Misty Dawn Light

Experience

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  Highline School District

  Dec 1997 - Dec 2000

  Data Analysis Secretary

  Sea Tac Occupational Skills Center (now called Puget Sound Skills Center) - The majority of my work in the vo-tech high school involved Desktop Publishing - designing flyers, brochures, manuals, merged certificates for 700 students, invitations and announcements. Considerable responsibility for Access databases and reports for the intern program. Quote from reference of Principal/Director: "Misty is a master with computer software. She absolutely loves learning new software applications and perfecting her skills...If there are new programs coming on the market you can be assured that Misty is already learrning them!" Show less

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  Tacoma Public Schools

  Feb 2001 - Jun 2003

  Curriculum and Instruction Secretary

  Using Pagemaker, new InDesign and Adobe Acrobat to maintain and update manuals and brochures relating to district wide policies and offerings of the Math/Science Departments. Using Access heavily for database management and reports, as well as all of MS Office for everyday secretarial duties. Gained MOUS and Microsoft Office Instructor certificates while employed here.

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  Windermere Bellevue Commons

  Mar 2005 - Mar 2008

  Graphic Designer

  Worked closely with agents, as business support, to produce flyers, brochures, ads and postcards for optimum marketing representation of Bellevue Properties. Created and maintained templates specific to individual agent’s branding, while maintaining corporate branding. Enhanced photos, removing dumpsters, trimming hedges, closing garage doors, agents reflected in mirrors and windows, bringing out light & detail, preparing for web and print. Often 10 or more projects processed in a day for different agents. Show less

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  Center for Spiritual Living

  Sept 2006 - Dec 2009

  Various Volunteer Positions including Multimedia Graphic Designer

  Habitat for Humanity in Mississippi 2007 building a home and locally in West Seattle. Graphic design help where needed, website content maintenance, visual team stage projection, Art show, ushering at Benaroya Hall Easter, Care team. Created CD cover for the Choir 2008.

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  Dawning Light Services

  Mar 2008 - Jan 2015

  Founder | Small Business Support

  I specialize in small business support, helping shorthanded businesses catch up and streamline workflow. Onsite or online. Administrative Assistant with a flair for making software jump to my tune.Diverse experience includes keeping on top of changes in developing customer relations processes. Super communication for high quality service is important; listening well and creating value beyond expectation. Integrating the value of Microsoft, Adobe and WordPress to help small businesses have successful business presence.Excited to consider any project. Love working as a partner to success, producing streamlined workflow. Enjoy teamwork involving great, positive minded people.In addition to creating the usual documents, forms, manuals, marketing packages, web content management, I edit video and create DVDs. Interpersonal skills with phones, scheduling appointments, consultations, ordering supplies, customer service continue to be valued skills for optimal representation and production for any company.Have the ability to work with Microsoft Office products as well as Adobe software, creating mail merged mailings, databases and reports, PowerPoint, documents, forms, manuals, marketing packages, website creating and updating using Word Press and other web tools, editing video and create DVDs.I am focused on organizing, processing, filing, data entry and creating computerized forms with Acrobat. Produce Word or InDesign procedure manuals with screenshots for more efficient production. Short term contracts with various companies. Show less

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  Lake Washington Institute of Technology

  Mar 2009 - Jun 2011

  Graphic Designer

  Maintaining communication with dept heads, program instructors and their deans, for business support. Optimized and updated their brochures and event marketing materials. Worked with foundation on fund-raising event marketing packages and their yearly 12-16 page report to the community. Campus photographer, maintaining a library of photos, Photoshop composited and enhanced for best marketing representation. Prepared photos to web specifications for the website.

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  Boothster

  Oct 2011 - Dec 2011

  Marketing Coordinator

  Business support to maintain and update Wordpress websites, product photography, video production, social media, promotion of Boothster as a premiere green trade show booth company.

