Experience

US Surgical

• Medical Equipment Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Administrative Assistant

  • 2005 - Present



Covidien (Medtronic Minimally Invasive Therapies Group)

• United States
• Medical Equipment Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Administrative Assistant

  • Jul 2005 - Jun 2008

  • Reported to the Superintendent of business unit and assisted supervisors, team leaders, and manufacturing assemblers to work together as a team toward all goals. • Scheduled conference rooms through Outlook and sent appropriate invites.• Created bar graphs, pie charts and various other reports for weekly staff meetings to show that schedule and safety as the #1 priority; the information for these meetings came from gathering resources throughout the company.• Distributed payroll for 600 employees divided into 10 department and 3 shifts.• Maintained SOP matrices for training and sent out trainings to all new hires and transfers.• Distributed mail, ordered business unit supplies and other “as needed” tasks.• Created and maintained weekly departmental organizational employee flow charts showing current and available positions for assemblers due to high turnover rate. • Created slides for classes within the company for “Lean” training.• Ensured 5S (Sort, Straighten, Sweep/Shine, Standardize, Sustain) was working at all times; reminded departments within business unit to keep information and personal work spaces neat and orderly.



Covidien (formerly US Surgical) 2005-2008

• Administrative Assistant/Training Coordinator

  • Jul 2005 - Jun 2008

  Reported to the Superintendent of business unit and assisted supervisors, team leaders, and manufacturing assemblers to work together as a team toward all goals. Scheduled conference rooms through Outlook and sent appropriate invites. Created bar graphs, pie charts and various other reports for weekly staff meetings to show that schedule and safety as the #1 priority; the information for these meetings came from gathering resources throughout the company. Distributed payroll for 600 employees divided into 10 department and 3 shifts. Maintained SOP matrices for training and sent out trainings to all new hires and transfers. Distributed mail, ordered business unit supplies and other "as needed" tasks. Created and maintained weekly departmental organizational employee flow charts showing current and available positions for assemblers due to high turnover rate. Created slides for classes within the company for "Lean" training. Ensured 5S (Sort, Straighten, Sweep/Shine, Standardize, Sustain) was working at all times; reminded departments within business unit to keep information and personal work spaces neat and orderly.



Flower Field (family owned)

• Sales, Cashier

  • Jan 1997 - Jan 2005

  Prepared bank deposits. Provided customer service by helping plan gardens, answer questions, and choose purchases. Assisted with the "Bridge to Success" Program, run by the State of Connecticut, to teach 3rd and 4th graders how a small business functions. Supervised High School Special Education students while they planted flowers. Prepared bank deposits. Provided customer service by helping plan gardens, answer questions, and choose purchases. Assisted with the "Bridge to Success" Program, run by the State of Connecticut, to teach 3rd and 4th graders how a small business functions. Supervised High School Special Education students while they planted flowers.



St. Joseph's

• Admissions Secretary

  • Dec 2002 - Apr 2004

  Detailed paperwork from admissions of all residents to the nursing home, including legal documents. Maintained HIPPA regulations at all times. Toured facility with potential residents and their families for long term care. Explained all documentation and obtained required signatures with resident or a family member upon admission.Spent time with hospital representatives for placement of short-term rehabilitation residents. Supported the Director of Social Services and four social workers with typing resident status and when legal



Bridgeport Hospital Foundation

• Department Secretary

  • Jan 2000 - Jan 2002

  Reported to the Director of Fundraising and assisted with Special Events for raising monetary gifts for different charities within Bridgeport Hospital. Helped maintain the gift data entry utilizing Raisers Edge software. Ensured donor confidentiality. Sent out mass mailings for major events using mail merge and recorded responses in database. Reported to the Director of Fundraising and assisted with Special Events for raising monetary gifts for different charities within Bridgeport Hospital. Helped maintain the gift data entry utilizing Raisers Edge software. Ensured donor confidentiality. Sent out mass mailings for major events using mail merge and recorded responses in database.



Vitramon/Vishay Incorporated

• Executive Secretary

  • Jan 1990 - Jan 1997

  Maintained all company Standard Operating Procedures that included revisions, distributions, and replacements in SOP books throughout the company. Changed all operation sequence SOP's for the manufacture of capacitors that referenced the above SOP's. Arranged all travel and hotel accommodations for the Department Quality Engineering and completed expense reports upon return; arranged hotels for overseas counterparts. Typed and distributed all correspondence for the Director of Quality Control and three managers within Quality. Kept daily attendance reports for non exempt employees noting vacation, sick, personal and tardy times. Collaborated with team to achieve ISO9001. Created customer handouts for ISO9001 (Quality Manual, charts of progress to date). Maintained FDA regulations pertaining to forms control so that every form used in manufacturing was the correct revision (if a form was the wrong revision at any given date during a survey, the Food and Drug Administrative could revoke approval of any customer). Completed vendor surveys for potential and current customers to show ISO compliance.



Vishay Intertechnology, Inc.

• United States
• Appliances, Electrical, and Electronics Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Executive Secretary

  • 1990 - 1997