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CV
Name:
Nationality
Sex
Date of Birth
Contact Telephone Number
Email address
YAN
XIA (Sarah Jane Y
an)
Mongolian
Female
25 April 1964
wonderfulshanghai@
Key
Qualifications and Education Background and
Training
1.
College
Certificate
---I graduated from Wu
League Teacher
’
s Institute
of Inner Mongolia
Autonomous
Region
in 1985
.
2.
In
1991
---Refreshing International
Business English in the Beijing International
Economic and
Trade University in
Chaoyang District , getting better preparation for
business.
3.
University Diploma
in
1995
---in 1992 I was enrolled to the
English Language and Literature
Department, Foreign Language Institute,
Inner Mongolian Normal University.
1992- July 1995
studied at
Inner Mongolia Normal University , and as a spare
time tour guide during the summer
vocations.
4.
CEA (Commission of English Association)
Certificate
--
-in
1995
, issued as the Qualification
Certificate for Refreshing English
Higher Level Teacher
’
s
Management Course delivered by two
American Linguists, Dr Gonic and Mrs.
Gonic, dispatched by US CEA.
5.
Business
English Certificate (II)
--- issued by
Cambridge University
in
1997
.
Training:
6.
In
1987 -
--Trained separately
by two English scholars, Anna Robinson and Diana
Luberscha from
England Education
Ministry and the other was from Scotland.
The training program was
sponsored
by China Education Committee
especially for the teacher
’
s
training at higher level in minority regions,
obtaining a certificate.
7.
In 1997
--
-
FIDIC
Contractual clauses by international
FIDIC Committee specially for Yellow
River Water Diversion
Project.
8.
Process Management Training
–
by Michel Maze, Alcoa .
Main Experiences
1) August 1985
--- September 1995:
Teaching. Name of
the School---Wu-league Mongolian
School, Jining City, Inner Mongolia.
2) October 1995---April, 1997 ----CMC-
SELI, Shanxi Province,
technical
interpreter and
translator for the
Contractor of YRDP (
world bank loan
funded Shangxi Y
ellow River Water
Diversion Project
) ---,
promoted as Chief Engineer
’
s
assistant at the same year because my boss
Roberto Leonardi was promoted to the
position Chief Engineer of this Contractor.
Key Responsibilities:
Translating technical
material and interpreting at technical meetings,
conciliating Chief Engineers
Schedule
and
other
works
for
his
Section:
assisting
in
instructing
site
process,
controlling
the
material quality (Lab),
help in passing through all kinds of inspections
and tests, calibration from
governments
Tech Authorities; attending technical / managing
meetings and making out minutes
of
meetings;
preparing
monthly
reports
to
Project
Manager
and
Italy
Technical
Department.
Accompanying him to site, lab, and
working on TBM (Tunnel Boring Machine) to solve
technical
problems
from
material
quality,
civil
works
measurement,
machine
breakdowns,
power
failure,
experiments and
geographical report appraisal and all sorts of
other technical issues.
Achievements
---well done of
all,
that’
s why I was
recruited by the project Employer YRDP to
work for the headquarters, PLS see the
following:
3)
May 1997---
March 1998 (Taiyuan)
–
worked in YRDPC
（
Employer of
this project
）
&
YREC(the Engineer ) appointed by the
Employer.
Key
Responsibilities:
Dealing with anything related to the
foreign affairs, translating technical/contractual
documents at
higher
level,
contractually
participating
in
drafting
various
reports
such
as
monthly
resource
reports
&
annually
reports
to
World
Bank
and
interpreting
at
mediate
level
meeting;
with
the
employer &
engineers
’
staff patrolling
alongside the Yellow River Banks.
Achievements:
due to the
fast understanding / positive attitudes and
technical basis I got from the
first
stage of the project, I was appointed as a member
of international bidding group, a member of
the
contractual
management
group,
at
the
special
period
of
the
contract
implementation.
I
was
delegated
as one of the members for special mission of
investigation, taking part in many cases of
claming and counter claiming
preparations.
My contributions were
proposing many good possible
solutions
and
finding
the
clues
for
projects
to
solve
contractual
problems
on
strong
technical
supportive
observations through conciliation with the high
government officials.
For that project was undertaken in
accordance with the
FIDIC
Clauses, first of all , I was trained
by foreign experts then took part in
training the other Chinese and foreign Engineers
in respect of
FIDIC.
Getting
very
familiar
with
the
international
bidding
procedures
especially
for
the
world
bank
loan
funded
projects,
contacting
with
the
foreign
staff
(experts
from
World
Bank
Special
Mission
；
Technical
Panels, international contractors engaged in
project, international consultant
expert
group,
visiting
associations
or
institutes
and
etc.
）
being
as
an
interpreter
and
liaison
coordinator in many significant
occasions .
4)
April 1998---Aug. 2000
----
in BBV/MM Consultancy Company, office manager etc.
In 1998 I was selected
through rounds of tests and appointed in April to
manage office and
assist the Project
Manager (From Mott Macdonald Group) at site and
office.
(Background
of
this
job---
when
the
YRDP
project
was
executed
at
half
way,
the
World
Bank
regarded
it
necessary
to
engage
higher
level
international
consultant
company
in
water
field
to
assist the Employer and
Contractor to solve the outstanding triangle
contractual issues, that
’
s
why
BBV/MM Supervision Consultant Co.
appeared.
My title was
?
Office
Manager
of
BBV/MM
Co.,
Ltd.
in
YRDP,
an
joint
venture
during
year
1998-2000 between English Supervision
Consultants for Hydro-electrical projects);
?
Assistant of the Project
Manager
(Mr. Brian John Bromwich - a
Member of Boards
of Directors of Mott
Macdonald Group UK);
?
Interpreter for DRB
(Dispute
Review Board) Sessions and World Bank
Meetings.
Key
Responsibilities
in specific
the following:
?
Translation/interpreting
for
Consulting
team-members----
the
technical
and