Sasha Kovaliov

Current

Sales Manager at iTransition Software Development Company

Past

Translator at American Center for Education and Research, Inc.
Teacher at Streamline
Presidential Election Interpreter at OSCE

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Education

Minski Dzjaržauny Lingvistyèny Universitet

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Information Technology and Services

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Sasha Kovaliov’s Summary

Sales manager in IT sphere with strong knowledge and experience in outsourcing services. Social media analyst and ideas generator. Interested in new business opportunities for applications re/development and social media analysis.

Sasha Kovaliov’s Specialties:

Marketing, sales, agreement revisions, social media analysis, social media promotion, partnership development, online media relations, online/social media campaigns, linguistics, translating, interpreting, copywriting, usability analysis, blogging

Sasha Kovaliov’s Experience

Sales Manager

iTransition Software Development Company

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)

September 2007 — Present (1 year 11 months)

The most challenging and interesting position.

Constanlty working in a large organization requires extensive communication skills, both with other departments and clients.

- Communication with clients;
- Leads generation;
- Cold-calling;
- Contracts revision;
- Active sales;
- Teaching new personnel;
- Advice on design and usability;

Managing social media projects and general strategy in new web.
Translator

American Center for Education and Research, Inc.

(Government Relations industry)

November 2006 — May 2008 (1 year 7 months)

Working under tough time frames and not that easy translations in various spheres (medicine, bussiness, agriculture, psychology, education, etc).

Most of the work has to be done quickly and in large amounts.

Has perfected my skills in written translation and I got the insight of what a freelancing is like.
Teacher

Streamline

(Education Management industry)

February 2006 — August 2007 (1 year 7 months)

Teaching upper levels of English to students of all ages (16 - 60 years). It was both inspirational and a tough challenge to manage such diverse groups in one classroom.

This position required immense creativity, stamina (we worked for 4 hours late at night), social and managerial skills.

I've started working in Streamline when I was 19 up till 21 and it was an amazing experince that let me become mature and responsible.

Work scope:
- Preparing for the classes;
- Teaching;
- Conducting and managing seminars;
- Web-materials group coordination - getting the cutting edge advice and teching techniques from the web, adding podcasts, RSS and web video to the classes;
- Administration of intranet for teachers.
Presidential Election Interpreter

OSCE

(Government Agency; 1001-5000 employees; OSCE; International Affairs industry)

March 2006 — March 2006 (1 month)

Assistance and interpreting for OSCE observers during presidential elections in Belarus in 2006.

Sasha Kovaliov’s Education

Minski Dzjaržauny Lingvistyèny Universitet

Linguistics 2003 — 2008

Studies of linguistics. Diploma in congnitive linguistics on information non-linear representation and analysis.

Studying Swedish for three years. Participating in Literature debates club and psychology club.

Constant trips with various students organizations to Poland, Ukraine, Russia to participate in students debates, meetings.

Activities and Societies:

Literature Club, German courses