RESUME OF DEB MCCOLLOUGH

NAME:		Debra McCollough
ADDRESS:	1019 Howard St, Delta, CO 81416
PHONE:	 [Send email to request phone number] 74-4745
AGE:		46
MARITAL:	Married
HOBBIES:	horses, fishing, camping, dancing & art
GOAL:                Enjoyable  employment with a competitive wage.

EDUCATION:
College Classes:  Correspondence course of (1) Animal Care Specialist – A
Average (2) Writing for Business and Government – A Average (3) Secretary as
Office Manager – A Average
GED: February 17, 1983
High School: Fort Stockton, Texas
Jr. High and Elementary: Olathe, Colorado

EXPERIENCE:
April 12, 2007–Present 
Bresnan Communications, 319 Main St, Delta, CO 81416  [Send email to request phone number] 74-8355  
Title:  Customer Sales & Service Representative
Starting Salary:  $10.00/hr (+ commissions and earned bonuses)
Current Salary:  $10.33/hr (+ commissions and earned bonuses)
Supervisor:  Michael Ehlers
Duties:  Customer Sales & Service for Cable TV, Telephone and internet, stage
equipment, office management, and dispatcher  
Reason for Leaving:  currently employed 

Nov. 1, 1999–March 20, 2006     
Whiting Farms, Inc., P.O. Box 100, Delta, CO 81416   [Send email to request phone number] 74-7827
Title:  Sales & Service Manager
Starting Salary:  $11.00/hr
Ending Salary:  $42,000/yr
Supervisor:  Dr. Tom Whiting
Duties:  Originally hired as an order entry person but worked my way to 2nd in
command with only Dr. Whiting being above me...  Oversee all sales and customer
service operations.  Go to shows as needed.  Specialized in “up selling”
customers.   Main Customer Service Contact. Take orders, enter order.
Approve/disapprove applications, collect monies from customers. Take care of
Prostaff.  Delegate duties to appropriate person.  Hire and fire personnel.  
Reason for Leaving:  Mother passed away.  My personal doctor forbid me to work
for a limited time due to the impact it had on me.  Owner and I could not come to
an agreement about Dr’s orders, therefore I resigned.

Nov. 8, 1995 – October 31, 1999
Foster Farms, 132 E. 5th Street, Delta, CO 81416 (970)874-5518
Title:  Office Manager
Starting Salary: $8.00/hr
Ending Salary:   $11.00/hr
Supervisor: Steve Puntenney
Duties: Code, sign and forward bills to appropriate offices in California for
payment.  Update customer pricing files.   Invoicing – originally for two feed
mills.  Create feed tags for formulas, register products, assist in commodity
sales/purchases, purchase feed ingredients, figure sales commission and prepare
check requests for same.  Prepare commercial feed tonnage; keep a running balance
on all customer and vendor contracts.  Responsible for petty cash.  I kept a
running total of customer account balances, write or call customers as necessary
for past due/over limit problems.  Type purchase orders and submit to California
to have contracts typed, arrange for direct shipments, arrange trucking, prepare
period and sales reports, usage reports, kept a perpetual inventory, prepare
weekly shrink report, receive payments from customers, record and send money to
California to our accounts receivable department, receive credit applications.
Reason for Leaving:  Offered a position with Whiting Farms where there was room
to advance so I took the position.

August 29, 1994 – June 1, 1995
Montrose Family Eyecare, 700 E. Main, Montrose, CO 81401  [Send email to request phone number] 492330
Title:  Optometric Assistant
Starting Salary:  $7.00/hr
Ending Salary:  $8.00/hr
Supervisor:  Connie Wright
Duties: Assisted customers with frame selections, dispensed new glasses,
adjusted old glasses, performed minor repairs on customers’ glasses, and
purchased new frames for office.  Purchased contact lenses for office.  Dispensed
contact lenses to patients.  Co-authored an instruction manual for the Briot
machine.  Ordered uncut lenses, cut lenses to fit frames.
Reason for leaving:  Wanted to take a break to stay home with my children for a
while.

