Alumni UC Santa Barbara
San Francisco Bay Area
- Current
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- Office Assistant/Customer Service at Sibby's Cupcakery
- Program Coordinator & Founder at "Sell Yourself! - A Guide to the Post-College Job Search"
- Past
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- Administrative Assistant at Esther Gokhale Wellness Center
- Administrative/Program Assistant at Chicano Studies Institute, University of California
- Office Assistant at ClearSight Networks
- Education
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- University of California, Santa Barbara
- University of California, Santa Barbara
- Mission San Jose High School
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Peter Cheng’s Summary
Professional experience in all things administrative. Quick study in various software platforms, and highly interested in bringing new technology to improve efficiency in workflows. Also a writer and editor for individual career development targeted to new graduates. Highly experienced in building lasting, healthy rapports with individuals with a background in creative customer service.
Goals: Utilize creative and professional skill set to develop individuals towards best potentials, desire to build business networks for new graduates and provide pertinent career assistance for undergraduate and graduate students.
Strong desire to develop skills related to human resources administration, people operations, as well as management of administrative environments in a close-knit community.
Peter Cheng’s Specialties:
Resume, cover letter, and objective writing, editing, focus on teaching individuals. Detail-oriented, accurate, creative abilities including choreography, pedagogy, creative dance, modern and ballet technique. Intelligent and curious individual with a diverse background.
Peter Cheng’s Experience
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Office Assistant/Customer Service
Sibby's Cupcakery
(Food Production industry)
June 2009 — Present (8 months)
Sibby's Cupcakery opened in 2004. This boutique cupcake bakery focuses on providing completely customized cupcakes for all occasions not limited to company events, birthdays, baby showers, weddings, bridal showers and 'just because'. Orders by phone, email or by appointment only - delivery from Sunnyvale - San Francisco. (www.sibbyscupakery.com)
*Receiving orders by phone, email and in person, utilizing exceptional customer service in distributing key selling platforms to see sales through completion. Follow-through with clients to confirm customized designs, flavors and colors including resolving any issues regarding orders
*Daily audit, creation of schedule, cupcake count, forecasting of sales (daily, weekly, monthly), balancing petty cash, electronic backup of QB financials, weekly open invoices auditing and resolving outstanding payments
*General bookkeeping and accounting, posting of transactions to general ledger, documentation of invoice revisions, inputting of financial transactions, payments and credits into quickbooks system
*HR duties including sorting through applicants and providing feedback of prospective candidates with owner and managers, conducting interviews, interview and orientation scheduling, reference checks, directing candidates to appropriate methods of submitting applications, development of ATS procedures -
Program Coordinator & Founder
"Sell Yourself! - A Guide to the Post-College Job Search"
(Writing and Editing industry)
March 2008 — Present (1 year 11 months)
The "SY Career Consulting" series, an 'in your inbox' program, was created from the perspective of the Program Director in his year- long job search before and after completing his undergraduate degree. Intended as advice only, this consulting service provides assistance free of charge for recent graduates who have a general interest in increasing their knowledge base in the job search market. Targeted towards undergraduates preparing for the post-college job market, the hope is to open the minds and develop the abilities of individuals and towards best potentials to contribute positively in the work world.
