1. CURRICULUM VITAE
Surname : Elms
Fore Names : Tansy Elise Lavinia
Date of Birth : 25 May 1977
Sex : Female
Marital Status : Single
Nationality : South African
National Identification Number : 770525 1325 087
Contact Details : 90 Albatross Road, Fourways, 2191
Contact Number : 060 625 3104
CAREER OBJECTIVES
To work in a dynamic organization where teamwork, personal and professional growth are
encouraged.
SCHOOLS ATTENDED
Jameson High School (1990 – 1993)
‘O’ Level
Geography B
Science C
English Language B
English Literature B
Fashion & Fabrics B
Biology C
PITMANS SECRETARIAL COURSE (1994)
Typing Advanced
Word Processing Practical & Elementary
Business English Intermediate
Arithmetic Intermediate
COMPUTER LITERACY
Windows ’95, ’98, 2000, 2010, XP, Vista, Visio 2010
Email, Internet, CDW, Oracle, Thusano, SAP, Amadeus
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
T-Systems South Africa
January 2013 – July 2014
Executive Assistant: Vice President Human Resources
Management Support (Sales – Eskom)

2. • Supporting function
• Diary Management
• Office Management
• Wellness Day co-ordination
• Coordinate all business related meetings
• Ensure accurate recordkeeping
• Research, design and development of presentations
• Budget and cost control
• General office administration, eg typing, filing, documentation control.
• Screening telephone calls, enquiries and requests, and handling them when appropriate;
• Dealing with incoming email, and corresponding on behalf of the manager when
required;
• Liaising with clients, suppliers and other staff;
• Follow up on issues and provide feedback to both the manager, clients and staff;
• Arranging travel and accommodation and, occasionally, travelling with the manager to
take notes or dictation at meetings or to provide general assistance during
presentations.
• Diary management, meeting management and liaising with staff when needed.
Reason for leaving : Retrenchment
Temporary basis as a Secretary in various departments, IDC, Sandton
August – December 2012
National Health Laboratory Services (NHLS)
January 2010 – July 2012
Personal Assistant to Business Unit Manager (SEKWE)
• Typing and filing all correspondence
• Business Manager’s diary management. Screening all calls and visitors
• Hotel, travel and co-ordinating monthly Laboratory Managers’ meetings
• Taking minutes for the meeting, typing and distribution of the minutes
• Opening and distribution of all incoming mail
• Compiling Business Manager’s monthly report to be submitted to Regional Executive
• Liasing with procurement on a daily basis for ordering, receipting on Oracle
• Collection & compiling of stats/data from Oracle & CDW on monthly, quarterly & bi-
annual basis to create reports on progress of all the labs to be submitted to Business
Unit Manager according to the various deadlines, then consolidating and submitting to
Regional Executive
• Liasing between labs and suppliers to process rental invoices
• Creating, maintaining worksheets for monthly instrument rentals, equipment hire and
various services provided as per contracts with suppliers
• Assisting Business Unit Manager with annual budgets & Capex

3. • Maintaining asset register eg applying for new assets, receiving and recording of new
assets, removing/transferring of assets
• Consolidating labs overtime and submitting to Payroll according to deadlines and
attending to any queries.
• Liasing with HR with regards to appointment requests both internal & external staff and
contract workers
• Liasing with QA with assisting the labs to achieve accreditation
Reason for leaving : Personal
Petrachem (Pty) Ltd
February 2009 – October 2009
Office Manager
• Typing and filing of correspondence
• Import & exports documentation and procedures
• Invoicing & receipting
• General office administration
Reason for leaving : Company closed
Abacus Financial Services
November 2007 – September 2008 (contract)
Personal Assistant to Operations Director & Risk Director
• Typing and filing all correspondence for Operations and Risk Director
• Co-ordinating monthly Exco meetings
o Preparing board pack, typing and distribution
o Liasing with Exco members
• Diary management. Screening all call and visitors
• Making sure that the offices are well maintained at all times and Receptionist is keeping
the reception area neat and tidy
• Attending to all repairs/maintenance
• Laising with recruitment agencies for new staff. Typing up of all new staff contracts
• Maintaining and creating all staff personnel files. Keeping track of leave records,
disciplinary hearings, warnings etc
• Typing up of transfer sheets for monthly salaries and liasing with the banks
• Assisting Operations Director with drawing up and implementing systems to assist the
Administration department run more efficiently
• Typing up of manuals for ‘in-house’ staff training
• Making sure that all member application forms for loans are NCA compliant (all the
relevant documents are in the files and filed correctly)
• Making sure all payments made correspond to bank statement monthly. Then sending
the bank reconciliation to Accountant for auditing purposes. Assisting Operations
Director and Accountant with audit
• Making sure that documents and files were ready for Due Diligence with ABSA

