Personal Assistant Administrative

Suzanne Spears New York, NY *****

********@***.**.*** 917-***-****

Seeking part-time position as administrative/personal assistant preferably for an individual/family or small office.

Volunteer Advocate

CAIC Campaign for Alternatives to Isolated Confinement - New York

Advocate and volunteer for CAIC, a group of legal organizations with members and friends, formerly or currently incarcerated persons. CAIC formulated the HALT bill (Humane Alternatives to LongTerm) isolated confinement, now before the NY legislature since January 2014. Participate in lobby trips to Albany starting in 2014 and monthly rallies in NYC for NY prison reform. The HALT bill was finally passed in March 2021. Implementation of the prison reform has been continuing since then with related efforts during the COVID-19 pandemic to remove those incarcerated at Rikers Island prisons due to the extensive infection there

Administrative Assistant to a World-renowned Art Lecturer

• Rosamond Bernier Russell - Art Lecturer/Historian/Educator - New York, NY Prepared new versions of her Metropolitan Museum of Art History Lectures - Converted lecture carousels of art slides to PC computer MS-PowerPoint presentations of art lectures.

- Converted and corrected art slides using Adobe Photoshop for the computer

- Updated and maintained Rosamond's museum MS-Word lectures about period art and artists.

- Created the MS-PowerPoint art lecture displays.

- Incorporated the art images into the MS-Word documents.

• Served as Personal Assistant

- Maintained the daily schedule for transportation, entertainment and restaurants.

- Monitored daily correspondence via phone, mail and email.

- Organized extensive national and international business/pleasure travel plans:

tickets, travel insurance, hotels, local transportation, visas, and inoculations.

- Managed account billing and expense information for accountant.

Participated in collection of documents, information and images for the creation of Rosamond's autobiographical book - Some of My Lives.

Computer Software Administrator/ systems engineer / programmer

NYMEX, IBI, ACT, and MIRB - New York, NY more than 30 years Held a variety of positions in IT software and application development and design, QA, maintenance and configuration management. Worked at an international software consulting firm and at the largest commodity exchange in New York. Worked as an administrator, programmer and systems engineer in a large variety of software/hardware environments. Much of the SW/HW variety in which I was proficient, has been superceded by the Internet, the Cloud on the internet and the huge database management systems in use today on hardware one percent as large as the old varieties.

PC Windows: MSOffice: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook; Adobe Photoshop; Nikon Slide Scanner; PC Screen Projector

Apple Macintosh MacOS Catalina 10.16.7; MSOffice: Word, Excel, PowerPoint; Adobe Photoshop; ReadIris OCR Online banking management, product search/evaluation/purchase, information collection & analysis. Mainframes IBM, DEC and Tandem...

Education: Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics Barnard College

Skills

MS Office Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook (10+ years), Adobe Photoshop (8 years), OCR ReadIris Optical Charater Reader

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