Lorena Barragan Email & Phone Number

Costa Mesa, CA, US

• Assist executives with managing hectic and complex calendars; making arrangements and reservations for conference calls, meetings, training, and offsites.
• Prepare/maintain itineraries, coordinate travel planning, reservations and arrangements.
• Use high level of confidentiality as the communication gatekeeper to facilitate communication, and escalate issues to ensure team deliverables are met, including the tracking of heavy volume of email messages, and.
• Track multiple tasks and help set priorities, by having a process for follow up communication to ensure deliverables are met.
• Process expense reports.
• Prepare and submit purchase requests and maintain control of invoicing as needed.

Irvine, CA, US

• Facilitated day-day administrative and personal support to the CEO, and other personnel.
• Coordinated communications, tracked, and followed up on request.
• Planned multiple private events, meetings, and luncheons.
• Developed and maintained supportive relationships with Finance, Marketing, and Sales.

Nashville, TN, US

• Provided administrative support to C-Level Executives and others within the department.
• Planned extensive International and domestic travel (visas, passports, and meetings abroad).
• Processed expense reports in Concur.
• Strong time management, to be able to support domestic and international teams.
• Managed multiple projects with tight deadlines.
• Scheduled a high volume of meetings with other senior-level executives and vendors in a global setting across multiple time zones.

Costa Mesa, CA, US

• Completed a broad variety of administrative and project management tasks for five Vice Presidents and others within the department.
• Prepared/maintained calendars, coordinated travel planning, reservations, and arrangements.
• Processed expense reports.
• Ensured email communication was kept in organized fashion and exercise appropriate escalation to ensure important matters were dealt with promptly.
• Oversaw multiple tasks and helped set priorities to ensure deliverables were met.

• Provide administrative support for the Executive and others within the department as needed.
• International and domestic travel planning, including visas, passport and meetings abroad.
• Strong attention to detail, ability to work effectively under pressure and time constraints.
• Experience with Concur to process travel and expenses.
• Create powerful, persuasive executive presentations, communications, letters and reports.
• Correspond and coordinate meetings with franchisees, field team and vendor partners.

Fullerton, CA, US

• Perform administrative duties for executive management team.
• Coordinate busy office and personal calendar for CEO.
• Schedule and manage travel arrangements for CEO and staff.
• Prepare reports, financial data and transcribe meeting minutes for Board of Directors.
• Assist marketing department in product development and marketing collateral.

US

• Provided administrative support to the CEO and Human Resources.
• Responsible for coordinating meetings, conferences, interviews, and travel arrangements.
• Coordinated focus groups and conferences, applying good judgement in determining priorities.
• Facilitated and processed new hire paperwork.

US

• Provided executive administrative assistance to the CEO and management team.
• Enhanced communication between departments and executive team, fostering a sense of teamwork and collaboration.
• Planned and coordinated PR initiatives, business development events, partner retreats, and holiday parties.

Associate Of Arts - Aa

Master Of Computer Applications - Mca, Computerized Office Specialist Program