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Coleen Perry
77 New Paltz Road
Highland, NY 12528
(845) 8343283
(845) 4647233
OBJECTIVE
To obtain a position in a company that can utilize my skills in retail, customer service,
administrative assistant and management in order to grow both for the company and me.
SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS
Retail Store Management for over 25 years. Administrative Support for 7 years.
WORK EXPERIENCE
Advanced Kidney Care of Hudson Valley
May 2014 to Current
Office Assistant
Poughkeepsie, NY
Maintains aspects of patient scheduling, new patients, faxing reports and patient charts.
Hudson River Fruit Dist.
February 2011 to February 2014
Administrative Support
Milton, NY
Managed the receptionist area, including greeting visitors and responding to telephone and
inperson requests for information.Organized files, developed spreadsheets, faxed reports and
scanned documents.
Responsible for all incoming fruit documentation. Works with sales office and utilizes a computer
program for selling fruit. Monthly reporting to the USDA.
Maintained facebook and website.
DEB Shops
March 2010 – February 2011 Store Manager, Newburgh, NY. Responsible for all aspects of
sales, cash office functions, shipping and receiving, loss prevention and loss prevention issues.
Collects data in order to schedule, weekly staff schedules which include goals, stats and
projections.
Work on daily shipments, logs and inventory counts.
Work to ensure correct sale pricing and placement and reporting sales information for staff.
Work to ensure daily cash receipts were tallied correctly, review of daily receipts to ensure loss
2. prevention.
Responsible for all aspects of hiring, training and terminating staff.
Supervise a management staff of 3, a sales staff of upwards to 5.
Planned Parenthood Mid Hudson Valley
*October 2008 June 2009 Administrative Manager, formerly of Beacon & New Paltz,
permanently in Kingston, Planned Parenthood MidHudson Valley. Duties were to manage
patient scheduling, productivity, cash handling, supply ordering, patient liaison and patient
billing.
*March 2008 June 2008 Temporary Human Resources Assistant, Planned Parenthood
MidHudson Valley
Assisted President and CEO with various tasks while recruiting for a Vice President of Human
Resources. Was responsible for filing, new hire paperwork, updating forms and reporting to the
Vice President of Finance and the President and CEO. This position was a parttime position
while I held my Education Assistant position.
* 2006 – 2008 Education Assistant, Planned Parenthood MidHudson Valley
Assisted the Vice President of Education in daily office management.
Collected computed and compiled data for monthly education reports, DOH Reports and annual
report of PPFA.
Member of the Leadership team which was formed to help the President & CEO through a
restructuring process.
Group Leader for the Personnel Management Group which was responsible for creating new job
descriptions, personnel evaluations and employment application. Temporarily covered Human
Resources while a search was lead for a new Vice President of Human Resources.
Helped lead customer service trainings and lead trainings on the use of Microsoft Office
products and FileMaker Pro. Worked with health educators on office management and training
on new data collection methods. Responsible for development of conferences done through
Education and working with other agency departments to fulfill those responsibilities, along with
outside agencies.
Hubbell Realty Services, Inc
2006 2007 Administrative Assistant
Assisted President and Appraisers in report proofreading and compilation of reports to be sent
to client.
Responsible for daily office management tasks.
Quoted and scheduled appointments for appraisals and appraisers.
Performed Accounts Receivable and collection of appraisal fees.
Coordinated with President to put together a Grand Reopening Party of office.
Worked with Dutchess County Government officials on behalf of President.
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Media Play
2005 – 2006 Assistant General Manager/Operations Manager,
Responsible for all aspects of sales, cash office functions, shipping and receiving, loss
prevention and loss prevention issues.
Collected data in order to schedule monthly staff schedules which included goals, stats and
projections.
Worked with Shipping and Receiving Manager on daily shipments, logs and inventory counts.
Worked with Sales Manager to ensure correct sale pricing and placement and reporting sales
information for staff
Worked with Cash Office Manager/Cashiers to ensure daily cash receipts were tallied correctly,
review of daily receipts to ensure loss prevention.
Responsible for all aspects of hiring, training and terminating staff.
Supervised a management staff of 3, a sales staff of upwards to 40 at our busier time, 30 during
off season, Cash Office staff of 6.
Reported to General Manager, District Manager and Regional Manager on a daily, weekly and
monthly basis as needed
* 2003 2005 Certified Store Manager, FYE
(additional information available upon request)
* 1997 – 2003 Store Manager , Priceless Kids
(additional information available upon request)
* 1996 – 1997 Automotive Biller, Salerno Chrysler Plymouth Dodge
(additional information available upon request)
* 1993 – 1996 Store Manager, Strawberries Music, Movies and More
(additional information available upon request)
* 1991 1993 Assistant Manager, Barbara Moss
(additional information available upon request)
* 1989 1991 Store Manager, County Seat
(additional information available upon request)
EDUCATION
* 2006 IC3 Certification, Ulster County BOCES
* 19831986 High School Diploma, Roy C. Ketcham High School
REFERENCES
Cathy Monroe Highland,NY 8456333248, Personal and Business
Barbara EldridYerks Hyde Park, NY 8452291310, Personal
Pam Rotsky Goshen, NY 8454711530 ext 101, Business
Tina Robie Cornwall, NY 8452428478, Business