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BILLY E. MESTAZ

1143 Trenton Ave

Bremerton, Washington 98310

(360) 405-1671

CAREER OBJECTIVE


WORK EXPERIENCE  

Administrative / Accounting Assistant
Washington State Bar Association                                                 Seattle, WA
Dec 2000 - Present

Primary responsibilities include daily sorting and delivery of accounting department mail,
daily processing of cash and credit card receipts, and A/P document filing. Additional
duties include providing administrative support for the accounting department manager and
the information technology manager. This entails composing miscellaneous letters, organizing
committee meetings, setting up conference calls, and making airline and hotel arrangements
for out-of-town meetings. I also create and maintain departmental spreadsheets and
databases. Additionally, I provide MS Office software support  to administrative department
 

Software Support Technician
Flexscreen Software                                                                       Seattle, WA
Jun 1997 - May 1999

Main responsibility was to provide GL, AR, AP and PR software support, via telephone,
to clients  who purchased periodic software support plans. Additional duties included
the use of in-house, report writer software to generate client-specific financial
statements and other accounting-related reports. Also, occasional travel was required
to client sites to provide software training.

 

Bookkeeping Assistant
Northwest Interpretive Assoc.                                                           Seattle,WA
Jul 1993 - May 1997


Primary responsibility was to maintain the physical inventory records at 70+
sales units. This task included the timely completion of quarterly inventory account
reconciliations for all sales units. I assisted in the initial design of the electronic
spreadsheets used to track physical inventories for all sales units and then performed
the daily data entry required to calculate COGS. Additional duties included assisting
the FC bookkeeper by journalizing monthly sales entries for all sales units, generating
a monthly sales comparison report and performing monthly bank statement reconciliations.
Lastly, I assisted the A/P specialist by matching receiving documents, vendor invoices
and "open" purchase orders, then vouchering these matched documents into the A/P system.

 

Inventory Team Supervisor/Sales Reporting Clerk
Pay'n Save Drug Stores Inc.                                                                Seattle, WA
Nov 1987 - Aug 1992

Supervised a 25-member physical inventory count team. This team was responsible for
determining the inventory levels at 2 to 3 stores each week. My first task was to create
the initial "operations" manual and then train all members of the newly created inventory
count team. Daily operation of this team involved heavy use of mobile and hand-held
computers which allowed us to quickly generate physical inventory status reports. It
was my responsibility to guide the inventory team in such a way as to insure the accuracy
of all generated reports. Store management analysis and subsequent approval of these
inventory reports was required to successfully complete each physical inventory. 

In my role as Sales Reporting Clerk, I assisted in the design and implementation of
a "flash" sales reporting system. It was my responsibility to collect sales and
inventory data on a daily basis and then generate summary analysis reports which were
distributed to senior management.

 

Accounting Clerk
Stone, Michael & Company, P.S.                                                    Seattle, WA
Oct 1986 - Jun 1987

Responsible for all data entry required to maintain computerized bookkeeping records
for 20 clients. I also provided software support to in-house CPA's in their effort to
develop electronic spreadsheets for product cost analysis reports, financial projection
reports and a relational database for client time-billing.



EDUCATION:
George Washington High School,     Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles City College,                Los Angeles, CA
Sawyer Business School,                  Los Angeles, CA

COMMENTS:
I enjoy working in a challenging, stimulating work environment. Under these
conditions, I typically put forth whatever extra effort is required to get the job
done. I am a reliable and stable individual who takes pride in doing my job well.



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