COLLEEN DOWNING

ada5od@r.postjobfree.com

SKILLS Typing: 62 wpm

Software: Microsoft Word (2010), PowerPoint (2007); ExpressScribe and GearPlayer transcription softwares; Adobe Acrobat; Redlining

(Workshare Compare); Outlook (E-mail)

EXPERIENCE 1/7/2017-Present (Week-ends)

11/14/2014-11/5/2016 (Week-ends)

5/13/2014 to 10/6/2014 (Mon-Fri)

Fenwick & West (Mountain View)

Temporary Word Processing Operator (General)

Convert pdfs to Word agreements using Fenwick templates and Payne autonumbering + revise; redline documents – email to attorney; transcribe client voicemails (using ExpressScribe); edit PowerPoint presentations; input attorney timesheets; create daily remaining Word Processing work and incoming fax reports; study latest tutorials (Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, Excel); monitor incoming fax folder + Mountain View and SF Word Processing mailboxes; create out-of-office memos in Outlook; create online file folders for projects; send faxes. 2/19/2015–1/6/2017 (Mon-Fri)

Donahue Fitzgerald LLP (Oakland)

Temporary Word Processing Operator (Estates and Trusts Dept.) Draft key documents from Donahue templates; create correspondence and transmittal memos; print labels + envelopes; create Tables of Contents for larger documents; bookmark estate binders; transcribe client voicemails; create and proofread legal descriptions for deeds; print daily emails for file documentation; convert pdfs to Word agreements + assign MacPac numbering thereto; perform document grammar checks on request; edit pleadings.

4/9/2009 to 2/3/2014

Williams Lea Inc., outsourcing co. (placement at Sidley Austin, San Francisco) Legal Document Processing Specialist (General)

(Same law firm as below; day shift): Scan/revise/proofread contracts, memos, pleadings, agreements, tables; transcribe tapes; type correspondence; prepare larger documents for sending to remote sites, specifying attorney preferences and special requests. 2/2005 to 4/2009

Sidley Austin (San Francisco)

Legal Document Processing Specialist (General)

Overnight shift - Scan/revise/proofread contracts, memos, pleadings, agreements, tables; general secretarial support (fax, photocopy, e-mail for attorney); create Tables of Contents for agreements; transcribe tapes; type correspondence; informally provide training in Microsoft Word to secretaries and attorneys.

9/1987 to 11/2004

Bank of America Legal Department – SF World Headquarters Lead Word Processing Operator

11/1986 – 8/1987

Coudert Brothers – San Francisco (International Law Firm) Bilingual (French) Legal Secretary

9/1980 – 8/1986

Ernst & Whinney (now Ernst & Young) – Madrid, Spain

(International Auditing/Accounting Firm)

Word Processing Operator/Bilingual (Spanish)

Wang System Administrator/Coordinator for

MCS, Audit, Tax Departments

EDUCATION University of California – Santa Barbara Bachelor of Arts – French Literature/Linguistics

2 years’ post-graduate work therein

Minor in Spanish – Literature/Linguistics

University of Paris (Sorbonne)

TRAINING Court Reporter Training Center – San Francisco Stenoprint (machine shorthand) typist

LANGUAGES Fluency in Spanish; Good command of French PERSONAL

STRENGTHS

Motivated; Thorough; Analytical; Detail-oriented. Work well independently and as part of a team.