Eileen Hardy
**** *. ******* ****** ■ Oak Lawn, IL 60453 ■ 708-***-**** ■ *************@*****.***
Education
COLLEGE OF DUPAGE (COD) – Glen Ellyn, IL (In Progress)
Advanced Accounting Certificate and Business Concepts and Environment Management Certificate
NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY (NIU) – DeKalb, IL
Bachelor of Arts in Communications
Experience
AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION (ALA), Chicago, IL, 2000 - 2009
Specialist, Coordinator
Accomplishments:
• Prepared agendas and meeting materials for upper-level management.
• Experienced in working with internal and external vendors for billing and contracts printing companies, advertising, and design and marketing firms.
• Successfully maintained multiple project schedules and calendars using MS Office, Drupal and Google online software.
• Prepare work orders, invoices, reports, memos, letters, and financial statements and managed purchase order processing.
• Developed distribution system with the book distributor to have book collections shipped from regional distribution centers directly to the library systems in the states within their regions; thereby saving money on duplication of efforts and shipping costs.
• Coordinated onsite and offsite meetings to include scheduling facilities, equipment, catering, appropriate travel arrangements.
HEATHCARE FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION, Westchester, IL, 1999–2000
Specialist
Accomplishments:
• Worked with director in preparing and planning schedules for institutes and conferences nation-wide.
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS, Chicago, IL, 1997 - 1999
Specialist, Coordinator
Accomplishments:
• Created and produced financial reports using accrual method of accounting.
• Wrote meeting agendas and transcribed meeting minutes.
• Administered and controlled budgets for contracts, equipment and supplies.
ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE:
• Payroll, accounts receivable and payables, fund accounting, bookkeeping, processing registration payments via online system, bill collections, and batching.