Experience:

 

Curriculum and Production Secretary – 1992 - 1996

Weld County School District RE-1, Gilcrest, Colorado

 

Specific Duties

Responsibilities

Skills/Proficiencies Acquired

District Forms

·Brochures

·Newsletters

·Employment Applications, Registration forms

·District Maps

·District Calendars

·Microsoft Word

·Adobe Pagemaker, desk top publishing

·Creative layout and design skills

·Graphics

·File import and export

District Curriculum

·Organized Standards Based Curriculum

·Scanned Documents

·Created Standard Forms

·State Standard Alignment

·Project Management Skills

·Omnipage Pro optical scanning software

·Understanding of Standards and curriculum alignment

Board Policy Manual

·CASB Policy Manual updates

·Attended Board of Education meetings and noted board requests for changes to board policies

·Revised policies for first and second readings

·Produced final revisions

·Updated and distributed policy manuals for District personnel

·CASB GAMUT Policy CD-ROM software

·Legal research into CDE education code and law handbooks via CD-ROM

·Gained an understanding of the inner workings of school districts and the creation and revision of policies to govern staff, students, and patrons

World Wide Web

·WEB page development, implementation and update of the first District web site.

·During the District new Construction phase, took pictures of progress and posted them to the website.

·HTML language programming

·Photoshop and photo scanning

·Pagemill, Web Weaver, Netscape Navigator

·Web page design

·Efficiency of web page loading

OSIRIS Central Site Coordinator

·Technical support for District-wide student management system

·Supported school secretarial staff

·Software updates, form design, database design and implementation, and created documentation

·Consult/recommend hardware/software upgrades

·Rewrote data dictionary file to conform with State requirements for electronic transmission of data

·Utilized OSIRIS bulletin board for updates and mail

·Troubleshooting skills,

·Advanced computer diagnostics

·Training and Documentation

·Novell network management

·Public Relations

·Technical analysis

·Needs assessment

·Advanced systems importing, exporting

·Communication skills

·Electronic mail systems

District Committees

·Served on the District Technology Task Force as secretary

·Assisted with development of a District technology plan

·Assisted with budget and planning

·Understanding of school technology needs

·Budgeting skills

·Research of hardware and software for educational use

Secretarial Duties

·Receptionist for visitors to the Education Service Center

·Answered phones

·Called schools to gather various information from secretaries

·Typed letters, memos, enrollment and staffing reports, spreadsheets, budgets and various assignment for the four administrators in the ESC

·ITBS and TAP test administration, including checking tests, proper form selections, boxing and shipping tests to be scored

·Personnel searches for certificated openings on CTAP database

·Served as recorder for District Accountability Committee and Board of Education for Weld-RE-1

·Gathered and maintained District PHLOTE lists from schools

·Assisted with FTE gathering of student counts, calculating data  and prepared FTE reports for Superintendent

·Occasionally arranged for substitute teachers

·Interpersonal skills

·Congeniality and professionalism

·Telephone skills

·Conflict resolution

·Public assistance

·Increased typing skills - 50 wpm

·Statistics

·Bookkeeping, 10 key

·Use of spreadsheets (Excel, lotus, works)

·Project management

·Communications

·Mainframe database query skills

·Writing skills

·Multitasking

·Office machines, copiers, FAX machines, printers and computers

·Substitute teacher management

·Research skills

·Understanding of School Accountability Reports