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app.110, 13, Gerov Dnipra Street ,                                     e-mail: vgudkov@svitonline.com.
Kyv-209, 004209 , Ukraine				   mobile: 8-050-358-78-53

RESUME

Name: VALERY GUDKOV
Date  of  birth:  September 6, 1951
Education:  
1968-1973 Kiev  StateUniversity
Degree in translation

Professional experience:
1997 - present
Free-lance translator 
Working with major Western companies (Telecommunications, Power Generation, Oil &Gas, Banking, etc.). 
1995 - 1997  Business Development Consultant
Cisco Systems
Technical translations, meeting arrangement, sales leads, qualification, prospect follow-up.

1992- 1995  External   Consultant  
Digital  Equipment Corporation 
Working as sales support with Country  Sales Manager , organising meetings with customers, developing contacts  with  customers and   follow-up of contracts (Ukraine, Latvia and Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kirghizia), organising presentations of  Digital products.
1990-1992  Translator 
Soyuzgazproekt  Gas Pipeline Design  Company, Ukrainian-French Joint Venture Gazintek
Translated documentation, reports, interpreted  for international  customers, organised  trips and meetings,  participated in preparing commercial and technical proposals for tendering.
In 1991 worked in France during 6 months at Sofregaz  Company with a team of Ukrainian engineers.
1980-1983  Editor
1983-1989  Senior Editor
1989-1990 Checking Editor
All-Union Centre for Translations of Scientific and Technical Literature and Documentation
Hiring of part-time translators, organising their training , distributing papers for translation, checking up the quality of job, organising  translator teams for important international meetings, solving problems with customers, evaluation of the job done.
As Checking Editor managed a team of  9 editors , distributed duties between editors, checked the quality of translation, settled the problems with customers,  giving final approval of remuneration.