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  Schetky NW Sales, Inc

  Nov 2012 - Apr 2013

  Assistant Sales Coordinator

  Business support to catch up and streamline workflow. Forms, forms and more forms... on a typewriter. Processing paperwork for commercial buses. Using Adobe Acrobat to create forms that make a more efficient computer-based process. These forms help the company now have address and essential information already input, changing only a few digits of the Vin number, serial numbers and dates, when a single company has purchased a number of buses. Therefore a ton of time is saved. As I worked, I began scanning forms and documentation to Adobe Acrobat and wrote a detailed procedure manual. The commercial sales paperwork process, including rebates, invoicing, licensing documents, packet and warranty processing to the customer, and registering warranties with various manufactures is now efficiently described in an easy to follow pictorial manual. Especially helpful for those times when one needs to refresh on a rarely used circumstance.Catching up from a very busy time and creating a more efficient process was accomplished. Show less

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  Gresham Area Chamber of Commerce and Visitors Center

  Jan 2013 - Jan 2014

  Member

  Being a member of Gresham Area Chamber of Commerce and Visitors Center is great. Getting to know my neighbors through the chamber kept me up to date on all the wonderful events that members sponsor. It was a great way to get to know the many services that businesses offer, so that I can become part of their referral network. Really great people participate in the Gresham Area Chamber of Commerce. There are often several activities a week to choose from for amazing interactive participation. My working schedule took me to another city, and I very much miss the people I came to know there. Show less

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  Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage

  Apr 2014 - Jul 2014

  Customer Service

  Was privileged to get to work with a family-like team to prepare and open the Clackamas store. We installed shelving, stocked and labeled shelves. As gluten-free is a stipulation of my diet, it was fun to place all those labels throughout the store and discover exciting new options that I could then pass on to the customers.Worked both the floor, talking with customers and stocking shelves; and cashiering in the checkstand. Meeting new people and assisting them to gain affordable, healthful options and environmentally friendly options was exciting. Show less

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  Northland Express Transport

  Jan 2015 - Apr 2016

  Assistant Dispatcher

  ASKED TO RETURN FOR 2016 SEASON. Jan-April 2015, Jan-April 2016Loving the return to Office work and working on a great team.Working closely with carriers across the country to hire truck drivers transporting Nursery Stock throughout the United States from Oregon and Washington. Using multiple line phones much of the day to build relations with trucking companies, drivers and nurseries. Entering and updating data, calling references and verifying insurance.Our 16 page carrier packet needed professional updating, photoshop cleanup of over-photocopied pages for clarity and readability, and usability. Using Photoshop and Adobe Acrobat, I improved the looks, value and usability of the documents and put them into PDF form. This means they could now be emailed, filled out by typing in blanks, saved and returned by email. This improvement helped us gain more readable information to enter data into the computer system. Busy truckers/trucking companies only needed to print and scan/fax the signature page. Faxed copy degradation was reduced by having top quality copy in the first place.Seasonal - Very good crash refresher in multi-tasking in a major way. Show less

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  Fred Meyer

  Aug 2015 - Jan 2016

  Cashier

  Enjoyed customer service as Cashier. Processed groceries, home products and apparel at the register.

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  DAVO Alpine Village Apartments

  Jul 2016 - Dec 2017

  Apartment Manager

  • Interview residents and vendor/maintenance personnel. • Leases, inspections, plan maintenance, file non-compliance forms.• Maintain records, forms, create forms, create and maintain ads.• Assist with cleaning, maintenance and interviews to turn apartments.• Constant multi-tasking, took on phone calls to painting.

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  Windermere Real Estate

  Jan 2018 - Jul 2022

  Office and Technology Administrator

  I completely appreciate the opportunity to work with a great real estate team. We all know the importance of social media, web presence and personal attention to the needs of our clients. It is my privilege to work in support of those goals.

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  Dawning Light Design

  Jun 2022 - now

  Graphic Designer