Shawn Dean Atkins
Lancaster
Summary
Seeking a full-time position with your company where my skills and experiences can be most utilized effectively. Looking forward to working with a company that offers the opportunity for growth and advancement.
Professional administrative specialist with proven track record in managing office operations efficiently. Strong focus on team collaboration, problem-solving, and delivering results under shifting demands. Skilled in scheduling, document management, and communication. Known for reliability, adaptability, and maintaining high standards.
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
Work History
Secretary III
County of Los Angeles
04.2025 - Current
- Interact with various personnel within the Department.
- Maintaining records of confidentiality.
- Act as back up to the Acting Senior Secretary III.
- Answer phones, memos, sort mail data entry.
- Assist the five Assistant Regional Administrators (ARAs) along with the RA (Regional Administrator) with their daily tasks
- Schedule appointments, timekeeping, general secretarial duties, operating general office equipment, responsible for encoding data transfers and data retrieval.
- Track various reports and evaluations.
- Assist the Senior Sec III with some of her responsibilities.
- Make travel arrangements, approve E-Caps, approve mileage, and train secretaries on their duties.
- Assist the Staff Assistant II when she is away from the office.
- Work with Microsoft Word, Excel, Power Point and Access
- Temeka Lynch, ARA (Supervisor)
Staff Assistant I
County of Los Angeles (DHS)
12.2024 - 03.2025
- Interact with various levels of personnel within the Department.
- Analyzes and makes recommendations to the unit manager
- Prepare reports and projections of workload and staffing for the manager of the unit.
- Coordinates and resolves problems between the unit served and departmental housekeeping, payroll, personnel, and reproduction services.
- Inventory supplies and equipment for resolving procurement problems with the departmental supply officer.
- Shoshanna Scholar, Senior Staff Analyst, DHS
Acting Staff Assistant II
County of Los Angeles (DCFS)
04.2022 - 12.2024
- Acting Staff Assistant – Distribute to staff located at Palmdale West and Palmdale North required PPE supplies.
- Analyze situations also working with various Property Management agencies for situations that go wrong in the buildings like overseeing and working with the office day porters ensuring the offices are being cleaned daily. Handling the needs of maintenance (i.e. plumbers, electrician, CCTV, etc.)
- Handle the necessary personnel to fix said issues.
- Ensuring staff receive replacement cell phones, laptops, tablets, Chromebook for youth in the system.
- Traveling to Headquarters located in downtown Los Angeles to pick up replacement equipment and/or travel to Norwalk to drop off Tablets/Chrome Books for staff that no longer need because they are no longer working with the department.
- Encouraging staff to complete their Annual Rideshare Survey for two offices.
- Responsible for various monthly reports including the Property Management Report, Staffing Attrition Desk Duty Restriction Report, Vehicle Mileage Report, Cal/Osha Report, Facility Inspection Report, Photo Copier Report and conduct the monthly Panic Alarm Test
- Request business cards for over 300 people located in two offices.
- Welcome new staff, activate keycards for new staff coming into our offices and fixing keycards that are expired.
- Assign staff to open cubicles, relocating staff from one office to the other.
- Also working with Health and Safety and getting staff the necessary safety equipment to help them work at their desk.
- Robin Younger-Holmes, RA (Supervisor)
Secretary III
County of Los Angeles (DCFS)
11.2017 - 04.2022
- Interact with various personnel within the Department.
- Maintaining records of confidentiality.
- Act as back up to the Acting Senior Secretary III.
- Answer phones, memos, sort mail data entry.
- Assist the five Assistant Regional Administrators (ARAs) along with the RA (Regional Administrator) with their daily tasks
- Schedule appointments, timekeeping, general secretarial duties, operating general office equipment, responsible for encoding data transfers and data retrieval.
- Track various reports and evaluations.
- Assist the Senior Sec III with some of her responsibilities.
- Make travel arrangements, approve E-Caps, approve mileage, and train secretaries on their duties.
- Assist the Staff Assistant II when she is away from the office.
- Work with Microsoft Word, Excel, Power Point and Access
- Temeka Lynch, ARA (Supervisor)
Secretary III
County of Los Angeles (DCFS)
06.2005 - 11.2017
- Interact with various personnel within The Department.
- Maintain records of confidentiality. Answer phones, type, sort mail data entry.
- Assist the four (ARAs) Assistant Regional Administrators along with the RA (Regional Administrator) with their daily tasks
- Schedule appointments, timekeeping, general clerical duties, operate general office equipment, responsible for encoding data transfers and data retrieval.
- Track various reports and evaluations.
- Assist the Senior Sec III with her responsibilities.
- Track funds for petty cash, make travel arrangements, stop funds, E-Caps Liaison, Time Study Liaison, Mileage Liaison, and train different staff.
- Work with Spreadsheets, Microsoft Word, Excel, and Power Point.
- Rosa Tang, ARA (Supervisor)
Education
Diploma - General Education
Canoga Park High
Canoga Park, CA01.1985
Skills
- Customer service
- Verbal and written communication
- Office administration
- Organization
Timeline
Secretary III
County of Los Angeles
04.2025 - Current
Staff Assistant I
County of Los Angeles (DHS)
12.2024 - 03.2025
Acting Staff Assistant II
County of Los Angeles (DCFS)
04.2022 - 12.2024
Secretary III
County of Los Angeles (DCFS)
11.2017 - 04.2022
Secretary III
County of Los Angeles (DCFS)
06.2005 - 11.2017
Diploma - General Education
Canoga Park High
Work Preference
Work Type
Full TimeWork Location
On-SiteRemoteImportant To Me
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