Darlene Sparks is seeking a new administrative assistant position. She has over 15 years of experience in clerical roles, including accounting and budgeting work for HISD. She is fluent in Spanish and has strong skills in tasks like preparing reports, maintaining budgets, and providing customer service. Her resume demonstrates experience processing payments, assisting with special projects, and offering administrative support to legal offices.

1. DARLENE A. SPARKS
Permanent Address:5222 Sandydale Ln. Houston,TX 77039 (832)647-9212 │Darlene@gmail.com
ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT
A resourceful and dependable assistant with a strong focus on customer service is seeking a new
challenge in the clerical setting. Recognized as a top-performing professional with a dynamic and
strategic ability to provide an extensive range of support from acting as an interface between
management and clients to conducting legal research. An enthusiastic learner and successfulmulti-
tasker who seeks to achieve company goals and objectives.
LANGUAGE – Fluent in Spanish (Read, Write and Speak)
HISD External Funding Titles I & II Account Representative Houston, TX 2015- Present
HISD External Funding Titles I & II Accounting Budgeting Clerk III Houston, TX 2012- 2015
HISD External Funding Titles I & II General Clerk III Houston, TX 2009- 2012
Budgeting
 Prepares,maintains, and verifies complex and comprehensive accounting logs/ledgers and
processes payments according to district policy and finance procedures.
 Researches and analyzes financial data and prepares complex reports. Completes state
mandated forms and filings.
 Reviews, processes,and monitors changes from original documents to final results.
 Provides analysis and information to a variety of internal and external customers.
 Assists in year-end close out activities including reviewing outstanding balances, closes
inactive accounts, and
 Schedule and prepare all travel (In-District & Out) arrangements for all supervisors and
managers.
 Maintain, monitor and manage all budgets in Special Revenue funds for departments and
campuses
 Assist and review all incoming shopping carts using Special Revenue funds
 Process any monetary reimbursements obtained for all supervisors and managers
 Process all Direct Pays for all contracted services provided to External Funding
department
 Assisted in editing support in the Title I, Part A handbook
 Prepared Title I & II Budget Summary Reports for Glenn Reed and Kenneth Huewitt
 Processed,allocated and explained in detail our reasoning for our annual budget via
upload templates to the Budgeting Department for External Funding funds (Title I & II
and General Funds)
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SummerSchool
 Processed payment for Summer School transportation and all crossing guards.
 Provided support in Summer School Handbook, trainings, website
 Assisted in all incoming inquiries regarding Summer School from campuses,school
office and parents & department managers
 Assisted in organizing managers schedule and ensuring that manager attended every
meeting & assisted in any project
 Assisted in creating schoolwide system to ensure Summer School program success
(Summer School Scheduling Survey)
 Trained campus personnel on how to utilize and complete the Summer School
Scheduling survey via 3 open labs
 Created the FAQs web page on the Summer School Sharepoint site and assisted with
other webpage
 Creating training material for all Summer School Department committee meetings, such
as agenda, presentation & sign-in sheets
 Assisted in editing campus parent notification that are mandated by the Title I, Part A
program
REICH & BINSTOCKLAW FIRM Legal Assistant Houston, TX 2008-2009
THE LAW OFFICE OF RICHARD J. PRESUTTI PC Legal Assistant Houston, TX 2006-2008
 Serve as the first level of response for all client inquiries due to my keen communication
skills

2.  Conduct client interviews in English and in Spanish for court cases
 Formulate interview documentation and prepare lawyer for each specific court case
 Ensure legal documents are processed timely and efficiently to be compliant with regulations
and deadlines
 Assist with preparing demand letters and plaintiff’s fact sheets
 Translate Spanish interviews into English
 Greet visitors and provide excellent customer service
 Register lawyers for conferences and manage all travel arrangements including transportation
and itinerary
 Schedule meetings and maintain attorney’s busy schedule
 Main contact for ordering office supplies and all incoming and outgoing mail
 Provide support for the other assistants when needed
 Awarded with an excellent track record of administrative and organizational skills
Fonville Middle School Receptionist Houston, TX 2003 – 2004
 Greeted and assisted any and all visitors with excellence customer service
 Assisted any and all incoming phone calls
 Processed enrollment and withdrawals of our students
 Coordinated and assisted support in monthly feeder patterns meeting
 Supported our Dean of Instruction during all disciplinary communication with parents or legal
guardians
 Supported our School Nurse with all communication regarding our students health issues
PROFESSIONAL SKILLS – OneSource (transfer, monitor, set-up new budget, etc.)Proficient in MS
Office Suite, Open Office Suite and Windows XP/Windows 13; Medi-Soft; SAP, SAP Travel, Chancery,
PeopleSoft, and E-train.
 Process Improvement  Professional Development  Team Coordination
 Organizational  Management  Record Management
 Strict Timeline
Adherence  Implementation/Execution  Trouble Shooting
 Detailed Documentation
EDUCATION
Houston Community College Certification in Medical Billing and Coding May 2002