1. Brandi N. Fontenot
1045 Walters St.
Lake Charles, LA 70607
337.660.8656
bfont908@aol.com
Skills Profile • Well-rounded background in bookkeeping, accounts payable & receivable, sales, marketing, onsite project
management, training, shipping and receiving, management and supervisory responsibilities, operations and
consumer affairs.
• Effective problem solver; prioritize and manage heavy work flow without direct supervision.
• Skilled in developing department budgets and creating department objectives.
• Acquired a broad knowledge of office procedures, computer skills and public relations through on-the-job
training.
Work History Bookkeeper / Office Manager
Grex Inc., Lake Charles, LA
• Handle all accounts payable, accounts receivable and payroll for 7 entities under
Grex’s control.
• Manage daily operations at central office (Grex) and personal assistant to President of
company.
• Handle all banking matters for each entity, plus President’s personal banking.
• Responsible for creating and maintaining all new hire paperwork and training records,
including filing new hire status and/or termination status with the State.
• Handle all insurance matters for each entity and all company vehicles.
• Oversee company credit cards, maintain and verify the purchases made against
statements, create monthly expense reports to be submitted to management
committee and President of company.
• Responsible for handling and maintaining documents that is in regards to President’s
international business affairs in Belize.
Project Assistant / Administrator {Contract Job}
Hunt Electric Corp. @ Benteler Steel/Tube Corp., Shreveport, LA
• Provided overall administrative and construction support for multiple projects within
Benteler for our Project Management Team.
• Managed all aspects of project documentation including submittals, RFIs, AWAs,
Safety daily logs and Megger/Torque Reports.
• Maintained all change orders, submittals, document (drawing) control logs and
generated weekly phasing reports for each subcontractor and their said work area.
• Prepared, maintained and submitted close out documents to customer.
• Plotted and handled all drawings, in charge of making sure General Foremen and their
crew had most current revision of drawings out in the field, responsible for collecting
and maintaining “As Build” drawings from each General Foremen once an area had
been completed and maintained/updated smartboxes out in the field.
• Responsible for maintaining customer Access Database of all cable
pulling/terminations of wire, generated weekly progress for the whole mill off of said
database and submitted progress to customer.
Gas Chromatography (G.C.) Analyst/Technician; Gas Blender
Element Materials Technology, Lafayette, LA {Temp Job}
• Handled all testing of gas blends on the G.C. machines.
• Responsible for preparing and running reports from G.C. results on each blend
regarding if blend failed or passed.
• Prepped cylinders for new blends on manifolds.
• Blended gases in cylinders by means of syringe, bomb, liquid, or tank/cylinder adds.
• Performed shipping duties; which included painting and stenciling cylinders, securing
values and caps, attaching correct labels pertaining to
hazardous/nonhazardous/flammable/nonflammable/U.N. #/Class Code labels; as
well as printing out/attaching correct MSDS’s for each cylinder/blend.
• Performed backup duties to the Administrative Assistant; such as filing, scanning,
invoicing and creating Bill of Ladings for shipments.
Shipping Coordinator / Supervisor
Loadmaster Derrick & Equipment, Lafayette, LA
• Oversaw all shipments/material leaving the facility.
February 2016 –
November 2016
August 2014 – July
2015
January 2014 – May
2014

2. • Responsible for preparing and finalizing all paperwork/documents pertaining to
shipment of material.
• Gathered, inventoried, packaged and photographed material pertaining to each
shipment.
• Handled and scheduled all trucking/transportation in regards to transporting/picking
up material to/from vendors or customers, issued PO’s for said transport, obtained
transportation quotes, handled daily logs of shipments, prepared and handled all
shipping schedules as to the preference and time frame of customers request/needs.
• Coordinated with customer regarding time management for receiving shipments.
• Worked in the toolroom; in regards to handling/signing out tools to employees,
ordering of tools and overseeing inventory.
Restaurant/Bar Manager, Office Manager
College Station (formally known as Hard Rack Grill & Billiards), Toucan’s Bar & Grill,
Lake Charles, LA
• Managed daily and nightly operations.
• Handled extensive billing, check writing, accounts payable and receivable.
• Prepared monthly spreadsheets of gross and net income.
• Responsible for inventory and ordering of all venues’ needs.
• Hired, scheduled and supervised servers; trained servers in customer relations and
cashiering.
Bar/Operations Supervisor, Bartender
Golden Enterprises, Westlake, LA & Vinton, LA
• Handled day to day operations and responsibilities.
• Assisted GM and Management team in employee and service relations.
• Trained, oversaw and supervised service employees and assisted in service needs.
• Balanced and oversaw nightly financials.
• Responsible for inventory and ordering of all venues’ needs.
• Prepared and presented monthly spreadsheets of all inventory and ordering costs in
relation to each venue’s gross and net income.
Aug. 2012 – January
2014
July 2005 – January
2012
Sept.
2006 – Dec. 2011
Administrator, Certified Professional Collector, Breath Alcohol Technician (Full
time to Part time)
Emergency Drug Testing, Lake Charles, LA
• Handled drug and alcohol collections in office and onsite locations.
• Oversaw and supervised collectors; trained new employees.
• Handled accounts payable and receivable, inventory, and marketing.
• Conducted various office duties such as, answered multi-line phones, filed and ran
errands.
Paralegal, Legal/Personal Assistant, Office Manager
The Nickel Law Firm, Lake Charles, LA
• Assisted attorney with depositions.
• Researched client documents, prepared and filed court documents.
• Handled all accounts payable and receivables, including payroll.
July 2004 – March
2006;
Sept. 2000 – Feb.
2003
July 2004 – August
2006

3. • In-charge of and responsible for any/all banking and financial needs.
• Created spreadsheets of client information
Customer Service Rep, Deposit Account Clerk, Call Center Coordinator
First Federal Bank of LA, Lake Charles, LA
• Assisted customers in resolving account issues.
• Handled NSF and Charge-off accounts.
• Created and updated Call Center manuals; created procedures for Call Center Reps
and trained them properly; created reports on Avaya phone system.
• Oversaw e-Calls (Call Tracker) and created reports on E-view (Bank System).
May 2003 – July
2004
Education Undergraduate studies in Chemical Engineering; Business
Management, Marketing & Accounting with a minor in
Math
McNeese State University, Lake Charles, LA
1997 - 1999
2002 - 2005
Skills &
Knowledge
• Proficient in Microsoft Office: Word, Excel, Access, Outlook, Publisher and
PowerPoint.
• Accounting software knowledge: Peachtree, QuickBooks, Global Shop Systems and
PCLaw.
• Skilled in Word Perfect, Lotus Notes, Blue Beam and Lathem Timeclock; lightly
skilled in AutoCad and Photoshop.
• Type 60+ wpm; 10-key skilled and capable of handling multi-line phone systems
(Proficient in Avaya).
• Knowledgeable with all jobsite/construction, office, restaurant and retail equipment.
• TWIC Card
Salary Negotiable
References Available upon Request.