Note from the Owner

     Welcome to T.E.S.S. (Tess's Email Stationery Solutions). Feel free to ask me any questions about my business. Please let me know if I can create any email publications for you and your company. I am  originally from Minden, Neb. I moved to Lincoln after graduating from Minden High School. I then attended Lincoln School of Commerce/Hamilton College where I received an associates degree in information technology and played basketball. I have  lived in Lincoln for five years. I am  on the events committee for the Lincoln Young Professionals Group and I volunteer at various organizations and non-profits around   town. I enjoy playing golf, basketball, and rollerblading, as well as reading and hanging out with friends and family. Please see my resume below and feel free to ask me any questions. Have a great day.

Tess Schwenka

Owner of T.E.S.S.

            email me at: tess3825@hotmail.com

 

 

Tess Schwenka's Resume

Experience

2008-2009 Southeast Community College Lincoln, NE 68510

Multimedia Specialist

Setup A/V equipment on various campuses mostly at the Continuing Education Center.
I also run all video and web conferences out of our Auditorium. And various other job duties.


2007-2008 Nebraska Humanities Council Lincoln, NE 68508

Development Secretary

Address letters, merge letters, write thank-you letters, and send out letters.

Maintain Database- Donor Perfect

Enter checks in system

Maintain website

Work with the Executive Director and the Development Director on misc. projects

Help out with events

Editing HTML in Dreamweaver and CSS programs as well as Frontpage

Answering phones

Compare software database programs, and help to make a decision on advancing to Raiser’s Edge.

Setup Audio/Video equipment for speakers & board members

Work with volunteers and donors.

Take minutes.

Taking a class about grant writing and grant research

Help the programs side of things with various things done on the computer such as powerpoints and software issues.

Added audio files to our website

Design in-email publications for e-newsletters and bulletins

Volunteer with the Lincoln Young Profressionals as an event planner. I am hosting two events this spring & summer.

 

2005-2007 Lincoln Children’s Zoo Lincoln, NE 68502

Development and Events Assistant (Executive Assistant to the Development Director)

Personal Assistant

Prepare mass mailing by stuffing envelopes and putting postage on them.

Compare software programs.

Help people sign up for memberships, adoptions, and CATZ passes, bricks for our butterfly pavilion-

I take orders and help to get the names on the bricks and out into our pathway.

Work on Publisher to create multiple posters and cards.

Work with printers, computers, copiers, fax machines, and answer phones.

Work with Microsoft Office suite applications everyday, internal IT support.

Assist development director with anything we are doing at the time.

Plan and assist with all major events such as Boo at the Zoo, our Garden Party (this year is ‘Party with the Peacocks’),

and various small events happening throughout the zoo every year.

Schedule events as well as meetings.

This is a non-profit zoo, so I also assisted with the writing of grants and other fundraising activities.

Maintain, create, and delete records in our Access donor database. Run reports using the database.

Creating fun games and design graphics for special events. Create signs for advertisements, posters,

mailing labels, business cards, and other fun creative flyers.

Worked with Blackbaud products.

Worked with ISIS- MedARKS and ARKS.

Worked with accountant who was using Peachtree to interact with our fundraising database.

Work with volunteers and donors.

Produce thank you letters for our director to send out for contributions made to the zoo.

 

2006 Diversion Services of Nebraska Lincoln, NE 68506

Powerpoint Specialist

Create powerpoints for the use in training classes.

Use word, excel, and graphics to create business powerpoints for classes.

 

2005 Automated Systems Inc. Lincoln, NE 68516

Image Processing Specialist

Took image-processing calls from banks in our system.

Helpdesk Support

Went to various banks and installed and taught banking (image) software to people at those banks.

Solved problems with the image-processing machine made by Canon.

 

2005 NebraskaIT.com Lincoln, NE 68508

Web Developer-freelance part time

Design web pages.

Develop web pages and websites using Dreamweaver MX and Fireworks MX.

