Sidnie Des Jardins
Fredericksburg, VA 22401
*********@***.***
Objective
A highly equipped team member with experience in performing a variety of administrative and staff support duties for a specified department, which require a range of knowledge and skills of organizational procedures and policies; directing and assisting visitors, and resolving administrative problems and inquiries; composing, editing, and proofreading correspondence and reports, and preparing a range of administrative documents.
Summary of Qualifications
• More than ten years of etensive experience.
• Strong ability to lead and train staff and students.
• Excellent ability to gather and analyze statistical data and generate reports.
• Profound database management skills.
• Remarkable ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing.
• Complete knowledge of supplies, equipments and services ordering and inventory management.
• Exceptional record maintenance skills.
• Excellent ability to solve problems.
• In-depth receptionist skills.
• Strong ability to compile information and prepare reports.
• Excellent coordinating skills.
• Immense ability to schedule appointments and maintain calendar.
• Remarkable word processing and data entry skills.
• Excellent ability to make administrative/procedural decisions and judgments.
• Strong ability to compose and edit already written materials.
Professional Experience
Sport & Health 2008 - Present
Fredericksburg, VA Director of Operations/Administrative Assistant
• Coordinate and perform a range of staff as well as operational support activities for the facility; serve as a liaison with other departments and operating in the resolution of day-to-day administrative and operational problems.
• Provide administrative/secretarial support for the department/division such as answering telephones, assisting guests and members, resolving and referring a range of administrative problems and inquiries.
• Compose and edit correspondence and memo's from dictation, verbal direction, and from knowledge of established department/division policies; prepare, transcribe, compose, type, edit, and distribute agendas and minutes of meetings.
• Schedule and coordinate meetings, interviews, appointments, events and other similar activities for supervisors, which coordinating travel as well as lodging arrangements.
• Establish, maintain, and update files, databases, records, and other documents; develop and maintain data, and perform routine analyses and calculations in the processing of data for recurring internal reports.
• Sort, review, screen and distribute incoming and outgoing mail; prepare, compose and ensure timely responses to a variety of routine written inquiries.
• Printing, maintenance, and other services.
• Train and lead employees and lower graded staff,when required.
• Maintain and update employee timecards
• Assist and resolve various billing issues.
douglas e. barnhart, inc. 2003-2006
San Diego, CA
Project Engineer
• Use Prolog to document and track all project documents.
• Maintaining RFI, ASI, submittal, and correspondence logs for design build projects.
• Reviewing documents for completeness, accuracy, and conformance to contract documents.
• Managing and distributing construction documents for both General Contractor and ROICC.
• Performing administrative and office management duties.
• Auditing for accuracy of documentation to architect and contractor.
• Providing construction management support in various areas.
• Assisting Project Managers/QC and ROICC with design build submittal review process.
• Implementing filing system and organization of construction documents.
• Hiring and training document control specialists in Prolog for new construction.
• Constructing document control manual for new hires and reference.
douglas e. barnhart, inc. 1999-2003
San Diego, CA
Field Office Manager/Project Coordinator
• Prepared subcontracts, application for payments, purchase orders, and change orders.
• Tracked and maintained field files, RFI’s, ASI’s, cost proposals, and change orders.
• Collected, tracked, and maintained submittals and closeout documents.
• Assisted in preparing monthly reports and schedule of values.
• Organized and prepared meeting minutes for subcontractor meetings and owner meetings.
• Implemented and maintained routing and filing system.
• Assisted in training of new hires.
• Managed all administrative and office management duties on multiple construction projects.
• Coordinated with Architect, Owner, Project Manager, and Project Engineer to complete projects on time and within budget.
Education
A.A., General Studies – Palomar College, San Marcos, CA
Construction Blueprint Reading - San Diego State University, San Diego, CA
Construction Terminology and CSI Codes, San Diego State, University, San Diego, CA
Awards
Top Hammer & ROICC Safety Award, BEQ Rehabs Bldg 43700 & 43705, 2003
Safety Award, Bear Mountain Elementary School, 2000
Top Hammer Award, MiraCosta Community College 1999 &2000