About Us


 

About Us

 

Office Essentials is owned and operated by Sharon Donahue. Sharon has a wide variety of experience in many types of industries.

Sales Assistant/Word Processor
Responsible for typing quotations, maintaining the ACT database which involved purging the database and printing reports, entering new sales leads, tracking the status and result of quotations and entering fax requests for literature into our MS Access database.

Secretary
Responsible for typing proposals, and reports, typing and mailing marketing materials; entering data into excel; assigning numbers to new projects, entering projects into the database, and maintaining the project, client and vendor databases. Responsibilities also included coordinating the project bid process by ordering the plans and specifications, ordering bid bonds and making sure the bid gets to the proper client on time. Another responsibility was archiving all the old job files and proposals by scanning them into the computer and backing them up onto a CD.

Lead Administrator
Responsibilities included maintaining the telephone system and the proprietary Searcher database; tracking the advertising budget; coding the bills; proofreading and coding the sales staff’s expense reports; monitoring the sales and administrative staff’s time off requests; and ordering marketing materials, business cards, letterhead and office supplies. Typing all correspondence, including marketing materials, proposals, and confidential evaluations of the sales staff.

Creative Services Coordinator
Responsible for the efficient operation of the graphics department and ensuring quality production work by graphic artists under difficult time constraints.

Duties included coordinating the artists, which involved assigning and scheduling artists for projects, approving timesheets, scheduling vacations, and writing performance reviews. Responsibilities also included creating graphic presentations on an Apple Macintosh computer to meet deadlines; initiating communication with other graphic departments and branches to solve problems and generate new ideas; implementing and maintaining the disk management system; supplying backup assistance to the librarian and consultants with the location of files; ordering and inventorying supplies; and supervising the Xerox room in the absence of its supervisor.

Technical Illustrator
Responsibilities included translating and producing technical and promotional illustrations to meet critical deadlines for client presentations, paste-up for the mechanicals of manuals, brochures, and quarterly reports.

Technical Typist
Responsible for typesetting technical manuals including equations. Some of the typing was done in French and Brazilian.

 

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