Atricia Meneses has over 20 years of experience in administrative roles in healthcare and retail. She has a track record of efficiently managing schedules, budgets, projects and critical information for physicians and executives. She is proficient in Microsoft Office, inventory analysis, and custom information systems. Her most recent role is as a Senior Administrative Assistant for pediatric surgeons where she coordinates calendars, schedules surgeries, verifies insurance and coding, and maintains providers' CVs.

1. Atricia M. Meneses
Sussex, WI 53089 trishmeneses@gmail.com 630-728-6494
SKILLS
Efficient in managing critical information, multiple projects, budgets, calendars and schedules
concurrently in a fast, positive and professional manner.
Expertise in inventory and financial information analysis through the use of computer information
systems.
Exceptional work ethic with the ability to work independently while being a team player and possessing
great communication skills.
Proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, E-mail, Internet and Power Point and custom information
systems.
EXPERIENCE
Medical College of Wisconsin, Sr. Administrative Assistant; Pediatric General Surgery, Milwaukee, WI
(12/2014 - Present)
• Simultaneously managing all administrative duties for two MCW Pediatric General Surgeons.
• Coordinate and maintain all calendar updates pertaining to the on-call schedules for both faculty
members; including entry of personal calendar information, meetings, scheduled cases, and clinics.
• Responsible for creating multiple clinic lists in an accurate and timely manner on a weekly basis for both
providers.
• Scheduling surgeries in EPIC and coordinating with providers’ Outlook calendars, while working face-to-
face with patients to schedule pre-op and post-op appointments.
• Accurately coding each procedure and verifying insurance coverage.
• Obtaining any insurance pre-authorizations required.
• Creating letters of confirmation and communicating NPO instructions to each family.
• Coordinate all combined procedures with providers outside the department.
• Verifying completion and coding accuracy through IDX billing system for all completed procedures and
consultations.
• Proofreading and editing all correspondence including Letters of Recommendation (LoRS) in the
Electronic Residency Application Service (ERAS).
• Procedure tracking through REDCap application data entry of all cases.
• Updating all Continued Medical Education (CME) qualifications with the CME office.
• Actively maintaining providers CurriculumVitae (CVs).
• Set up student and professional provider shadowing opportunities and submit all necessary
documentation for procedural compliance.
University of Illinois at Chicago, Administrative Aide; Neurosurgery, Chicago, IL (4/2013 to 8/2014)
• Responsible for administrative office duties consisting of filing, organizing mail, answering phones and
emails, ordering supplies, and management of all schedules, spreadsheets and calendars for the
neurosurgeons in a precise manner on a minute to minute basis.
• Proactively greeted and checked in patients, and updating medical charts.
• Answered, screened and rerouted all phone calls to the appropriate departments and delivering messages
in a timely manner for each neurosurgeon.
• Documenting, resolving, and recording all expense reports.
• Transcription of dictation for correspondence, letters, and meetings; executing documentation with 100%
accuracy within a twenty-four hour period.
• Coordinated all aspects of travel for the neurosurgeon including communication with coordinator,
booking hotels and transportation, registration of all meetings and conferences, maintaining all travel
calendars and spreadsheets, creating travel itinerary, and reconciliation of all funds by the required
deadlines.
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2. Atricia M. Meneses
Sussex, WI 53089 trishmeneses@gmail.com 630-728-6494
• Communication and documentation of continuation of care for all admissions discharge, and transfer
patients to Emergency Department Physicians, Primary Care Physicians, and other departments while
maintaining department spreadsheets for prospective neurosurgeon on a daily basis.
• Liaison communication of care for clinic patients in an accurate and timely manner to the Primary Care
Physician and all other doctors involved in the patient’s care. Updating medical records in the Cerner
medical records management system.
• Developing and executing systematic data collection for surgery cases and maintaining input of the data
into the system.
• Submitting all credential and licensing documentation for the neurosurgeon.
• Responsible for setting up all aspects of depositions. Communication with lawyers and the University
legal representative.
School District 205, Hawthorne Elementary School, Lunch Supervisor, Elmhurst, IL (2008-
2010)
• Responsible for the safety and well-being of the elementary students during their lunch hour while in the
lunch room and during their recess time. Also available to the students for assistance as needed such as
administering help with illness and injuries, settling pier disputes, supervising sports activities and
enforcing rules.
Nordstrom, Inc., Executive Assistant to VP, Divisional Merchandise Manager, Oak Brook, IL (2000-2002)
• Responsible for providing direct administrative and project support to Vice President including all basic
office duties; ordering supplies, maintaining calendars, management of all e-mails and phone calls,
scheduling of appointments, meetings, and travel, access to and updating highly confidential salary
documentation and information, gathering sales histories, creating and maintaining all sales reports and
also planning and coordinating major fashion events.
• Directed a team of office assistants involving the hiring/firing, training, controlling of time
sheets/overtime, and liaison between the office assistant, buyer and human resources. Also overseeing all
of the office assistant’s data entry, inventory and open to buy.
Nordstrom, Inc., Financial Planner, Oak Brook, IL (1998-
2000)
• Executed inventory and budget planning of over one hundred clothing lines in twenty departments
throughout nine stores. Analyzed sales histories to develop and maintain daily forecasts, inventory levels,
budgets, and inventory turn-over.
• Setting up and maintaining inventory replenishment systems for import and international clothing lines.
• Responsibilities included assisting the Financial Buyer with weekly faxing of sales information to vendors,
creating and updating spreadsheets to compile sales history, maintaining and managing repeat
merchandise through the procurement system and issuing of purchase orders.
• Maintaining the timely and complete shipment of all orders from vendors and distribution center.
Nordstrom, Inc., Lead Office Administrator; Women’s Apparel, Oak Brook, IL (1996-1998)
• Supporting Buyer by acting as main liaison between buyer, vendor, distribution center, and department
managers for nine stores in the Central States Region.
• Data entry and tracking of orders, scheduling of all meetings and buying trips, and updating selling
reports and claim logs.
• Maintaining on order, open to buy, and class buy plans on a daily basis.
Von Maur, Inc., Assistant Manager; Town and Club and Women’s Departments, Lombard, IL (1994-
1996)
• Responsible for scheduling of crews, merchandising of the sales floor, motivating sales crew in
maintaining sales goals, monitoring the upkeep of personal shopper books/clients, training new
employees, and delegating daily tasks.
• Consistently exceeding and maintaining sales goals, liaison between Department Manager and Buyer in
gathering and communicating sales information and managing inventory levels, being a personal shopper
and caring for all customer’s needs.

3. EDUCATION: Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL
Bachelor of Science; 1994
Major: Fashion Merchandising
Minor: Business Administration