1. Rom Watson
424.354.1940
rom@romwatson.com
www.linkedin.com/in/romwatson
Los Angeles, CA
ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT
Dependable, adaptable and trustworthy administrative assistant with extensive
experience in supporting senior executives. Strengths include writing, proofreading,
event coordination and office management skills. Known for being well organized,
highly productive, open to input, approachable and helpful.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
GE CAPITAL REAL ESTATE: ARDEN REALTY, Inc., Los Angeles, CA 2005 - 2015
Commerical Real Estate
Administrative Assistant
Supported the COO, plus office management duties such as using Nexus to create
purchase orders and process invoices, securing parking access, validation tickets,
elevator access, photo ID badges, and coordinating volunteer events.
• Wrote and published the quarterly departmental newsletter, creating a delivery
system to share photographs and news, thereby supporting the employee
engagement initiative.
• Assisted HR department with on-boarding and off-boarding of new hires and temps.
• Shared experience and best practices when training two consecutive temporary
employees, resulting in a knowledgeable, dependable support staff.
• Served as the Iron Mountain gatekeeper, ensuring that essential information was
stored and retrieved in a timely manner and making it easier to access information.
• Coordinated travel arrangements and generated monthly expense reports.
Additional Relevant Experience
Assistant to composer Phil Springer 2004
Created spreadsheets to catalogue hundreds of CD’s, cassette tapes and DAT tapes.
Beverly Hills Theatre Guild 2001
Read and critiqued 40 plays in a two-month period for the Julie Harris Playwright Award
Competition.

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Information Management Services, Beverly Hills, CA 1983 - 2005
Library Service provider to smaller law firms and accountancy firms
Office Administrator
Maintained the day-to-day operations of the IMS office, including employee payroll,
corporate expenses, updating client records and invoicing clients.
Developed and implemented employee training programs. Wrote the user-friendly
training manual for Information Management Services, resulting in a document they
would not only read, but easily understand and apply daily to their job.
Conducted inventories and cost analyses of client libraries, giving them the
information they needed to make informed decisions.
Legal Librarian
Updated loose-leaf legal publications with current information as the laws changed.
Informed clients of library requirements, both in terms of materials and facilities.
Coordinated ordering of books and subscriptions from publishers and the return of
unwanted materials.
EDUCATION / TRAINING
Santa Monica College
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Passed 5 BOMI (Independent Institute for Property and Facility Management Education)
courses: The Design, Operation, and Maintenance of Building Systems, Part I & II;
Ethics is Good Business; Real Estate Finance; Environmental Health and Safety Issues
SKILL SETS
Typing speed: 60 wpm
Knowledgeable in both IBM and Macintosh operation systems, and in Microsoft Word,
Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, Nexus, Visio, Lotus Notes, Cisco WebEx Connect, Quicken
and WordPerfect