Kari Bennett
Lawrenceville,GA
Summary
Dedicated to offering exceptional assistance to team members and clients. Experience working hands on alongside sales and accounting teams. Skilled at coordinating calls, organizing mail and collecting messages to facilitate office communication. Positive and upbeat with strong relationship-building abilities.
Overview
35
35
years of professional experience
Work History
Receptionist/Administrative Assistant
Abatement Technologies
04.2016 - 04.2024
- Answer phones on a new phone system, Digium Switchvox
- Now using Zoom phone system
- Transfer calls to the correct teams
- Answered phone promptly and directed incoming calls to correct offices.
- Streamlined front desk operations for increased efficiency by effectively managing phone calls, emails, and walk-in costumers.
- Answer phones on a new phone system, Digium Switchvox
- Now using Zoom phone system
- Transfer calls to the correct teams
- Greet customers
- Open all mail and distribute
- Order office supplies
- Assist accounting department with various duties
- Print monthly statements on Prophet 21 software
- Link all customer orders to P21
- Using Salesforce for directing calls to the right sales rep
- Keep monthly calendars up to date
Receptionist
TG Madison, Inc
10.2008 - 11.2015
- A full service advertising agency | interactive and traditional services 10/2008 - 11/2015
- In addition to answering and directing phone calls, my responsibilities included: Greeting visitors, offering refreshments and notifying appropriate person of their arrival
- Ordering/stocking office and kitchen supplies (maintaining lower costs by price comparisons with competing suppliers)
- Conference room scheduling
- Catering arrangements for meetings, setup and breakdown of luncheons
- Making transportation arrangements for clients/guests (when needed)
- Maintaining clean environment of front lobby, conference rooms and kitchen areas
- Creation/maintenance/distribution of weekly calendar depicting outside meetings, client visits, employee vacations, holidays and other important events
- Updating employee birthday and anniversary log, notifying managers of upcoming events
- In charge of employee vacation/time off log providing HR Director with monthly updates
- Weekly updates/creation of Sign In/Sign Out sheets
- Mailroom duties included printing postage for outgoing mail through Stamps.com, retrieval/distribution of incoming mail, courier and express delivery arrangements
- Various clerical duties such as typing/printing of file folder labels, job jacket creation for traffic department, printing of online invoices and typing/mailing of rejection letters generated by HR Director.
Parts Coordinator
EMS TECHNOLOGIES
10.1989 - 10.1997
- Scheduled parts manufacturing for on-site machine shop
- Distribution of parts from machine shop to appropriate departments.
Education
High School Diploma -
Shamrock High School
Decatur, GA05.1983
Skills
- Working knowledge of MS Office - Word, Excel and Outlook
- Shoretel Communicator (Desktop application for Shoretel Phone System)
- Avaya Legends Phone System
- Salesforce
- Administrative experience
- Data entry
- Computer literacy
- Typing
- Office experience
- Customer service
- Computer skills
- Front desk
- Phone etiquette
Timeline
Receptionist/Administrative Assistant
Abatement Technologies
04.2016 - 04.2024
Receptionist
TG Madison, Inc
10.2008 - 11.2015
Parts Coordinator
EMS TECHNOLOGIES
10.1989 - 10.1997
High School Diploma -
Shamrock High School
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