Serge V. Samsonov

Objective

Position of a project manager or of a personal assistant to top-level management.

Experience

July 2004 to date

Subsidiary of a major international oil and gas holding, Moscow

Assistant to the Head of Representative office

• Arrangement of business schedule
• Relations and talks with foreign partners and contractors
• Legal work related to documents circulation with partners
• Project management related to offshore segment of corporate structure, including basic legal work, talks and procedure management

Oct 2001-July 2004

TNK-BP Group of Companies, Moscow

Specialist, Administration

• Singling out, creation and management of a separate stream of corporate decision-making process and procedures.
• Relations with counter-parties and contractors in Russia and in offshore countries.
• Support to and management of the newly created procedure of corporate decisions making, including documentary flow management and support.

Interpreter, Business projects support department

• Translation of various documents in the following fields related to the company's profile: legal (agreements, contracts, incorporation documents, memos, letters), investments (related to assets flows and securities), tax (related to tax optimisation regimes and reporting documents), oil, insurance etc.
• Interpreter at negotiations, simultaneous interpretation also applicable.
• Participation in the Company's projects (charts, presentations, documentary suppport)

2001, Jun—Oct, «PR-Premier LLC», Moscow

Specialist, Client Services department

• Own project managing, starting with the project initiation to its completion.
• Translation, text-writing, work with clients and contractors, documentary work: official proposal, balances and reports submitting.

2000, Sep—Oct, Russian Foreign Office, Moscow

Translator, Department of Linguistic Services, practice

• Translation from English into Russian and vice versa, from French into Russian and vice versa, interpretation from and into English

2000, Jul—Sep «Masterstaff Travel», Moscow

Specialist at foreign client services department

• Writing applications for invitations and visas, hotel reservations abroad, document support

1999, Oct—Nov «ITAR-TASS» News Agency, Moscow

Translator, International News Service, practice

• Translation of news blocks from Russian into English

1999, Feb-Mar, State Academy of Management, Moscow

External translator

• Translation of a book named «Social Security» from Russian into English

1997, Jun—Jul, «Tiger LLC», Moscow

Sales manager

• Office and household appliances sales

1994–1996, Term active duty, Moscow Region

Corporal

1993–1994, «AiT LLC», Moscow

System programmer

Education

2002—2005 Moscow Academy of Economics and Law, Institute of Economics 

• Finance Department
• Profession: Economist, Banking and Finance, specialized in Finance Management
• Thesis written on "Financial Analysis of Annual Statements", with recommendations for the entity analysed.
• Graduated with distinction.

1996-2001 Moscow State Linguistics University

• Translation and Interpreting department (the course included simultaneous translation training)
• Profession: Interpreter, Linguistics and intercultural communication, graduated with distinction

Skills

• English (fluently), translation and interpreting from and into, simultaneous interpretation from English into Russin, vast private teaching experience
• French (fluently), translation and interpreting from and into
• Advanced user of PC (Microsoft Windows 2000, Office 2002, Visio 2002, Project 2000; Corel Draw 10; Adobe Photoshop 6.0, Internet Explorer 6.0)
• HTML-coding skills
• Communicable and presentable
• Active, hard-working, self-assertive, creative
• Well-balanced, cool-headed
• Easily teachable and tunable, open to innovations

Interests

• Public Relations, politics, economics
• Tourism, real estate, telecommunications
• Sports, active lifestyle
• Relations with people
• Psychology
• Photo