BLAYNE D. THOMPSON
Woodland Hills, CA *****
EXPERIENCE:
Jan. 2005 – Mar. 2008 FOX NETWORK GROUP
Los Angeles, CA
COMMERCIAL ADMINISTRATOR – SPEED CHANNEL
Using PACE systems - Reconciled and edited commercial logs; created a final as-aired log using Harris As-Run reports, airtime production notations and the original Commercial Admin. published log (adjustments for day-of-air changes, rainouts and/or delays of live events, emergency program changes, technical interruptions, live cut-ins for breaking news, etc.); clarified discrepancies through email (MS Outlook) correspondence to broadcast production group; arranged advertisers’ spots according to separation instructions and requests from sales dept. on outgoing log; researched advertisers’ products through the internet (MS Internet Explorer) to avoid possible separation conflicts with competing advertisers; Using BMS system – cleared copy according to advertisers’ faxed instructions; verified receipt of tape/digital transfer to meet broadcast specifications; contacted advertising agencies to remind them of the approaching deadline if any of their materials had not been received; notified agencies of accelerated holiday scheduled deadlines.
June 2001 – Jan. 2005 GALLO WINE CO.
City of Commerce, CA
WAREHOUSE CLERK
Assisted warehouse manager and four assistant managers with work overflow; typed and maintained various form letters, memos, etc. using MS Word; created and maintained personnel files; tracked and contacted delivery drivers on their routes when needed; received and directed incoming phone calls for warehouse management; checked-in delivery drivers and their assigned trucks at end-of-day; inventoried undelivered and additionally acquired merchandise and updated databases via data entry input to MS Access and IBM AS/400; collected and accounted for and any cash paid to drivers by merchants; separated and categorized billing invoices for accounting; recorded drivers’ delivery logs through data entry input to the IBM AS/400; created and maintained MS Excel spreadsheets for reporting monthly/daily movement in CHEP pallets inventory; tracked and inventoried CHEP pallets in and out of the warehouse; tracked daily product movement for each warehouse worker and used recorded data to update databases in IBM AS/400 via input to MS Excel spreadsheets (uploaded spreadsheets to the IBM AS/400 using an Excel macro); assisted as needed with inventory of on-hand product in the warehouse; created, printed and laminated signs for product storage and various notifications using MS PowerPoint; received and processed employee purchase forms for pick up; assisted coordinator of various holiday functions for warehouse employees.
EDUCATION: TOWSON STATE UNIVERSITY - Towson, MD
Major: Mass Communications (2 years)
NORTHERN HIGH SCHOOL – Baltimore, MD
(Honors Graduate; Awards)
SKILLS: Basic use of MS Office (Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint & Outlook), MS Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox; AS/400 - JD Edwards, Island Pacific & Robot.
REFERENCES: Available upon request.