Nela   SOLDATOV - JONES  
 

                                                                       

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Curriculum Vitae                          

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Personal Details
Soldatov-Jones, Nela (Born: 17.01.1959., Zagreb, Croatia)

Education        1981, University of Philosophy, Zagreb, Croatia 
                 Subjects: English, Linguistics
                                
                 1991, City and Guilds, Information Technology,  
                 Plymouth College of Further Education, UK

                 1993-1994 Chartered Insurance Institute, ACII course, not completed.
                                              

Current Position
2004 -
                   Own business, Jones&Jones Consulting, consulting services for the IT industry, web and database consulting, translations.                                

Previously held Positions:

2001 - 2004
                   Atlas Insurance Co. Ltd., composite insurance company, Zagreb, Croatia, IT and organisation advisor to the Board.


1997 - 2001
                   IN2 Ltd., information engineering, Zagreb, Croatia
                   IT Consultant for the implementation of INsurance2, 
                   Oracle database solution for insurance companies. (Windows)


1995-1997          Zagreb Insurance Ltd., Zagreb, Croatia
                   IT Department, end-user helpdesk, Oracle database, UNIX

1992-1995          Brocklehursts Loss Adjusters, Plymouth, UK.
 
1991-1992          UK Ministry of Defence, co-ordinator and translator, Customs & Excise, Devon & Cornwall Constabulary police and court interpreter (Croatian and Italian)
1986-1992          Exchange Venture charter yacht, UK flag.
                   Yacht charter hostess, Mediterranean

1982-1984          AvioGenex, Belgrade, Yugoslavia. 
                   Flight attendant, European charter flights.
                                
IT Experience      Windows NT client-server, Oracle RDBMS, Oracle 7, Oracle 8, pl/sql, Oracle Discoverer 3 years (user level, reports creating for management), Business Objects 2 years (universe and report creating for management), some Oracle Designer/Developer experience (Oracle reports 25).

Languages           Fluent written and oral English, Italian, Croatian.

Professional translations and proof-readings: 

GLAXO Wellcome - proof reading of annual report in Italian 
Zagreb Insurance, Croatia - annual report translation into English 
Full transcripts of asylum statements for 21 Bosnian refugees in UK 
English-Croatian book translations for a Croatian publishing house 
Institute of Actuaries UK, Actuarial seminar, 9 modules, written and
oral translations
                                 
 
Ambition: Oracle consultant working at different remote areas solving problems, or a web/database developer working from home!