caregiver, assistant
Resume:
Ashleigh Becker
BSc Human Physiology, Genetics and Psychology
Address: 3A Scott Street, Rynfield, Benoni, 1501
Mobile: 082-***-**-**
Email: ********@*****.***
ID Number: 931**********
Date of Birth: 18 October 1993
Nationality: SA Citizen
Languages: English (Fluent)
Drivers’ License: Yes (Code B)
www.linkedin.com/in/ashleigh-jade-becker-bsc
Personal Statement
I am a hard-working, persevering individual with the ability to learn quickly, and take pride in my ability to apply myself, meeting deadlines with efficiency and accuracy. I regard reliability, honesty, and the ability to continuously learn and apply new skills to a variety of areas as characteristics of great importance, and constantly strive to achieve and maintain these areas in my working and every-day life. Vibrant and self-motivated, I thrive in a busy environment, enjoy hard work and love dealing with people. I work well in a team and have strong communication skills, as well as find a great deal of satisfaction in organizing and dealing with administrative work. Skills
• Experienced background working with people.
• Strong comprehension, analysis and handling of data and information.
• Quantitative and qualitative research skills.
• Strong communication skills and handling of tasks with patience, accuracy and efficiency.
• Medium proficiency with Gantt project.
• Critical thinking.
• Strong problem-solving abilities.
• Ability to meet strict deadlines.
• Highly compassionate
• Flexible
• Strong emotional intelligence and soft people skills
• Computer literacy: Proficient Microsoft skills including MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint Experience
Warehouse Clerk 02/03/2020- 04/02/2021
PlanetWorld- Maurice Van Heerdan
- Ensure the quick and efficient processing of orders as soon as they are received
-Swop out/return of stock and matching credit notes to invoices
-Waybills/deliveries/dispatch
-Liaison with finance department
-Liaison with procurement
-Customer queries
-Sales Rep queries
-Ensuring processed orders get picked in a timely fashion
-Organising stock and repair collections
-Identify errors and eliminate root cause
-Liasion with customers and transport companies as, and when, required in a timely fashion Head of repairs department and Internal sales 16\05\2019- 01/02/2020 Radionic Distributors- Pam Becker, Mike Lowmass
- Processing orders.
- Data capture - invoices and credit notes for local and away dealers.
- Processing and emailing sales quotes to customers.
- Undertaking of project work as required.
-Assisting Managing and Financial Director with financial duties, handed over tasks, staff functions and collation of information required at any particular time.
- Management of email database.
- Answering and redirecting calls as necessary.
- General filing of invoices and courier related documentation.
- Maintaining directory of local suppliers and prices.
- Maintenance and ordering of office supplies.
- Processing of dealer applications.
- Completing and checking driver's daily schedule book.
- Preparing all invoices, credit notes and cover sheets for buying groups and mailing these out timeously on a monthly basis.
- Front-line public relations.
- Receiving and screening visitors.
- Management of dealer login facility on the Radionic website.
- Notification to dealers of login credentials.
- Liaising with Western Cape branch.
-Ensuring any stock returned or repairs brought in are recorded in necessary record books.
- Following through with repairs- aiming for 48hr turnaround.
- Ensuring free flow, speediness and smoothness of repair procedure to any third party agents.
- Weekly follow up with customers as to status of their repairs.
- Follow up with customers who have outstanding repairs.
- Set up and coordinate weekly repair meetings.
- Monitoring of demo stock.
- Providing strong secretarial support to all directors.
- PA to managing director.
Operations Manager & Sales
Stephen Marketing- Victoria Stephen 25/03/2019 – 15/05/2019 Monument, Krugersdorp
• Managing the front office.
• Managing the Chief of Staff.
• Preparation of invoices and quotes.
• Handling of weekly and monthly payments.
• Processing of quotes and invoices.
• Problem solving.
• Updating existing client lists and compiling new ones.
• Compiling SOP documents.
• Capture and processing of signed and unsigned order forms.
• Communicating with outsourced companies.
• Facilitating communication between outsourced companies and the clients.
• Filing and organisation of new and old quotes, invoices and payments.
• Lead qualification.
• Compiling of commission breakdowns sent to the publisher.
• Capture of daily and weekly sales in spread sheets and distribution thereof to the relevant parties.
• Chairing of meetings, distribution of agenda and minutes following the meetings closure.
• Setting up meetings with clients for the CEO.
• Supporting CEO with handed over duties and reporting on status of said duties.
• Streamlining the sales process.
• Ensuring the relevant documentation is sent to the publishers at the closing of sales.
• Follow up of emails with clients and outsourced companies.
• Answering and redirecting calls when chief of staff is away or unable to.
• Mailing clients with rates and details of the services offered.
• Communicating with the CEO about any issues and progress of tasks.
• Cold calling companies relevant to the month’s edition’s focus features. Project Manager (Internship)
The Camel Soap Factory- Stevi Lowmass 16/09/2018 – 12/12/2018 Dubai, UAE
• Setting up concept documents for new products.
• Developing project plans and time lines for new products using Gantt project.
• Recording general processes required for certification and registration of products and compiling the collected information into template documents to be followed for future products.
• Compiling guideline documents for processes to be followed with the onboarding of new partners.
• Developing a project plan for the moving of The Camel Soap Factory to a larger factory floor, scheduled in March 2019. Responsibilities included: o Developing a detailed document explaining the various processes and steps involved in moving the factory.
o Applying a timeline to the processes and delegating tasks. o Compiling a checklist starting with activities 4 months before the move and the successive months and weeks leading up to the day of the move. o Inventory of all equipment, furniture, files, raw materials and packaged products in the factory.
