Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
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Training
Software
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Ada Arias

Lancaster,CA

Summary

Highly organized and self-motivated professional experienced in project management, team development and process improvement. Skilled in developing and implementing strategies to increase efficiency and performance. Passionate about driving business growth and creating positive work environment.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience

Work History

Sr. Administrative Assistant (Vehicle Engineering)

Northrop Grumman Corporation
08.2020 - Current
  • Provide support to Sr
  • Director, VE Director, five department managers, as well as department leaders
  • Training coordinator for department that include tracking, sending reminders, re-scheduling, reporting, adding and removing requirements
  • Organizational Charts, updates, and distributions
  • Facilities requests, coordinating, and general requests as needed
  • Order office supplies and create purchase orders through Ibuy
  • Manage department SharePoint sites, updating permissions, content, and file organization
  • IT requests, requests, and returns of equipment
  • Assist with year end budget
  • Concur, arrange travel, and reconcile expense reports
  • Manage calendars for managers and directors
  • Assist with meetings and events, catering, presentations, booking conference rooms, etc.
  • Built and maintained excellent customer relationships through timely response to inquiries and going above and beyond to accommodate unusual requests.
  • Coordinated trainings for new team members, overseeing onboarding details.
  • Supported program operations by preparing and updating documents, reports and spreadsheets.
  • Volunteered to help with special projects of varying degrees of complexity.
  • Supported company leaders by managing budgets, scheduling appointments and organizing itinerary.
  • Planned, designed, and scheduled phases for large projects.
  • Coordinated material procurement and required services for projects within budget requirements.
  • Provided detailed project status updates to stakeholders and executive management.
  • Coordinated with cross-functional teams to resolve project issues and mitigate risks.
  • Monitored project progress, identified risks and took corrective action as needed.
  • Developed and implemented project plans and budgets to ensure successful execution.
  • Scheduled and facilitated meetings between project stakeholders to discuss deliverables, schedules and conflicts.
  • Facilitated workshops to collect project requirements and user feedback.

Training Developer

General Atomics
12.2019 - 08.2020
  • Organize and develop training procedure manuals, guides, curriculums and course materials
  • Training sessions and presentations
  • Coordinate class and instructor schedules per training needs
  • Create/Update content and maintain team site permissions for SharePoint/Teams workspace
  • Maintain and organize content for use of department personnel and external students.

Department Specialist/Project Planner

General Atomics
06.2015 - 04.2020
  • Support deployment related requirements for staff of 300+ personnel that includes reporting, coordination, scheduling, and travel arrangements
  • Planned and tracked schedule IMS timelines per customer requirements for 30+ sites and 250 travelers
  • Strategically aligned schedule for required customer currency training and coordinated departmental and cross-functional team planning, scheduling deployment readiness actions
  • Attended program leadership meetings to determine future support and yearly projections and traveler status
  • Continued process improvement to drive efficiency in scheduling, data tracking and documentation control
  • Department Specialist
  • Purchase orders and office supplies for department including approval of invoices
  • Created and lead implementation of SharePoint team site as site manager
  • Department new hire training/processing, process dept
  • Expense reports, travel arrangements, aircraft labor reports
  • Created monthly charts for department staff meetings.

Labor Accounting Administrator

General Atomics
06.2013 - 06.2015
  • Review 600+ time sheets weekly including work charts, wage computation, and other information to detect and reconcile payroll discrepancies
  • Record employee information, such as exemptions, transfers, and resignations to maintain and update payroll records
  • Process travel expense reports for Oconus and Conus travelers
  • Provided labor reports to VP and performed monthly auditing for timecards.

Accounts Payable Clerk (Temp Position)

Bioness
06.2012 - 12.2012

Education

B.S. Business Administration -

Capella University
Minneapolis, MN
09.2023

A.S. Computer Electronics - undefined

ITT Technical Institute
05.2001

Skills

  • Project
  • Excel
  • Outlook
  • Word
  • SAP
  • PowerPoint
  • SharePoint
  • Teams
  • Publisher
  • Concur
  • K2 Designer
  • InfoPath
  • LMS
  • Adobe Designer
  • Storyline 360
  • Pivot tables

Clearancetype

Top Secret

Training

  • MS Project – 2017
  • AutoTime 6 & 7 – 2008, 2016
  • Concur 2017
  • SharePoint Designer (2010)
  • K2 Citizen Developer 2019
  • SAP – 2015

Software

SharePoint Site Owner and Developer

MS Project

Jira

Sales Force

Timeline

Sr. Administrative Assistant (Vehicle Engineering)

Northrop Grumman Corporation
08.2020 - Current

Training Developer

General Atomics
12.2019 - 08.2020

Department Specialist/Project Planner

General Atomics
06.2015 - 04.2020

Labor Accounting Administrator

General Atomics
06.2013 - 06.2015

Accounts Payable Clerk (Temp Position)

Bioness
06.2012 - 12.2012

B.S. Business Administration -

Capella University

A.S. Computer Electronics - undefined

ITT Technical Institute
Ada Arias