Welcome to Brazen Careerist!

About Me

Web-savvy mom and cum laude college graduate currently available for part time remote work from home for upright and principled individual/company performing data-entry, web design, virtual assistance, social media, word processing.

First time mom to amazing and extraordinary 27-month-old Emma! It's very important to me to continue being my daughter's primary caregiver during these crucial developmental years.

Work History

• charissagrandin.com
• Web Designer
• July 2008 to Present

• Web design and programming utilizing Photoshop, Dreamweaver, CSS.
  Web designer for http://qswest.com/ , http://charissagrandin.com/ , http://leighmacneil.com/ , and some programming for http://shawneefalls.com/

• Shawnee Falls Studio, Gallery & Guesthouse
• Gallery/B&B Assistant
• April 2008 to Present

• Administrative tasks, word processing, marketing, web programming, social media, photographing fine art work, internet research. Owner is also a writer: my responsibilities include proofreading and editing manuscripts, contact with the publishing company, blog set-up, maintenance, and design.

• Atlantic Mutual
• Claims Support Technician
• August 2007 to August 2008

• Administrative support to claims department.
  Answering phones/customer service, indexing mail, distributing mail, word processing, spreadsheet creation, copying, filing, recoveries, payment processing, preparing files for warehousing.

• MEA, Inc. Environmental Services
• Executive Administrative Assistant
• August 2006 to August 2007

• Report reading, scheduling, answering all incoming calls, correspondence, word processing, report/proposal/invoice preparation, handling all mail, bank deposits, recording employee timesheets.
  Administrative support to company president and entire staff.

• LTS Builders, LLC
• Accounting
• July 2002 to August 2006

• Track land closings; bank deposits; prepare information for journal entries;
  Track loans including draw requests, and weekly loan recap;
  Receive, process, and enter invoices; prepare open invoice list, check register;
  Filing; clearing checks; bank account reconciliation; track year-to-date development costs;
  Job cost; track and pay tax bills for development land.

• LTS Builders, LLC
• Customer Service
• August 2001 to July 2002

• Scheduling appointments, customer correspondence
  Entering and accessing information in Microsoft Access
  Filing, copying, faxing, and more.

• Coordinated Health
• Office Assistant
• January 2000 to January 2002

• Patient chart preparation and filing.

• Giorgio Armani Corp.
• Sales Associate, Emporio Armani
• January 1999 to January 2000

• Commissioned sales to new and regular clients kept in a detailed client book.
  Cash register, merchandising, inventory.
  Attended in-store seminars on fragrance, watches, and store display.

Education

• East Stroudsburg University
• Bachelor of Arts, French
• 2000 - 2003

• cum laude, dean's list

• Indiana University of Pennsylvania
• French for International Trade
• 2000 - 2000

• dean's list

• Boston University
• College of General Studies
• 1997 - 1998

• Intense interdisciplinary program (all my professors were department heads).
  Community Service: First Year Student Outreach Program (focus: Hunger & Homelessness), Community Servings (delivering healthy meals to people living at home with AIDS—drove delivery van and personally distributed meals), two-day walk from Boston to Worcester for Hunger and Homelessness