CURRICULUM VITAE
OF
CHARLENE WILD
SWORN TRANSCRIBER
AGE: 53
DATE OF BIRTH: 08 JUNE 1968
LANGUAGES: English / Afrikaans
NO OF CHILDREN: ONE - AGE 26 YEARS
LAST SCHOOL ATTENDED: Stirling High School - East London
Prefect in 1985
HIGHEST STANDARD PAST: Matric with university exemption – studied HDE teaching in 1986 – 1987. Not completed
SUBJECTS: English and Afrikaans (Higher Grade)
Accounting (Higher Grade)
Maths, Typing and Shorthand
COMPUTER LITERACY: Microsoft Office (MS Word / Excel / PPoint)
Microsoft Outlook (Internet / Email)
Windows 2000/XP, Dalet, Express Scribe, JAVS. Lawpac, MDA, Accpac and various other accounting packages
CONTACT NO: 082-***-****
EMAIL: adoa1k@r.postjobfree.com
CAREER HISTORY:
COMPANY: Pagdens – Stulting, Port Elizabeth - Philip Shaw and David Richardson
DATES: January 1987 to December 1990
POSITION: Legal Secretary
DUTIES: Full Secretarial function. Typed Commercial Agreements and Litigation, registration of private and public companies. Dictaphone typing, correspondence etc. A little shorthand used for urgent faxes, diarising of files and filing. Did all administration duties. Running all efficiently, co-ordinating and implementing office procedures. Being responsible for specific projects and in charge of my team around my litigation section.
Reason for leaving: Went with my fiancé at the time to Johannesburg
COMPANY: Deneys Reitz Attorneys - Johannesburg
Gerrit Bouwer
DATES: February 1991 - October 1994
POSITION: Legal Secretary
DUTIES: Diary control, typing of all legal documentation, Dictaphone typing, little shorthand, Typing Magistrates / Supreme Court Litigation,
Motor Vehicle Insurance Claims, Affidavits,
Summonses, Statements of Accounts, Divorce Settlement Agreements, due diligence. Maintained an efficient filing system.
Reason for leaving: Had a baby and stayed at home for a while.
COMPANY: Kingsbourne (Pty) Ltd - Marc Hammick –
DATES: January 1996 - December 2000
POSITION: Personal Assistant / Secretary / Receptionist to three Directors, 4 Quantity Surveyors and 2 Consultants who give Contractual
and Commercial legal advice to Construction Companies (Arbitrations) locally and internationally.
DUTIES: Answering all calls and directing all calls on a daily basis as receptionist.
Full range of personal assistant / secretarial
Functions. Arranging flights, seeing clients, organizing cocktail functions, invitations etc. Typing agreements, correspondence, handling petty cash and invoicing at month end. Handling the mail and ensuring all office stationary storage is well stocked. Organizing and storing paperwork and computer-based information.
Reason for leaving: Was asked to come back to Deneys Reitz Attorneys.
COMPANY Deneys Reitz Attorneys
DATES: January 2001 – December 2006
POSITION: Secretary / Assistant to Senior Litigation Partner
in the Construction / Insurance Litigation Unit.
DUTIES: Typing pleadings and notices, mostly High
Court and a little Magistrate's Court, typing of
Construction opinions, drawing up construction
related agreements, correspondence, diarizing
of files, screening telephone calls, month end
narratives, tax invoices, statements etc. to all
clients.
Reason for leaving: Moved back to my home town, East London
COMPANY: Drake Flemmer Attorneys
DATES: January 2007 – October 2007
POSITION: Legal Secretary
DUTIES: I consulted with clients daily. Met constant deadlines and demands. Litigation and foreclosures as well as family law and criminal law
REASON FOR LEAVING: Better job offer/salary
COMPANY:
LUKHOZI CONSULTING ENGINEERS
DATES: 25 June 2011 – 20 January 2012
POSITION: Temping - PA/Secretary/Admin/Receptionist
DUTIES: Prepared Tenders
I relieved for an hour on the switchboard daily. I typed reports and various covering letters for Payment Certificates to go out to various parties.
Reason for leaving: Temping assignment finished.
COMPANY: BALI CONSULTING ENGINEERS
DATES: 23 January 2012 – end June 2013
POSITION: Receptionist/ PA/Admin/Secretary/Project assistant
DUTIES: Organizing staff travel and accommodation requirements. Answered the phones daily, took messages, helped clients etc. Typing reports and letters, photocopying and printing.
Open project jackets for new projects on a daily basis (K2’s), prepare list of materials to be used by contractors to do electrical installations (BOMS), print design packages (FDP’s), infill’s, update daily information/comments on spreadsheet for each project at Eskom, admin, filing different contractor’s work in date/invoice order with supporting photographs and meter movements etc., answering the telephone, invoicing, input of VAT information on VAT spreadsheet before it goes to accountants on a regular basis, assisting with outages, typing, answering the telephone etc.
Reason for leaving: Decided to work from home.
PRESENT: July 2013 to July 2021.
COMPANY: Lepelle Polokwane, Limpopo & DART (Digital Audio), Pretoria, Johannesburg, Sneller Durban
DATES: 2013 to end 2018. January 2019 to March 2021 Inlexso transcribing court cases.
POSITION: Court Case typist, proofreading, transcribing,
Via Dropbox, internet, We Transfer etc.
DUTIES: Type from home. Cases get sent to me via Dropbox or We Transfer on a daily basis all with due dates, urgents or overnights and I transcribe the recordings and type the court cases, proofread them and email back once completed.
I also type interviews, hearings, arbitrations, council meetings and medical for various SA companies.
Since January 2019 I train people all over South Africa to transcribe arbitrations, hearings, interviews, meetings and interviews online.
I have done administration in every position I have held.
REFERENCES:
Brian – Kaylee – 073-***-****
Dunni – Simply Translate – 072-***-****
Anke – Pro Edge – 072-***-****
Elsje Aproskie Transcribing – 079-***-****
Rob Scott (Director) – ex Deneys Reitz. Now at ENSafrica.