Education
International
Policy Fellow, Democratic Governance, Transparency, and Accountability, OSI/Soros Foundation, Center
for Policy
Studies affiliated with the Central European University, 2005-2006
fellowship.
Master
of Public Affairs, University of
Texas at Dallas, May 2000
Professional specialization:
public management, overall GPA 4.0/4.0.
Courses: Microeconomics,
Statistics, MIS, Financial Management and
Accounting, Decision Tools, HR Management, Organizational
Decision-Making,
Policy Institutions and Processes, etc.
Bachelor of English and Political Science, Yerevan
State
Institute of Foreign Languages, Armenia 1998,
graduated with Honors (equivalent to Summa Cum Laude)
Employment
History
08/2005-06/2006
Project Coordinator,
Court Automation and Skills Transfer Project, Ministry of Justice/World Bank Judicial
Reform Project in Armenia, Luxoft-Armenia
05/2005-12/2005
Project Liaison, Judicial Education and Training, World Bank/Judicial
Reform PIU in Armenia, DPK Consulting
09.2004-05/2005
Human Resources Development and PUblic
Administration Consultant, EU Tacis Regional Development Project in
Armenia, implemented by Eurecna
06/2003-06/2004
Deputy Chief
of Party, USAID/Capital Markets Development Project in
Armenia, IBM_Business
Consulting Services
(former PricewaterhouseCoopers)
11/2002-05/2003
Consultant, USAID/Capital Markets Development Project in
Armenia, IBM_Business
Consulting Services
(former PricewaterhouseCoopers)
02/2002-02/2004
Civic Education Project Fellow, SCOUT Program
02/2002-09/2006
Lecturer, Assistant
Professor, Yerevan
State Linguistic
University
Lecturing “Principles of
Management”, “Executive Decision-Making”, “Human Resources Management”,
Seminars on “History of Political Thought”; workshop on Resume
Writing/Job Hunting Skills,
Model UN trainings; member of selection/nomination committee for
student
conferences; supervising research papers
10/2000-02/2002
Human Resources Expert, Civil Service Reform
Project,
Tacis/PLS Ramboll Management
05/2000-08/2000
Summer Intern, Congressman Xavier Becerra, Representative of the 30th
District,
LA, CA
05/1999-08/1999
Summer Intern, Loans & Grants Dept, Empire State Development
Corporation, New York
Awards,
Certificates, Other
Recipient of Democracy
Commission Small
Grant (“Yellow Pages of Armenian Political Parties” project), US
Embassy in Armenia,
2004
Recipient of Professional
Conference Travel Award by HESP/CEP, Austria,
Fall 2003
Recipient of the HESP/OSI
scholarship for summer/winter schools on
International Affairs and European Studies, Ukraine,
2003-2005
Member of the Selection and
Nomination Committee for Hubert H. Humprey
Fellowship for mid-career professionals (Fall 2001, Fall 2002).
Recipient
of the Support for
Community Outreach and University Teaching (SCOUT) Part-Time Teaching
Grant,
the United States Department of State, Open Society Institute, Civil
Education
Project, spring and fall 2002, 2003
Recipient of the Certificate of
Training on Recruitment &
Selection, Performance Appraisal & Training,
UK, 2001
Recipient
of the Cal State
L.A.'s Pat Brown Institute (PBI) Public Policy Fellowship, placed under
its
summer internship program with U.S. Congressman Xavier Becerra, 2000
Recipient
of Special
Recognition in grateful appreciation of a superb work as a PBI summer
intern in
the district office, U.S. House of Representatives, Member of Congress
Xavier
Becerra, 2000
Recipient
of the Edmund
Muskie/Freedom Support Act Graduate Fellowship Program, the United
States
Department of State, 1998 -2000
Diploma, Yerevan State Conservatoire
after Komitas
Professional
qualification/specialization: pianist, artist of chamber ensemble, 2001
Languages
and Computer Skills
English, Russian,
Armenian- trilingual
MS
Word, Excel, Power Point,
Access, Word Perfect, Stata 6.0, SAS
Publications
Current Situation
of Public Human Resources Policies and Changes Envisaged in the New
System of
Civil Service; author, collection of conference papers, Armenian School
of
Public Administration, 2001.
European
Integration and
European Social-Democratic Movement; author, Yerevan
State Linguistic University, 2003.
Policy Paper "Policy Proposals for the Armenian Court Administration
Reforms", author, Center for Policy Studies, Polict Documentation
Center, April 2006
Research Paper "Court Reform in the Republic of Armenia", author,
OSI/IPF, June 2006
"Court Guide", published in local language as a user-friendly
informational guide for court users; author, June 2006