To utilize training, teaching, counseling, and administrative skills to enhance the productivity and contribute to the positive work environment in a corporate setting. Highly interested in a position where the trainer participates in the needs analysis and the development of training objectives and curriculae, but am especially interested in presenting and facilitating.

S K I L L S

Professional: Training and instructing ("soft" and "hard" skills), counseling and therapy, assessment, report writing, and strategic planning.

Communication: Writing skills, platform skills, and the internet.

Software: MS Word, Wordperfect, MS Publisher, MS Frontpage, MS Powerpoint, Excel, Internet Explorer, Netscape Communicator, Windows 95 and 98.

Administrative: Management, goal-setting and implementing, and marketing.
 
 

W O R K H I S T O R Y

Seminar Facilitator, Self 1994-Present

Presented seminars to a variety of companies from Fortune 500 corporations to small businesses. Created or enhanced training programs with an emphasis on personal growth, work/life skills, and wellness topics. Have presented to companies such as IBM, Glaxo-Wellcome, General Electric, American Express Travel, and others. Typically present an average of five seminars each month on a part-time basis. Authored a website offering seminars: (PLEASE REQUEST URL)

Staff Psychologist II, State of 1992-Present

Developed program for inmates and staff involving conflict management, stress-reduction, living more effectively and productively, and other programs. Facilitated various group therapy and skill-building groups. Co-managed a floor with 24 patients in a hospital setting. Involved with a treatment team both clinical and management descision.

Instructor, Self 1989-1992

Developed and presented health-oriented programs on a part-time basis. Also, established a tutoring business working with adolescents and adults teaching remedial English skills, English as a Second Language, and SAT preparation.

Vice-principle/Instructor, Le Lycee 1982-1988

Was the primary manager of a 200 + student campus which was part of a four campus private school system. Answered directly to school director. Was involved with establishing necessary curriculum, student recruitment and interview, accreditation compliance committees, fund-raising, and establishing English classes for students from France and Quebec. Classroom teacher for middle and high school college-bound, bicultural students.

E D U C A T I O N

MA, General Psychology, Pepperdine University, 1986

MDiv, Theology, Fuller Theological Seminary, 1979

BA, English/Secondary Education, University of Massachusetts at Lowell (formerly Lowell University), 1976.
 
 

P R O F E S S I O N A L A S S O C I A T I O N S

Chapter of the American Society of Training and Development.

L I C E N S E S & C E R T I F I C A T E S

Licensed Psychological Associate, North Carolina Psychology Board.

Licensed Health Services Provider, North Carolina Psychology Board.

Lifetime Teaching Certificate, Massachusetts Board of Education.

I N T E R E S T S

Classic movies

Fitness

Internet technology

Avid Reader

Personal Information:

Date of birth: 31/ 7/ 71

Place of birth: Harpenden, Hertfordshire

Nationality: British/Italian

Marital status: Single

Professional experience:

Translating articles on international tax law (Italian into English) for Current

a quarterly review, in collaboration with the University

of Rome ‘La Sapienza’

Freelance work: (translating in and out of Italian and interpreting)

Italian Information Administrator at EAR,’ Employee Advisory

Resource’ working with a team of counsellors and information

specialists providing companies in the UK and foreign clients an EAP,

Employee Advisory Programme; translating factsheets and newsletters

Uxbridge, Middlesex

Translating legal documents, technical reports, parts of manuals and

business correspondence for ‘Name of Company’,

Buckinghamshire

Interpreting for ‘Building Research Establishment’,

Department for the Environment, Garston,

Hertfordshire, in occasion of a meeting between Italian architects and

British and Swedish contractors

Translation of a medical presentation commissioned by

orthodontics practice, Rome

Proof-reading material for pathologists at the ‘Regina Apostolorum’,

Albano Laziale, Rome

Collaborated on a translation out of Italian of a documentary

on the ‘Roman Forum’ to be edited on video, Rome

Translating third world countries' economic reports (providing this

service as part of a language course, not strictly in a

a professional guise) for employees of the ‘Ministry of

Foreign Affairs’ through ‘Intercoop Language School’, Rome

Teacher of Italian at Dunstable College Current

Teaching beginners classes at ‘Dunstable College’, Bedfordshire

Lessons tailored to differing needs since same class includes adults

to take through basic language skills and other professional people

liaising with Italy therefore to be tutored in more business-oriented

Italian

EFL employment:

