WORK EXPERIENCE:

The Land Institute
January 1999 to Present

Administrative Assistant. Assistant to the president, Wes Jackson. Prepare and manage electronic copies of lectures, documents, and correspondence. Handle all web and e-mail interactions for Dr. Jackson. Extensive contact with professors, scholars and researchers. Webmaster for The Land Institute website including gathering materials, HTML programming, and working with VNews Services template for site management. Associate Editor of The Land Report; acquire or prepare electronic versions of articles; coordinate copy editing, design and layout, and production details. Key logistical coordinator for visiting speakers at annual Prairie Festival and for seminars and events held throughout the year.

The Angel Store
September 1999 to April 2000

Retail Clerk for gift and antique shop. Extensive contact with the public, waiting on and assisting customers. Handle cash, check, and credit card transactions routinely. Assist owners with other duties as needed.

Hemslojd
September to December 1998 and 1999

Retail Clerk for Swedish gift shop during pre-Christmas season. Extensive contact with the public, waiting on and assisting customers. Handle cash, check, and credit card transactions routinely. Assist in unpacking, pricing and stocking of merchandise. Take phone-in catalog orders. Assist owners with other duties as needed.

Hall Center for the Humanities, University of Kansas
April 1991 to October 1997

Executive Secretary. Extensive contact with University faculty and administrators. Routinely handle general administrative duties during director's absence. Deal successfully with exigencies. Design, program, and maintain Hall Center departmental homepage. Editor of Hall Center Communiqué. Design and produce camera-ready copy for newsletters, calendars, and event announcements. Production supervisor of humanist scholarly journals, Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, Yearbook of German American Studies, Research Opportunities in Renaissance Drama, and Humanistic Study Series; track journal production to completion; manage student work force. Project coordinator and key contact for visiting faculty and fellows. Key administrative coordinator for Hall Fund for Improvement of Teaching Awards; responsible for program tracking, event reservations and scheduling, promotion, and coordination of expenditures. Highly proficient on Macintosh, IBM compatibles, wordprocessing and graphic programs, scanning software; typing speed approx. 110 WPM.

^theWORDOCTORS
June 1983 to April 1991; October 1997 to Present

Owner/operator of desktop publishing service, specializing in professional office overflow, academic and mass-marketing document preparation. Website design and HTML programming for small business and individuals. Design and produce camera-ready copy for local realty firms, international scientific journals, promotional materials for local businesses, newspapers and journals, and architectural engineering specification sheets. Recruited, supervised, and trained part-time employees.

Allen Press
August 1987 to April 1991

Contract Typist. Prepared a wide variety of scientific journal manuscripts for OCR (optical character recognition) processing.

Spencer Research Library, Special Collections
June 1983 to June 1984

Research Assistant. Developed dBase II application for compilation of index to Collection of British Holdings of Spencer Research Library. Prepared "how-to" documentation for use of database and word processing systems. Developed outline format for guide to British legal documents. Cataloged several small collections within the British Holdings. Designed and created a cross-reference index to biographical dictionaries.

Systron Donner
January 1983 to March 1983

Secretary. Updated Quality Procedures and Quality Manuals throughout the plant. Reconstructed and maintained Sales Order filing system for Engineers' control of projects. Designed forms, weekly/monthly memos for repeated use, made changes to Test Procedures and Test Data Sheets from engineering.

Smith and Granberg
June 1981 to December 1982

Legal Secretary/Office Manager for business and probate law firm. Duties included wills, trusts, probate pleadings, contracts, legal property descriptions, corporate filings. Statistical typing of accountings for probate filings, annual court accountings, schedules for tax planning. Posted monthly, quarterly and annual journal entries; balanced income statements and balance sheets. Maintained office and trust accounts.

Dow Chemical U.S.A.
January 1974 to June 1977

Purchasing Assistant. Processed purchase orders for Pittsburg and Walnut Creek plants. Assisted programmers in initial switch from manual to computerized system. Conducted on-site training at Torrance and Fresno, California, plants in use of computerized purchasing system. Maintained follow-up communication for continued system tutelage.

Dow Chemical U.S.A.
June 1973 to December 1973

Clerk Typist. Typing of correspondence for Governmental Relations Department Manager. Prepared and disseminated news alerts and postings for plant bulletin boards. Processed mass mailings to Western Division employees.

EDUCATION:

• University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS. Part time student 1994 to 1995
• Diablo Valley Junior College, Pleasant Hill, CA. Part time student 1972 to 1973
• Pittsburg Senior High School, Pittsburg, CA, 1972

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Updated February 9, 2001