1. MICHELLE BATCHELOR
PROFILE
Self-motivated, self-starter, versatile and pro-active. Work more efficiently on my own and within a team environment.
A flexible all rounder, possessing varied administration and pa qualities.
CAREER SUMMARY
Nexen Petroleum UK Ltd
(Exploration Dept)
Exploration Department - UK Core Areas Team Admin
February 2009 – 31 March 2015
Reason for leaving: Redundancy
Provide general administrative support to Exploration • department and other admins
• Diary Management for the UK Core Areas manager, Team Leads and members
• Co-ordinating courses for subsurface & exploration for Global Nautilus GTA Programme and field courses and
maintain training schedule.
• Liaise with managers and Accounts regarding contract and budgets
• Work with subsurface and exploration in arranging partner meetings.
• Check and send TOCM minutes to partners, chasing up any approvals
• Maintain budget & AFE charts, ie chasing up any outstanding budgets/AFE’s
• Time entry for team leads.
• Update departmental calendar
• Organise meeting rooms and lunch bookings for departmental meetings
• Provide assistance with organising monthly lunch and learns
• Maintain the teams contact lists and location charts
• Co-ordinate technical data internally and externally
• File department correspondence
• Organise travel bookings with travel co-ordinator
• Provide assistance to the Team Leads Exploration Manager’s Assistant to process expense claims forms
for the team
• Printing, photocopying and binding for Technical meetings and courses
• Distribute department’s mail
• Maintain small stationery cupboard
• General typing of letters, faxes etc. and update Intranet
• Arrange and co-ordinate events and away days for team leaders
• Arrange Department Christmas event
• Arrange manager workshops and offsite meetings
Nexen Petroleum UK Ltd March 2006 – February 2009
(Ettrick Project: Hamlin Knight Agency)
Assistant to Project Manager & Ettrick Department
• Screening telephone calls; Action/respond & distribute incoming post;
• Co-ordinate and maintain calendar for Project Manager.
• Provide administration support to Project manager and team.
• Ensure that all internal project documentation is handled according to relevant project procedures.
• Ensure all documentation from external parties is handled according to relevant project procedures.
• Maintain distribution of documentation to Partners.
• Organise travel for Project Manager and Team.
• Liaise with personnel & other sites
• Assist in production and distribution of weekly reports.
• Assist in production and distribution of monthly report.
• Organise and book meetings/rooms for the team.
• Create & update lists: contact lists, holiday and out of office charts
• Update holidays and location charts.
• Process monthly • expenses for managers.
• Ensure timesheets are completed & processed for department
• Assist in upkeep of Livelink material & Intranet
• Organise team events:- including a sailing party on the River Thames; a trip to a brewery; day at the horse
racing; company Christmas party; Rotterdam trip for Nexen personnel;
Charter Construction Plc January 2006 – February 2006
Senior Secretary - temporary assignment
• Typing for Chairman/Managing Director and other directors; Organising and distributing typing work to make
sure it is of the highest possible standard and dispatched at the required and agreed time scales;

2. • Co-ordinating presentation documents and liaise with estimators/surveyors what is required and when;
Updating and issuing company records/forms, completing, storing and distributing accordingly; Updating the
company’s QA system including Procedures Manual.
• Assisting with the organisation and arranging of company functions; Typing sensitive, private or staff related
matters and keeping matters strictly confidential; Send/receiving invitations/responses for company events;
Produce company ‘in house’ Company newsletter and Project CV’s; Updating contract numbers/telephone
lists/staff mobile numbers/addresses;
• Updating site manager’s availability chart; Assisting with downloading of pictures from digital camera;
Scanning documents and emailing; Keeping of all programmes/checking of presentations; Booking couriers;
Sending insurance details and company CIS letters when required; Keeping/updating staff holidays/sickness
records (+ wall chart); Attending monthly senior management meeting and taking minutes;
LEO Pharma
(Princes Risborough, Bucks)
Secretary /Pa to the Medical Information Department January 2000 – December 2005
• Providing secretarial support to the Medical Information team, including directing internal and external
telephone calls, recording details of technical telephone enquires in the absence of medical officers.
