1. Lynn Vermeulen
(760) 415-3822
durbanatal@yahoo.com
QUALITIES
• Dedication to excellent communication, attention to detail, accuracy, building and
maintaining strong relationships.
• Comfortable interacting with all levels of staff, management, vendors and clients.
• Able to work independently, make decisions and take initiative, but also follow
directions.
• Tenacious problem solver, multi-tasker.
• Dependable, reliable, fast learner, can-do attitude.
SKILLS
• Office Manager (Feb 2003 – present)
• All clerical and administrative functions
• Customer Service
• Payroll experience – 4 years, full-cycle for 1200 employees (previous position)
• Basic Accounts Payable and Receivable
• MS Office – Word, Excel, Outlook, basic PowerPoint
• Internet savvy, including research, searches, Paypal, eBay
• FileMaker Pro, MYOB, QuickBooks
• Scanning, phones, copying, faxing
• Photoshop, Digital Photography
EXPERIENCE
Feb 2000 – present
Dana Okey Collectibles
Office Manager
• Began as Administrative Assistant, promoted to Office Manager in 2003.
• Complete running of 10-person office and several affiliated companies including
one full year when CEO was away.
• Single-handedly moved company to a new location, organized move and set-up
of all networking, office equipment, furniture; acquired new janitorial company
and responsible for all dealings with property management.
• Set up and maintained several new companies, from registering, opening bank
accounts and merchant accounts to setting up websites and creating client
literature.
• Signer on all bank accounts with authority to make all decisions.
• Responsible for recruiting, interviewing, hiring, training, supervising and
terminating staff.
• Overseeing accounting functions, relieving bookkeeper when away.

2. • Designing, creating and maintaining spreadsheets, databases, simple websites
and marketing campaigns.
• Large volume of scanning and digital photography, organizing product files,
uploading to web or e-mailing to potential clients.
• Purchasing inventory in domestic and international online and phone auctions as
well as on eBay.
• Setting up and managing eBay seller account and auctions.
• Preparation, packaging and shipping of orders, from collectible stamps to large,
intricate 19th
century porcelain items worth many thousands of dollars.
• Personal assistant to owner/CEO, making travel arrangements, answering mail
and e-mail, researching everything from college funding to joining sports clubs
and completing the applications with necessary requirements and payments,
maintaining subscriptions, paying personal bills, a good amount of print design
work for CEO’s wife (family newsletters, calendars, holiday address labels, etc.)
using MS Word and Photoshop, and numerous other tasks and projects.
• Also took over care of a never-ending menagerie of pets, from birds to hamsters,
rats and mice, all of which I ended up adopting as my own.
• Responsible for all office equipment and supplies.
EDUCATION
• Durban Girls’ High School, South Africa – Upper Grade with Exemption
(automatic entrance into University)
• Edgewood College of Education
Completed 2 years – studied Botany, Zoology, Chemistry, Physics and education
subjects such as Communications, including two semesters of practical teaching
in elementary schools.
• Mira Costa College, Oceanside, CA – 4.0 GPA
Practical Accounting
QuickBooks
Excel for Business
Medical Billing & Insurance
Medical Terminology
Medical Office Management
INTERESTS
Member of Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society. I sponsor three children through World
Vision and love animals, people, art, designing, studying, learning, growing, knitting,
reading, writing, photography….there’s no end to the list.