• Organization of the factory’s participation in the Middle East Natural & Organics Expo and The Swiss Christmas Market 2018. Responsibilities included: o Organising mock up and approval of graphics and wording for signage. o Obtaining quotes from various companies for furniture needed in the booth. o Contacting and organising with the stand designers. o Organising which team members will be attending the expos and their respective schedules.
o Participating in the expos.
• Coordinating and recording meetings among team members, ensuring decisions reached during the meetings are followed up on and actioned.
• Following up on tasks and team members, ensuring deadlines are met.
• Management of factory resources.
• Compiling various records (media appearances, client locations etc).
• Establishing contact with labs, getting quotes and organising delivery of product samples for testing.
• Communicating with, and following up on outside companies responsible for manufacturing of various accessories sold with the products (Cotton shower bags, printed shoulder bags etc).
• Coordinating testing of new products and aromas. Collecting and compiling feedback to present at product and management meetings.
• Participation in brainstorming meetings for new product names, aromas and branding.
• Acquiring translators and ensuring the appropriate documents are properly translated to Arabic as required.
• Filing and documentation.
[Final Year Group Project]
Analysis And Presentation of Scientific Research Paper 01/03/2018 – 02/05/2018 Genetics Department- Glucocorticoid Gene and Stress Hatfield, Pretoria
• Critical study and interpretation of a scientific research paper on the effects of childhood stress on the Glucocorticoid Gene in various areas of the brain.
• Further research into prior experiments and findings on the subject, as well as background information on the Glucocorticoid gene, it’s interactions with other genes and its activation in different areas of the brain.
• Presentation in poster form to the University of Pretoria Genetics Department including: o Significance of the research and its potential impact to the field. o Explanation of the main experiments performed and why they were used. o Interpretation and significance of the data obtained from the experiments, with reference to further reading done on the general background of the gene’s functioning and prior experiments.
o Detailed explanation of the main conclusions drawn by the researchers, with reference to further reading done on the general background of the gene’s functioning and prior experiments.
o Critical discussion on the quality of the paper, its ideas and experimental methods and procedures used, with reference to previous studies and potential weaknesses, as well as proposed next steps that could be taken in this area of research.
[Final Year Project]
Research Report on Grass Fungal Endophytes 13/02/2018 – 24/05/2018 University of Pretoria Hatfield, Pretoria
• Background research on common fungal endophytes and the nature of their interactions with host species.
• Formulation of hypothesis and questions pertaining to fungal endophytes on northern Free State grass samples.
• Given a sample of fungus from grass, and its surrounding soil, taken from the northern Free State Province- Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) was used to amplify a commonly used gene region for fungal systematics.
• PCR product was then sequenced, and sequence data analysed.
• This data was used for identification of the fungal species, as well as its phylogenetic data, using:
o Mothur software for amplicon sequence analysis.
o BioEdit
o MEGA7
o Rooting and statistical testing, including bootstrapping. o BLAST search.
• Interpretation and discussion of data obtained from the various experiments.
• Discussion of potential significance of the research, its potential applications and further research that could proceed the study.
General Office Assistant 06/2014 – 07/2014 [1 month] Camel Soap Factory- Stevi Lowmass
Dubai,UAE
• Typing up spread sheets.
• Reviewing and organizing customer data bases.
• Filing of paper work.
• Ensuring packaging of products meets company standards before distribution.
• Accompanying Head of marketing and sales on client visits and deliveries of certain products.
• Working in the production line packing products and preparing them for distribution. Aftercare Teacher and Nursery School Assistant 03/2012 – 12/2013 Little People’s Academy- Denise Flores Benoni
• From March 2012 to December 2012 I was a full time employee, after which (until December 2013) I worked during the university holidays.
• Responsibilities as an aftercare teacher included: o Supervising homework and project completion,
o Providing tutoring for struggling students,
o Test and exam preparation,
o Ensuring stimulating activities were provided after completion of homework and during school holidays.
o Preparation of nutritious lunches,
o Occasionally required to fetch the children from their respective schools, o Occasionally responsible for care and supervision of a mentally handicapped child requiring special attention in homework and play activities. o Communicating with the principal and parents on behaviours and performance in school work.
• Responsibilities as a nursery school teaching assistant included: o Acting as a substitute for absent co-workers,
o General supervision and providing mentally stimulating activities, especially during holiday periods.
o Communicating with the principal and parents, on relevant days,about behaviours and performance on activities.
Achievements
Project Management Training Course: Accredation-Services SETA 6465 Turnstone Training Solutions, Centurion- 20/08/2018 – 24/08/2018. Course on Neuroscience: Visual Skills Testing and Training University of Pretoria- 23/02/2015 – 07/08/2015.
Course in: Higher Exercise Science and Personal Training University of Pretoria- 24/07/2017- 30/11/2017
Neuroscience Conference 2015 Attendee
University of Pretoria
Neuroscience Conference 2017 Attendee University of Pretoria- 2017
Member of the Physiological Society of South Africa- Undergraduate University of Pretoria- 2017
Completion of over 100 hours of Community Service
Tom Newby School- 2006
Completion of over 200 hours of Community Service
St Dunstan’s College, Benoni- 2009-2011
Education
Matric/Grade 12 IEB 2011
St Dunstan’s College Benoni
BSc Human Physiology, Genetics and Psychology 2018 University of Pretoria Hatfield, Pretoria
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