Teaching National Air Force Officers(one-to-one classes) at the

‘Intercoop Language School’ which provides language

services primarily for the ‘Ministry of Defence’, Rome

Teaching employees at the Italian state auditors’ court:

‘Corte dei Conti’

Teaching young adults at intermediate and

upper-intermediate levels at the Piccadilly Centre (Educational Travel),

London. Classes of mixed nationality

Private tuition to students and professional adults in Rome

Other skills:

I have worked with students preparing for Cambridge

Proficiency Examinations

Experienced in MS Word 6; Excel; Internet use

Education:

BA (Hons) Literary Studies in English

University of Luton ( Bedfordshire )

Main areas

of study: Teaching English as a foreign language and Linguistics, Post-modern Fiction, American Drama, American Lit. 1945 - present, Interdisciplinary studies, Development of the novel, Romantic Poetry, Modernism,

Contemporary Literary theory

Dissertation: Researching Woolf with Derridean and French Feminist theory

High School Diploma

obtained at the Istituto tecnico commerciale ‘Maffeo Pantaleoni’

Rome, Italy

Main areas

of study: Italian literature, Business French, Maths, Financial Maths, Basic Chemistry, Commercial law, Public law, Civil law, Political Science, Economic Geography, History, Banking, Accountancy

Interests and hobbies:

I am an avid reader and a degree in English has given structure and context to a

long-established pursuit. Language is not simply an occupation aimed towards financial gain: in my spare time I enjoy helping friends with works of literature which require close textual analysis and discussing English grammar points and the most effective way of teaching them in context.I recently sat the Diploma in Translation (English as the target language) at the Institute of Linguists, London, the outcome of which will be communicated this March.While I enjoy sedate activities like a good crossword, a background in semi-professional modern dance (pursued in Rome as a young girl) has also ensured that I keep up aerobics once or twice a week.

References: Available on Request
 
 

Education

B. Sc. Economics, University of Zagreb, Croatia ( diploma 1973 )

Seminar for young diplomats, Austrian Diplomatic Academy, Salzburg ( 1976 )

Languages

English, French, German, Italian, Croatian, Serbian

(understanding of all Slavic languages and Spanish)

Work Experience

Creative consultant for Ex Yugoslav TV show on Quebec ethnic TV - 1996 to date…

- I invented the show which is called ******* and speaks about how people from what used to be Yugoslavia adapt, live and succeed in Montreal. (My wife is the host and producer).

Manager, Company Name, Montreal - 1994 to date…

- Reporting to the President, my responsibilities include: supervision of the creative process for educational book-games, some writing and editing; assisting in all other aspects of business including marketing and financing.

Immigration Consultant - 1992 - 94

- Working independently, I provided help to immigrants and refugees in particular with political risk assessments and analyses of the political situation in refugee producing countries.

Diplomat in Federal Secretariat for Foreign Affairs of Ex Yugoslavia (Tito’s)

1975 - 1992

- I taught at a Diplomatic Institute

- From 78 to 82 served as third secretary in (Country) embassy in Washington DC

( provided political and economic analyses and background papers; was a visiting Prof. at several American Universities - GMU of N. Virginia in particular, where students voted me to be the best of the year)

- From 84 to 88 served as first secretary and consul in (Country) embassy in Ottawa.

