RESUME - Harald Dertinger

Work-Experience:
Feb 98 - present - Self-employed
=> Manager of North America operations of Germany-based software company Dosch-Design GmbH.
  • Customer relations
  • Product distribution
    • => Website Consulting, Design & Programming. Ongoing projects are:
  • Steel City Construction Co. @ www.kitchenmakeover.com => complete design
  • Dosch Design @ www.doschdesign.com => content & design consulting
  • This, my own website ...
    • => Translations (catalogs, press releases, web-site), various research (market-info, laws/regulations),
    two-week Germany interview project for New Pig Corporation.
    Weekly German tutoring to international business customer
    Sept 96 - May 97 - Center for Global Competitiveness (CGC) at Saint Francis College, Loretto, PA
    => International Marketing Consultant
    - Consulting clients in penetrating foreign markets
    - Providing marketing assistance / research services
    Mar 94 - Sept 94 - Dresdner Kleinwort Benson, Chicago, IL
    => Assistant in Investment Banking Division
    - Analyzing credit standing of various corporations
    - Loan Agreements (structure, pricing, optimization)
    Jan 91 - June 91 - Chicago Research & Trading Group Ltd. (now Nationsbank / Bank of America)
    => Out-trade clerk; "Runner" at trading floor of Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT)
    - Entering trading card information into out-trade system
    - Assisting traders on trading-floor of futures exchange
    Aug 90 - Dec 90 - Moraine Valley Community College (MVCC), Palos Hills, IL
    => Part-time student aide at computer lab
    Feb 88 - Aug 89 - Überlandwerk Unterfranken AG (ÜWU), Würzburg, Germany
    => Accountant in natural gas-subsidiary of ÜWU
    - New customer registration, invoicing, collections
    => Assistant in Computer Department (PCs and mainframe)
    - Calculations/charts for new German electricity tariff system
    Sept 85 - Feb 88 - Überlandwerk Unterfranken AG
    => "Industriekaufmann" = apprenticeship for certified industrial clerk
    - experience with all commercial functions of industrial company
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    Between 1990 & 1993 total of 6 months - Summer jobs at GEDOS IT-Service company
    - creating business charts
    - installation of application software
    - hardware setup & -maintenance. Installing various expansion cards (network cards etc.)
    Education:
    Oct 91 - June 97 - Fachhochschule Würzburg, Germany (Vocational College)
    => Diplom-Betriebswirt FH (not quite finished; transfer to Penn State)
    Sept 92 - June 93 - Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, England
    => Bachelor of International Business Administration (transfer …)
    Jan 95 - May 95 - Plekhanov Academy of Economics, Moscow, Russia
    => Language Studies; Russian history and culture
    Aug 90 - Dec 90 - Moraine Valley Community College , Palos Hills, IL
    => GPA 4.0 (Management, Banking, Telecommunications, DOS)
    Sept 89 - May 90 - Fachoberschule Würzburg, Germany
    => A-level (with economics / commercial major)
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    Sept 92 - June 93 - Cambridge Certificate of Proficiency in English (CPE) => Grade A
    Jan 90 - June 90 - Financial Options/Futures course at CRT, Chicago

    Public speaking experience:
    - Speech on benefits of international exchange programs at Conference in Chicago
    - Investors Club at Saint Francis College: Investment strategies, derivatives, stock market
    - German & European Business speech at CGC-organized local business training event
    - MBA classes at SFC: Business in Europe and international dimension of trading
    - MVCC: Open audience during German-Information-Week (November 1990)

    Past offices held:
    - Treasurer/marketing manager of Würzburg's baseball club (Würzburg Wizards) - founding member
    - Fund raising/marketing for Student Choir in Würzburg