• Maintaining the Information Centre; Updating and editing the internal literature database, and maintaining
records, including importing images; Co-ordinating, arranging, attending and minuting meetings; Booking
team travel and updating itineraries
• Updating and editing team electronic diaries; Updating and logging of teams holidays and flex days;
Maintenance of reprint stocks, including trouble-shooting and handling reprint requests; Ordering books for
company, literature and maintaining records; Handling journal subscriptions for company, maintaining records
of journal circulations, organising journal binding and storage, distribution of product and competitor
information bulletins;
• Arranging translations as required for all Personnel
• Collecting and monitoring timesheets for department; Coding invoices and sending to relevant departments;
Liaising with the British Library to obtain printed material;
• Handling and co-ordinating complex medical documents and multiple tasks with short deadlines to high
standards.
Previous Position at LEO:
Secretary Central Services Manager
(temporary maternity cover position) October 1999 to December 1999
• General office duties including handling of telephone enquiries, filing, photocopying
• Responsible for maintaining and ordering stationery for the company
• Fleet service duties, including organising MOT’s, car tax, insurance and repairs for sales force and office
based staff.
Kodak March 1999 – October 1999
(Harrow)
Secretary to Central Services Department (temporary position)
• Registrar; inputting training data; receipting; typing all correspondence including letters, memos, and minutes;
inputting departmental bookings; process CSD job records/requests for services for MSG and pipe fitters;
process holidays/absence/overtime etc; update ISO forms on Microsoft Word; inputting bookings and
overtime on to a database; monitoring stationery and ordering new stock when necessary
• General office duties, dealing with telephone queries, filing and photocopying.
Lincoln Life Assurance 1995 - 1999
Technical Administrator, Training Section
1997 - 1999
• Organising training courses for managers and supervisors. Arranging venues and courses and
accommodation for trainers and delegates; typing documentation invitations, memos; vetting nomination
forms; vetting nomination forms and making the necessary arrangements through the Chartered Insurance.
• Institute for examinations; responsible for collating and sending examination entries; sorting examination
results and notifying associates of the outcome; preparing and ensuring that all the correct stationery is sent
to the relevant venue prior to the start of the course; distributing post on a rota basis; studied and reviewed
work efficiency within the department, resulting in a presentation to the department of our findings. These
findings were also published in the in-house magazine.
PREVIOUS POSITION HELD
Senior Administrator, working in the Recruitment Section

3. 1995 - 1997
• Vetted and processed recruitment files within the specified 24-hour deadline and advised area offices of the
outstanding requirements; completed references for ex-company representatives within the Personal
• Investment Authority’s specified time limit; obtained references for new recruits, verbally and in writing; carried
out credit checks & investigated education and medical backgrounds; communicated with external companies
and area offices; licensed recruits once they had completed the relevant training courses; issued employment
contracts and prepared legal documents when required; advised and assisted with telephone queries and
dealt with general correspondence; produced a weekly report on outstanding references trained new
members of the team in the recruitment file procedure.
July 1991 to May 1995
I worked in Tenerife and I was employed in various temporary jobs including bar work, waitressing and a sales and
marketing position.
September 1987 to July 1991
Lloyds Bank Plc, Northwood and North Harrow Branches
During this time, I worked in several different positions including, Managers Assistant, Senior Bank Clerk and Bank
Clerk. These roles enabled me to develop my communication skills, especially those dealing with the general public.
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
September 1982 to June 1987:
Nower Hill High School, George V Avenue, Pinner, Middlesex
‘O’ level examinations:
English Language, English Literature, Art
‘CSE’ examination:
Mathematics, French, German, Biology Science, Economics
During my time at Nower Hill High School, I was a member of the net ball and hockey teams.
I also undertook work experience placement at BUPA, Clementine-Churchill, Sudbury and Lloyds Bank, Northolt.
IT, COMPUTER SKILLS AND TRAINING COURSES
I am computer literate in most key IT areas and am familiar with the Windows environment
Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, Outlook, Works, XP, PowerPoint, Desktop Publisher, SAP, Lotus notes).
I have attended Microsoft Office advanced users courses, manual handling course and a qualified fire warden.