Laura Batstone Email & Phone Number

Irvine, California, United States

Increase the impact of the CEO by supporting her and becoming a trusted thought partner by taking initiative to understand the executive’s needs and agendas. Help to clarify their priorities, develop insights and action plans, and then ensure their time/projects/calendar/efforts are focused on priority areas.Support the CEO to have a big impact, combining.

Irvine, California, United States

• Performs advanced, diversified and confidential administrative duties requiring broad and comprehensive experience, skill and knowledge of organization policies and practices; often involved in issues of a confidential.
• Tactfully screens telephone calls, may screen and respond to e-mails, and resolves routine and complex inquiries.
• Schedules and maintains calendar of appointments, conference calls, meetings and travel itineraries, coordinates related arrangements, gathers information, and negotiates complex scheduling issues.
• Prepare invoices for management approval – gather relevant supporting data, code expenses to appropriate accounts, obtain approvals, follow up on outstanding issues, track payments.
• Composes and may initiate routine correspondence.
• May prepare and distribute meeting notes and action items, tracking completion of tasks for a broad area, reporting complex issues to manager, following up on routine issues.

Irvine

• Completed a broad variety of administrative tasks including managing multiple active calendars for the CIO and 5 Direct Reports.
• Partnered with other C-level Executive Assistants to schedule multi-site Executive group meetings and ensure attendance of critical stakeholders.
• Set up meeting files, develops agendas and works daily in Word/Excel/PowerPoint.
• Prepared travel arrangements, expense reports, plans/coordinates and ensures that the schedule of the CIO is followed and respected; acts in a “gatekeeper” capacity when needed to create ease of access to CIO.
• Provided a bridge for clear communication and maintains credibility, trust and support between the CIO and the internal staff.
• Served as the day-to-day manager of office logistics; maintains office supplies, office protocols including space requirements, kitchen needs, IT, equipment, etc.

Irvine

• Took the lead on building branch culture and heading the Fun Committee to enhance office morale.
• Organized, maintained, and monitored itineraries and calendars for staff including meeting and conference call setup.
• Acted as on-site IT support for workstations and conference rooms.
• Coordinated travel arrangements (domestic and international) and processed expenses for reimbursement.
• Updated and maintained firm databases and mailing lists.
• Assisted in preparing presentations utilizing PowerPoint and writing articles for trade journals.

Irvine, CA

• Acted as Project Manager for the Southern California region, keeping tabs on status of installs, engineering tasks, and special orders to ensure that projects are completed according to client expectations.
• Designed Excel-based report that tracks both client-facing and internal fields which is accessible to team members to give order and project status clarity to all.
• Created agendas and moderated twice-weekly projects calls by coordinating multiple client teams in California and Colorado to determine the status of every current project, quote and invoice.
• Researched individual clients’ past purchases of hardware, software and networking components in efforts to catch support lapses.
• Entered, validated and tracked support and warranty expiration dates on all support contracts using Web Help Desk software.
• Guided clients through negotiations regarding payment schedules, new support opportunities, and single incident support issues.

Half Moon Bay, CA

• Network with partners and clients to facilitate meetings and education sessions both on-site and remote (web/phone).
• Created quotes based on project coordinator and chief architect's design.
• Tracked project progression with engineers and logistics specialists.
• Followed up on client requests and order documentation.
• Composed and edited business documents, including blogs and marketing materials.
• Consulted on development of brand.

Orange, California

*Developed a historical research program for archaeology firm.*Researched and wrote 100+ page historical report in fulfillment of a multi-million dollar contract.*Regularly examined contracts in bidding opportunities.*Wrote the Statement of Qualifications to represent Scientific Resource Surveys in State and County bid packages.*Created report editing and.

La Habra Heights

Worked on weekends in exchange for dressage riding lessons. Duties included:*Show grooming and braiding*Lay up care and hand-walking*Lunging*Tack cleaning*Bathing*General barn maintenance and plumbing*Exercising client horses as needed

Lonetree, CO

*Ordered merchandise (clothing, shoes and accessories) for entire Women's Department.*Regularly changed floor plan and displays to make merchandise more appealing.*Forged relationships with brand representatives.*Learned how to assemble and grip-tape a skateboard

Anaheim, CA

*Care for all animals on the Disneyland Resort property including exotics and birds.*Learned how to drive a single draft horse hitch for the Main Street USA trolley car.*Provide daily care for all horses on the Disneyland property, including feeding, cleaning stalls, making and cleaning harnesses and general grooming.

Bachelor Of Arts, History

Activities and Societies: Phi Alpha Theta - Honor Society

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