- From 88 to 92 was posted in Secretariat in Belgrade. Last job: Director of the North American Department. I helped formulate and carry out a reform policy often at considerable personal risks ( American diplomats should remember,

2

among other things, that they tried for decades to introduce Peace Corps into (Country) and that I finally was the one who helped them do it; it took courage and skills to do it, for Peace Corps was branded a CIA front organization in communist system and who dared to defend it risked the same, which was a sure career killer and often way to jail). I worked closely with US diplomats and other reps. Was involved in visits by numerous US personalities - Bob Dole, Cirrus Vance, Sec. of the State Jim Baker, who made a historic visit just before the brake up of Ex Yu. I also worked on visits of heads of states and governments of many countries, and at global conferences, like meetings of the World Bank and IMF, Summit of the nonaligned countries. When US diplomats needed help, they came often to me, for they knew that I could help them get access to the minister, whom I personally knew, having served under his ambassadorship in Washington DC, and the PM whom I knew from the Uny in Zagreb. During this time I wrote several novels but published only one with the first independent publisher in Ex Yu. Other novels were judged too liberal and some outright subversive (a friendly advice was not to show them to anybody).

Researcher in International Labor Office(part of UN system), Geneva, Switzerland - 1973 - 1975

- I provided analyses of the situation in Eastern European countries. When my contract expired, I joined the Ex Yu diplomatic service, having seen what it was about and met some people who wanted to reform the system. While in Geneva, I was also a correspondent for the biggest daily in Zagreb - Vjesnik. My articles appeared in prominent places.

Attitudes and activities

I have always been motivated by desire to make my country a parliamentary democracy, having been in contact, from an early age, with foreigners at the Island of Hvar, city of Hvar, Croatia and later after working abroad. I also took inspiration from Plato who said that if "you refuse to get involved, you risk to have the power exercised over you by someone worse than yourself". I took considerable personal risks and was regarded as too liberal for a long time. It was only when reform started to be more acceptable that I was accepted too, but only until the extremists and extreme nationalists took over; because I was and still am a cosmopolitan person. It was at that point that I chose to immigrate to Canada. I was in contact with American diplomats too, but came to Canada because I had some money invested here. Now I very much wish to come to the US.

Until I was 25, I more or less regularly played water polo and soccer. I was an executive of the water polo club in Hvar and visited several European countries with this club as a player, coach and executive. I played and was involved with clubs in Geneva, Washington, Ottawa, Belgrade and now in Montreal. I spent my life in water polo and have great expertise in this field which I can teach others.

I get along well with people of different origins and education.

Please Request Resume for details:

Education:
Juris Doctorate, Quinnipiac College School of Law, Hamden, CT
Class Rank 75/212, Graduated 12/95, Admitted to Maryland Bar 6/96
Primary Emphasis: Business Law and Real Estate Transactions
Substantial paper done on securities law and mergers

Masters in Business Administration, Clemson University, Clemson, SC
3.5 MBA average, Graduated 8/92, Electives in Accounting

Bachelor of Arts, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
Government Major, Economics Minor, Accounting Background, Graduated
8/91

Professional Experience:
Company Name., Oakland, Maryland, Attorney, (2/98 to current)
Commercial and residential real estate contracts, Other legal issues

Company Name., Burlington, VT, Mergers and Acquisitions,
(9/96 to 1/98)

Conducted in-depth financial analysis of potential acquisition
candidates, Analysis of legal acquisition issues prior to involvement of outside
counsel, Computer information modeling using Lotus, Assisted with
negotiations, Conducted peer analysis and market share reports, Assisted with
strategic planning, Collection and analysis of demographic information, Anti-trust
analysis, Purchase and pooling accounting analysis, Prepared the budget for my
department

Major accomplishment: The creation of a comprehensive acquisition
computer model that can accurately predict the financial performance
of combined entities over a five year period. The model includes
purchase and pooling accounting considerations, tax consequences,
integration costs, capital levels, growth factors, and cost reductions. The
model also contains a basic anti-trust section and a one page summary
sheet for presentation purposes.

Company Name:, Customer Service and Sales (10/94 to 12/95)
Sales of all banking products, Conducted asset searches for judicial
executions, Managed branch for one week, Safe deposit duties
Major accomplishment: Working for Fleet Bank and attending law
school full-time.

