Rita Cartwright has been the owner and sole proprietor of RJ's Word Processing Services since 2002. She has over 30 years of word processing and administrative support experience. Rita gained the majority of her experience in financial and higher education industries.

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.

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 a small business owner has taught
her what type of support a business professional needs in
order to market and operate his or her small business. Her
numerous years of word processing experience has
provided her with advanced level of skills in creating and
formatting various business-style documents and
business-style correspondences.  In addition, she has
experience in using Microsoft Office, Constant Contact,
Aweber,  Microsoft Expression Web 2, and FTP software.

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). She also networks with fellow small business owners and members of Oceanside Chamber of Commerce.

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 play at the gaming tables.

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.

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 date with the latest trends in the virtual assistant industry.