Jo Hughes

is available. ✅

Selbstständig, Translator & (Virtual) Office Assistant (Freelance), Flow Productions | YVA: Your Virtual Assistance
London, United Kingdom

Fähigkeiten und Kenntnisse

Microsoft Windows
MacOS
Microsoft Office
Google Workspace
MS Outlook
MS Word
MS Excel
MS PowerPoint
Proofreading
Translation
Transcription
Office Support
Business Support
Office Management
Secretarial Support
Secretarial Services and Virtual Assistants
Administrative Support
Wordpress
Social Media
PA
Englische Sprache
Administration
Office Administration
Team assistance
Copy editing
Multilingualism

Werdegang

Berufserfahrung von Jo Hughes

  • Current 11 months, since Jul 2025

    Interim Secretarial and Administrative Assistant (Contract)

    [confidential/hidden for now] (public sector)

    (providing maternity cover - prospective end date: May 2026) Management Support | Administration | Calendar Management | Event Organisation/Coordination | Correspondence/Communication | Expense Reports | etc.

  • Current 18 years and 4 months, since Feb 2008

    Translator & (Virtual) Office Assistant (Freelance)

    Flow Productions | YVA: Your Virtual Assistance

    PA/Admin/Secretarial Services | Office Management & Relocation Support | Translation | Writing | Proofreading/Editing | Document Production | Testing/QA | Online Community Management/Moderation | etc.

  • 9 months, Feb 2024 - Oct 2024

    Web Tester (Contract)

    EssilorLuxottica

    Pre-launch proofreading, link-building & testing of several website migrations | Post-launch testing/QA.

  • 8 months, Jan 2021 - Aug 2021

    Independent Contractor (Freelance)

    International Flavors & Fragrances Inc.

    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 (Contract)

    CNA Hardy (Lloyd's Syndicate 382)

    Multilingual document control/creation/editing | Exari migration/integration.

  • 5 months, Apr 2017 - Aug 2017

    Product Support Specialist (Contract)

    Wolters Kluwer (Health Learning, Research & Practice)

    Providing technical product support to customers on digital products (online medical databases/platforms such as Ovid.com, LWW.com, and OnDemand.org) | Developing 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 (Contract)

    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).

  • 11 months, Jan 2005 - Nov 2005

    Executive/Admin/Secretarial Contractor

    (Various)

    Clients included American Express, Orange (later T-Mobile, nowadays EE), Moody's Investors Service, Energis/Cable & Wireless* (nowadays Vodafone) (*for Deloitte Consulting), Siemens Business Services (later Siemens IT Solutions & Services, nowadays Atos), and LogicaCMG (nowadays CGI).

  • 1 year and 1 month, Jan 2004 - Jan 2005

    Executive PA

    Fujitsu

    Executive PA to the CEO of The Fujitsu Alliance, which was a consortium of Fujitsu Services, IDX Systems, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), and PricewaterhouseCoopers, set up to deliver IT services to the National Health Service (NHS) in the South of England

Ausbildung von Jo Hughes

  • 1 year and 9 months, Sep 1994 - May 1996

    Propaedeutic Diploma, Leisure Management

    CHN (nowadays known as NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences), Leeuwarden, Netherlands

    (Dutch: HBO Vrijetijdskunde)

  • 9 months, Sep 1993 - May 1994

    Vocational Certificates, Business & Administration

    DASGA Comprehensive School for Adults, Amersfoort, the Netherlands

    (Dutch: MEAO)

  • 5 years and 9 months, Sep 1987 - May 1993

    Diploma, General Secondary Education

    Schothorst/Thorbecke College, Amersfoort, the Netherlands

    (Dutch: HAVO)

Sprachen

  • German

    B1-B2 (Gute Kenntnisse)

  • English

    C2 (Verhandlungssicher / Muttersprachlich)

  • Dutch

    C2 (Verhandlungssicher / Muttersprachlich)

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