Online resume of
Sonja H.Wakefield


Executive Assistant with over 12 years of experience working with Directors, Company Presidents, C.E.O's, Public Relations and Marketing.

Key skills include strong written and verbal communication skills, along with ability to learn quickly. Service minded, problem solving, goal oriented. Excellent computer skills. Takes initiatives, well organized, and able to multi-task. Works with little or no supervision.

Skills:

  • Strong communication, organizational and problem solving skills with attention to detail
  • Comfortable working independently, as well as within a team
  • Excellent skills in publication design and layout
  • Cross-platform PC and MacIntosh proficiency (also see computer experience below)

Computer and programming experience:

  • HTML
  • JavaScript
  • Visual Basic
  • MS FrontPage 97
  • Macromedia Dreamweaver
  • Macromedia Flash
  • Netscape & MS Internet Explorer
  • Adobe PageMaker
  • Adobe PhotoShop
  • Adobe Illustrator
  • Adobe Premiere
  • Adobe Acrobat
  • Arts & Letters
  • Corel Draw
  • WIN95 Support (MCT prepared)
  • DOS, Win 3.x
  • Win95, Win98, WIN NT
  • Survival UNIX
  • Lotus Smart Suite programs (Word Pro, 1-2-3, Freelance Graphics)
  • Microsoft Office programs (Word, Excel, Power Point)

Language skills:

Swedish, English, Finnish, German


Projects May 1998 - present:
Webdesign / Instructor / Student

I am enrolled as a student at CCCCD in the E-business Media Associate Degree program. I have a GP of 3.9. I am a part time Instructor at the CCCCD Continuing Education, where I teach Adobe PhotoShop, Macromedia Dreamweaver, and HTML evenings and weekends.


Projects May 1998 - December 1995:
Executive Assistant at the Attorney General's Office, Stockholm, Sweden

Executive Assistant to the Swedish Attorney General Klas Bergenstrand, vice Attorney General Solveig Riberdahl, and Public Relations Director Magnus Nordangård; letters, protocols, phones, presentations, calendars, conferences, bookings, media. The job also included design of the Swedish Attorney General's intranet, annual reports, brochures, newsletters, logos and flyers as well as displays for exhibitions about the Swedish prosecution system. I was vice editor of a weekly newsletter to all the employees.

Volunteer experience during this period:

The Swedish Shetland Sheepdog Club Handbook (448 pages). I was responsible for the budget, contacting writers as well as writing articles myself, contacting printers, lay-out, photos, co-ordination of all the material. Lay-out was done in PageMaker.


December 1995 - January 1993:
Executive Assistant at Ansvar Insurance Co., Stockholm, Sweden


Executive Assistant to the vice President and the Public Relations Director. Later Executive Assistant to the Marketing Director and the Public Relations Director; letters, protocols, phones, presentations, calendars, conferences, bookings, media, editor of weekly newsletter to the employees. The job also included design of broschures, annual reports, flyers, displays for exhibitions.


December 1992 - February 1988:
Executive Assistant - ABB Environmental Control AB, Stockholm, Sweden

Executive Assistant at the Board of Directors. I especially worked for the Human Resource Director, working with employment within the company worldwide. ABB Environmental Control had 21.000 employees in 40 countries. Letters, protocols, phones, presentations, calendars, conferences, bookings, editor of weekly newsletter to the employees in Stockholm.


Other volunteer experience:

Editor of two club magazines 1985-1989


1987 - 1985: Assistant at KF Public Relations / Press Service, and at the KF Design Center Department

Modernized and computerized the distribution system for press releases. Assisted at press conferences and with editing the weekly corporate newsletter. I also did photography for the newsletter and communicated with printers.

At the Design Center Department I assisted with orders, monthly reports and stock inventory over the computer-system. Administrative contacts with customers and contractors.


Education:

  • Collin County Community College, Plano Texas (currently working on a E-Business Media degree)
  • MCT preparation - Microsoft "Supporting Windows 95" - fall 1997
  • Nacka Community College - 2 years of Business Economics, Marketing and Speech Communication, 1995-1996
  • University of Stockholm - 2 years of Art History and German - fall 1980 to summer 1982
  • Saltsjöbandens Samskola - 3 years of Social Science 1977 -1980

Sonja Wakefield
Plano, Texas

Email: Sonja@Wakefield.net

Wakefield Web Design


Last revised: October 19, 2001

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