Manager
Resume:
Melissa Leah Peros
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Leadville, CO. 80461
Education
MIA, INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT ADMINISTRATION November 2008
Peace Corps International MA Program
West Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI
BACHELOR OF ARTS, INTERNATIONAL STUDIES AND POLITICAL SCIENCE May 2005
Knox College, Galesburg, IL
Double Minor – Business and Psychology
Relevant Experience
Lake County High School Door Program
Teacher: Leadville, Colorado: March 2009-June 3009
• The Door Program focuses on taking high school drop outs and helping them obtain their high school diploma. My roles are: providing consultation to 25 students, administering tests, inputting data into the computer, supervising classroom, and helping students develop individual curriculum plans.
The United States Peace Corps in Kazakhstan
Organizational Community Assistance Trainer: East Kazakhstan, August 2006 – October 2008
• Conducted a final evaluation report for the “Leadership Learning Center” program in Ust-Kamengoursk.
• The Peace Corps experience has been twofold, one to contribute to the Peace Corps initiative for developing countries, and to complete my MA degree and gain academic and practical experience; understanding theory and application.
• Raised $61,990 in grant donations for a rural NGO and acquired $5,000 in assets through community donations.
• Improved NGO capacity building by developing self-sustaining social oriented businesses within the Community Foundation of Life-Long Learning Education; a second-hand store, arts and crafts souvenirs business.
• Developed, created and administrated a weekend English language school for 25 rural middle school students and four teachers. Due to the program’s success the project will be financed for an additional two years.
• Designed and implemented 12 cross-sectoral trainings in a rural village setting for roughly 500 people over 2 years. Trainings focused on: democracy and capacity building, microfinance, health related matters, specialized training for youth and women, and cultural development.
• Taught skills which enhanced 9 female staff development resulting in 6 computer literate staff, 2 program design specialists, and monthly work calendars.
• Administered 4 monitoring &evaluation reports and 12 focus groups for cross-sectoral projects.
• Created advertising campaigns including radio spots, newspaper ads, billboards, posters, and 3 multilingual brochures.
• Instructed 2 year courses in rural Kazakhstan on strategic planning, English, IT skill development, creative thinking, marketing and project management design.
• Acquired Russian conversational proficiency.
HIV-AIDS workshop: Almaty, April 15-20 2008
Peace Corps Kazakhstan
• Trained to deliver effective HIV-AIDS seminars. Administered an AIDS awareness seminar in rural settlements for 25 children and 10 adults.
• Facilitated group discussion with 15 host country nationals in Russian and English to design regional AIDS projects and increase networking. The AIDS center in Ust-Kamengoursk co-taught an AIDS seminar sponsored by my rural host NGO.
Project Management Workshop: Almaty, November 10-16 2007
Peace Corps Kazakhstan
• Trained with 30 host country nationals on Project Design Management.
• Created design and later implemented an International Accounting Standards project for 30 local accountants.
Assistant Professor: Ust-Kamengoursk Kazakhstan, January 2007- October 2008
Kazakh American Free University (KAFU)
• Selected and made a public presentation on sustainable international business practices for 200 students and professors.
• Taught English to 40 students for two years twice a month.
• Co-taught a marketing and international business course for 20 students over a three month period.
• Published article on sustainable international business practices in KAFU’s “Collection of Research Articles 2008”.
Habitat for Humanity Project Overlook: Kalamazoo Michigan, March-May 2006
West Michigan University
• Wrote a monitoring report on housing project expansion used to evaluate project sustainability.
• Developed and delivered a questionnaire to obtain feedback from the target population.
Law Internship: Galesburg, Illinois, September 2002 – May 2003
Galesburg Law
• Performed researcher functions for senior attorneys on tax and criminal law matters.
• Set up the structure for systemization of documentation and organization of law office and files.
Sales and Costumer Service Jobs:
1. Ski Cooper- Winters 1998-2002
Job description: cashier, waitress, dishwasher, and costumer service coordinator
2. Cooper Mountain- Summer 2000-2002
Job Description: prep-cook
3. Sugar Loafin Campgrounds: Summers 2001-2004
Job description: secretary and reservation manager
4. Shoes and Accessories: Summer 2005
Job description: Sales and marketing
5. Knox Telemarketing: Winters 2003-2005
Job description: Fundraising and costumer service agent
6. Knox Café : Winters 2003
Job description: waitress
Computer Skills
Software: Excel, MS Office, WordPerfect 2000, DREAM, Adobe PageMaker, PhotoShop, PowerPoint, Outlook, Publisher, Internet and Acrobat.
Awards and Activities
• Attended Semester at Sea in the Summer of 2003
• Studied abroad in Aberdeen, Scotland
• Captain of the Knox College water-polo team
• Member of the “Association of Peace”
• Worked construction at A&G Enterprises from 1997-2001
References
1) Paul Clements- Recommendation letter available upon request
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2) Aitzhamal Mansurova –Peace Corp regional manager. Recommendation available upon request.
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3) Gulbarshin Kassimanova- Director of the “Public Foundation of Life-Long Learning” in Pervomaiskiy, Kazakhstan. Recommendation available upon request.
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