Company
Jo Hughes
Basic
Selbstständig, Translator & Virtual Assistant, Flow Productions | YVA: Your Virtual Assistance
London, United Kingdom
About me
Corporate PA/EA and office all-rounder turned freelance multitasker • Native fluency Dutch and English • Conversational German • Fully conversant with Windows, MacOS and Microsoft Office • Competent with WordPress • Basic HTML • Preference for temporary, contract and freelance opportunities • Soft spot for evening and night shifts
Timeline
Professional experience for Jo Hughes
Current 14 years and 4 months, since Feb 2008
Translator & Virtual Assistant
Flow Productions | YVA: Your Virtual Assistance
PA/Admin/Secretarial Services | Transcription | Translation | etc.
Creation of reports, (digital) training materials & other documentation for business/integration purposes in IFF's Nourish division; coordinating scrum calls and virtual scrum boards; any other project and team support as needed.
9 months, Feb 2019 - Oct 2019
Product Development Assistant
CNA Hardy (Lloyd's Syndicate 382)
Multilingual document control/creation/editing; Exari™ migration/integration.
5 months, Apr 2017 - Aug 2017
Product Support Specialist
Wolters Kluwer (Health Learning, Research & Practice)
Providing technical product support to customers on digital products (medical databases/platforms including Ovid.com, LWW.com, OnDemand.org and others), making customisations to user (group) interfaces when requested, creating/editing landing pages for institutions, collating usage statistics, etc.
2 months, Feb 2015 - Mar 2015
Project Manager & PA to CEO
Smiley Company
Project management of external tradeshows and internal IT projects. PA, Marketing & HR Admin support.
2 years and 4 months, Nov 2005 - Feb 2008
Executive Assistant & Admin Assistant
Electronic Data Systems (later HP Enterprise Serivces, nowadays DXC Technology)
PA to the successive Business Managers of Applications Services, Field Operations, EMEA (ASFO EMEA) and their Business Management Office (BMO).
Educational background for Jo Hughes
1 year and 9 months, Sep 1994 - May 1996
Leisure Management
NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences
(NL: Propaedeuse, HBO Vrijetijdskunde) (equivalent to Associate's Degree (US) or Foundation Degree (UK)) (Note: NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences was called Christelijke Hogeschool Noord-Nederland (CHN) when I studied there)
9 months, Sep 1993 - May 1994
Vocational education
DASGA Comprehensive School for Adults
Accelerated course (three years compressed into one) (NL: 1-jarig MEAO) (Note: DASGA was later renamed to and integrated in ROC De Amerlanden, which subsequently became ROC Midden-Nederland)
3 years and 9 months, Sep 1989 - May 1993
Secondary education
Schothorst/Thorbecke College
(Subjects: Dutch, English, French, German, Geography, History, Economics) (NL: HAVO) (Note: The school has since been renamed twice: first to Vallei College and later to 't Atrium)
Languages
German
Intermediate
English
First language
Dutch
First language