Resume for Vallerie Rose Byers

MY NEW MARRIED NAME IS NOW BYERS (Yes, it used to be Myers!)

CAREER OBJECTIVE:
Seeking a position to utilize my skills and experience in Marketing and Advertising: Administrative Assistance, Design and Graphics.

SKILLS:
All Office Machines • Email and Internet • Microsoft Word, Excel, Publisher, PowerPoint • Graphics & Illustration (PhotoShop, Illustrator and InDesign CS3, PageMaker) • Multi-Line Phones & Reception • Research & Grant Writing • Public Relations • Data Entry & Data Base Creation • Mailing & Advertising • Filing, Scheduling & Inventory

EDUCATION:
Troy High School, Fullerton: Art/Science; Graduated 1968 • R.O.P., Anaheim: Graphics; Graduated 1976 • Fullerton College: AA in Advertising Design; 1988 • Fullerton College: Certificate in Computer Graphics; 1992; Fullerton College: Web Graphics, Desk-Top Publishing and Production Techniques, Spring 2008.

ON THE JOB TRAINING:
Desk-Top publishing, clerical, phones, tech support for the handicapped on interactive learning games, data entry, file management; Graduated 1995.

TOOLS OF THE TRADE:
IBM: Adobe CS3, Pagemaker, FileMaker Pro, Microsoft Office Mac: Adobe CS3, Quark 5, Super 3D, Macromedia Director Freehand, Swivel 3D Pro, IntelliTalk, SoundEdit, Microsoft Office, FileMaker Pro, Pages. TRADITIONAL: Pen & ink, watercolor, pencil, airbrush, acrylic.

Feel free to browse through my graphics samples. This is being updated.


PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Louis and Company • Brea • Temp through Abigail Abbott • December 2005 through February 2007 • Data Base Correction and Input • Web Site Data Correction • Copy Writing • Graphics • Marketing Assistance

American Funds • Brea • Temp Through Abigail Abbott • August 2005 to November 2005 • Investment Associate • Online Investments of Shareholders

TA Construction • Orange and Costa Mesa • Temporary Office Manager • March 2005 through May 2005 • Reception • Data base maintenance • Requests for/taking bids • Correspondence • Receiving, copying and shipping blueprints

Martin, Huddleston & Associates • Fullerton • Administrative Assistant/Office Manager • June 2003 through February 2005 • 8 line, 10 Extension Phone Reception • Customer Service • Health, Life & Financial Insurance Brokers’ Assistant • Computer Troubleshooting • Data-Base Maintenance, Correspondence • Web site maintenance • Ordering Supplies

Giving Children Hope • Placentia (now Buena Park) • Development Coordinator • April 2001 to January 2003 • Illustration • Desk-Top Publishing: Newsletters, Brochures & Annual Reports • Research/Implementation of Grant Proposals • Reporting & Management of Documentation/Statistics • Public Relations • Web Design • Volunteer Management • Reception • Computer Troubleshooting • Data Base/Mail List Maintenance • Donor Receipts/Thank Yous

Samadana, Inc. • Anaheim and Lakewood • 1999 to 2001 • Foster Care Specialist • 6-Line, 8-Extension Phone Reception • Form Creation • Record Keeping • File Management • Public Relations/Event Planning • Office Management • Ordering • Computer Troubleshooting • Data-Base Maintenance • Correspondence • Illustration • Desk-Top Publishing

Gas Control Engineering • Anaheim • 1999 • Administrative Assistant • Temporary Part-Time • Phone and Client Reception • Proposal Production & File Management • Clerical & Filing of Engineering Reports • Computer Troubleshooting • Shipping/Receiving • Data-Base Maintenance • Correspondence

International Cartoons & Animation • Santa Ana • 1998 to 1999 • Office Manager • Design of Video Labels • Desk-Top Publishing • Scheduling of Artist Interviews & Conferences • Phone and Client Reception • Filing Artwork • Shipping & Receiving • Inventory/Ordering

Various Freelance Projects • 1980 - 2001 • Restaurant Menus • PowerPoint Productions • Logos • Illustration • Desk-Top Publishing • Set & Prop Design • After-School and Co-Op Art Instruction • Sign Painting

References Available upon Request