Experience

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  Tower Cold Chain

  • United Kingdom
  • Packaging and Containers Manufacturing
  • 1 - 100 Employee

  • Quality Assurance Associate

    • Jun 2023 - Present

  • Data Migration Specialist

    • Aug 2022 - May 2023

    Migration to and configuration of Dot Compliance (Salesforce)

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  Tower Cold Chain

  • Theale, England, United Kingdom

  • Data Migration Specialist

    • Mar 2022 - Apr 2022
    • Theale, England, United Kingdom

    Data migration to MCS further module

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  Tower Cold Chain

  • Theale, England, United Kingdom

  • Data Migration Specialist

    • Nov 2021 - Dec 2021
    • Theale, England, United Kingdom

    Migration of data from Minerva to MCS

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  Freelance

  • Newbury

  • Digital Content Editor

    • Aug 2015 - Nov 2019
    • Newbury

    Worked for OUP after the end of a fixed term contract, continuing specialised metadata and content linking, legal content, working freelance

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  Oxford University Press

  • Oxford

  • Digital Content Editor

    • Jun 2014 - Aug 2015
    • Oxford

    The Oxford Public International Law (OPIL) website is the umbrella site for several other Law Online products that reference the internationally relevant Oxford Law Citator. I was responsible for new digital content and metadata input and proofing, as well as authority file xml hyper-linking to the citator as appropriate. Whilst with OUP I was part of the successful launch of the OPIL ILEC and ITLD modules, the new FBL and PRIL modules of the OLRL product and two updates for the OSAIL product. It is fascinating work.I was also responsible for managing a team of specialist legal content freelancers.

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  TOWER Cold Chain Solutions

  • Reading, United Kingdom

  • Bookkeeper

    • Nov 2013 - May 2015
    • Reading, United Kingdom

    Part-time bookkeeper for this friendly and dynamic private company specialising in bespoke climate controlled shipping containers for the pharmaceutical industries. I'm so glad to have been able to slip back into the private sector with this company at such an exciting time too.

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  Projects Abroad

  • Volunteer: teaching, cultural exchange and wildlife conservation

    • Jun 2013 - Sep 2013

    After fundraising and planning for this trip for the early part of the year, I was in South-East Asia for 3 months and then travelled for a month in Australia and New Zealand.Volunteer English teacher at Thang Cong B Elementary school in Hanoi - vibrant, dynamic and fantastic, and that's not just the city! Volunteer on the Khmer Project cultural exchange based in Phnom Penh, Cambodia - every day was more interesting, I learnt so much and was consumed with admiration for everyone I met, including the other Europeans.Volunteer wildlife conservationist - specifically for seahorses - in a very remote village off the coast of Cambodia. Far out of my comfort zone, I accepted the challenge willingly, learnt to scuba dive, saw seahorses and divers 'in the wild' and met yet more amazing people.

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  Victoria and Albert Museum

  • United Kingdom
  • Museums, Historical Sites, and Zoos
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Resource Planning (Project) Coordinator

    • Feb 2012 - Apr 2013

    Portfolio and operational planning and project management of resources for the Conservation & Collections Management Division.

  • Head of Conservation Admin/Conservation IT Systems Manager

    • Feb 2006 - Feb 2012

    Management of administration team, IT support on standard and bespoke packages, web content management, financial reporting and budget control, H&S divisional lead, H&S Management System project manager and systems administrator.

  • PA & Department Secretary, Conservation Department

    • Feb 2002 - Feb 2006

    - PA & Secretarial duties including diary, calendar and travel management and visitor and tour scheduling.- Wrote the Department enquiries policy, acted as FoI officer for the Dept.- Took over departmental Internship Programme. Included policy review and procedure analysis.- Designed and built the Head of Conservation's private website for international audience.- Conceptualised and designed early dept. and divisional intranet sites.

  • Web Content Assistant (six-month Secondment, V&A Web Team)

    • Feb 2004 - Jul 2004

    Proposed, conceptualised and drove the content layout, navigation design, copywriting, editing and build of the Conservation Department presence on V&A Website.- Undertook extensive content management, project management and image processing in Adobe Photoshop. Work to deadline.

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  Red Box Advertising Ltd

  • Calleva Park, Aldermaston, Berkshire

  • Production Controller/Web Admin

    • Feb 1996 - Feb 1998
    • Calleva Park, Aldermaston, Berkshire

    Print buying and estimating; website content management including Access database content maintenance, briefing graphic designers, some copy editing & proofing.

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  The British Museum

  • London, United Kingdom

  • Junior Curator (Grade G) Museum Assistant

    • Feb 1995 - Oct 1995
    • London, United Kingdom

    This role (six-month contract plus volunteer work) included environmental monitoring in the galleries, stores and transportation work, public enquiries, cataloguing, mount-making, couriering and pre-publication mapping of the Neolithic area "Grimes Graves" as a research assistant for the Keeper of the Prehistoric and Romano-British Department.Left in order to undertake a Masters at Edinburgh University