Rick Savelli
269 Bush St. Unit B
Mountain View, CA  94041
650/967-3627
obakekawa@hotmail.com
Career Objective: System administration.

Skills

Work Experience

7/89 – now California Army National Guard, Sacramento, CA. Sergeant. Member of Delta Company, 223rd Military Intelligence Battalion (Linguist). Military Occupational Skills (MOS): combat engineer, information retrieval, certified trainer. Served as squad leader for engineer squad, in charge of twelve engineers, performing coordination in field operations, relayed information from higher-ups, and conducting monthly training. Performed construction and destruction of bridges, hooked up communications systems for company command post. Built roads, schoolhouses, and medical clinics in Panama. Trained other soldiers in communications, including motivation, interviewing techniques, reporting and presentation of information retrieved through interviews. Background currently under review for issuing a top secret security clearance.
1/00 – 8/00 U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, Los Gatos Local Census Office, Sunnyvale, CA. Office Operation Supervisor. Served as head of selections, crew leader, field operations clerk, field operations supervisor. Hired over a thousand people in four weeks. Supervised half a dozen selection clerks, and later eighteen enumerators. Trained selection clerks and enumerators. Performed employee counseling in reaction to discipline problems.
5/97 – 7/98 Gamescape, San Rafael, CA. Store Manager. Supervised four employees, performed inventory control and bank deposits, composed displays, demonstrated games, handled purchasing, returns and customer complaints, served as personal shopper, ran cash register.
5/97 – 7/98 Kentfield Apartments, San Rafael, CA. On-Site Property Manager. Performed building maintenance, dealt with tenant complaints, collected monthly rents, made monthly deposits. Coordinated workmen for repair jobs. Prepared vacant units for new tenants. Interviewed and screened prospective tenants, including running credit checks.
9/95 – 4/97 ManPower Temporary Agency, San Rafael, CA. Answered phones, prepared documents on the computer, filing, data entry.
8/92 – 8/95 Amex Life Assurance Company (a subsidiary of American Express), San Rafael, CA. Customer Service Representative. Corresponded daily with customers and agents. Solved external and internal customer problems via the telephone. Entered customer applications into the computer. Implemented self-managed teams. Facilitated team and department meetings. Delivered company-level presentations in-house and to external businesses. Conducted training for new employees and quarterly appraisals of administration staff.
9/91 – 1/92 Cancomal, Inc., San Rafael, CA. Assistant manager. Organized information and completion of financial statements on accrual and cash basis utilizing manual and computerized systems. Reviewed and analyzed accounting system for an upgrade to a computerized system, and performed upgrade, improving accuracy and efficiency.

Education

9/91 – now California State University, San Francisco. Progress toward Bachelor of Science in Business Administration. One course remains toward the degree, currently in progress with Regent’s College in New York.
8/98 – 12/99 Defense Language Institute– Foreign Language Center, Monterey, CA. Studied the Japanese language in a world-class full-immersion language program.
1994 California Army National Guard, Camp Williams, UT. Primary Leadership Development Course.
8/92 – 8/95 Amex Life Assurance Company, San Rafael, CA. American Express Quality Training. Working Courses by Zenger Miller. Team Leadership Courses by Zenger Miller.
9/88 – 6/90 College of Marin, Kentfield, CA. Associate’s degree in architectural design.
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