Laquisha Boone
Forest,MS
Summary
Professional with strong background in executive support, adept at managing complex schedules, coordinating meetings, and handling confidential information. Highly skilled in communication, organization, and problem-solving, ensuring seamless office operations. Focused on team collaboration and achieving results, adapting flexibly to changing needs and priorities. Dependable and resourceful, consistently delivering high-quality outcomes.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Executive Assistant
University Mississippi Medical Center
04.2024 - Current
- Handles confidential and sensitive information with discretion and tact.
- Manage executive calendars, scheduling meetings and appointments and coordinating travel arrangements to optimize time.
- Maintain confidentiality with sensitive documents, ensuring proper storage and distribution as needed.
- Process travel expenses and reimbursements for executive team and senior management group.
- Serve as a liaison between departments to facilitate effective communication throughout the company.
- Organize and coordinate conferences and monthly meetings.
- Manage office inventory, tracking supplies and placing orders to ensure smooth daily operations.
- Answer high volume of phone calls and email inquiries.
- Provide professional administrative support during board meetings, including agenda preparation and minute-taking duties.
- Prepare and edit presentations on behalf of executives for both internal meetings and external conferences.
- Collaborate on special projects to improve overall business operations within the organization efficiently.
- Handle all of DIS Internal and External Communications and Distribute them to the appropriate Departments
- Use multiple communications to inform UMMC's Nurse and Providers of Epic Charting Updates and Changes
- Prepare and Distribute Communications to UMMC's entire or the appropriate party to inform users of unexpected or expected downtime for different applications
- Manage the Project Roadmap Calendar for DIS's Project Management Team
- Coordinate all of DIS Town Hall Events and Conference Events
- File paperwork and organized computer-based information.
- Manage mail and both incoming and outgoing correspondence, mail, email and faxes.
- Write reports, executive summaries and newsletters.
Program Auditor
Mississippi Department of Human Services
01.2024 - Current
- Applied professional judgment in gathering and evaluating evidence for thorough analysis.
- Completed risk-based audits of key business processes to keep internal controls operating effectively.
- Composed clear and concise audit findings to deliver comprehensive audit reports.
- Maintained confidentiality of company information obtained in audit assignments.
- Monitored transactions for errors and over-payments to produce real-time reporting.
- Conducted audits on internal controls and developed reports on findings.
- Managed completion of planned audits, reviewed records, and procedures for accuracy to accomplish objectives and appraised policies and plans under audit review.
Executive Assistant to the Leadership Team
The Specialty Company
06.2023 - 10.2023
- Served as the Executive Assistant to the VP of Client Strategy, CEO of TSC, VP of Sales, VP of Warehouse Operations, VP of Operation and Strategy, and the Senior Director of Operations
- Managed all the leadership team’s calendar, distributed mail, deposited checks and entered them into the check data system in teams
- Printed checks through Quick Books and Facilis and mailed them every week
- Oversaw the ordering of the supplies that were used within the office and scheduled maintenance work for the office
- Helped with the onboarding process of new employees, such as initiating background checks and personality tests
- Put together welcome gifts for the new employees
- Scheduled travel for those throughout the company as needed
- Coordinated company events
- Maintained the employee gifts records and sent the gifts monthly for employee birthdays
- Created and emailed the company’s newsletter every month
- Created reservations for the leadership team events
- Set up monthly meetings for the team each Tuesday
- Recorded minutes during the meetings as well creating a system to keep the leadership team on track with each of their action items.
Executive Assistant to VP of Mission Integration and VP of Senior Services
St. Dominic Hospital
09.2022 - 05.2023
- Served as the Executive Assistant to the VP of Mission Integration and the VP of Senior Services
- Maintained both of their calendars, ran the board meetings, ordered catering, took minutes, scheduled travel, submitted expense reports, coordinated events, designed flyers, ordered supplies, answered phones, etc
- Prepared all of the Board Meeting Documents for the Mission Integration Committee Meeting that is run by Sister Karina Dickey, VP of Mission Integration into our BoardVantage System so that it is available to the Board Members of the Mission Integration Committee
- Prepared for Sister Karina’s Ethics Committee, Mission Council Committee, and her Franciscan Service Award Committee
- Facilitated and directed the monthly Franciscan Service Award events
- Performed similar meeting duties for Lisa Wilburn who is the President of St. Catherine’s Village
- Created agendas for the meetings, combined leader’s reports to create one document and uploaded it into our BoardVantage System for each meeting
- Created presentation slides for the VP of Mission Integration and the VP of Senior Services
- Ordered office supplies as needed for the VP of Mission Integration and the VP of Senior Services
- Facilitated contracts between vendors for both VPs.
