Marketing programs development for IT companies, financial institution, art and educational organizations - Assisted a sponsoring organization in creating a non-profit vehicle to popularize Russian Art in the local art community. Organized international art exhibit and art auction in Washington D.C., which resulted in exceeding the sales goals by 50%. - “Dance to wellness” marketing program development for CYBERSAVVY, a Kirkland, WA, IT company; - Collaboration on fund-raising efforts of the “American Association for Russian Language, Culture and Education” (AARCE), for financing of local conferences and educational initiatives; - Marketing and curriculum co-development for early education and elementary school programs (“Creative Art Studio”, “Yablochko” - the Russian language school center).

- Supervised daily operations, logistics and marketing activities for the newly established U.S. corporate branch office; - Maintained and expanded client database; - Implemented financial reporting to South Korean headquarters; - Facilitated full-cycle sales operations and customer relations; - Implemented PayPal payments system for bio-product sales through the Internet. - Designed collateral; - Facilitated corporate presence at trade shows; - Implemented HR procedures related to CA branch office registration, new personnel hiring, 401(K) and medical plans administration; - Administered employee payroll through Paychecks; - Directed East Coast operation’s liquidation and established new U.S. headquarters in Alameda, CA.

- Facilitated promotion of the insurance industry’s best business practices in the US banking sector through organizing and moderating weekly peer-to-peer teleconferences; - Maintained and developed client database; - Co-develop content, edited and designed layout for ABIA Insurance Weekly, the bi-weekly corporate newsletter; - Conceptualized, wrote and edited collateral for the Annual Conference; - Oversaw website maintenance; - Managed vendor relations.

Multi-media advertising design and placement for financial and IT companies. Fine art promotions. - Composed advertising copies and designed materials for print in local magazines (e.g. “Pathways”) and corporate brochures; - Conceptually designed, HTML-coded and launched web sites; - Promoted artists at local, NY and San Francisco art shows.

Developed marketing programs in print and on the Internet. Marketing efforts helped secure new clientele and raise the aggregate value of infrastructure projects to over $20 billion in five years. - Served as a company representative at trade shows and promotional events; - Arranged meetings for top level corporate executives with influential members of foreign governments, to assist in promoting corporate involvement in government advisory mandates (e.g. arranged a meeting for the President of Turkmenistan Niyazov and his top economic advisors with the company CEO at the Blair House in 1999. The meeting was instrumental in securing the government advisory mandate); - Established business relations with the international diplomatic corps representatives in Washington, D.C., which led to the award of two foreign governments’ advisory mandates (Turkmenistan, Georgia); - Participated in setting up overseas operations for corporate branch offices in London and Cairo. - Arranged speaking opportunities for corporate executives and prepared their presentations’ content; - Composed winning bids for international tenders (e.g. Trans-Caspian Gas pipeline project, Advisory proposals to the governments of Turkmenistan and Georgia); - Designed and launched corporate advertising campaigns in the industry publications, designed and maintained corporate web site; - Organized corporate presence at trade shows: designed promotional items, negotiated space, dealt with international regulations for trade shows; - Wrote press releases and generated articles in the industry magazines (e.g. Project Finance International, Privatization International). The news items were consistently picked up by the local and international publications (e.g. Infrastructure Journal in the US and Potencia magazine in Spanish for Latin America). These placements led to repeat business, and helped arrange interviews with the CEO by the leading industry publications; - Conceptualized, wrote and edited client-oriented monthly newsletter News’nViews for direct mailing distribution and press kit insertion; created, edited and designed a weekly on-line internal communications newsletter TDJ Chronicle for corporate distribution; - Drafted annual marketing plans and budgets; - Managed marketing personnel, interviewed for new positions.

- Co-developed and implemented IBM local Business Partner programs. - Initiated commission payments worth 3%-25% off HW/SW Integrated Solution Agreements. - Organized workshops for local businesses, ran presentations on current trends in IBM partner programs. - Trained IBM business partners on policies and contractual procedures. - Set-up business partner database. - Compiled and issued contracts. Assisted Oil & Energy marketing director in business administration and public relations. - Composed press releases. - Coordinated joint activities between IBM EE/A offices and IBM Vienna, Austria and Stavanger, Norway. - Facilitated trade shows (Neftegaz -94,03/94, WindowsExpo, 12/94, COMTEK, 02/95). - Facilitated promotional tours for Russian oil executives to IBM business partner sites in Norway. - Interpreted at numerous negotiations and performed written translation of framework agreements and technical texts.

School of Journalism, MA

Foreign Languages, BA, MS

IBM, successful completion

University Student Exchange Program, successful completion

IREX, 630