Freelance web design.

 

2005 Data University Inc. Lincoln, NE 68508

Webinar Conferencing Specialist- part time

Work with all Adobe products.

Teleconferencing

Web Conferencing and video special effects

Work with Camtasia Studio recorder, record power point presentations as someone is speaking over the phone.

Editing presentations and publishing them to the web.

Video and Audio editing using Camtasia

Webex, Adobe products, Camtasia, EZDRM, and Internet.

Work with Microsoft word, access, PowerPoint, and excel products as well.

Sound board experience

Media encoding

Videography experience

 

2004-2005 Rexel Inc. Dallas, TX 75240

Oracle Implementation Specialist (Training Coordinator)-supply chain

Worked with an Oracle based system. Peoplesoft software as well.

Used their Oracle based system to learn how to teach classes relating to the distribution of Rexel products.

Worked with flowcharting and writing narratives.

Worked with and created e-learning training materials provided by IBM. (Content Producer)

Taught classes in the supply chain area.

Taught classes that were used to teach the basic navigation of the Oracle system,

this had been specialized for their company and its products.

Worked with I-learning modules.

Trained in various different areas of Oracle. Worked with Oracle 11i.

 

2003-2004 Hamilton College- Lincoln Campus Lincoln, NE 68508

Lab Technician
Helped students who need help with computer problems in the lab.
Help teachers who have extra computer work.
Help my supervisor with anything that he may want me to do that day such as change printer ink, clean computers, carry out recycling, change batteries, and software installs, and monitor the lab.

Assistant Girls Basketball Coach

Assisted for the beginning of the season with practices
Worked with girls, taught them drills and warm-ups

 

2003 Binary.NET Lincoln, NE 68508
Intern

Help Desk.

Re-designed a web site for one of their customers.

 

Education

2002-2004 Hamilton College Lincoln, NE 68508
Associates of Applied Science in Information Technology
*Graduated in March of 2004

1998-2002 Minden High School Minden, NE 68959
*High School Diploma 

 

 

Extra Experience

Golfing- Received Letter all 4 years. All-State Golf Team 2000-2001. Nominated by the Nebraska State
Golf Coaches to represent Nebraska and Minden in the Tourney Sport U.S.A. Golf Tournament in Hawaii and accepted
that invitation. Placed eighth in 2000-01 at the state competition, tied with my own teammate.
Basketball- Played Basketball for the Whippets for four years. Played basketball for Lincoln School of Commerce
(Hamilton College) for two years.
Member of Fellowship of Christian Athletes for four years. 4-H for 11 years in market swine and beef showmanship.
Can lift a lot of weight.
Knowledge of basic Spanish language.

Event Planning

Member of the Association of Information Technologist Professionals since 2003.

Member of the Lincoln Young Professionals Group- I started in 2007. I am on the events planning committee; we plan events in and around the community. I am currently chairing two events for this Spring and next Summer. I am working
with various organizations around the community to make sure these events are sponsored and free to the public.

Web Tools and Experience

Currently designing a website for the Association of Information Technology Professionals. Please ask me to see that work. I will update this with the website when the project is completed.

Web design with following developer tools: Photoshop, Quark, Flash, Dreamweaver, Adobe Products such as In Design, Pagemaker, Photoshop, Photoshop CS, Illustrator, Go Live, and HTML code editing experience.

Camtasia and Snag-It products, TechSmith products.

Worked with Oracle 9 and 11i-(specialized to the needs of Rexel Inc.)

Worked with IBM Content Producer- e-learning tools.

Expert on Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Outlook)

Worked with Visio, SnagIt, and Microsoft Project, and Webex.

IBM, DELL, GATEWAY, and I have worked with other random PC’s.

Website design done in 2004-2005. http://www.datauniversity.org/ hit the enter button then my pages are contained with in the website. Please ask me what pages I designed.

If you would like to see any graphics or designs I have done within any of my jobs please let me know.