Experience

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  Parra Events

  • Proprietor

    • 2009 - Present

    Events company providing entertainment services for private clients, local businesses including shopping malls, restaurants, night clubs and local government and nonprofit organizations. Services include talent booking, audio consulting, event organization, live sound and technical production services, equipment installation, rentals and DJ and Karaoke services.

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  Southland Publishing

  • Account Executive for VCReporter and Ventana Monthly

    • 2011 - 2012

    Duties include working with a clientele to make sure they were well represented in their advertising, selling advertising space to new clients through referrals and cold calling. I was also the lead technical representative for the company's local deals offer website.

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  Business Sundry

  • Client Support Technician

    • 2010 - 2012

    I was assigned 10 clients for whom I supplied phone technical support and set up services for their Joomla! -based websites. Duties included doing the initial build-out and configuration of their Joomla! installations, responding to inquiries, adding new modules and functionality as requested, and trouble shooting issues.

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  AU Non-Proft

  • Office Administrator and Newsletter Editor

    • 2007 - 2010

    In this position I was primarily concerned with membership retention, and created a membership maintenance database in MS Access, sent mail using the USPS Bulk Mail System, organized fund raisers, edited the newsletter, and oversaw all administrative functions of the organization.

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  California State University-Channel Islands

  • United States
  • Higher Education
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Information Technology Consultant

    • 2004 - 2008

    Duties for this position involved acting as liaison on behalf of the Office of Faculty Affairs to the many departments of the university and third party software providers, making sure all databases, websites and computer systems were configured properly to meet the expectations and needs of the Associate Vice President for Faculty Affairs and the Manager for Faculty Affairs. We interfaced with Human Resources, Students Affairs and all the departments within the academic disciplines. I worked to configure PeopleSoft and the university's online application and hiring system, bring new modules on-line and train users on the newly implemented modules.

  • Administrative Support Coordinator

    • 2001 - 2004

    Hired to perform telephone support for applicants applying to work for the university, my duties quickly expanded to include many of the regular office duties including mailing, paper processing, data entry and interview and event organization. Working in Faculty Affairs, we handled human resource issues specific to academic faculty.

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  Blackbird Music

  • Founding Partner

    • 1998 - 2006

    This event production company was part music event production and part local arts promotion. My duties included planning, funding and producing local music and cultural events in Ventura County. These varied from local music showcases, open mic nights, city festivals, fund raisers, concerts and competitions.

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  Oxnard Unified High School District

  • Substitute Teacher

    • Aug 2000 - Jun 2001

    Daily assignments filling in for teachers on leave. I took on mostly special education and classes for students with behavioral problems.

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  Santa Clara High School

  • Oxnard, CA

  • Long Term Substitute Teacher

    • Sep 1999 - Feb 2000
    • Oxnard, CA

    Teaching English and Health for teacher who was on long term maternity leave.