Experience

Islands Trust

• Canada
• Government Administration
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Legislative Services Clerk

  • Mar 2020 - Present

• Bylaw Enforcement Administrative Assistant

  • Jun 2015 - Mar 2020

  Islands Trust is the local government of the Gulf Islands.



Temporary Work

• Outsourcing and Offshoring Consulting

• Administrative Assistant

  • 2013 - 2013

  Plan and implement all administrative tasks within a property management business operating three apartment blocks and 2 residential homes and provide support to CEO of business; Provide advice and guidance in records management to ensure policy and standards for the security, retention, disposition and preservation of provincial government documents are adhered to; Process accounts payable payments and oordinate collecting, listing and storing of critical annual financial information for a busy engineering firm; Support a provincial government branch in physical move of office, including 10,000 active files. Show less



BC Ministry of Environment

• Executive Assistant

  • 2000 - 2009

  Researching and gathering information for briefing materials; Arranging meetings, preparing agendas and taking minutes; Arranging travel requirements; Maintaining filing systems; Assigning tasks to staff and ensuring that they are completed in a timely manner; Ensuring timely and accurate processing of all financial transactions including preparing travel expenses, business expenses and invoices and managing petty cash; Independently responding to a high volume of written and oral requests, from a wide variety of sources, and maintaining effective working relations with political staff, senior executives of other ministries and other governments, ministry staff, stakeholders and the general public; Exercising significant judgement and initiative when dealing with highly sensitive and often political issues and documents, requiring a high degree of tact and discretion; Providing leadership to Administrative Assistants to Directors by establishing regular meetings to discuss issues and solutions and providing supervision of the receptionist of the Executive Branch. Show less



BC Human Rights Commission

• Canada
• Government Administration
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Commission Secretary

  • 1999 - 2000

  Direct support to two Commissioners; Preparing a large volume of confidential documents including recording meeting minutes Scheduling appointments and meetings; Maintaining the Commission’s ARCS/ORCS filing systems and computer databases; providing direction for the receptionist and act as a backup for the Complaints Analyst. Direct support to two Commissioners; Preparing a large volume of confidential documents including recording meeting minutes Scheduling appointments and meetings; Maintaining the Commission’s ARCS/ORCS filing systems and computer databases; providing direction for the receptionist and act as a backup for the Complaints Analyst.

• Administrative Assistant

  • 1991 - 1999

  Provided general administrative support functions associated with assigning, tracking and proof-reading confidential documents for the Deputy Minister and maintained the Deputy Minister’s central records management system by classifying all incoming and outgoing correspondence under the ARCS/ORCS records classification system; Filing and retrieving documents;Inventorying, disposing and retrieving records according to schedules established under ARCS/ORCS.

• Workshop Facilitator

  • 1995 - 1997

  Responsible for planning, organizing and delivering Discrimination/Harassment Prevention training sessions for Ministry managers and staff, in Victoria and in the regions, which outlinef the policies and procedures required to ensure prevention of discrimination and harassment in the workplace intensively in a four month period, and then from time to time to the ministry, to other ministries and to the Justice Institute in Port Coquitlam;Provide consultation to program areas and to Managers to assist in the implementation of guidelines. Show less



Self Employed Desktop Publisher

• Design
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Writer, Editor, Designer, Production and Marketing

  • 1987 - 1991

  Writer, editor, designer and production manager of a number of publications, including a successful magazine with a circulation of 11,000 and a directory of holistic health services in Victoria; Responsible for all aspects of developing the publishing service including planning, marketing, production and administration to produce word-processing, page-layout, database and graphics services. Writer, editor, designer and production manager of a number of publications, including a successful magazine with a circulation of 11,000 and a directory of holistic health services in Victoria; Responsible for all aspects of developing the publishing service including planning, marketing, production and administration to produce word-processing, page-layout, database and graphics services.