Curriculum vitae for Tatjana Farkin

Personal Information

Full name: Tatjana Regina Konstanze Farkin, née Böttcher
Current temporary address: Stresemannstr. 8, 65462 Gustavsburg, Germany
Email: tatjana@farkin.de
Marital Status: married, since 08/08/2001
Nationality: German
Year of birth: 1976
Current occupation: Admin Support for my husband's consultancy in the Human Factors and Space Applications sector

Education

1986 - 1995

Theresianum Grammar Schoool, Mainz, Germany:
Grade achieved: A levels in English, German and History

1995-2000

Johannes-Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany:
studies in English Literature/Cultural Studies, German Literature (aimed at MA)
Grade achieved: BA degree equivalent

September 1997-March 1998

University of Birmingham, England
ERASMUS scholarship

Work experience

1995 - continuing

Private English lessons (tutoring), ages 12-18 and conversation lessons.

6/1998 - 12/2000

Employed at TOPAS Ltd., Ginsheimer Str. 1, D-65462 Ginsheim-Gustavsburg

Areas of work: editing keyboarder for daily newspapers of the Rhein-Main-Presse, customer services hotline for their Internet service (Rhein Main Multimedia GmbH), theoretical and practical training of new employees, general office organisation (e.g. responsible for shift planning)

I chose to resign when the office moved to a different town

7/1999 - 12/2000

Week-end homepage update of Main-Rheiner, the online news site of the Rhein-Main-Presse. This includes scanning current affairs, choosing and editing news and matching pictures, and uploading both to the website.

1/2004 - 2/2004

agent at inbound call-centre of a local retailer

Current Admin Support for my husband's consultancy in the Human Factors and Space Applications sector

Languages

German (mother tongue and academic training)
English: university-level reading and writing, fluent conversation, mother tongue level
Hebrew: currently learning, reading and writing, basic vocabulary
Portuguese: very basic vocabulary

Computer and Internet skills

Win 95/98/ME, Word, Mac, Lino Press Advertising and Editorial, basic PhotoShop and PhotoImpact, HTML editing, various customised admin tools (databases), Outlook, Netscape Communicator, Internet Explorer, daily Internet user since October 1995
Typing speed appr. 40 words/min.

Volunteer experience

Feb 1993-June 1995: School project in a refugee centre in Mainz
Oct 1994-Jan 1995: Tutoring in a Pakistani refugee family
Jan-Mar 1998: Help with arts sessions at Cherry Oak Special School, Birmingham
March - October 1999: Co-ordinator of the new "pathfinder project" for exchange students at the Faculty of English, University of Mainz
2001: volunteer translator (German-English/English-German) for The World Citizen Foundation
Mar 2002-June 2004: founder/leader of the first German support group for PCOS patients

Awards received

Prize in the Koerber Foundation National German History Competition 1995 (Essay Topic: The Jewish Cemetery in Mainz)

Publications

Essay in an anthology about the 50th anniversary of the Fall of Nazism, 1995
"Freiheit, na und? Texte junger Autorinnen und Autoren", Frankfurt: Alibaba Verlag, 1995.

Excerpts of the essay submitted to the History Competition in "Sachor", -5 (1995), 2 = H. 10, S. 48-52

Personal Skills and Strengths

Strong interpersonal and communicational skills (work experience in customer services)
Familiarity with language and text, articulate (4 years at university studying languages and literature)
Flexible and highly motivated
Experienced in research and independent work due to four years at university (undergraduate and graduate level)
Experience in both teamwork and leadership (office management for TOPAS)
Fully computer literate
Culturally aware (semester abroad in Birmingham, studying cultural studies at university, working in a publishing environment)

Internships

July/August 1999: 8-week internship at the Rhein Main Multimedia GmbH, Mainz, Germany.

The company belongs to the Rhein-Main-Presse, the leading publishing house for daily newspapers in the Rhein Main area and is responsible for the online versions of the respective newspapers, as well as being a nation-wide ISP. Initially, I was responsible for a project that tried to enhance the company's representation in German search engines, and I became involved in daily online producing and web editing, using PhotoShop and PhotoImpact and the company's database admin tool. I continued to edit their news site at week-ends for another year and a half, being responsible for scanning, choosing and editing global news and matching pictures.

Jobs offered

Technical support at Software Logistics, High Wycombe, UK, August 1999
Web Producer (German), Fortune City Ltd., London, UK, September 1999
Customer Care, Union Investment, Frankfurt/Germany, December 2000

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