Self-Employed
London, United Kingdom
Self-Employed
London, United Kingdom
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Financial Services industry)
September 2007 — Present (11 months)
Prepare correspondence, minutes, agendas, and notes. Edit and update newsletters, benefit calculations and reports. Screen client calls. Have worked here three times since spring 2007 and am now on a long-term booking until August 2008.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Fine Art industry)
September 2007 — September 2007 (1 month)
Screened calls and liaised with clients and shipping companies by telephone and email. Organised and updated fine art database in Access and image files on hard drive for past 10 years of acquisitions, sales and loans. Some scanning. Heavy use of Picasa.
(Sole Proprietorship; 1-10 employees; Renewables & Environment industry)
February 2006 — July 2007 (1 year 6 months)
Troubleshooter, technical assistance, desktop publishing, document editing, meeting notes/collation.
(Government Agency; 501-1000 employees; Arts and Crafts industry)
April 2007 — July 2007 (4 months)
Event administration/organisation, diary management, travel and meeting arrangements for department directors, minute-taking, internal and external liaising. Used the specially designed online system for handling budgets, purchase orders and invoices.
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Capital Markets industry)
August 2006 — December 2006 (5 months)
Transcribed, proofed and edited interviews with fund managers across the corporate spectrum for inclusion in capital market audit reports. Prepared company details for interviewers. Prepared charity cheques and letters. Maintained charity database.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Publishing industry)
March 2005 — June 2005 (4 months)
Wrote and translated image captions; keywording and labelling. Prepared payments, invoices and contracts; updated website orders. Familiarised with Access-based database central to the library.
(Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Mental Health Care industry)
September 2001 — August 2002 (1 year)
Participated in organising annual Job Fair; registered attendees for district-wide psychology and crisis intervention training courses; composed doctoral intern progress reports for university advisors; researched school psychology topics; word processing and desktop publishing tasks. Hired after graduation.
(Educational Institution; 201-500 employees; Education Management industry)
January 2000 — May 2001 (1 year 5 months)
Supervised use of the computers and printers; aided professor and students during psychology labs. Entered student volunteer interest forms and activity updates into MS Access database; matched students to activities according to their interests.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Online Media industry)
June 2000 — July 2000 (2 months)
Summer Job - Visited businesses in a designated area for proprietors to place their company in the business directory or to create a homepage; received an administrator account to update the web directory.
M.Phil, Art History & Connoisseurship (2:1), 2003 — 2004
Degree awarded by Glasgow for Christie's Education, London.
History of art from 1450 to the present day. Cataloguing, museum studies, critical reviews, artefact analysis, curatorial reports. Modules in culture and ideology, issues and contexts.
Thesis: Female Fashions of the early 20th Century, 1914-1918.
PG.Dip., European Art & Antiquities, 2002 — 2003
Christie's Education validated by Cambridge International Examinations.
Trained in object records, cataloguing, compare and contrast. Sources in context modules.
Thesis: The Wilton Diptych: A Fairytale Fit for a King
B.A. Hon., Psychology, 1999 — 2001
-- Received full 4-year Opportunity Scholarship.
-- Unrelated electives and requirements: Public Speaking, Nonverbal Communication, Criminal Justice
-- Study abroad, summer 2000 at Reading University, UK: Psychology in the Movies & European Cultural Influences on American Family Dynamics.
-- Poster presentation, Undergraduate Research Symposium, 2001: "Greeting behaviour at Wal-Mart based on gender, age and ethnicity."
Undergraduate core curriculum, Biology conc. 1995 — 1998
Required undergrad courses for transfer to 4-year university
art, history, music, culture, travel, history, food, literature, science, technology, anthropology
Phi Theta Kappa (academic honour society), 1995
Southwestern Psychological Association, 2000
Psi Chi (psychology honour society), 2000