Service Human Resource

GERMIMAH CLARKE

**** ******* ***. ** • Brooklyn, NY 11226

347-***-**** • *******@*****.***

EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS

Franklin University- Masters of Science in Marketing & Communication (Expected graduation, Fall 2015) GPA 3.7

Courses completed thus far:

Marketing Strategies, Brand Management, Marketing Research & Analytic, Creative Production, Digital Marketing, Behavioral Research, & Marketing Communications Planning.

Bachelor of Science in Human Resource Management, GPA 3.5

Berkeley College, New York

Medgar Evers College- Diploma in Legal Secretarial Studies- Including discovery responses, motions, subpoenas, settlements, letters, pleadings, discovery, notices and motions; filing procedures, legal research; memoranda preparation, and citation format.

Certified Notary Public

LINGUISTIC FLUENCY / COMPUTER SKILLS

Conversational fluencies in: Spanish (Conversational, read and write), Portuguese (Conversational)

Technical Competencies: MS Office 2010 (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Sharepoint), Adobe Audition and Audacity software (Record, edit, and create audio files, copying, cutting, pasting, and deleting audio, visually fading and changing amplitude, inverting, reversing, and silencing audio, Saving and exporting files).

Broadcasting Mentoring Group-

Trained under Ralphie Aversa from WPLJ 95.5 FM

Responsibilities included:

Interviewed Christian McBride, Etienne Charles,

Interviewed Stephanie McKay, Jacques Schwarz-Bart

Special Interview with Stephanie Phillips, Senior Vice President of ForeFront Capital

Created, wrote and voiced Public Service Announcements ( PSA’s), and commercial voice-overs

Radio Newscast, Travel news reading and on the spot live sports reporting, sports announcing and interviewing

Weather reporting, Music announcing in R&B, Jazz, Hip Hop, Adult Contemporary and Urban Contemporary, and Oldies

PROFESSIONAL PROFILE

MANATT, PHELPS, AND PHILLIPS, New York 02/2013 to Present

Legal Secretary

Type legal documents, send out correspondence and schedule appointments, clean-up of scanned documents with the use of DocXStyles and DocXTools; Formatting documents from Adobe PDF to Word; Creating, revising and/or reformatting Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, PowerPoint presentations. General secretarial duties include answering phones; time entry; expense reports; legal filing; scanning documents; fax, courier and e-mail distributions.

SULLIVAN AND CROMWELL LLP, New York 10/2004 to 02/2013

Assistant Coordinator (10/2008 to 02/2013)

Excel in scheduling of conference center facility for New York office, ensuring effective and efficient use and satisfactory service delivery for clients and Lawyers. Maintain files / records, and prepare statistical and routine reports related to conference center operations and equipment (media and non-media). Collaborate with Attorney's office and food service caterers to plan standard and special food and beverage events, documenting such events within reservation system. Utilize reservation system to book 10 conference rooms (comprised of six seat, four seat, 12 seat, 16 seat, and 28 seat rooms) booked everyday with between 80 and 100 people. Handle travel arrangements both domestic and international including organizing hotels and cars.

Achievements:

MS Word: Creating, managing and troubleshooting templates and styles, inserting and manipulating images, combining content from multiple sources. Redlining, blacklining, copying and distribution.

Data input and management, preparing and checking standardized reports, memos, correspondence, presentations, and filing, meeting organization, and setup conference calls.

Strategic editing and revising documents, charts and presentations in Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, Adobe PDF Standard.

Conferred with clients before, during, and after events, maintaining a positive relationship and responding to inquiries and requests in a timely manner; resulted in client satisfaction and high recommendations.

Evaluated cost-effective, high-quality food service vendors; conducted food tastings, reduced food service bills, and created exotic menus for political and social events.

Collaborated with caterers to create new menus for upscale events, including themes (e.g. French, Italian, Russian, Mediterranean, Moroccan, Mexican, Spanish cuisine), and high-end appetizers for cocktail hour.

Receptionist (10/2004 to 10/2008)

Leveraged multi-tasking abilities in operating telephone switchboards and consoles to connec, and transfer domestic and international calls. Provided assistance to clients and Attorneys, referring individuals to appropriate internal or external contacts. Maintained Attorney’s calendar including planning and scheduling conferences, teleconferences, and travel arrangements.

Achievements:

Connected 500 calls per day, paging or interoffice communication equipment to communicate with recipients.

Developed superior written communication skills.

Ensured updated logs by stamping messages (time and date), and filing appropriately.

Acquired switchboard operator experience using private branch exchange (PBX) and voiceover Internet protocol switchboards.

Controlled office supply inventory, checking stocks, placing and expediting orders, and evaluating new products.

References Available Upon Requests

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