Front Desk Graphic Designer

Sherree R. Carr Gable

817-***-**** • *** Dora Street, Bedford, TX 76022

*********@*****.*** • http://www.linkedin.com/pub/sherree-gable/31/aba/352

Excellent communicator makes the message clear with text and graphics, having served as an administrative assistant, business development administrator, proposal coordinator, editor, reporter, copywriter, art coordinator, and graphic designer

•Performed front desk duties; phones, mail, office machine maintenance, greeting of guests, and office supply inventory with such attention to detail that was promoted to Proposal Coordinator within a month at All Star Facility Services

•Performed front desk duties with a cheerfulness, warmth and efficiency that endeared me to the Trinity Terrace residents

•Produced winning proposals for the Reagan Building facilities management in Washington D.C. (the second largest federal building in the U.S) and Terminal B remodel at DFW Airport

•Excels at brochure design and has extensive experience supervising publication production to ensure quality and content of visuals and text

•Aptitude with the written and visual aspects of relaying a message gives unique insight into the flow and continuity throughout an executive PowerPoint presentation, a government proposal for bid, marketing collateral, newspapers, advertising design, and proposal visuals

RECENT EMPLOYMENT

Prep Cook

Papa John’s Pizza – Hurst, Texas 3/10/20 – present

Prepare all ingredients required for Pizza assembly in a timely manner. Maintain cleanliness of prep area.

Front Desk Concierge / Receptionist

Trinity Terrace Senior Community - Fort Worth, Texas 3/2017-9/2019

•Oversaw front desk at main entrance to ensure all visitors and vendors registered

•Forwarded phone calls, cataloging calls for assistance from tenants and retrieving needed help

•Logged receipt of packages, handled petty cash, arranged transportation for tenants, took reservations for guest rooms and treated tenants with respect and compassion

OTHER EMPLOYMENT

Business Development Administrator

Walker Engineering, Inc. - Irving, Texas 5/2011-7/2012

•Submitted winning proposal publications compliant with Contractor’s Request for Proposal requirements for contracts of $50 million in value

•Designed new style for proposals and marketing collateral, updating formatting and visuals.

•Supervised proposal publication and production on winning proposal for Terminal B at DFW Airport

•Designed, wrote, and produced custom marketing materials for each company marketing types

Communications Specialist (temporary contract position)

ADT Security Services via Stark Talent - Irving, Texas 10/2010-4/2011

•Designed Customer Experience visuals for company-wide customer contact communications audit with Designed customer contact process map in PowerPoint to be enlarged and repeatedly used at upper-executive communications audit meetings

•Responsible for cataloging, organizing, and sequencing 2,000 plus customer contact letters and company collateral according to company process editing current documents to comply with new company style

Proposal Coordinator - Publisher/Editor - Graphics Specialist

All Star Facility Services (All Star Technical Services)-Fort Worth, Texas 4/2006-9/2010

•Produced winning proposal publications compliant with federal, state or municipal Request for Proposal requirements for contracts of $50 million in value

•Formatted all text and illustrations, ensuring consistent style, coordinating input from SMEs

•Designed professional quality cover art, quarterly reports, magazine advertising, appealing flow charts, graphs, tables, collateral, logos and PowerPoint presentations and marketing materials

•Supervised production of proposals in answer to federal and municipal RFPs and increased the visual appeal of the division's proposal publications.

•Wrote story spotlighting company published in the CSA national trade magazine

•Created Branding concept, including company tagline and advertisement layout

•Managing Editor - Reporter

Joshua Star (weekly newspaper) South Tarrant Star-Burleson, Texas 10/2004-3/2006

•Developed news story ideas, in accord with local events, Interviewed sources and wrote stories

•Wrote emotive feature stories concerning local residents and editorial columns targeted to readers interests

•Edited and proofread all copy

•Improved newspaper’s relationship with the community by fair and unbiased reporting

•Shot and image edited digital photographs

•Networked with city officials and schools administrators

Staff Reporter/Writer

UTA Shorthorn - University of Texas at Arlington 1996

•Showed initiative and perseverance leading to regional award

•Covered several beats and composed editorial

Legal Secretary

Lee Smith Attorney at Law - Hurst, Texas 7/1995-7/1996

•Entered data on bankruptcy clients into special software, maintained file of clients court dates and sent reminders

•Reorganized filing system, deciphered attorney’s notes into itemized billing, answered phones during lunch,

RETAIL EMPLOYMENT

Supervisor – Burkes Outlet, Hurst, TX 8/2015-8/2016

Keyholder – Clothes Mentor, North Richland Hills, TX 2014-2015

Team Member -- Target, Hurst, TX Seasonal

Associate Manager - Dress Barn, Grapevine, TX 2002-2003

Accounts Receivable, Sales – Park Row Lighting, Southlake, TX 1999-2001

EDUCATION

Bachelors of Arts Degree in Journalism — University of Texas at Arlington, 2004

AWARDS / PUBLISHED ARTICLES

Second Best News Story “No Death Threats”— Southwestern Journalism Congress, 1997

All Star Technical Services Successfully Expands Services (Meet a Long Time Member)

Service Contractor (Contract Services Association), Fall 2007

COMPUTER SKILLS/SOFTWARE

•Microsoft Office Suite (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook, Publisher)

•Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Acrobat) (7 years)

•Visio, SmartDraw, PageMaker (6 years), Various industry specific software, Google Docs

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