Virtual Assistant Profile

I became a Virtual Assistant because I like combining my organisational, administrative and creative skills.

Working as a VA offers diversity, flexibility, independence and the opportunity to work with and support individuals and companies in a variety of different areas and also allows me to take the skills I have acquired to the next level.

I can work on-site for short-term assignments, if a client is based within my area (North or Central London) or from my home based office with my own IT facilities, if the client is based outside of London or the UK.

To help you decide how best I can serve you, details about my previous work experiences, training and academic background are provided below.

Professional Experience

Recent VA work has included providing confidential secretarial support for medical and legal organisations, working to extremely tight deadlines.

I worked for four years at King's College, University of London as Administrator for European Studies on the Bachelors and Masters Degree Programmes.

This position offered a great deal of diversity and independence. It involved:

organising induction days for new students
organising and scheduling open days and interviews for prospective applicants
examination administration
timetabling of courses for the BA and Master programmes
minute taking at the Management Committee meetings
updating the departmental webpages.

A large part of the position involved dealing with student enquiries and providing assistance to the lecturers on the programme.

I also worked as an Executive Officer at Birkbeck College, Faculty of Continuing Education, University of London for the Science and Mathematics Foundation Programme.

This was a very challenging and demanding position with duties similar to those I carried out when working at King's College but which also included:

assisting with student recruitment
helping to organise the Saturday workshops
collecting and processing student fee payments
producing marketing material
processing payments for lecturers

I began my administrative work with the University of London when I worked as a temporary admin assistant at the London School of Economics in the Undergraduate Registry working at the Enquiries desk and assisting the Registry with clerical and administrative duties.

In addition to working at universities, I worked for a year as a WP and Desktop Publishing operator at the Local Government Management Board in the Examinations and Qualifications department (desktop publishing skills, design of publications, presentations).

Temporary placements included ongoing positions at the Royal British Legion Headquarters and the Local Government Association as a floating secretary.

Shorter assignments include positions at investment banks as a Powerpoint Presentations Operator and as an audio typist at legal firms.

Skills, Education and Training

IT Skills

I have over twelve years of experience using Microsoft Word and Powerpoint. I also have experience creating spreadsheets in Excel and databases in Access particularly when working at King's where I created my own student databases.

Typing speed: 75 WPM
Audio typing speed: 65 WPM, Areas: General, legal and medical transcription

I attended a web design course at the specialist IT training centre, Bickenhall College of Computing gaining skills in using Dreamweaver, HTML and CSS.

I have used the skills that I acquired on that course to design this website which demonstrates my design philosophy of simplicity, fast loading, easy navigation and accessibility.

If you require a simple website, of 6 to 12 pages, I may be able to assist you. Fees are negotiable and depend on the length and complexity of the website.

Contact me for more details about this service.

Academic Qualifications

I studied at Queen Mary, University of London for a degree in BA European Studies and at Birkbeck College for a Masters degree in Hispanic Studies.

I have also studied proofreading, copyediting and creative writing.

I am currently training to be a Shiatsu practitioner. This course includes training in anatomy, physiology and pathology as well as traditional Chinese Medicine. This knowledge is helpful if digitally transcribing medical recordings.

I enjoy providing administrative support, troubleshooting and the diversity and flexibility that working as a Virtual Assistant brings.

So if you would like to use one of my services, please click on one of the relevant Contact pages and submit your details:

Secretarial Service

Audio Typing / Digital Transcription

Copywriting Service

Read about my copywriting experience

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