George Waithira

GEORGE W. WAITHIRA Virtual Administrative Assistant/ Transcription Specialist. Location: Nairobi, Kenya. Looking for: Freelance/Remote work opportunity. Rate: $10-15/hr. Annual Salary: $20,000 to $40,000. PROFILE Are you looking for a reliable, open minded, diligent and detailed oriented professional to support your business needs? Here you go! Over the years I have worked in various capacities and roles requiring strict deadlines, confidentiality, data management, administrative abilities, files management and correspondence. EDUCATION Egerton University (Kenya) From 2008 To 2012 Bachelor’s Degree in Economics & Sociology. (Second Class Honors Upper division) Lynda.com From 2017 To 2018 Courses 1.Video and Audio Captioning/Subtitling. 2. General Transcription. WORK EXPERIENCE I enjoy working closely in a supportive role and I have an insatiable urge to learn new skills every day. Digital Elevates - Video Content clipping and Transcription specialist. From Dec 2019 to Current. CONTACT Responsibilities -Creating subtitles for customer videos provided. -Ripping captions from videos and converting caption files from one format to another where needed. - Producing micro videos from long videos to be uploaded on various social media sites. -Producing transcripts for all the videos provided. -Make video captions for the micro videos that I produce. - Editing and proofreading podcast/video transcripts. -Synchronizing video captions that are out of sync. PHONE: - WEBSITE: https://www.upwork.com/freelancers/ ~01bbd50a85d9861cae EMAIL:- HOBBIES 1. Reading 2. Travelling 3. Body building 4. Gardening QA World- Call analyst, Captions and Transcription specialist. From January 2018 to January 2020. Responsibilities. - Analyzing recorded calls to ascertain their quality. - Transcribing recorded calls from different companies’ customer support desks. -Editing and quality checking transcripts from other transcribers. - English Proofreading to make sure all grammar and punctuation is on point. - Create captions for various videos and audios provided. NEWSPAPERARCHIVE-Online Researcher / Genealogy lead generation. From January 2020 To August 2020. Responsibilities -Using various search engines to find open-source genealogy records and historical newspapers from all over the world. -Verifying copyright and redistribution Terms & conditions for each website and resource. -Updating Google Sheets with URL’s for web-scrapers. -Maintaining knowledge of the newspaper copyright laws for each country to be scrapped. -Working with scrapping team through Skype to help identify where images are located if needed. -Updating and maintaining image master list so that websites and Images are scrapped more than once. Education Ecosystem- Administrative assistant/ data entry and web research specialist. From January 2017 To February 2018. Responsibilities - Making orders for office supplies. - Scheduling appointments and making bookings for the CEO. - Online Research and office file management. - Company jobs posting and resume reviews. - Company Inventory management. - Transcribing recorded meeting notes. SKILLS English Proofreading 95% English Editing 95% Video Captioning Online forms File Management 90% 70% 75% English skills 95% Online Research 95% Computer skills Admin Support Data Analysis Data Entry Transcription 90% 80% 85% 99% 97%