Robert E. Lee Email & Phone Number

Minnetonka, Mn, Us

Digital publisher of databases specializing in "exotic language" (Russian, Chinese, Arabic, Japanese, Korean, Persian, et al.) research content and solutions for the Academic Library, Government, Corporate, and Public Library markets. Content portfolio includes humanities and science journals, newspapers and newswires, dissertations and theses, special collections, census, demographic, bibliographic, and GIS data. Largest source of digital data on China outside of China. Design and execute large-scale international initiatives to negotiate, access, digitize, and deliver critical and often rare content for dissemination to libraries and researchers worldwide. Seek and execute business development initiatives resulting in multi-million dollar revenue streams, often mission-critical in nature and involving Service Level Agreements.

Minnetonka, Mn, Us

Connecting East View with publishers worldwide to bring research solutions to the North American and European library markets.

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Director of the UMI division of ProQuest Information and Learning (formerly Bell+Howell). World's largest aggregation of newspapers, special collections, scholarly journals, theses and dissertations in microform. Managed $84MM portfolio, including significant merger/acquisition and product life-cycle management activities.

Developed scholarly reference publications in print and microform. Collaborated with libraries, archives, museums, and publishers in many countries globally, particularly in Japan, Russia, the former Soviet Union, Central Europe, and Latin America.

Professional translator and simultaneous interpreter (Russian/English). All ranges of subject matter handled, including finance, medical, humanities and scientific content. Engagements as simultaneous interpreter included assignments for various television and radio stations, law firms, Olympic gold medallist figure skater Oksana Baiul and the first man to walk in space, former Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov.

Москва, Ru

Collaborated with Russian software developers and entrepreneurs building the first freemium email service for the Russian-speaking Internet community worldwide. Wrote business plans that won seed investment and subsequent rounds of financing. Now publicly traded, Mail.ru remains a major edifice of the Russian-speaking internet worldwide.

Compose responses to RFPs issued by governments and semi-governmental agencies of countries in the Middle East and Africa to sell Citicorp asset management products and services. Compose individual daily market reports for high-net-worth investment clients, including several royal families of Middle Eastern countries. Primary logistic and research support to Director of International Institutional Marketing. Program Bloomberg terminal, liaise with senior portfolio managers and investment strategists to create on-demand and custom market reports for CGAM sales staff and senior management.

Part of 12-member Y2K-compliance taskforce to address corporate-wide conversion of all division computer systems (including legacy, test bed, desktop, client/server, and mainframe systems) in North America, the United Kingdom, Japan, and Luxembourg. Issued RFPs and reviewed vendor responses to implement highly visible and mission-critical project. Participated in development of retention strategies for resources. Primary liaison between 400-person on-site consulting staff and Citicorp management. Tracked project budget and developed system to provide real-time status tracking for senior management.

New York, Ny, Us

Researcher and translator for author Stacy Schiff on Pulitzer-awarded biography, Véra (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov), published in April, 1999. Translated over 70 years of personal correspondences, diaries, working notebooks and manuscripts of renowned author Vladimir Nabokov and family from Russian and German into English from archives in four countries. Provided first-ever translation of many materials, much of which was never before seen outside the Nabokov family.

Master Of Arts, Russian (Russian Translation; Slavic Languages And Literature)

Bachelor Of Arts, Russian (Slavic Languages And Literature; Minor In Polish)

Certificate, Russian Language, Soviet History

Certificate, Russian Translation

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