Executive Administrative Assistant to CMO
St. Dominic Hospital
06.2022 - 05.2023
- Served as the Executive Administrative Assistant to Dr. Dyess who is the Chief Medical Officer at St. Dominic's Hospital
- Assisted with calendar scheduling, creating files when needed
- Entered and submitted timesheets for Dr. Dyess direct reports in the St. Dominic Kronos System
- Kept track of all PTO, ETO, and EIT
- Submitted expense reports for reimbursements
- Submitted procurement card receipts for reconciliation in our Oracle System
- Registered Dr. Dyess for traveling events
- Completed her registration for conferences, secured her hotel room, and booked any dinner reservations
- Completed all of Dr. Dyess employee reimbursements including her travel, hotel rooms, registration fees, and meals
- Kept track of all her appointments and booked her for events upon request and as necessary
- Made sure that her calendar is up to date and not overbooked
- Assisted as needed with personal errands
- Maintained databases for the Payroll Data as well as Meeting Minute Data
- Facilitated contracts for vendors as requested by Dr. Dyess.
Administrative Assistant to Pastoral Care and VP of Mission Integration
St. Dominic Hospital
09.2021 - 05.2023
- Assisted the Pastoral Care team with copies, scanning in reports, creating events, answering the phone, coordinating greeter schedules, typing letters, ordering supplies
- Used the Epic System for Pastoral Care to chart the reports that the greeters bring back to the office after visiting patients
- Assisted the VP of Mission Integration with calendar scheduling, ordering supplies, creating historical data books, answering phone calls, taking minutes for the meetings, sharing the information via Zoom during the meetings
- Created expense reports for the VP of Mission integration
- Organized the Franciscan Service Award Event
- Created Data logs for past participants
- Set up meetings for the VP of Mission Integration
- Created monthly prayer calendar for the Pastoral Care Team.
- Designed and updated the Pastoral Care monthly bulletin board
- Coordinated all of the Pastoral Care Events and Spiritual Services
Administrative Assistant
Mississippi Oil and Gas Board
05.2019 - 09.2021
- Made copies, scanning in reports, answering the phone, assisting customers with any daily needs of any historical well data that they are trying to obtain
- Entered oil, gas, and water production numbers into a database system consisting of over 3500 different well systems and locations
- Made sure customers are billed appropriately.
Office Assistant
Mississippi State University- Geosciences
08.2014 - 06.2018
- Answered the phone daily, made copies, scanned in documents, entered data, sorted mail daily, created documents.
- Maintained confidentiality in handling sensitive information while performing administrative tasks.
- Enhanced office efficiency by managing schedules, organizing files, and maintaining a clean workspace.
- Expedited document processing with accurate data entry and timely filing.
Education
MBA - Business Administration
Belhaven University
Jackson, MS04-2024
Bachelor of Administration - Business Administration
MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY
Starkville, MS12.2018
Skills
- Project Management
- Communication Drafting
- Letter Drafting
- Kronos Time Keeping
Certification
- Notary Public - Mississippi Secretary of State (Commission Expires June 1, 2027.
Timeline
Executive Assistant
University Mississippi Medical Center
04.2024 - Current
Program Auditor
Mississippi Department of Human Services
01.2024 - Current
Executive Assistant to the Leadership Team
The Specialty Company
06.2023 - 10.2023
Executive Assistant to VP of Mission Integration and VP of Senior Services
St. Dominic Hospital
09.2022 - 05.2023
Executive Administrative Assistant to CMO
St. Dominic Hospital
06.2022 - 05.2023
Administrative Assistant to Pastoral Care and VP of Mission Integration
St. Dominic Hospital
09.2021 - 05.2023
Administrative Assistant
Mississippi Oil and Gas Board
05.2019 - 09.2021
Office Assistant
Mississippi State University- Geosciences
08.2014 - 06.2018
MBA - Business Administration
Belhaven University
Bachelor of Administration - Business Administration
MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY
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