Computer Skills:
Lotus MS-Word MS-Excel Word Perfect
MS-Office Westlaw db-CAMS Windows 95

Course Background:
Real Estate Transactions Banking Law Corporate
Finance Financial Accounting Tax Law Managerial
Accounting Administrative Law Corporate Law Advanced
Securities Bankruptcy Law Contracts Law Criminal Law
and Procedure Uniform Commercial Code Equal Employment

Other Interests:

Skiing, Tennis, Golf, and Charitable Activities

To utilize training, teaching, counseling, and administrative skills to enhance the productivity and contribute to the positive work environment in a corporate setting. Highly interested in a position where the trainer participates in the needs analysis and the development of training objectives and curriculae, but am especially interested in presenting and facilitating.

S K I L L S

Professional: Training and instructing ("soft" and "hard" skills), counseling and therapy, assessment, report writing, and strategic planning.

Communication: Writing skills, platform skills, and the internet.

Software: MS Word, Wordperfect, MS Publisher, MS Frontpage, MS Powerpoint, Excel, Internet Explorer, Netscape Communicator, Windows 95 and 98.

Administrative: Management, goal-setting and implementing, and marketing.

W O R K H I S T O R Y

Seminar Facilitator, Self 1994-Present

Presented seminars to a variety of companies from Fortune 500 corporations to small businesses. Created or enhanced training programs with an emphasis on personal growth, work/life skills, and wellness topics. Have presented to companies such as IBM, Glaxo-Wellcome, General Electric, American Express Travel, and others. Typically present an average of five seminars each month on a part-time basis. Authored a website offering seminars: www.ncpsych.com.

Staff Psychologist II, State of NC 1992-Present

Developed program for inmates and staff involving conflict management, stress-reduction, living more effectively and productively, and other programs. Facilitated various group therapy and skill-building groups. Co-managed a floor with 24 patients in a hospital setting. Involved with a treatment team both clinical and management descision.

Instructor, Self 1989-1992

Developed and presented health-oriented programs on a part-time basis. Also, established a tutoring business working with adolescents and adults teaching remedial English skills, English as a Second Language, and SAT preparation.

Vice-principle/Instructor, Le Lycee 1982-1988

Was the primary manager of a 200 + student campus which was part of a four campus private school system. Answered directly to school director. Was involved with establishing necessary curriculum, student recruitment and interview, accreditation compliance committees, fund-raising, and establishing English classes for students from France and Quebec. Classroom teacher for middle and high school college-bound, bicultural students.

E D U C A T I O N

MA, General Psychology, Pepperdine University, 1986

MDiv, Theology, Fuller Theological Seminary, 1979

BA, English/Secondary Education, University of Massachusetts at Lowell (formerly Lowell University), 1976.

P R O F E S S I O N A L A S S O C I A T I O N S

Research Triangle Park Chapter of the American Society of Training and Development.

L I C E N S E S & C E R T I F I C A T E S

Licensed Psychological Associate, North Carolina Psychology Board.

Licensed Health Services Provider, North Carolina Psychology Board.

Lifetime Teaching Certificate, Massachusetts Board of Education.

I N T E R E S T S

Classic movies

Fitness

Internet technology

Avid Reader
 
 

Nationality : British

EDUCATION :

1997-1998 : Postgraduate Diploma in Legal Practice

The College of Law, Guildford

Legal Practice Course

Skills : Interviewing and Negotiating

Advocacy

Business Accounts

Solicitors Accounts

Basic options: Business Law

Civil Litigation

Conveyancing

Criminal Litigation

Electives: Commercial Law

Acquisitions and Mergers

Corporate Finance - Banking and the Capital Markets & Public Companies

Course passed 8/98

1992-1995 : Nottingham Trent University

LLB Law (Hons) 2.2

(2.1 in Company Law, Environmental Law, and Tort)

1986-1992 : Harrow School

'A' Levels- Law (A)

English(C)

History(C)

Theatre Studies(C)

GCSE's - 9 from Grades A-C
 
 

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:

July-Present :Name of Company, Holborn, London

Researcher/Consultant

Duties included researching, headhunting, and the normal duties of a recruitment consultant, such as interviewing candidates and liaising with clients. Courses completed included Banking and Finance in the City - giving a complete understanding of finance in the City, including the different roles and components of both Accounting and Operations, and the Fund Management Industry.

