VALERIE STURGESS
Tyler, TX **703
*************@**********.***
Objective: I am seeking an administrative position effectively utilizing my professional business knowledge and experience, outstanding organizational skills, and exceptional multi-tasking abilities.
Summary: With fifteen years’ experience in professional office environments, I enjoy executing challenging responsibilities under high pressure, promptly and with acute attention to detail. I am able to work well within a team and accomplish all tasks brought before it. I pride myself on being reliable, hard-working, friendly, and dedicated with a positive attitude. I look forward to being a contributing member of your company's team.
Computer Skills: Microsoft Office, Word, Windows, Access, Excel, email, internet, peripheral devices, 65 wpm
Experience: Full Time Student, Paris Junior College 11/02/2014 – current
Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society Member
Fair Oil, Ltd. Tyler, Texas 11/01/2012 - 10/21/2014
Position: Land Department Clerk
Responsibilities: Scanning all Oil, Gas and Mineral Leases and related files from the 1930's to present into the company computer data base. All filing and file maintenance, creating new files as needed, answering multiple phone lines, filling in for the receptionist as needed.
Jack H. Sturgess, CPA, Cedar Park, Texas 11/02/2009 - 9/21/2012
Position: Administrative Assistant
Responsibilities: File maintenance, operating multiple phone lines, scheduling client meetings, data entry, producing and mailing invoices, recording and relaying client messages, compiling reports and tables to show statistics related to cash receipts, expenditures, accounts payable and receivable and profit and loss, evaluating records for accuracy of balances, postings, calculations and other records pertaining to business or other transactions and reconciles, retrieving files for authorized personnel, making copies of all data and records.
Leading Edge Personnel (TIBH), Austin, Texas 6/01/2009 - 10/16/2009
Position: Data Entry
Responsibilities: Entering data from source documents, file maintenance, preparing materials for printing, proofreading, inspecting materials for accuracy, locating and retrieving files upon request for authorized personnel, making copies of all data and records, comparing data against source documents, verifying accuracy of data to be entered, deleting or correcting inaccurate data.
**This was a temporary position through Leading Edge Personnel, a temporary agency. The company that I worked directly for is TIBH (Texas Industries for the Blind and Handicapped).
PSI Urethanes, Inc. Austin, Texas 1/24/2005 - 12/05/2008
Position: Administrative Assistant
Responsibilities: Greeting visitors and directing them to the appropriate department, operating multiple phone lines and intercom, calculating and recording daily shipments including product and price, producing and filing company records, creating shipping documents including bills of lading, maintaining company files and reports, data entry, taking daily customer orders as well as calculating and recording said orders and anticipated earnings, producing and mailing invoices, scheduling outgoing freight, accounts payable.
Jack H. Sturgess, CPA, Cedar Park, Texas 9/09/2002 - 12/09/2004
Position: Administrative Assistant
Responsibilities: File maintenance, operating multiple phone lines, scheduling client meetings, data entry, producing and mailing invoices, recording and relaying client messages, compiling reports and tables to show statistics related to cash receipts, expenditures, accounts payable and receivable and profit and loss, evaluating records for accuracy of balances, postings, calculations and other records pertaining to business or other transactions and reconciles, retrieving files for authorized personnel, making copies of all data and records.
Randal B. Gilbert, Attorney at Law, Tyler, Texas 8/01/2001 - 8/28/2002
Position: Receptionist/Secretary
Responsibilities: Greeting visitors and obtaining the nature of business, scheduling client appointments, maintaining attorney calendar, data entry, legal document composition, purchasing, ordering and dispensing office supplies, incoming and outgoing mail, file maintenance, operating multiple phone lines, recording and relaying client messages, examining documents for accuracy, retrieving files for authorized personnel, making and filing copies of all data and records, accounts payable, accounts receivable.
Education: Associates Degree (currently in process)
Paris Junior College, Major: Accounting
Phi Theta Kappa (GPA 3.71)
Awards: Scholarship: Early High School Graduation (1996)
References: Allen Fair 903-***-**** Jack Sturgess, CPA 903-***-****
Randy Gilbert 903-***-**** Laney Bowdoin 903-***-****
Gail Stephenson 903-***-****