Personal Information

• I have been unemployed, although I have been actively looking for a job, because I am not European.  I have applied for the Spanish nationality but I am awaiting a response.  I have been told it could take as long as 2 to 3 years to obtain.
• My illness was cancer and I suffered some serious side effects that precluded the doctor from officially releasing me until the 5 year mark had passed.  I am now officially 7 years cancer free.
• At the US Postal Service, a distribution supervisor works at a sorting facility.  He/She is in charge of at least 20 employees on any given night.  A sorting facility sorts an average of 2 million pieces of mail and packages daily both by automation and manually.  A supervisor must be able to handle both sections as well as the dispatching of the trucks at the end of the shift in order for the mail to go to the different distribution points around the country. This requires flexibility and ingenuity in order to get all the mail out in an 8 hour day.  In addition, a supervisor must keep all employee schedules and discipline.  This job requires a large amount of administrative duties which require additional hours of work on the daily basis.
• At the Veterans Administration the job was purchasing equipment for disabled veterans of the military.  It required extensive research about the equipment, contracting of services from a diverse group of companies, extensive administrative skills and good customer relations skills.  This job also required warehousing abilities for on-hand stock of small items such as crutches for example.  I was also in charge of the re-stock order which was the revision of the buy order generated by the system and adjustment of such order as necessary.  In my case, I was the only multilingual employee which required me to translate and interpret on many occasions including sending multilingual correspondence to a number of customers.  And finally, I performed all administrative duties for the chief of the service when his administrative assistant was not available or on vacation.
• The US Marine Corps is a branch of the American military.  As an aviation supply specialist, I was in charge of a specific section of inventory with items totaling around $5 million.  This job is a warehousing and distribution job.  There are extensive inventories on the monthly basis and small weekly inventories. I was a soldier working a support position for our aviation squadrons.  We provided support to the technical staff repairing the aircraft both planes and helicopters.  For a limited time during my years of service, I also served as the personal assistant or secretary to the colonel of the squadron.  In civilian terms, this was an executive secretary position.  My years as a Marine instilled in me a deep organizational skill that I love. It is a job that taught me respect for the chain of command and gave me a strong work ethic.
• My university degree took a long time to obtain because of my military service, several deaths in the family and my illness.  However, I did finish and took advantage and obtain two specialties at the same time.  My degree says Business Administration but with two subsets; Business Administration and International Business.
• My mother tongues are both English and Spanish.  I grew up in Spain until my mother decided to move to the USA in 1980 when I was 11.  From that year until I came back to Spain in 2008 I lived with English every day thus becoming a mother tongue for me.  My mother only allowed Spanish in the house thus allowing me to keep my original spoken language since I was born.  This is why I say that I have two mother tongues.  I speak, read and write both languages at the native level.
• My third language is German.  My first years of school were spent in a German school in Donostia, Spain.  I moved to the USA bilingual Spanish-German.  I am confident that with some intensive classes and with living in Germany or Austria, I will recover that German that I knew very quickly.  Right now I can defend myself in a basic conversation and can understand hearing and reading more than what I can speak.
• What about night work?  My last job was working what Americans call the graveyard shift.  This is working the hours of 22:00 - 07:00.  I have no problem working those hours or any other unusual shift.  
• What about travel?  I welcome a job with extensive travel.
• If you require further information, please write to beadzdq@yahoo.es.