Galina Ponomarenko, Project Manager

Galina Ponomarenko

Project Manager

My Business Consulting DMCC

Location
United Arab Emirates
Education
Master's degree, International Relations/ European Studies
Experience
12 years, 8 Months

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Total years of experience :12 years, 8 Months

Project Manager at My Business Consulting DMCC
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • My current job since August 2018

Publication on Gulf News Business (Gulf News Focus) - https://gulfnews.com/business/what-are-the-most-promising-fields-of-doing-business-in-the-uae-1.1588758494924
Project Management; Implementation of SCRUM framework in order to increase the efficiency; Operating clients' database and keeping it up to date;
Promoting company services, outreaching prospect clients, preparing and performing presentations on the business products of the company;
Building and maintaining relationships with clients and key personnel within customer companies;
Executing clients' projects at the highest level of transparency, accuracy and consistency; regular feedback to the clients on the progress of the project/service
Understanding of the situation from the client's perspective, anticipating challenges, foreseeing risks and preparing appropriate solutions;
Conducting thorough research and analysis of global political, economic and social trends; policy analysis; keeping up to date with reports, regulations and official statements of governmental/ intergovernmental institutions;
Internal Compliance and KYC Management; CDD (Lexis Nexis);

Project Manager at Roscongress Foundation
  • Russian Federation
  • My current job since January 2016

Roscongress Foundation is the Major Operator of International Political and Economic Events in Russia. The company is organizing events featuring Heads of States and High-Ranked Politicians as well as C-Level Business Representatives;
Trained and coordinated multiple front-desk teams (over 30 people), which resulted in more than 20, 000 requests being operated within 6 weeks;
Served as facilitator between the suppliers and government agencies;
Provided research on workload optimization for the key suppliers of the company;
Accelerated contract negotiation process in order to meet deadlines;
Conducted weekly reports on suppliers performance and provided analytics to the head of the department;
Optimised the procedure of requests management, which led to a considerable decrease in queueing time compared to the previous year (divided by 2.5);
Major projects: Open Innovations Forum, SPIEF-2016, St.Petersburg International Cultural Forum, Russian Investment Forum 2017, International Arctic Forum 2017, SPIEF 2017, SPIEF 2018.

Customer Relations Manager at British School
  • Russian Federation
  • August 2011 to December 2015

While studying at the university I had a part-time job (20 hours a week) first as a Customer Relations Manager and then as a Vice-Head Manager in a Foreign Language school.

Increased the number of clients by 20%
Gained students' loyalty by organizing entertaining and educational events

Established the practice of "clients' days" and open lessons
Implemented electronic customer database
Scheduling

Intern at RUSSIAN GEOGRAPHICAL ORGANIZATION
  • Russian Federation
  • May 2012 to July 2012

The mission was to provide preservation of the cultural and historical heritage sites located on the territory of Tuva. Hundreds of volunteers from all around the world were selected to help professional archaeologists. The project was supervised by the President of the Russian Geographical Society Sergey Shoigu (current Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation).

• Assisting a team of foreign researchers
• Providing consecutive interpretation for the foreign specialists during the official events
• Writing articles for the local newspaper

Education

Master's degree, International Relations/ European Studies
  • at Saint Petersburg State University
  • June 2018

Thesis: Principal Directions of the European Union Policy towards the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Completion: June 2018

Master's degree, International Relations
  • at THE BONCH-BRUEVICH ST. PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY, FACULTY OF HUMAN SCIENCE
  • June 2014

Department: International Relations and Regional Studies Thesis: Anglo-American struggling during the Great Depression (1929-1933) Completion: June 2014 Advisor: Prof. Alexander Ostrovsky Chairperson: Prof. Nikolay Meshevich

Languages

English
Expert
Russian
Native Speaker
French
Intermediate