Amy L. Allison                               
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                          Email: poet082189@hotmail.com   Webpage: www.alawebpages.com
                            Cell:  317.408.7118       Indianapolis, Indiana    
 

Business professional with proven experience in various office environments seeks to obtain an administrative assistant or related position within a company.  Has ability to apply marketing skills, maintains systems and databases, and uses extensive computer knowledge; capitalizes on written, verbal and presentation skills, acquires and applies knowledge, maintains an excellent work ethic and desires challenges.



KEY SKILL AREAS
 

°       Proficient in computer operations     
°       Efficient, organized, task-oriented    
°       Microsoft Office Suite programs		 °       Dependable
 °         Interpersonal & communication skills
°       Reliable work ethics


           

EDUCATION

Web-Design / Media classes, New Horizons Computer Learning Center, Indianapolis, IN                    2005-2006
Computer / Internet / classes (2), Indiana University/Purdue University at Indianapolis, IN                          2004

Masters in Business Administration (M.B.A.), University of Evansville-Evansville, IN                                 1980

            Marketing & Economics majors.

B.S./Business Marketing/Accounting, Indiana University-Bloomington/Indianapolis, IN                               1977 

            Accounting major; General business major.


WORK EXPERIENCE
 

Marketing/Web-design: Business Start-up          Odyssey Design         Indianapolis, IN      02/2001-Present
            ° Conceptualized in early 2001; sole proprietorship formed later.

            ° Website design and development of marketing tools for small businesses.

            ° Author of 16 small-business websites; monthly maintenance of these sites.

            ° Duties include advertising; marketing with cards, flyers, brochures, website;

               defining the market and entering the market with a practicable presence.

            °  Other business areas developed:   total operation of home-office; invoicing,

               bookkeeping, consultation.

 

            Below were positions briefly held to augment business income.

            Stivers Staffing Services      Business Assistant                 Indianapolis, IN                  5/2008-7/2008

                Recruiting, assessing, interviewing applicants for temporary employment.

            Second Presbyterian Church     Administrative Assistant     Indianapolis, IN                12/2007-3/2008                                               
                Performed functions of database management, reporting, mailings, computer

                design for projects for congregants' use and recognition.

            There’s No Place Like Home Pet Service    Marketing      Indianapolis, IN                     4/2006-1/2007
                Marketing / Website / Promoting for this business.

    

Account Executive      Boise Cascade Office Products     Indianapolis, IN                          08/1998-12/2000

            ° Earned a statewide reputation in hospital account for purchasing programs design and
                        implementation in the field of office and computer

            ° Had 1 administrative assistant working for my accounts.

            ° Expanded on activities of former Publix position below.

            ° Heavily involved with statistical analyses of customer purchasing patterns

            ° Successfully converted former PUBLIX clients to Boise customers through
                        addressing changing needs of financial managers, educating end-users,
                        setting up purchasing  procedures, executing a seamless transition. 

 

Account Executive     Publix Office Supplies      Chicago, IL  [Indianapolis Div.]                    3/1988-8/1998

            ° Hired / trained / managed inside sales personnel who serviced my accounts.

            °  Responsible for acquiring profitable and large-volume accounts- at  the height of
               this career had 23 large-to-small hospital accounts in state of Indiana.

            °  Acquired, maintained these accounts with purchasing analyses of existing

                        purchasing practices.

            °  Reduced hospital purchasing expenditures by 25%.

            °   Operated all aspects of office/computer supply business; computerized database,

       mailings, brochures, newsletters, formatted purchasing reports. 

Sales Representative      Stationers, Inc.        Indianapolis, IN                                           10/1982-2/1988

            ° Prospected and maintained business accounts.                                                          

            ° Gave presentations for selling purchasing programs.            

            ° Gathered a working knowledge of the products within the office products industry.  

 

OTHER INTERESTS

 

Staying current in internet technology, expanding on design knowledge, world news, antiques, art,
organizing anything, designing smaller websites, writing [some published], computer work, music,
reading, communications, environmental and wildlife preservation.


BUSINESS REFERENCES

 
 

Steve Nahmias, Partner        
www.office3sixty.com         
7301 Woodland Dr.
Indianapolis, IN 46278
(317) 632-1360       

                                                                                                                                                                                   
Ronelle Peterson, QA Rep.    
peterson_ronelle_nonlilly@lilly.com         

Volt Services (Eli Lilly)           
Lilly Corporate Center                         

Indianapolis, IN  46285           
317-651-3322

Sue Doeppers, Business Owner                    
sdoeppers@indy.rr.com
“There’s No Place Like Home Pet Services”   
Carmel, IN  46032  
www.alawebpages.com/od/TNPLH 

  317-845-4140