Training courses completed included recruitment, interview techniques, and sales.

Jan 1997-August 1997: (UK) Ltd, Newbury, Berks

Large commercial company - subsidiary of ***** UK

Fleet Administrator- individual responsibility for administration of Account Managers, ensuring customer satisfaction whilst dealing with quoting, ordering, and delivery of vehicles to corporate fleets. Developed commercial awareness.

Company's annual turnover- approx £1 million + per annum

Oct 1996-Jan 1997 : A variety of temporary assignments-office and clerical work

Feb 1996-Sept 1996 : Travelling in Europe-Travelled in France, Spain, Italy,

Germany, and Czechoslovakia. Working in the process involving

various employment.

June 1995-Feb 1996 : Director- clothing business.

Founding participator in 'street-wear' clothing business.

Duties included liaison between clients and the public,

logistics, book-keeping, promotion, and daily operations.

Business highly successful- 1st yr turnover circa £20,000.- 1994 Vacation employment in the catering and leisure industry.

LEGAL EMPLOYMENT:

May-Sept 1994 : Name of Law Firm, Southampton

Medium sized firm dealing with Commercial Law, Private Client and Litigation. Duties included trips to the High Court and County Court, sitting in on meetings with clients, and general work such as filing.
 

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION :

Chamber Choir and School Choir member at Harrow School.

1st XV Rugby Team- Full Back. 1st XI Football Team. Cricket Team.

Other interests include tennis, shooting, fishing, and snooker. Senior Librarian and Head Chorister at Cheam School.

Extensive P.C. skills- Word, Excel, Microsoft Outlook, Internet Explorer, and other Microsoft software.

Good grasp of French language and limited Spanish.

REFERENCES: Available on request

PLEASE REQUEST RESUME FOR DETAILS:

SUMMARY: Providing Legal assertiveness on a variety of civil and criminal matters with emphasis on alternative dispute resolution and facilitated mediation. Offering In-House Counsel and other technical support to corporate clients.

Prior consulting on manufacturing and marketing solutions to production problems, incorporating existing technology and implementing advanced manufacturing methodologies. Metallurgical Engineering (BS--Wayne State University);

State of Michigan Bar License (JD--Detroit College of Law at Michigan State University). Certificate of CDRP Mediation Training (Oakland Mediation Center) and Federal Workplace Mediation Training (Atlanta-Georgia Judicial Training Center).

                    BUSINESS EXPERIENCE

Candidates Name:, P.C. (1992 to Present). Solo Practitioner specializing in areas of alternative dispute solutions and facilitated mediation, civil and criminal matters, mental health, juvenile and probate appointments, business contracts/issues and employment disputes, and a variety of other legal matters. Providing In-House Counsel support to corporate clients.

****** & ASSOCIATES, (1991 to 1995). Providing engineering, project management & legal support for industrial applications (Automotive, Military, Construction). Recommend technological resources, whereby quality products and services are realized at competitive costs. Providing feasibility studies for the transfer of technology, products and services among world markets. Client confidentiality protected.

DIVISION MANAGER, *****. Directed new product development and applications, provided marketing/sales support for automotive die-castings. Incorporated existing technology and recommended advanced casting methodologies.

ENGINEERING SPECIALIST, Name of Organization. Group Leader for materials and process selections in design, development, and manufacturing of gas turbine engines. Managed manufacturing programs incorporating superalloy applications of aluminum, nickel, titanium, and multiple property rotors. Patents Awarded.

STAFF QUALITY CONTROL ENGINEER, FORD MOTOR CO. Launched new automotive engine parts through all production phases. Acting Quality Control Laboratory Supervisor for Michigan Casting Center.

CHIEF METALLURGIST, ATLAS FOUNDRY COMPANY. Directed Meehanite casting production for automotive and prototype castings, melting and pouring operations, and plant quality control functions.