January 10, 1994 – August 28, 1994
C. Joseph Croker, P.C., 225 N. Fifth St. #600, Grand Junction, CO 81501
(970)241-1616
Title:  Legal Secretary/Receptionist
Starting Salary: $1,300/month
Ending Salary:  $1,400/month
Supervisor:  Christopher G. McAnany
Duties:  Word processing (Word Perfect) answer telephones, set appointments,
update law books, collect outstanding bills from slow pay clients, set up shell
document book, organize files, prepare legal documents.  Was learning to prepare
eviction documentation by myself.
Reason for Leaving:  Had planned to move to Grand Junction when I accepted this
position.  Upon reconsideration I decided I wanted my children to continue their
education in Delta and decided to stay.  Children are now grown so commute would
not be a problem at this point.

January 2, 1991 – January 9, 1994
Delta Vision Clinic, 823 Main Street, Delta, CO 81416 (970)874-9540
Title:  Office Manager
Starting Salary: $4.25/hr (part time)
Ending Salary:  $6.25/hr as manager
Supervisor:  Dr. Denis Warobiew
Duties:  Word processing, answer telephones, set appointments, EZ Frame program.
 Convert entire office from manual to computer, balance checkbook, accounts
payable, accounts receivable, office optician, purchase frames, file insurance
claims, pay Dr. Warobiew’s personal accounts payable, collect from slow pay
customers, purchase and dispense contact lenses, adjust frames, minor repairs on
frames, light office cleaning, payroll.
Reason for Leaving:  Pay not adequate for duties

Sept. 2, 1986 – January 1, 1991
Brown, Schottelkotte & Tweedell, 550 Palmer St, Delta, CO 81416  [Send email to request phone number] 74-4451
Title: Legal Secretary
Starting Salary:  $850/mo
Ending Salary:  $1150/mo
Supervisor:  Phyllis Cross
Duties:  Word Processing, (Textpact & Textpact 2), answer telephones, set up
dead file system, performed majority of typing of litigation and correspondence
for all three attorneys, updated law books and tax books
Reason for Leaving:  personal

February 15, 1986 – August 25, 1986
Barajas & Spurgin
Title:  Legal Secretary
Starting Salary: $750/Mo
Ending Salary:  $900/Mo
Supervisor:  Stephen W. Spurgin
Duties:  Word processing (Wordstar), personal assistant to Mr. Spurgin, answer
telephones, set appointments, research, interview clients. (This position was
more along the lines of a paralegal).
Reason for Leaving:  I was in the process of a divorce.  My ex-husband was not
paying any child support.  Could not support my children on $900/mo.  Mr. Spurgin
had promised me a raise to $1500/mo after a 30 day probation period.   Although
he was very satisfied with my performance he only came through with a raise to
$900/mo.  There were many evenings when I was expected to work as late as
midnight preparing for Court the next day.  I did so without complaining but I
had two small children and had to pay extra babysitting on these evenings and I
did not receive extra compensation.

February 23, 1979 – February 8, 1986
Southwest Texas Telephone Company, P.O. Box 128, Rocksprings, TX 78880
(830)683-2111
Title:  Secretary, Engineering Clerk, Company Draftsman
Starting Salary:  $11,000/yr
Ending Salary:  $17,000/yr
Supervisor:  Bobby Nix, Carson Gilmer
Duties:  Word processing set up company regulations on computer, personal
secretary to Mr. Gilmer.  Handled complaints from customers, refunds from pay
phones, sales of telephones.  Did all purchasing for reconstruction of telephone
lines, Leroy Lettering, overlay drafting of all reconstruction of telephone
lines, insurance, payroll, Kroy Lettering, ran diazo machine.
Reason for Leaving:  Divorce.  My husband and my father-in-law (Bobby Nix)
worked in the same department at the same company and it became uncomfortable.

Many letters of recommendation provided upon request