Ms. Traviaun M. Golden has more than 15 years of administrative experience. She started her own virtual assistance firm in hopes of gaining more flexiblity with her work schedule and a desire to be independent.
She has held various positions in the administrative realm and can provide a vast amount of services that are catered to the specific needs of her clients. While employed full-time she has held various positions such as:
~ Administrative Assistant
~ Executive Assistant
~ Presentation Specialist
~ Information Technology Department Assistant
~ Office Administrator
~ Office Manager
~ Marketing Coordinator
In her most recent position, she held the title of Marketing Coordinator/Office Administrator and performed the following duties.
Executive and Administrative Support:
Support Vice President and 20 engineering consultants from Senior to Assistant levels. Duties include managing daily operation of office; supervising front office receptionist, ordering office supplies, distributing mail, maintaining all office equipment, handling petty cash, preparing travel arrangements, coordinating office events, arranging off-site and department meetings and conference calls, including ordering, delivery, and setup of meals, as required; preparing expense reports, phone system administration, security access administration, and preparing office correspondence; shipping out going packages.
Human Resources Liaison:
Assisting with new hire paperwork and new hire set up, obtaining new hire equipment such as computers and cameras; obtaining network access making sure that the I-9 form is processed in a timely manner according to the federal requirements; processing Georgia new hire form.
IT Department Liaison:
Ordering new office equipment including copy machines, fax machines and postage meters; set up of new computers; set up new phone extensions; phone system administrator
Accounting Department Liaison:
Processing client invoices, processing vendor invoices for submittal to Accounts Payable, AP representative.
Engineering Assistant:
Word processing of engineering specifications, editing and updating preparation of engineering specifications for reproduction, binding of engineering specifications and drawings.
Marketing Coordination/Graphic Design:
Researching water and wastewater engineering issues; Monitoring State and Municipal websites for release of RFPs, RFIs, and amendments; Maintenance of proposal library. Graphic Design support includes: Design and production (includes printing and binding) of client proposals; Formatting of proposal documentation, including creation of proposal templates and shell files, create charts, graphs, figures and schematics; Final production of proposals including printing, collating, packaging, and quality control of printed materials; design of PowerPoint presentations and all branch office marketing efforts. Designing company collateral.
Software Proficiency:
Windows 95-Vista; Word; Excel; Access; PowerPoint; Publisher; ACT!; WordPerfect Office; CorelDraw; VISIO; Adobe Illustrator; Quark Xpress; Photoshop CS; DreamWeaver; Flash; MS FrontPage; Adobe Acrobat; Auto CAD; Microsoft Project; Microsoft Outlook; Internet Explorer
