Education
Minsk State Linguistic University (Interpreters’ Department) – BA in General Linguistics (English & French), English & American Literature (1993)
Professional Experience
2001/02 SECURE-LOCK INTERNATIONAL B.V. – Bat Hefer, Israel – Assistant Managing Director (Israel & Eastern Europe).
1998/02 Personal translator / interpreter to the Chief Rabbi of Minsk & Minsk Jewish Religious Community.
1997/99 IKEA TRADING SA (ref. Mr. Stefan Koletic, IKEA TRADING SA BELARUS Representative) – Minsk, RB – interpreter / translator / troubleshooter.
1996/97 BELARUSBANK Joint Stock Savings Bank – Minsk, RB – International Relations Dept. – Senior Expert. Assistance to the WB / EBRD Advisors / Consultants in preparing the recently emerged commercial bank’s Charter / documents relevant to international banking cooperation and the Institutional Building Program (ref. Mr. Jerry Kingston, Bank of Ireland).
1996 RESORTS CONDOMINIUM INTERNATIONAL (RCI) – Limassol, Cyprus – marketing / sales.
1996-on Cooperation to translation agencies in Western Europe, US, Russia and Israel (Milim, SG Communications, Marom, Transglobal, Magic, Interoffice, Korentext etc.). Topics include oil / gas developments (Gazprom, Sibneft, Sidanco, Lukoil, Yukos, Tatneft, Shell, Chevron, Union Texas Petroleum), investment / finance / audit activities (RF Central and commercial banks, Bank of England, JP Morgan, Dresdner Kleinwort Benson, Western Union), production and research materials (Rotork, Belliss & Morcom, Whitlenge, Baseefa, Organon), legislative (RF and International Laws, regulations, contracts, agreements, court proceedings) and training materials (Bank of England, London School of Business, Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accounting), water supply and treatment systems (TAHAL Consulting Engineers Ltd.), food processing QA & QC (Gat Foods Ltd.), security/RF systems and equipment (Elbit, Rafael, Tadiran, Elisra), web, network and “triple play” systems (Motorola, Telrad, VariCom, Larotec, IT Navigator), diamond industry – mining, cutting, polishing, marketing and sales (ALROSA Israel) etc.
1995/96 Preparation and coordination of the EURASIA FOUNDATION – sponsored program of municipal management training in the towns of Zhodino and Borisov (Republic of Belarus). Several programs based on the above model have been later approved for Russia (ref. Mr. James J. Hearn, J.D., USA).
1994/95 RESORTS CONDOMINIUM INTERNATIONAL (RCI) – Minsk, RB – Assistant Managing Director.
1994 Assistance to the War Crimes and Special Investigations Section of INTERPOL (ref. Mr. N. P. Shroeter (Royal Canadian Mounted Police) and Mr. James D. Sutton (Canadian Department of Justice)) cooperating to the Belarusian Procurator’s Office in finding evidence against a Second World War criminal, former Belarus citizen, resident of Canada.
1994 Assistance to the NATO military experts on their inspection visits to the Belarusian military facilities under the START inspection programs.
1993/95 Special Representative of the Vice Rector of the MSLU appointed to assist foreign visiting professors in their adjustment to work activities in the RB.