Barbara Lavickova Email & Phone Number

London, GB

• Managed complex calendars (across different time-zones), facilitating communication and logistics.
• Guided the executive throughout the day/week to ensure all design and management tasks are completed, regularly under very tight deadlines.
• Managed email inbox. Reading, researching, and routing correspondence; drafting emails, documents, and reports.
• Managing executives timesheets, and expenses. Monitoring the cost against project resources.
• Participated in weekly Partner and senior leadership meetings. Producing action lists alongside proactive follow up on actions.
• Collaborated closely with HNWI’s office (Design Director) and streamlining high level meetings, travel, and VIP events.

London, United Kingdom

• Provided PA support to Partner, Project Leaders & Project Manager
• Worked across variety of projects of different typology and different needs
• Initiated involvement in research and design process (e.g. worked on recently launched Vessel in New York, and Google headquarters in Silicon Valley and London Kings Cross)
• Improved project administration & filing
• Executed extensive and complex travel arrangements, usually with very short notice, for up to 30 travellers in one go
• Handled projects Travel, and Relocation budgets

London

• Performed full secretarial support to Administration director and Project Leaders
• Arranged meetings with the team, facilities contractors and suppliers
• Initiated & executed seating moves within the company
• Supervised in-house catering staff and ensured meeting refreshments are up to a high standard
• Introduced new starters to the teams and to the company and project procedures
• Regular fire alarm testing; managed general upkeep and maintenance

- Management and co-ordination of freelance interpreters and clients’ interpreting requests.- Cooperation with HM Prisons, DWP, Local Authorities, NHS. - Ensuring that interpreting appointments are booked in a time and cost-effective manner.- Developing supplier relationships.- Building client relationships, ensuring business retention and identifying new.

Telephone interpreting for HM Revenue & Customs, NHS, Prisons, etc. for non-English speaking Czechs and Slovaks living in the UK. Liaising with clients over the phone.(part time)

- Research and organising of databases.- Reviewing, creating and maintaining VIP lists and contacts. - Handling telephone calls, correspondence.- Collecting and distributing incoming post and franking outgoing post. - General administrative duties – word processing, filing, photocopying.

- Telephone interpreting for non-English speaking Czechs and Slovaks living in the UK. - Liaising with clients over the phone.(part time)

- Arranging schedules and programmes.- Organising rehearsals.- PA to actors.- Organising logistics relating to stage materials and costumes. - Communication and co-operation with other theatres.- Co-ordination between team members. - Arranging transportation.- Office administration.- Undertaking small parts on stage.

Stage Management

Summer course of Stage Management

Bca, Theatre Management

2005 - 2008 - Regular member, later Deputy Manager (Foreign Affairs and Logistics department) for The International Festival of Theatre.

Theatre And Film Studies