Diana Payar Lopez

Organised and motivated individual with strong administration skills and a diplomatic attitude built through the years of production and front of house experience, thriving in busy and challenging environments. Practiced at building and maintaining relationships with creative talent and clients, always eager to learn and challenge myself.

Events Coordinator – Sage Events (Jan 2023 – Current)

Establishing and maintaining relationships with vendors and venue, planning event details and aspects, including seating, dining, guests and occasionally cooking and table styling. Creating reliable financial reports and collecting payments on time, remaining under budget with all costs. Monitoring client approval, working with caterers and staff, supervising promotional and social media aspects of the event. 

Events Assistant – Liberty (Nov 2022 – Jan 2023)

Assisting the events team with a high number of events, ranging from small meetings to award ceremonies. Accompanying events manager to both internal and external events. Promoting events across all social media platforms. Supporting the events manager with logistical and administrative support, to ensure accurate & complete details are received ahead of events, including attendee lists, running orders, catering and invoicing information, checking stock supply levels and placing orders, to provide pre, during and post event client support

Sales Assistant – Liberty (Aug – Nov 2022)

Perform and support the Store Manager in the daily operational tasks, securing that the Store at all times is presentable and clean according to company standards, securing that the Store is merchandised according to seasonal visual guidelines, passing on information and collection feedback to the Store Team, reach daily goals and targets, ensure the highest level of customer satisfaction through excellent sales service, maintain a fully stocked store, receive and organize deliveries 

Production Assistant – Passion Pictures (Jan 2021 – June 2022)

Creating and managing call sheets, booking equipment, hotels and transport for crew, look after cast and crew, dealing with locations permits, booking and briefing crew, juggling several projects assistance, ensuring shooting goes smoothly on set, budgeting and invoicing, assisting Producer with client/agency and crew, tracking budgets, creating production schedules. 

Hostess/Waitress– Zephyr Notting Hill (Jun 2019 - Mar 2020)

Scheduling dining reservations for guests in advance, making decisions about where to sit the groups, greeting guests as they arrive and taking them to their seats, provide a menu and explaining specials, answering immediate questions, providing a positive memorable experience, staying attentive to the needs of guests in the dining area. Delivering food from the kitchen to the guests. Ensuring the food order is made correctly by kitchen staff and looks presentable for guests. Following health code standards with regards to the handling of food

Sales Assistant – Arket (Jan – Sep 2019)

Operate cash machines and close daily revenues, approach customers and providing help to find sizes, fit, materials, garment, and styling options; deal with complaints in a helpful manner, maintain a clean and orderly environment in the store.

Receptionist – Office Angels (June 2018 – Jan 2019)

Receiving visitors at the front desk by greeting, welcoming, directing them appropriately, receiving and sorting daily mail, offering administrative support across the organization, maintaining office security, updating calendars and scheduling meeting.

• Coronavirus Basic Awareness on Production Training – Screen Skills 2021
• London Film School MA Screenwriting with Merit 2019 - 2020
• Universidad Carlos III de Madrid Double Degree in Journalism and Film and TV Production 2013–2018

         Scriptwriting Course 2015-2016

• Coventry University- Erasmus + Programme – Degree in Media Production 2016-2017