Administrative Assistant with Office & IT Support Experience
Resume:
Brenda A. Chesser
Oswego, IL *****
************@*****.***
SKILLS
Enjoy challenges…Quick study…Interested in Learning new things…Strong organizational skills…Ability to perform tasks simultaneously at peak workload…Proficient with use of Microsoft Word, Outlook and Excel…Adaptability…medical terminology…transcription
EXPERIENCE
Telecommunications Administrative Assistant 04/2023-6/2025
Fermilab – Batavia, IL
Maintain copier and stock of office supplies by ordering supplies or preparing work
orders, updates records.
Purchase office supplies and work with vendors
Receive and send multiple packages/mail with vendors
Work with staff across all departments
Set up jabber accounts
Process SPOK, AT&T and Verizon invoice
Create payment memos, Scan/ track packages
Maintain several dept spreadsheets, varied database maintenance
Order cell phones, wall phones and VoIP phones across the lab, lab wide headsets
Program VOIP 8811 desk phones
Excess equipment and send out to Property
Reconciliation of credit card
Create material move requests (MMRs)
Process TSR (Telecommunications Service request) sheets
Process requests for international loaner phone, receiving loaner phone
Review, process and purchase requisitions for new/upgraded cell phones
Composes, prepares, and edits routine correspondence
Customer Service/Sales
Home Depot – Oswego, IL 04/2022 – 10/2024
Greet, recommend and close every customer
Provide information to customers to sell entire project
Handle basics in adjacent departments
Maintain in stock assigned areas
Provide fast, friendly service to all customers
Ensure clean, shop-able and safe environment
Sign up customers for credit cards
Administrative Assistant/Bookkeeper
Vogelzang Law – Chicago, IL 09/2018 – 7/2022
First point of contact for clients and visitors
Answer/transfer phone call and take messages for staff members
Purchase office supplies and work with vendors
Working with office equipment such as printers, copiers, and laptops
Receive and send multiple packages/mail and letters
Help colleagues stay organized and effectively communicate with clients
Work with staff across all departments
Assist accounting in bookkeeping work and accounts payable
Print, scan, and FedEx settlements to clients
Create spreadsheets and reports based on company records to make information more accessible for colleagues
Track invoices and payments
Process expense reports and reimbursements
Update and maintain the general ledger
Maintaining accurate transaction such as purchases, expenses, sales revenue, invoices, and payments
Deposit funds
Legal Assistant
Noonan & Lieberman Ltd. – Chicago, IL 08/2013 – 12/2018
Typing correspondence for Owner Attorney and several other Attorneys such as Agreements, Interrogatories and Detainer Complaints, summons for various counties in Illinois and Indiana, Notice of Filings, Appearances, Notice of Motions, Case Managements and Notice of Forfeitures
E-filing of documents
Communications with sheriffs and clerks of various counties
Greeting and directing clients and visitors to appropriate individuals
Answering multiline phone and directing calls to appropriate person or voice mail
Evictions - communicating with sheriffs of date and times
Administrative Assistant/Secretary/Receptionist
Mid-Continent Coal & Coke Company – Homewood, IL 05/2000 -12/2012
Communicating with clients on a regular basis, welcoming, greeting and direct visitors
Fax daily of hourly employees at plants to several vendors
Coordinated domestic and some international travel arrangements
Typed correspondences and memos for Vice President and District Manager
Created and utilized Excel spreadsheets for data entry
Set up and ordered coal/coke for small sales (LTL loads)
Some truck logistics, utilizing DHL, FedEx and railcars
Fax and upkeep of various office equipment
Answered multiline phone system
Non-Invasive Cardiovascular Technician
Cardiovascular Clinics, PC – Munster, IN 1999 – 2000
Perform EKG’s, treadmill stress testing, Holter monitor application and scanning
Answer phones
Scheduled appointments, charge patients, start IV’s, administered vaccines
Vital signs, Protimes, Cholestech
Transcribing EKGs and Holter monitors
Non-Invasive Cardiovascular Technician
St Catherine’s Hospital = East Chicago, IN 1989 – 1999
Meditech Information system data entry
Perform EKG’s, Holter monitor application, stress testing
Tilt study, EKG late potentials, CPR
Filing, answering phones
Transcribing Holter monitors, electrocardiograms, echocardiograms, tilt study, etc.
Honors
United States Achievement Academy – National Commemorative Certificate in Leadership -St Margaret’s Hospital
Education
South Suburban College – So Holland, IL 1988
General Studies – Associates degree
Knowledge, skills and Abilities in:
Sunflower, Services now, ProCard, Stock catalog, Emarketplace, OAS (OBIEE) Oracle analytics server, Quium, Workday, Adobe Acrobat, Cisco Jabber, Microsoft Office
References available upon request.
Contact this candidate