JANE B. TODARO
4344 Carmelo Drive, Apartment #304, Annandale, VA 22003; show contact info
SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS
• Expertise in providing executive-level administrative assistance and office management, including
answering phones and providing information, performing Internet research, composing and editing
correspondence, scheduling appointments and maintaining calendars, transcribing interviews,
making travel arrangements, creating and submitting expense reports, maintaining library and files,
planning newsmaker sessions, on-boarding new hires, ordering supplies, paying bills, dealing with
vendors, and overseeing facilities management.
• Writing, editing, style editing and proofreading skills.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Outlook, Word, PowerPoint and Excel.
• Expertise in event planning.
• Answered phones and assisted and directed callers.
• Buzzed in and greeted clients/visitors and escorted them to appropriate staff members.
• Updated information in office database and worked on Excel spreadsheets.
• Performed other general administrative tasks.
NTS 2000 (information-technology firm); As-Needed-Basis Administrator; July 2009 –May 2019
• Composed and edited correspondence for President and Owner.
• Composed remarks for President's talks to groups.
• Assisted with editing of proposals.
BusinessWeek Magazine; Washington, DC; Executive Assistant to the Washington Bureau
Chief/Administrative Assistant/Office Manager; February 1986 – July 2009
• Performed executive-level administrative assistance and office management as detailed above.
• Reported and wrote for BusinessWeek Online and Personal Business section of BusinessWeek,
as well as contributed to story surveys for BusinessWeek.
• Performed detailed planning of BusinessWeek's attendance at annual White House Correspondents'
Association Dinner, including composing and sending out letters of invitation, and overseeing pre-
and post-dinner receptions, seating arrangements and ticket distribution.
• Performed primary planning of BusinessWeek's attendance at 2008 national political conventions;
assisted in planning of BusinessWeek's attendance at other national political conventions and
worked at some of those conventions.
ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE
Various catering and event companies, Catering/Event Assistant, April 2016 – Present
• Help prepare food for wedding receptions, corporate receptions and private parties.
• Set tables, serve guests, bus tables, break down tables, pack up.
Private Business, English-Language Skills Tutor, June 2014 – December 2018
• Planned lessons in grammar, spelling, punctuation, syntax and composition for students.
• Provided private instruction to students to improve written and spoken occupational and social skills.
Super Salsas, Food Demonstrator, November 2014 – February 2016
• Provided samples and explained product to persuade customers to purchase.
• Recorded and reported information on number of products sold and number remaining in store.
EDUCATION & TRAINING
Georgetown School for Summer and Continuing Education; Washington, DC
Took coursework in writing, editing, resource skills, publications, civilization, government, economics, art history,
film criticism, and understanding contemporary terrorism.
Virginia Commonwealth University; Richmond, VA
Major: Mass Communications
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SALES AND MARKETING EXPERIENCE
I currently work at LOFT – I started May 19, 2026 -- at Tysons Corner Center as a Part-Time Sales
Associate, where I greet and engage customers, help them select outfits, put customers in dressing rooms,
clean out dressing rooms, and perform go-backs. I worked at Sur La Table as a Seasonal Sales Associate
from late November 2025 till mid-January 2026. I worked from June to December 2024 at Chico’s at Tysons
Corner Center as a Part-Time Sales Associate, where I greeted customers, sold women’s clothing, rang up
sales, bagged merchandise, put customers in dressing rooms, helped customers put together outfits, cleaned
out dressing rooms, and recovered and replenished the store, until it closed permanently in late December 2024.
I worked at Crate&Barrel at Tysons Galleria as a Part-Time Sales Associate in April and May of 2024, where
I sold dishware, glassware, bakeware and home furnishings, and also demonstrated machines such as the
Vitamix. I worked from December 2021 to April 2024 at Sur La Table at Tysons Galleria as a Part-Time Sales
Associate, where I greeted customers and sold high-end cookware, bakeware, dishware, glassware, gadgets
and utensils, and demonstrated and sold high-end coffee machines. I worked as a Brand Ambassador in
November 2019 for O’MY Dairy-Free Gelato, selling gelato at various Whole Foods Market locations.
I worked as a Brand Ambassador for Productions Plus in November 2017, demonstrating the Philips Airfryer
at the Tysons Galleria Williams Sonoma. I worked as a Brand Ambassador/Food Demonstrator in
September 2017 for Atlas Marketing, demonstrating Bright Greens smoothies at two Whole Foods Market
locations. In July 2017, I worked as a Product Demonstrator for PS-Stearns, demonstrating an athletic towel
at two Bed Bath & Beyond stores. I performed cheese demos in 2016 and 2017 for Icon Food Marketing,
and in March 2018 for Food for Thought Promotions, at the McLean Balducci’s. I also sold Aunt Dottie’s
Salad Dressings at several Whole Foods Market locations in 2015. I also briefly sold a supplement for
MK Marketing at the Fairfax Costco in 2015. And I worked as a Food Demonstrator for Super Salsas at
various Whole Foods Market locations from November 2014 through February 2016.
I worked from November 2019 till September 2020 at the children’s retailer Janie and Jack at Tysons
Corner Center, where I put together outfits for customers, rang up sales, fixed merchandise in boxes with
bows, and maintained the store, until it closed permanently. I also worked the 2019, 2020 and 2021 Christmas
seasons at A Christmas to Remember, selling and “personalizing” ornaments. I worked from mid-July to mid-
September 2019 at Wee Chic, a children’s retailer in the Mosaic District, where I sold clothing, books and toys,
demonstrated toys, gift-wrapped purchases, processed product, and steamed clothing. I worked from November
2018 till March 2019 at the Tysons Corner Center Gymboree, another children’s retailer. I worked helping to
set up the store, then worked nearly full-time hours some weeks selling, wardrobing, ringing up and bagging,
as well as maintaining the store, until it went out of business. I worked from late November through late
February part-time at Talbots at Tysons Corner Center, greeting customers and selling clothes and shoes.
I also worked the 2017 Christmas season at A Christmas to Remember, selling and personalizing” ornaments.
I’ve also had stints selling clothes at White House Black Market and Ann Taylor at Tysons Corner Center,
and I’ve sold shoes at both Lord & Taylor and Clarks at Tysons Corner Center, as well as shoes at Comfort
One Shoes at Tysons Galleria. I also worked the 2015 Christmas season at the Tysons Crate&Barrel,
where I sold kitchen appliances and housewares, and demonstrated a new line of kitchen containers.
In more recent years, I’ve also sold mulling spices and a golf towel at shows at the Dulles Expo Center.
I also marketed my own line of greeting cards that I create from my photographs. My cards sold for nearly
10 years at The Inn Store at the Boar’s Head Inn in Charlottesville. And both my cards and my framed prints
sold from April 2013 through April 2014 at A Show of Hands in Alexandria until the shop went out of business.
My cards also sold more briefly at other shops a number of years ago.