skype: cheeriosforthought
email: gethired4good@gmail.com
*Assisting new graduates in improving overall personal marketing efforts, interview skills, self-presentation, follow up abilities, professional writing skills, targeting written materials in the form of cover letters, resumes, email compositions
*Providing excellent, thorough and detail-oriented resume help to new graduates in finance, economics, mathematics, sciences, arts and humanities fields, among others
*In person, online and phone support for items relating to pre and post-interview preparation, distribution of materials intended for a niche audience, on-call consultations by appointment, increasing and developing new graduate techniques for obtaining offers in chosen fields
*Authority writer/alumni contributor for the UC Santa Barbara Daily Nexus on career search, interview skills, etc. which has a readership of approx. 5,000+ undergraduates, graduates and faculty/staff
http://www.dailynexus.com/article.php?a=19522
http://www.dailynexus.com/article.php?a=19627
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Administrative Assistant
Esther Gokhale Wellness Center
(Health, Wellness and Fitness industry)
November 2008 — April 2009 (6 months)
EG Wellness Center is a small fee-based medical practice that provides posture re-education courses, extended services in dance, yoga, flexibility, acupuncture with the goal to alleviate high incidences of back pain in the US (www.egwellness.com)
*Responsible for assisting Business Operations Manager in accounting, record keeping, filing and aspects of billing/accounts receivables, bi-weekly processing of time keeping for employee payroll in Quickbooks Pro 2008, weekly backups of financial records, occasional HR responsibilities
*Worked with detail in elements of electronic and paper calendering for Founder, teachers, students and acupuncturist for classes, services and all special events/presentations
*Highly detailed in all aspects of data entry of clientele into electronic Customer Relationship Management (CRM) database, partially managed flow of students/patients in system for various groupings, categories and events. Also registered all new patients and tracking of current/old patients in system -
Administrative/Program Assistant
Chicano Studies Institute, University of California
(Education Management industry)
January 2006 — June 2008 (2 years 6 months)
UCSB Chicano Studies Institute (formerly Center for Chicano Studies) is a research institute that serves areas of Chicana/o studies on campus. Includes annual publication Ventana Abierta with wide audience, publishing works of chicana/o artists, writers, poets highlighting latina/o experience in America (www.research.ucsb.edu/ccs/)
*Concurrent with undergraduate studies at UCSB, assisted in two research projects, Teatro Tour and Arte (Arts Bridge) with the Program Coordinator and center staff by acting as liaison between middle schools, high schools, non-profit organizations and CCS via email and phone
*Facilitated coordinator in drafting an end of the year survey, appreciation letters, compiled data from surveys and all paperwork into end of year report
*Responsible for processing financial entities for Ventana Abierta publication via FileMaker Pro, MS Word, Excel including check deposits, data entry, filing, mailing, and organizing outgoing materials for current and prospective clients -
Office Assistant
ClearSight Networks
(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)
October 2007 — December 2007 (3 months)
ClearSight Networks HQ in Fremont, CA & Beijing, China provides software and hardware for network analysis, NTM platform allows capture of network traffic, clear diagnosis, indexing, archiving including easy to use interface, set-up and deployment for end user (www.clearsightnet.com)
Admin Assisting
*Office support of CEO, high-level executives, developers, and engineers in a small, fast-paced start up tech environment
*Editing confidential Microsoft Excel spreadsheets, Microsoft Power Point presentations, Microsoft Word documents, and graphic editing of images in documents
QA Test Engineering (Blackbox Only)
*Assisted QA engineers and QA manager in executing testing of hardware and software upon arrival to company and prior to shipment to US and international customers
*Assisted engineers in making testing procedures time efficient without compromising required examination, updated testing procedures and results according to final results
*Composed test manual for training future technicians in executing acceptance tests for incoming products
Peter Cheng’s Education
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University of California, Santa Barbara
BFA , Dance , 2004 — 2008
GPA 3.79
- Activities and Societies:
- UCSB Dance Department, Santa Barbara Dance Alliance, Research/Coursework focused in interdisciplinary dance activities: technique, choreography, pedagogy, performance, dance analysis, writing for visual arts.
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University of California, Santa Barbara
Minor , Education and Applied Psychology - Educational Studies , 2004 — 2008
- Activities and Societies:
- Research/Coursework focused in Educational Studies: health education, education in diverse socioeconomic groups, practicum in classroom observation, applied psychology.
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Mission San Jose High School
HS Diploma , General Education , 2000 — 2004
GPA 3.76
- Activities and Societies:
- MSJ Band, MSJ Colorguard, Santa Clara Vanguard Drum & Bugle Corps
Additional Information
Peter Cheng’s Websites:
Peter Cheng’s Groups:
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UCSB Alumni Association
Peter Cheng’s Honors:
UCSB - Vice Chancellor's Award for Scholarship, Leadership, and Citizenship (6/2008)
UCSB - Dean’s Honors (2006-2008)
National Society of Collegiate Scholars (4/2005)
Peter Cheng’s Contact Settings
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- career opportunities
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- reference requests
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