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Work experience

English teacher

from 10.2019 to 11.2020 (1 year 1 month)
CMK Software Development Company, Kiev (IT)

Planning, preparing, and delivering customized English classes to IT professionals. Designing and producing customized learning materials; teaching off-line and online individual and group classes to students with various English proficiency levels.

In-house editor, English teacher

from 11.2015 to 07.2019 (3 years 8 months)
PricewaterhouseCopers (PwC) Ukraine, Kiev (business consutling, auditing, legal services)

Performed rewording and proofreading of client deliverables, legal drafts, contracts, proposals, memos, newsletters, print and web articles, and other media pieces. Produced text copy for marketing and web publications, brochures, social media posts, and so on. Developed and delivered English language classes in a variety of formats to PwC (Ukraine) employees. Developed "Fundamentals of Legal English and Business Law" course for PwC interns and successfully delivered it twice, in 2018 and 2019

Freelance English teacher (native speaker),

from 05.2013 to 10.2015 (2 years 5 months)
EnglishCoach Foreign Languages Center, Financial Business English School, TAT-Perspektiva, EZEnglish, Sam Speaking Club, Kiev (Education - language training/coaching)

Part-time (freelance) English teacher, native speaker with various local language schools. Developed and delivered Business and IT-centric English courses to corporate clients with various levels of language proficiency: Intermediate, Upper-Intermediate, and Advanced; monitored trainees' progress. Provided individual coaching sessions to mid-level & top executives hailing from major transnational companies with offices located in Kiev: Mars Ukraine, Contour Global USA, Livatech, etc.

Assisted students in their preparation for the CPE (Cambridge English: Proficiency) and ILEC (International Legal English Certificate) as well as Cambridge English: Financial exams. Develop customized learning programs and conduct targeted seminars to develop such core competencies as report writing, formal & informal presentations, etc.

Operations Manager - project management & logistics

from 11.2008 to 12.2012 (4 years 1 month)
Electronic Engineers Inc (www.ee-chicago.com), Chicago, IL (consumer electronic equipment)

Operations manager in charge of logistics & project management. While working at an authorized service center for high-end audio/video equipment (since 1949) acted as a liaison to the manufacturers (Nakamichi, ADCOM, Cambridge Audio, etc) ensuring adherence to their exacting standards and requirements, receiving and retaining certificates & licenses, timely employee training in repair protocols & procedures; updating producers' parts catalogs and manuals, renewing database subscriptions, communication with HQs of the aforementioned brands on a day-to-day basis. Sourced unique and out-of-production components for one-of-a-kind and antique audio systems. Was in charge of the company's participation in trade shows and conventions from A to Z; in the latter capacity developed the general concept and design of the PR and marketing materials.

Small business owner

from 11.2006 to 11.2008 (2 years)
Self Employed - licensed massage therapist, Chicago, IL, Chicago, IL (Medical services - massage & physical therapy)

Owner of a small massage clinic in Chicago suburbs until the onset of the financial crisis of 2008. State of Illinois licensed massage therapist. Licensed to practice in all states by the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork (NCBTMB)

Independent Contractor

from 10.2002 to 10.2006 (4 years)
Independent IT contractor, Chicago, IL, Chicago, IL (IT, Corporate PC Systems, LAN/WAN Networking)

Worked with a number of local IT consulting and outsourcing companies (Pioneer IT Consulting, Crain IT Solutions, and others), setting up and customizing server base for corporate clients utilizing Windows XP and Windows 2003 platforms. Worked as part of a team developing and testing packages for remote rollouts of new and updating existing images for corporate desktop and mobile PCs, setting up, maintaining, and troubleshooting server infrastructure.

Coprorate PC Systems Specialist

from 04.2000 to 10.2002 (2 years 6 months)
Underwriters Laboratories (www.ul.com) Northbrook, IL, Northbrook, IL (Electronic equipment & electronic consumer goods testing & certification)

Corporate PC Systems Specialist, team leader then head of the department in charge of mass install/update and maintenance of the corporate PC image in the corporate HQ. In the latter capacity, led a five employee team that was responsible for securing trouble-free operation of ten of the department's servers located both locally & worldwide (Japan, Honk-Kong, Netherlands and Germany) running 24/7, developing and testing packages for remote mass installs of the corporate PC image & programs, orchestrating timely and invisible to the end users program updates and ensuring adherence to the corporate image policies on thousands of desktop and mobile PCs. Had a key role in making purchasing decisions for software programs to be implemented on various corporate PC systems and network segments

Education

National University (www.nu.edu)

Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA), marketing, San Diego, CA USA
Higher, from 1992 to 1995 (2 years 4 months)

Additional education and certificates

European Massage Therapy school, (www.school-for-massage.com) Skokie, IL

2005-2006, 650 hours massage therapy training program

Tactical Response Inc. (www.tacticalresponse.com) Camden, TN

2009-2011, Diplomas - Total of 150 hours of tactical training courses

Microhard Technologies Inc., Chicago, IL

1998 Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) 6 month long preparatory course

Knowledge and skills

Language proficiencies

• English — fluent
• Russian — fluent
• Ukrainian — fluent
• Polish — beginner

Additional information

English Editor with one of the Big 4 firms

US college-educated

20-year professional career in the US

Western professional ethics

Equal mastery of English, Russian & Ukrainian languages

Language Skills:
Native speaker translator/editor with Anno Domini Translation Agency, Indigo Translations, Kiev, Philin Translations, Kharkov - mostly business, legal, medical and some visual arts English projects

Since returning to Ukraine, I have participated in several projects by the Ministry of Healthcare (Ukraine) as a project coordinator/interpreter in 2013-2014. In 1991-1994 worked as a part-time translator for the State of California Chamber of Commerce, Sacramento, CA

Teaching English as a second language (ESL) experience
While in college in California, I worked as a teacher assistant and taught English as a second language (ESL) to foreign students. Besides that, I did some private tutoring for the TOEFL exam during and after college. Personally had scored among the top 0.5% of TOEFL test takers in 1991.

Additional Information:
Hobbies: massage, acupuncture, macrobiotics, offroading
Citizenship: Ukraine, US Permanent Resident (Green Card holder)
Valid driver's license. Total of more than 20 safe years behind the wheel