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Rita Cartwright has been owner and sole proprietor of RJ's Word Processing Services since 2002. She is a
professional administrative expert offering virtual assistant services. She has over
30 years of word processing and administrative support experience.
After several years in the administrative assistance
and word processing fields, Rita went back to school and received a Bachelor of Science degree in Marketing and a
minor in Spanish, with honors, from Arizona State University in May 1998. She also completed online Website
Development courses through MiraCosta College located in Oceanside, California.
In October 2002, Rita decided to combine her administrative
skills with her business education to create her own company offering virtual assistant services.
Rita’s experience as an entrepreneur gives her valuable insight into the type of assistance her clients need
in order to move their businesses forward. Her numerous years of word processing experience has
provided her with advanced level of skills needed to create and format various business-style documents and
business-style correspondences. In addition, her online experience
has giving her superior skills in Internet marketing.
Today
her company is still growing with new clients, as well as repeat customers. In order to
provide her clients with quality service, Rita attends SBA Business Development workshops,
networks with fellow Virtual Assistants, and is a member of
Virtual Assistant Networking Association (VANA).
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Isabelle grew up on Long Island, New York and started working at
age 17 to earn money for her mother and sisters, finishing high school at night. Her first job was a
secretary for eight project engineers at Chemical Construction Company in Manhattan. A few years later,
Isabelle began a career in advertising at the Helitzer, Waring & Wayne, Inc. agency. In her
5+ years there, she worked her way up from senior secretary to junior media buyer, working on diverse accounts
such as Spalding Sporting Goods, American Doll & Toy Company and Tensor Lighting. After a
10-year hiatus to raise her children, Isabelle returned to the workforce as a part-time administrative
assistant in the Psychology Department at S.U.N.Y., Stony Brook. Four years later, she moved to
Northville Industries, Inc. as senior administrative assistant to the Vice President of Terminal
Administration. At Northville, she worked with the oil facilities and the legal department
tracking easements and rights-of-way; and served as liaison with the EDP/MIS department to design and
implement company software requirements. When the company downsized, Isabelle immediately secured
a position at CMP Media, a high-tech publishing company (now known as United Business Media LLC).
During Isabelle’s 10 years at UBM, she held three high profile positions: in the Electronic
Department, she was Executive Assistant to the CIO, and in the corporate headquarters, she was
Communications Administrator to the Senior V.P. of Communications. At UBM, Isabelle utilized
ACT! Database for the sales staff, and worked closely with the CEO, COO and CFO in preparing their
PowerPoint presentations. Isabelle was also responsible for the weekly internal newsletter and
daily email to top management covering technology news. Retired since 2007, Isabelle
volunteers at a senior center and local cat shelter and works in the Jericho library. She
also enjoys reading, knitting blankets for charitable causes and traveling to Atlantic City to
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For nearly 25 years, Vanessa worked in the administrative/clerical field working with state and federal agencies;
performing various administrative and secretarial duties to include bookkeeping, payroll, customer service and sales.
She started JADAA Business Support Services, a home-based business, in 1999. Although she specializes in
bookkeeping, payroll services and tax preparations, she also provides other administrative and business services.
Vanessa started out by offering business services to individuals and local businesses in the Austin Area, but later expanded throughout the United States. In spite of the many challenges,
she found herself looking for new ways to combine her administrative skills and business savvy along with
her desire to help individuals and companies find more time in their businesses and in their lives.
Vanessa love the energy and excitement she gets from helping others meet their business needs, and
she is dedicated to providing the best service that ensures the customer is always satisfied.
Vanessa is a native Texan; however, because her father was in the Army, she traveled quite a bit throughout
her childhood. In 1980, she met and married her husband of 28 years. He was also in the military; so,
her travels continued until his retirement in 1989. Many of those years were spent in Germany.
They have five children; they are all grown now with the youngest (twins) in their junior year in college. After
her husband retired in July 1998, they moved back to Texas and they brought a home in Pflugerville, Texas.
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Yvone is the owner of M.Y. Marketing & Design, which is a
virtual marketing studio, providing marketing, advertising, web design, graphic design, database creation and
maintenance, event planning and administrative support services for a variety of clients. She has over 10 years
of experience in marketing, advertising and sales-related fields. Some of her clients include restaurants,
chiropractors, Mary Kay directors and wireless phone companies, just to name a few. She has been assisting
these companies in a virtual capacity for the last two years. Yvone is a self-taught web designer and
learned how to write the actual HTML code back in the day before there were programs that did all the hard
work for you! Now she use a combination of Adobe Photoshop and Dreamweaver to design websites and is
currently learning Flash design. For the last 3 years, in addition to her virtual marketing
work, Yvone has worked as an Event Planner for a restaurant in Pittsburgh. She has coordinated all types
and styles of events, including weddings, rehearsal dinners, showers, engagement parties, holiday parties,
business meetings, luncheons, birthdays, anniversaries, as well as restaurant events such as wine dinners,
special holiday events for Valentine’s Day, New Year’s Eve, Mother’s Day, etc., as
well as bar events such as Disco Night and 80’s Night. She is currently enrolled in several
courses to continue her education in E-Marketing, Event Planning and Web Design. Yvone
participates in numerous virtual assistant forums and networking and industry groups to stay up to
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