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Belgrade, Rs

Belgrade, Serbia

Mentoring writers. Also writing, copywriting, content writing, ghostwriting. Translating, editing & proofreading (English and Serbian). Communication Strategies. Communications training, publications & consulting, including capacity development. Sharing expertise via coaching, seminars, webinars, online video, and e-books. Topics include Public Relations, Media Relations, Crisis Management, Presenting & Public Speaking, Knowledge Management, Online Writing, Career Development & Life Skills, and more.

Belgrade, Serbia

Digital Communication Expert on the State Matura Project, a joint intervention by the Serbian Ministry of Education and the EU. Responsible for the setup and all content of the official State Matura website and Social Media feeds. Kept growing the audiences of the website and the social media pages consistently and, in the first three years, built & ran an effective Help Desk service and trained the consultant who took it over in the last year. Also helped draft promotional collateral, key Project correspondence, presentations, and reports. Helped prepare communication events and performed their live broadcasts. In the last quarter of the Project, prepared a comprehensive course and trained a focal point in the national exams institution to take over all Communication channels of State Matura.

Belgrade, Serbia

Wrote and edited copy for a global IT contender, active in AI, Blockchain, Cloud, Data Management, Digitization, Education, Energy & Utilities, FinTech, Gaming, Healthcare, Logistics, Mobility & Travel, Telecommunications, and more. Drafted all advertising, branding, and marketing formats - from ads & slogans, through brochures & data sheets, to websites and white papers, mostly in English. In charge of internal & external PR texts. Innovation evangelist at Comtrade's promotional branch, CAN Advertising. In the final year, initiated and successfully led a team-wide effort to devise a Communication strategy for the company's main commercial brand, Tesla.

Belgrade, Serbia

Preparing Project Communication & Visibility Plan, promotional materials & items (including website and newsletter); media promotion and internal & external communication. Proofreading & editing of all strategic and training publications prepared by a team of well over fifty international and local experts, implementing an ambitious EU-funded project, aimed at reforming Serbian education.

Belgrade, Serbia

Preparing and delivering (in Serbian or English) lectures on business and personal communications skills, for groups of up to 50 students. Occasional in-house trainings for corporate clients. Lectures were recorded and are still being distributed to students electronically.

Beograd, Srbija

UNDP expert, engaged as a Knowledge Management & Results-Based Management Consultant for a team of 30 experts at the Ministry; in charge of all knowledge codification, monitoring, reporting and visibility. Also a Communications trainer for 250+ civil servants at the Ministry. In charge of programme design focused on Public Finance & the Ministry’s organizational development. Responsible for developing & maintaining a knowledge system which was recommended by independent evaluators as a new standard for UNDP projects worldwide.

Belgrade, Serbia

In charge of PR and lobbying strategies and client accounts, in oil, beverages and packaging industries.

Beograd, Srbija I Crna Gora

Engaged by UNDP to build capacity and help reform Public Administration. Head of Cabinet to 3 Ministers; prepared them for media opportunities. Trained staff in ensuring optimum media coverage. Supervised media relations, media conferences, events & all communication products in Serbian/English. Managed crises. Liaised with donors, media, diplomats, enterprises, labour unions, general public. Acted as UNDP Project Manager for 6 months.

Toronto, Kanada

Business advisory, PR and writing (articles, business plans, pitch letters & scripts, bid papers); for clients in ICT, marketing, entertainment and wellness industries.

Toronto, Kanada

Acted as Head of Business Affairs & Administration. In charge of financing and contracts for ten TV projects. Thoroughly reorganized and managed a busy office and 16 staff. Responsible for procuring CAD $20+ million in funding (2001 / 2002). Tracked development of projects; produced promotional & pitch materials & websites.

Toronto, Kanada

In charge of Y2K project.

Toronto, Kanada

In charge of special events, promotional contests, PR copy and media relations for clients, as well as administration.

Toronto, Kanada

Co-wrote scripts & produced shows for Diverse City, a weekly TV program on Toronto's multiculturalism.

Toronto, Kanada

Wrote & edited copy and managed client accounts.

Colombo, Western, Sri Lanka

Wrote copy for print, radio & TV advertisements, as well as agency pitches for private & public-sector clients in the dynamic test market for the rest of Asia.

Beograd, Jugoslavija

Film reviews of local and foreign films broadcast on TV and radio and published in magazines and books. Also prepared country reports on Yugoslav film & TV production, for Variety magazine and Film Guide International.

Belgrade, Serbia

Wrote / hosted / produced hundreds of radio & TV programs on arts & entertainment, many of them as live broadcasts.

Frequently called to interpret live TV & radio shows, or at festivals, trade shows & in business development opportunities. First translator (into Serbian) of Everyman, a 15th century English morality play (920 lines of rhymed verse) and of Herbalist’s Address, a 13th century French fabliau by Rutebeuf (1988), both published in a compilation in Serbian of European Medieval Drama, Novi Sad 1988.

Beograd, Jugoslavija

Part of creative team which had won multiple national advertising awards.

Beograd, Jugoslavija

Wrote articles for national magazines & hosted live radio broadcasts on local & national radio stations in a variety of formats, concerning contemporary culture, media & entertainment themes.

Master Of Arts - Ma, Dramaturgy (Writing For Theatre, Radio, Film & Tv), 9.32/10

Activities and Societies: Student DeanMajored in both Dramaturgy & Script-writing. Faculty had included writer/playwright Slobodan Selenic.

Foreign Languages And Literatures, General

Activities and Societies: Play production (writing, directing, acting); production of school newsletter (Editor-in-Chief, writer, layout.