Lauma Viksna

Distributing Cybersecurity, IT management tools etc by Bitdefender, N-able, Halo, Cyberday and other vendors.

Working in the Crime Prevention Unit. 1. Developing and implementing the program "School safety" in State Police of Latvia. It involves developing a school safety assessment - analyzing the school's system of reacting to violations and other events in schools, analyzing the school's physical environment based on the CPTED criteria. 2. Organizing seminars and training for police officers on school safety and violence topics. 3. Data analysis on violations in schools. 4. Public speaking about safety in schools and domestic violence. 5. State Police of Latvia project manager in the Ministry of Welfare EU funded project "ONE STEP CLOSER: Coordinated Community Response to Violence against Women" where State Police of Latvia is one of the cooperation partners. 6. Developing informative materials for schools on the violence topic - posters, bookmarks etc.

Working on a project by the Ministry of Welfare with the co-financing of the European Union “A Step Closer: A Joint Community Response to Cases of Violence against Women”, where the State Police of Latvia was one of the partners in the project. Coordinating tasks to be performed by the State Police within the framework of the project.

Starting as an intern for the first 5 months, then part-time (7 months), then full-time (9 months). 1. Working on marketing projects: a) Project "Uzmanību - Stikls! Šķiro un laimē!" (- promoting the project in city festivals throughout Latvia. b) Project "Lielā šķirošanas stafete" - developing and ordering materials for the sorting race in schools, organizing materials for the race hosts and other team members who helped with the work on site - setting up materials on site, guiding the race teams, checking their submitted work and counting points. 2. Creating informative posters about paper, plastic, small electronics recycling, and other informative materials - gathering information, communicating with the designer about ideas and visual design. 3. Managing company's websites - Eco Baltia grupa, Latvijas Zaļais Punkts, Eco Baltia vide, Eko Reverss, PET Baltija, Eko Kurzeme, JUMIS, Nordic Plast. Managing contacts, adding "News" information or other necessary changes on the websites. 4. Presenting the recycling of glass or plastics for school aged kids in schools (average nmber of kids 30, maximum number in presentation - 100 kids) 5. Leading informative tours in PET bottle recycling factory PET Baltija in Jelgava city for groups (aprox. 25 people in a group) - starting from 1st grade children till university aged students.

Working in the USA every year for the summer months. 6 days a week, 11-13 hours a day averaging 80 hours per week. Going door to door selling educational products to families, presenting products, receiving and managing orders and working on self-motivation. 9 months being back in Latvia and preparing for the next summer, attending meetings about personal finances, life balance, sales, motivation, recruiting etc. Summer 2011 - top first year from Latvian students. From Autumn 2011 till Spring 2012 recruiting a personal team of 5 people to come and work in USA for the summer - working with these people, helping them to prepare for the summer. Winter and Spring 2013 - organizing manager meeting together with a colleague. Informing managers about the topics in meetings, contacting speakers, managing meetings. During summer 2013 - additional to the direct sales work helping the first year students and younger managers to improve their sales and work during the summer.