Experience

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  NewsBlaze Pty. Ltd.

  • Canberra, Australia

  • CFO

    • Jan 2005 - Present
    • Canberra, Australia

    NewsBlaze is an Independent online newspaper that has 3 editors and more than 200 writers from all over the world.

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  Darwin Place Dental Group

  • Canberra, Australia

  • Office Manger

    • May 2012 - May 2013
    • Canberra, Australia

    scheduling patient appointments, sending reminders for appointments, billing patients andtheir insurance companies, collecting bad debts, data entry for patient treatment, orderingnon dental items for the office, general office duties, collecting payment by cheque, cash,or credit card and daily banking

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  Canberra City Dentistry

  • Canberra, Australia

  • Front Office Manager

    • Mar 2012 - Feb 2013
    • Canberra, Australia

    scheduling patient appointments, sending reminders for appointments, billing patients andtheir insurance companies, collecting bad debts, data entry for patient treatment, orderingnon dental items for the office, general office duties, collecting payment by cheque, cash,or credit card and daily banking

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  David Jones

  • Adelaide Area, Australia and Canberra area

  • Sales Assistant

    • Jun 2011 - Mar 2012
    • Adelaide Area, Australia and Canberra area

    Sales assistant in the David Jones Rundle Mall in the Food Hall department. I sold gourmet cakes and fine wine and loved the job. In Canberra ladies lingerie

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  WIld Fibers Magazine

  • Advertising Sales

    • Mar 2009 - Jun 2010

    managing accounts for both current and new clients wishing to advertise in the magazine.Helping to design ads for their products in a quarterly magazine which concentrated onfiber from many animals, knitted products and endangered species of breeds of sheep.

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  Summit Dental

  • Folsom California

  • Front Office Manager

    • Jan 2001 - Jan 2009
    • Folsom California

    scheduling patient appointments, sending reminders for appointments, billing patients andtheir insurance companies, collecting bad debts, data entry for patient treatment, orderingnon dental items for the office, general office duties, collecting payment by cheque, cash,or credit card and daily banking. I worked there full time and then for several years part time. Very happy place to work

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  Filati Fine Yarns

  • Sacramento, California Area

  • Sales Clerk

    • Mar 2004 - May 2008
    • Sacramento, California Area

    this is a high-end knitting and crochet store dealing in speciality wool and other fibers. Iwas employed to sell yarn and notions, and provide one on one knitting help with clients,stock shelves and walls with new items as they came in, filling orders via phone or internetin a timely fashion, cash handling and end of day banking. When the owner had aconsiderable amount of time off work due to ill health I managed the day to day running ofthe store

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  Independent Real Estate

  • Canberra, Australia

  • Property Manager

    • Jan 1995 - May 1996
    • Canberra, Australia

    managing 140 properties, accepting properties for lease, preparing leasing contracts,displaying rental properties, regularly inspecting each property three times a year, dealingwith unpaid rent, damage to properties and representing owners in court proceedings.

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  Queanbeyan Public Hospital

  • Reception Manager

    • Jan 1994 - Jan 1995

    managing the main reception area for the public hospital, booking conference rooms,training new staff, patient accounts for Medicare, assisting with admissions and medicalrecords, and general reception duties

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  Darwin Place Dental Group

  • Canberra, Australia

  • Office Manager

    • Jan 1992 - Jan 1994
    • Canberra, Australia

    this was an office with four separate dentists and four dental nurses sharing one receptionarea. scheduling patient appointments, sending reminders for appointments, billingpatients and their insurance companies, collecting bad debts, data entry for patienttreatment, ordering non dental items for the office, general office duties, collectingpayment by cheque, cash, or credit card and daily banking

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  PAXUS Computer Company

  • Help Desk

    • Jan 1989 - Jan 1992

    determining problems with the mainframe computer and software developed by in-housedevelopers, customer manager for the help desk beta testing and customer softwareproblems, ensuring efficient use of applications

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  David Jones

  • Sales Clerk

    • 1992 - 1992

    ACT 3 months in 1992working for Kosta Boda and Orrefors glassware in the David Jones Department Store.

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  Telstra

  • Adelaide and Canberra

  • Office Manager

    • Jan 1973 - Jan 1989
    • Adelaide and Canberra

    telephonist, supervisor position in call centre, sales clerk for cell phones, pagers, datalines, technical area data entry when Telstra converted from paper to computer records.Office manager for three National Business Managers and account managers in the ACTalso supervising two staff and including making travel arrangements for account managers, reconciling purchase orders, keeping records for petty cash

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  John Martins; Adelaide SA

  • Sales Clerk

    • 1973 - 1973

    promoting and retailing in the ladies underwear department