Summary

Varied education and self-motivated learning, backed by on the job and contract experience gained from the:

·        Entertainment Industry: film, television, theatre, cosmetics, costuming.

·        Restaurant Industry: nightclubs, five star restaurants, French and Banquet service.

·        Administrative Industry: administrative assistant, secretarial, personal assistant, switchboard.

Experience

Jan 1999 - May 2000 Phoenix Rising Investments, LLC., New York City.

Provided administrative, secretarial and personal support to the President of this International Investment Firm, which brought foreign investors together on a multitude of projects.

·        Daily communications via phone, email, fax, html pages, incoming and outgoing mail and personal meetings.

·        Coordinated travel arrangements, meeting space, project promotional parties, leisure activities: touring and shopping excursions.

·        Daily tracking and budgeting finances, including weekly reports.

·        Filing of related material for daily instant reference requests.

·        Preparing print-ready advertising and promotional material.

·        Research reports: client history, project history.

·        Conceptualizing and completing current project web sites.

1998                            N.P. Consultants, Toronto.

Administrative assistant to the Owner of this small company dealing in print media, graphics, web design and computer consulting.

·        Maintained the home site: updating information, responding to inquiries.

·        Worked in: Html, basic Java and Perl scripts.

·        Conceptualized with others in the design and upgrading of client sites.

·        Created graphics, promotional and printed materials for various clients.

·        Planned, scheduled and setup meetings, interviews and project promotions.

1997, 6 months           Travel Tech., Toronto.

Multimedia agent, producing web design concepts, completing graphics and implementing elements into complete web sites.

1997, 6 months           Aardvark Group, Toronto.

Worked in the ‘field’ for this modernizing renovation firm doing faux-finish painting for exclusive clients. Assisted the owner while conceptualizing with the client regarding the finished product.

1988 –1996                 Club Colby’s, Toronto.

Started working as a cocktail waiter and quickly moved into entertainment coordination, staff training, benefit coordination, customer excursions, bartending and Assistant Night Managing.

1992 – 1993                Bretton’s Manulife, Toronto.

Interoffice Support Person, assisting Store Management. Duties included: company communications, inter-store communications, security reporting, switchboard, daily deposit and compiling sales reports.       

Education

·        College: Desktop Publishing Specialist, Aug 1997, Primetech School of Business, Toronto.

·        Microsoft Office: Advanced, June 1997, Ontario Human Resource Ctr., Toronto.

·        Server Intervention Program, Feb 1994, Toronto.

·        College: Clothing Design, 1993, Parson’s School of Design, New York City, NY.

·        Make-Up Artist, 1992, Toronto School of Make-Up, Toronto.

·        College: Hotel & Restaurant Service, 1983, S.A.I.T, Alberta.