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18/45 Akademika Biletskoho St., Kyiv, Ukraine, 03126
Yuriy Alatortsev
Objective / To find use of my previous experience in the agricultural sector or agribusiness related community doing business in Ukraine, CIS and/or Eastern EuropeExperience / Present – July 2005 D’Artur TransConsult LLC Kyiv, Ukraine
CEO
- General Management
- Consulting on arable land leasing and acquisition
- Consulting on establishing a legal presence in Ukraine
- Consulting on grains and oilseeds markets in the Black Sea region
- Certified translations from and into a number of European languages
- Organizing tours across Ukraine for potential foreign investors
- EBA (European Business Association) membership
July 2005 – March 2004UMECOS B.V, the Dutch international grain n trading group, location Kyiv, Ukraine
Senior Commodity Trader
- Grains and oilseeds origination and procurement in Ukraine, Russia, Bulgaria, Romania
- Making daily reports on the local grains and oilseeds market situation for the head office
- Resolving logistical and technical issues in the Black Sea ports
- Developing logistics delivery chain from the Danube ports and Black Sea ports within the Black Sea and Mediterranean area
- Doing market research for specific grains and oilseeds in Ukraine
- Participation in Ukrainian Grains Association meetings, numerous grains conferences, meeting analytical groups dealing with grains and oilseeds markets
Feb 2004 –May 2002Marsh Europe S.A. (MMC)Kyiv, Ukraine
Business Development Manager/Agriculture Food and related industries
- Agricultural commodities, crop and livestock insurance and reinsurance on A+ western markets
- Developing specific insurance products for foreign investors involved in Ukraine's agribusiness
- Developing state-of-the-art presentations
- Organising tenders and market research in terms of crop and livestock, PD, TPL, Cargo, etc. insurance/reinsurance
- Doubled sales per representative from $5 million to $10 million.
- Developed new crop insurance/reinsurance products
- Serving western banks and Clients for collaterized grain loans
December 2001–May 2002 APK-Inform Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine
International Projects Manager/ Agricultural Commodities Analyst
- Writing weekly English language grains and oilseeds reports
- Preparing tailored agricultural commodities market information for western grain traders
- Developing informational projects
- Preparing English-language agricultural news digest
- Participation in numerous conferences, trade shows for grain traders
June 2000- December –2001 TerraServ Srl. Romania
Executive Director
- Managing custom farming operations + own crop production
- Acreage above 1,000ha.
- Custom farming operations include:
- Export /Import of inputs for agricultural [production and ag machinery
- Free Zone accreditation in Romanian Danube ports
- Grain trading (sunflower seeds, wheat, corn, coriander, milo)
March 1999- June 2000 AgroTrack Ltd. Kakhovka, Ukraine
Executive Director
- Managing custom farming operations in southern Ukraine - Kakhovka
- Custom farming for Chumak, the biggest Swedish Agriproducer
- Joint crop production on irrigated land 10,000ha
- Grains trading included sunflowers, wheat, sunflower meal, soybeans, animal feed)
- awarded with a trip to the USA (Millennium celebration)
Executive Director
- Managing farm operations at 7000 ha of leased land
- Maintaining business contacts
- Managing leased grain storage facilities
- Grains and oilseeds trading (1,000t annually of each commodity)
- Imports of inputs (seeds, chemicals) and machinery
- Taking a training course in Hiawatha KS, White Cloud Grain Inc.
Coordinator
- Assisting US executive director in managing customs harvesting operations at 5000 ha (Centre, North of Ukraine)
- Managing grain transportation to the Black Sea ports
- Accounting of grain at the grain storage facilities (third party warehouse)
- Grain trading
- Importing agricultural machinery and parts
Coordinator
- Coordinating meetings and lectures for administrative level of agricultural business.
- Interpreting of agricultural economics lectures of American professors
- Written and oral translation of scientific agricultural literature
- Writing follow-on reports on Ukrainian leaders studied overseas
Senior Translator
- Translator/Customer Service Representative at EE weekly magazine
- Creating and maintaining statistical database
- Operating Macintosh computer system and IBM-Compatible software
- Providing courteous customer service during peak periods
- Sales person
Affairs. Kyiv
Interpreter
- Simultaneous oral translation at meetings with Ukraine's ag leaders
- Developing business route schedules for volunteer groups
- Translating and typesetting various documentation, business plans, etc.
- Compiling reports on agricultural tours of volunteers
- Documentary film making on Ukrainian farming
- Travelling across Ukraine on various business trips with foreign delegations
Translator & announcer
- Simultaneous dubbing of feature films, documentaries, programs, and educational telecasts from English, German, Russian, and Ukrainian.
- Sound mixing, operating VCR equipment
- Interviewing foreign delegations
Production Amalgamation.
Translator
- Translating and typesetting advertising leaflets into English, German, and Russian
- Electron Microscopy TEM/SEM
- Mass spectrometers
- Electron beam welding
- Gas inlet systems
- Operating Hewlett-Packard desk-top publisher and correspondent software
- Printing and distributing ads
- Sales person
Education /
- 2004 Training course on international grain trading in head office, Holland: (Rotterdam, den Haag, Brielle)
- 2003 Marsh CEE and CIS Business Forum Bucuresti, Romania
- 2001 Grain market analytics training: Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine
- 1999-2000 Kansas (KCBT), DC, Chicago. Training program on boards of trade. Grain trading, warehouse receipts
- 1997 Kansas custom farming operations training project. CNFA. CNFF.
- 1986-1993Undergraduate Degree in English and German at Sumy State University
- 1987-1989Served in the Armed Forces, Missile Base, Rank: Sergeant.
- Driver's licence available.
Interests / Foreign languages, Travelling, Running, Canoeing, Football, Collectibles
Summary of Qualifications
As an executive director of US owned custom farming business, I managed numerous export>import projects including but not limited to agricultural equipment, spare parts, agricultural inputs, grain (wheat, sunflower, barley, soybeans, by-products). I also managed custom farming production operations, agricultural equipment monitoring, database maintaining. During the last two years, I have been involved in export>import issues between Ukraine and Romania. Previous 5 years were devoted to importing equipment and inputs into Ukraine from USA, Germany, France, Italy and exporting various kinds of grain to Poland, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus', Turkey, where I acted as project manager, freight broker, and logistics manager.
Skills
· / Export/Import Issues· / Legalising business documents
· / Certified translation En/Ger/Ukr/Rus
· / Grain marketing/trading
· / Customs brokerage
· / Freight brokerage
· / Logistics of doing business/transport across Eastern Europe
· / Large travelling experience within Eastern Europe
· / Large database of contracts in Eastern and Southern Europe
· / Experience in exporting/importing Commodity from/into Turkey, Ukraine, Romania, Bulgaria, Russia, Belarus, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, and Hungary.
· / Experience in cargo insurance issues CIF, DDP, DDP, C&F, other
Languageskills:
1)Ukrainian (fluent, native)
2)Russian(fluent, native)
3)English(fluent, close to native)
4)German(good written and oral)
5)Romanian(fluent)
6)French(basic)
References: references available upon request.