Looking for clerical/data entry position (onsite or via telecommuting)
Resume:
Lori A. Grata
Longwood, FL 32750
*******@*****.***
STRENGTHS:
* Fully-equipped home office;
* Experience in virtual/remote positions (i.e. medical transcribing and legal workers' compensation)
* Owner/operator of two home businesses;
* Ability to quickly assess task requirements and implement them with little supervision;
* Conscientious and thorough with detail;
* Excellent organizational communications, research and planning skills;
* Accuracy in formatting and inputting of information with attentiveness to detail;
* Ability to work independently, and problem solve;
* Good interpersonal and training skills;
* Dependable, responsible and outgoing.
SKILLS
Experience as a legal assistant in the legal fields of: Collections; Med Mal/Litigation; Personal Injury; Products Liability; Workers’ Compensation; Real Estate; Family/Adoptions; Landlord/Tenant; Elder law; Employment/Labor Relations; Sexual Harassment; and some Environmental.
Experience as a Document Control Specialist.
COMPUTER SKILLS:
Windows; Outlook Express; Microsoft Word; WordPerfect; Excel; Zetafax; Faxpress; Juris; Caseload; Client Access; Trialworks; Client Profiles; PGP Desktop Security 7.0.3; ECE 7.3 (Electronic Contracting Environment), including DCS (Document Control System) and DMS (Document Management System).
(Last tested in 2007 at 92 wpm)
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:
Hi-Tech Associates, Inc./Lockheed Martin
3/07 to current - Contractor-Document Control Administrator
(Contract expired/permanently laid off)
Duties include responsibility for technical documentation of procedures and practices. Responsibility for proper upkeep of technical documents, accuracy and timely release of all pre-production documents, review and initial release of company documents, part numbers, bills of materials and engineering drawings.
Responsibility for accuracy and conformance to procedures for all DCOs (Document Control Orders) and assigning of DCO numbers and tracking documents in change system. Maintain current and historical document and part number revisions. Maintain company training records and historical files for DHF (Device history files), validations, design reviews, and other quality system documents.
Central Florida Legal-Ease, Inc. – worked on and off as a Legal Assistant throughout Seminole and Orange County since relocating to Florida in 2004.
Levene Gouldin & Thompson, LLP Vestal, NY –
2/98 to 12/03 as a Legal Assistant
While working as the head floating legal assistant to over 60 attorneys in several legal fields, I also worked as the assistant to the Collections Paralegal - duties included creating of merges and templates, conducted county bank sweeps and income/property executions, write or draft correspondence, reports, documents and/or other written materials, maintain document control, tracking and tracing, review of case files and/or digests trial folders, etc., search, retrieve and/or research public and private records in accordance with applicable state and federal laws governing access to these records, scheduling of depositions and hearings, together with other tasks as assigned.
Also assisted in the Workers' Compensation Department - duties included transcribing defendant and plaintiff actions, including, but not limited to reports, applications for and rebuttals to Board Reviews, Section 32, deposition and hearing reports (onsite and via telecommuting) (Several references furnished upon request).
Private Secretary, Inc., Endicott, NY
10/96 to 2/98 as a Secretary
Duties included receiving, distributing, and transmitting dictation for hearing officers and disability specialists for the New York State Department of Disability.
IBM Payroll, Datrose, Johnson City, NY
11/95 to 10/96 to a Wage Verification Clerk
Duties included completing wage verification forms for IBM Nationwide such as unemployment, Workers' Compensation and mortgages.
OB/GYN, Ltd., Las Vegas, NV
2/87 to 12/90 as a Front Office Receptionist
Duties included transcribing of SOAP notes, scheduling appointments and heavy telephone responsibilities.
Promoted to Front Office Supervisor in Jan. 1988. Duties included training and directing six front office receptionists to represent the doctors' office in a professional manner, creating and updating written job descriptions, developing and maintaining patient confirmation while enforcing no-show policies, decreasing no-show appointments by more than 50%, operation of all office equipment, maintenance of cost records and supply sources.
EDUCATION:
1965-1976 High School
1982 - GED, Community College Las Vegas, NV
1983-1984 American Academy for Medical Assistant;
1984 - Graduated, Administrative Medical Office Assistant;
Spring/Summer 1984-Completed internship-Vegas Verdes Medical/Dental Clinic.
MEMBER:
Secretary, Legal Staff Alliance of Broome County, NY (Term 2000-2003)
Member (1999-2003)
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