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2510 Williams Court, Bellmore, NY 11710-4805

516-826-7980

marasz@verizon.net

Mara F. Szalajda

Objective:

Position offering creative challenges that will utilize my unique mix of qualities:

technical computer skills, accounting skills, and artistic abilities.

Technical Skills:

PC and Apple- C++, Java, Word, Excel, Access, Filemaker Pro, Front Page 2000,

Photoshop, Publisher, Painter, QuickBooks, Netscape, Quicken, Windows 98

2000/XP, Eudora Pro, Alpha Microsystems PICK64+, Desqtop, Officemate by Marchon,

HTML,JavaScript, CSS.

Experience:

Technical:

  • Created Insurance Company database for use by Medical Biller's to expedite

    • claim processing.

  • Set up computer templates for pricing, schedules, memos for Buyers' Office.

  • Custom printing and in-house printing of invitations, announcements.

  • Maintain websites www.artistcraftsman.com , www.studiomara.com,

    • www.sunysb.edu/infrared

    Management:

  • Interviewed and trained new buying staff. Managed Buyers' Office.

  • Coordinated buying with Northeast Regional Stores.

  • Increased sales by 25% in first year. Continued to show growth in subsequent years.

  • Committee member for Special Projects such as annual consumer trade show.

    • Accounting:

  • Worked with all phases of purchasing, receiving, and invoicing.

  • Computer aided inventory control.

  • Reconciled hundreds of unpaid medical claims.

    • Creative:

  • Specialist in Fine Art materials particularly artists' pigments.

  • Costume jewelry design, manufacturing, and sales.

  • Painter of original works on paper.

    • Employment:

    Bide-a-Wee, Wantagh, N.Y. Adoption Center Associate
    Seventh Sense, Inc. Bellmore, N.Y. Account Manager
    Pearl Paint Co., East Meadow, N.Y., Buyer
    Artist and Craftman Supply, Westbury, NY Assistant Manager and Website
    Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, New York, N.Y. I.T. Dept. Internship
    Studiomara.com, Bellmore, N.Y. Owner
    College Point Optometric Associates, College Point, N.Y. Medical Billing
    Secretary to Pediatric Specialist
    Papyrus Corp./Shurman Fine Papers, Garden City, N.Y.

    Education:

    Nassau Community College, Garden City, N.Y., Computer Information Systems Certificate,
    2000, G.P.A. 3.95.
    Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, N.Y. Master of Fine Arts, 1988, G.P.A. 4.0.Awards
    Philadelphia College of Art, Phila., Pa., Bachelor of Fine Arts, 1982.Awards