Alexandra Serra Resume
Alexandra Lynn Serra
Experience:
White Plains Library, White Plains, NY
July 2017-Current August 2015- July 2017
May 2015- August 2015
� Collection Management: Responsible for maintaining thousands of books in the White Plains Library�s collection. Duties include weeding, processing books and orders, organizing shipments to Better World Books, checking the rotation of new books daily, fixing physical issues as well as issues within the library�s digital catalogue, maintaining bibliographic records in Westchester�s catalogue, designing new signage and wayfinding, as well as taking on projects for the library as needed.
� Clerk: Responsible for assigning new library cards, resolving issues with customers� accounts, organizing and returning checked-in books to their respective places, organizing library cards for visiting classes, and general technical maintenance.
� Volunteer: Volunteering in the Collections Department, responsible for organizing books, transporting and sorting books, and preparing books for export.
Orthonet, White Plains, NY October 2015- May 2016
� Contract Assistant: Responsible for managing client�s health insurance requests promptly, and accurately. Duties included contacting doctors, knowing various pain management procedures, contacting insurance companies, and working out any problems the client�s account may have in the system.
Law Firm of Irom, Wittels, Freund, Berne, and Serra, Bronx, NY July 2014- September 2014
Summer 2009 & Summer 2010
� Assistant: Responsible for document collection and analysis from the last seven years of cases and escrow account bank statements, and closed case organization.
� Receptionist: Responsible for answering phones, sorting mail and editing certain legal documents.
Brookstone, Westchester Mall, White Plains, NY Summer 2013
o Sales Associate: Responsible for attracting customers, learning and relaying knowledge of items in stock, cleaning the store and organizing storage, and working the register.
City of White Plains, White Plains, NY July 2012- August 2011
� Supervisor: Responsible for delegating assignments to high school students, making sure the students are safe and behaving properly, calculating student hours, assisting the students with gardening, designing gardens and researching plants.
July 2011- August 2011
� Receptionist: Responsible for answering phone calls, opening, sorting, and distributing mail, filing, organizing and updating files, typing, handling resident inquiries, and fielding complaints.
Education
May 2014, Binghamton University
BA in Anthropological Perspectives
Member of the Undergraduate Anthropology
Organization
Dean�s List (Fall 2011)
May 2016 - Present, Continuing Education towards
an MS in BioTech
Research and Extracurricular
Spring 2014, Research Assistant
Assisted with Graduate research in experimental
Southwest Yukon hafting resins. Responsible
for researching materials, experimenting and
documenting hafting resins, drafting pilot study
research paper.
Spring 2013, Editor for The Journal of
Undergraduate Anthropology
Edited undergraduate anthropology research
papers, submitted from throughout the
country for inclusion in the journal
Skills & Memberships
Microsoft Office
Excel
Outlook
Google suite
SAI
Illustration
Group leadership skills
Organizational abilities
Editing
Proofreading
Creativity
Japanese
German
American Anthropology Association
Alexandra Lynn Serra
Experience:
White Plains Library, White Plains, NY
July 2017-Current August 2015- July 2017
May 2015- August 2015
� Collection Management: Responsible for maintaining thousands of books in the White Plains Library�s collection. Duties include weeding, processing books and orders, organizing shipments to Better World Books, checking the rotation of new books daily, fixing physical issues as well as issues within the library�s digital catalogue, maintaining bibliographic records in Westchester�s catalogue, designing new signage and wayfinding, as well as taking on projects for the library as needed.
� Clerk: Responsible for assigning new library cards, resolving issues with customers� accounts, organizing and returning checked-in books to their respective places, organizing library cards for visiting classes, and general technical maintenance.
� Volunteer: Volunteering in the Collections Department, responsible for organizing books, transporting and sorting books, and preparing books for export.
Orthonet, White Plains, NY October 2015- May 2016
� Contract Assistant: Responsible for managing client�s health insurance requests promptly, and accurately. Duties included contacting doctors, knowing various pain management procedures, contacting insurance companies, and working out any problems the client�s account may have in the system.
Law Firm of Irom, Wittels, Freund, Berne, and Serra, Bronx, NY July 2014- September 2014
Summer 2009 & Summer 2010
� Assistant: Responsible for document collection and analysis from the last seven years of cases and escrow account bank statements, and closed case organization.
� Receptionist: Responsible for answering phones, sorting mail and editing certain legal documents.
Brookstone, Westchester Mall, White Plains, NY Summer 2013
o Sales Associate: Responsible for attracting customers, learning and relaying knowledge of items in stock, cleaning the store and organizing storage, and working the register.
City of White Plains, White Plains, NY July 2012- August 2011
� Supervisor: Responsible for delegating assignments to high school students, making sure the students are safe and behaving properly, calculating student hours, assisting the students with gardening, designing gardens and researching plants.
July 2011- August 2011
� Receptionist: Responsible for answering phone calls, opening, sorting, and distributing mail, filing, organizing and updating files, typing, handling resident inquiries, and fielding complaints.
Education
May 2014, Binghamton University
BA in Anthropological Perspectives
Member of the Undergraduate Anthropology
Organization
Dean�s List (Fall 2011)
May 2016 - Present, Continuing Education towards
an MS in BioTech
Research and Extracurricular
Spring 2014, Research Assistant
Assisted with Graduate research in experimental
Southwest Yukon hafting resins. Responsible
for researching materials, experimenting and
documenting hafting resins, drafting pilot study
research paper.
Spring 2013, Editor for The Journal of
Undergraduate Anthropology
Edited undergraduate anthropology research
papers, submitted from throughout the
country for inclusion in the journal
Skills & Memberships
Microsoft Office
Excel
Outlook
Google suite
SAI
Illustration
Group leadership skills
Organizational abilities
Editing
Proofreading
Creativity
Japanese
German
American Anthropology Association