Kids Academy.

Always on time, usually always early.

Very dependable.

Education:

Paul Mitchell The School San Diego/ Atlanta: 2006-2007. Started school in San Diego, California, then finished at Paul Mitchell The School in Atlanta, Georgia.

Cosmetology License

University Of San Diego High School: 2000-2005, San Diego California

High School Diploma

Work Experience:

Apprentice at: Hair it is from 2005-2006.

Took Clients while attending school at Paul Mitchell

Answered Phone Calls

Made Appointments

Serviced clients in sales, payment and did the register

Helped with payroll

Personal Nanny for Two Families: Duluth, GA and Suwanee, GA from 2006-2008.

Was responsible for getting the children off to school in the morning and caring for them after they arrived home from school.

Made arrangements and transported the children to the doctor and all other appointments they needed to go to.

Made arrangements and was responsible for taking the children to all of their sporting practices, games and events.

Assisted in homework and projects daily

Made meals for the Children to eat.

Took care of the families pets as well.

Provided care to children from 5 months to High School.

Provided overnight care a lot of times while the parents were out of town

Teachers Assistant: The Goddard School, Sugar Hill, GA

From October 2008-March 2010

Worked with a group of 20 children in a classroom from ages 3-4 years old.

Helped prepare lesson plans and daily reports for management

Responsible for opening the school at 6:30am every day and ensuring that the classroom was ready with the materials needed for that day.

Attended staff meetings to discuss ideas to implement these goals to enhance our organization.

Greeted the children and parents that were entering the school.

Cares for children with a variety of problems and needs.

Recorded daily progress of individual children to report back to the parents through my observation.

Instructed children in health and personal habits such as, eating, resting, and bathroom habits.

Read to children, and taught them simple paintings, drawings, songs, and even Spanish.

Organized and participated in recreational activities

Completed Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and First Aid and Fire Safety Training.

Prepared all of the morning snacks and bleach bottles for all the classrooms before the children arrived at school.

After School Assistant Teacher, Floater and Receptionist: Core Kids Academy in Duluth, GA.

From 2010-2013

Responsible for opening the school in the mornings at 6:15am every day and preparing for the day

Manages the school until 10:30am when management arrived.

Made all the breakfast preparation for all the children in the mornings.

Assists after school children with homework, projects, and reports.

Assists with lesson plans and Filled in as Lead teacher when needed.

Assist in any other classrooms that needed help to ensure state regulated ratios.

Answering phones, giving tours of the school to parents, filing, organizing meetings, answering emails from parents

Processing tuition payments.

Sign off and receive on all packages arriving at the school.

Sort through packages, organize everything where they needed to be in the supply room

Made final decisions on things when management wasn’t there.

Assistant Teacher, Administration Assistant, Floater: Montessori Kids Academy, in Cumming, GA

From 2013-2017

Answering phones and answering all questions from parents

Booking tours/giving tours of the school to interested parents.

Answering emails.

Filing work, organizing everything

Getting the weeks organized with what plans and toys we had on those days

Helping with carpool in the morning until 8:30am and in the afternoons until 2:45pm.

Opening the school every day at 6:15am

Getting all snack out for all the Classrooms in the morning, making the bleach bottles, and emptying the dishwasher.

Help put the snack away on Monday’s that the parents brought in.

Being with the children in the café until their teacher picked them up at 7:45am.

Helped with lesson plans.

Cleaned the classroom.

Did all the art projects with the children.

Taught the children the Montessori lessons for that week.

Made sure we had all the materials we needed for that week.

Kept all the children’s portfolios up to date with their work.

Emailed the parents letting them know how their child was doing.

Sent home on Friday’s a weekly work plan of the children’s completed work.

Helped out in the nap room.

Helped all the teachers with extra things they were either behind on or had to much to do.

In charge of making sure everything was taken care of and set up for the Fall Festivals. Made all the calls, and arrangements for that.

Made sure all the father/daughter dances and mother/son pottery classes were booked and taken care of and had everything we needed.

In charge of graduation and getting everything ready for that day.

Anytime there was an event at the school, I was always the person in charge, overseeing everything and getting it set up right.

CPR and Fire Safety Certificated.

Receptionist, Assistant to Attorney Epps as well as his Paralegal: The Epps Law Group. Suwanee, GA.

From Auguest 17, 2017-March 12,2019

Officer manager

Dealing with all criminal, civil, and juvenile clients

Making all the hard files as well as the online files as well for new clients

Emailing clients or courts

Keeping the calendar up to date, courts, meetings, etc.

Janitorial duties, taking out the trash, vacuuming, cleaning the floors, doing dishes.

Answering all phone calls

Contact courts for new client information

Type up new client letters and new client representation letters.

Take payment

Talk to all the PNC'S (Potential New Clients), get all information, case,county,personal info, etc. I did the intake when clients called before giving the information to Mr. Epps.

Make all the motion packages and letters to the clerks, DA, ADA, Judges, Solicitors

Typing up continuance letters, conflict letters, leave of absence, or any other motion or order that needed to be done.

Draft up Motion with withdrawal from a client

Made sure the client always had a hard copy of what we received from the court as well as scan it into the computer and put it in their online file.

Also email the client so they would have three different ways of receiving information

Scanning all paperwork and documents into the computer, putting it in their hard file and as well as their online file.

Sitting in with new client consultations

In charge of the mail and making sure whatever we got from courts was on the calendar and scanned for that client.

Doing Jail Mail everyday form all of the counties when they sent them

Programs I have used: SharePoint, Wunderlist, Word, Adobe Acrobat Reader, Ring Central, Clio, MyCase, LawPay, ADP, Pitney Bows, Lexacatia, LexReception, Outlook 2016, Excel.

Making large and small labels to go onto the Hard Files, as well as the mail to go to courts.

Having all of the envelopes made and printed out.

Making sure we always had postage on the Pitney Bows machine

Making Excel Worksheets and PDF’S/Words Documents

Organizing the supply room

Cleaning all conference rooms

Getting information out to the client about their charge.

Scheduling appointments, meetings,court dates etc.

Opening and closing client files. Online and hard copy ones.

Deal with the clients and keep them up to date with everything going on and making sure they are comfortable and less anxious/nervous.

Answering all emails or any questions anyone had

Take Payments on LayPay or Checks

Order all of the supplies needed for the office.

I like to make sure I was always a week ahead with getting hard files out, letters out, or anything the court or client needed to know.

I always call and email the client a few days before court to remind them the day and time.

When getting out the hard files for Mr. Epps to take to court with him, I always had them lined up, starting from Monday-Friday. If there was more then one on a day I would put them in the correct time as well. I always make sure I stay a week ahead of getting that done.

I’m very organized

Faxing documents to whoever needed them or receiving them.

Work well under pressure

Great Team player, always trying to go above and beyond

I have great relationships with clients

Whenever a client would come in, I would get them water, coffee, soda, anything thing the needed or asked for.

Get Hearing notices out to the clients, by email, mail and online as well as a Hearing Notice letter.

I have completed many classes taken by Lorman Training, on all different subjects and how to do certain things as a paralegal and received my successfully completed certificates.

Anything a Paralegal has to do I do it all, on top of everything else.

*** References available upon request.

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