4. • Ordering of all stationery, furniture and consumables
• Co-ordinating all company function, both for staff and customers
• Taking down, typing and distribution of minutes for all meetings held
Reason for leaving : Contract
Mike Appel Organisation
January 2004 – Aug 2007
Personal Assistant to Chief Executive Officer
• Typing and filing of all correspondence for CEO, Financial Director and all Head Office
Managers
• Co-ordinating Board meetings
o Liasing with Board members to co-ordinate and arrange Board meetings.
o Making sure that the relevant Board packs are typed up, put together and distributed
to Board members timeously
o Making sure that refreshments are ordered, delivered and laid out.
o Hotel, travel and luncheon bookings for the Board members during their stay for the
meeting
• Co-ordinating monthly Head Office management meetings
o Taking minutes for the meeting, typing and distribution of the minutes
• Co-ordination of Branch Managers’ meeting at Head office
o Travel and hotel bookings for the various Branch Managers from out of town
o Typing and timeous distribution of minutes
o Ordering of refreshments for meeting
• All travel arrangements for the Group, both international and regional
• Diary management for CEO
• Screening of all CEO’s calls and visitors
• Handling any problems/queries with Branch Managers in absence of CEO
• Controlling of Driver and Messenger’s schedule
• Making sure that offices were cleaned and well maintained
• Attending to any repairs/maintenance at Head Office
• Ordering and distribution of stationery, furniture, uniforms for all branches nationwide.
Liasing with Central Stores to make sure the relevant branches received the correct
orders
• Working hand-in-hand with Group IT Manager to keep stock of all consumables,
software and hardware for the Group
• Co-ordinating and arranging all Group functions eg Golf Days, Christmas parties,
customer events, staff parties
• Making sure that all offices and front door have a spare copy and keeping these under
lock and key at all times
• Assisting with switchboard when receptionist on lunch or leave
• Liasing with international/regional suppliers

5. • Basic HR functions eg contracts for new staff, recruitment, leave records, references
before a HR Department was established
• Assisting CEO and Financial Director with bi-annual profit sharing for Branch Managers
• Assisting Financial Director with maintenance of the various properties owned by the
Group, both residential and business. Making sure the rentals were paid and leases
were updated
• Assisting Financial Manager in liasing with the banks to acquire foreign currency for
purchasing spares/goods
Reason for leaving : Relocation to South Africa
M-Web Zimbabwe
April 2002 – December 2003
Reception (contract), promotion to Personal Assistant to General Manager
(Permanent)
• Manning of large Switchboard
• Making sure Reception area is neat and tidy at all times
• Assisting all ‘walk-in’ customer queries at Helpdesk
• Creating of new email and internet accounts on IBS system
• Typing of all correspondence and filing for General Manager and Financial Manager
• Maintenance of all staff personnel files for Head Office and branches. Keeping track of
leave days, sick leave
• Assisting Financial Manager with monthly salaries for Head Office and branches
• Contracts for new staff members
• Liasing with recruitment agencies and assisting with staff recruitment
• Control of driver and messenger’s schedules
• Co-ordinating all staff functions, ‘in-house’ training and outside events for customers
• Taking minutes during monthly management meeting. Typing and timeous distribution of
the minutes to the relevant parties
• Travel and hotel arrangements for General Manager and Branch Managers
• General Manager and Financial Manager’s diary management
• Ordering of stationery and consumables for Head Office and branches
• Control of overnight bag to and from branches
• Opening and distribution of all incoming mail
Reason for leaving : To further career goals
Various contract work from 1995 to 2002 as a Secretary and Receptionist.

6. REFEREES
Davida Ngozwana
T-Systems South Africa
Human Resources
+27 82 776 0878
Nimrod Motlonye
National Health Laboratory Services
Business Unit Manager (SEKWE)
+27 11 489 9154 / +27 82 807 2560/2650

7. REFEREES
Davida Ngozwana
T-Systems South Africa
Human Resources
+27 82 776 0878
Nimrod Motlonye
National Health Laboratory Services
Business Unit Manager (SEKWE)
+27 11 489 9154 / +27 82 807 2560/2650