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Business Solution / Management Consulting / R&D Management
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PROFILE :


Adaptable, highly trained convincing leader and creative problem solver with deep perception and human consideration displaying the following qualifications:

  • Maintaining relationships in corporate, public and academic circles, presenting complex contents
  • Recruiting professional personnel in linguistics, engineering and computational linguistics  
  • Managing, mentoring and shaping international multidisciplinary R&D organization
  • Driving, defining, managing the engineering of innovative products based on NLP and AI
  • Strong academic record, and realization of commercial products
  • Managing relationships with vendors, and academic institutions, negotiation
  • Initiating and developing product/project ideas, delivering regular version releases
  • Strong operational skills, strategic thinking, entrepreneurial drive, and engineering innovation



STUDIES AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES :

2009: Specialist, Ontotext, Sofia, Bulgaria.
2007-2008: Associate Director Speech Recognition Technologies, Bell Canada, Montreal, Canada.
2007 Consulting,
McGill University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Family Medicine, Montreal, Canada.
Synopsis for Project: Indexing MEDLINE with PICO Evidence-Based Medicine Elements.
2003-2007: Chief Linguistic Officer
Delphes Technologies Intl , Montreal, Canada.
2000-2002: Senior Solution Designer,
Novator Systems, Ltd. , Toronto, Canada.
1999-2000: Post-Doctoral Fellow and Part-time Instructor at the
Computer Science Department of Concordia University , Montreal, Canada.
Subject:
Theoretical Computer Science ; Introduction to Expert Systems ;
Artificial Intelligence (tutor)
Project: Predication and Modification.
1998-1999: Consultant in Artificial Intelligence and Multilingual Engineering,
Sogique, Quebec, Canada.
Project: Performance Support System for Child Protective Services (Evaluation).
July 1998: Ph.D. Defense,
Institute for Computational Linguistics , University of Stuttgart , Stuttgart, Germany.
1998-1999: Part-time research and teaching assistant at the
Computer Science Department of Concordia University , Montreal, Canada.
Subject:
Artificial Intelligence .
Project: Aetna. Subproject: ERS System.
1997: Teaching at the
Linguistics Department of the University of Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden. Language Technology Program.
Subjects: Discourse, Computational Discourse, Computational Semantics.
1997: Reviewer for the Students' Session of the
ACL/EACL 97 Conference, Madrid, Spain 1997.
1996: Research and project coordinator. Linguistic Modelling Laboratory;
Center for Information and Computer Technologies , Bulgarian Academy of Sciences , Sofia, Bulgaria.
1994-1996: Research Assistant,
Institute for Computational Linguistics , University of Stuttgart , Stuttgart, Germany.
Project:
VerbMobil . Subproject: Transfer. Responsibility: Transfer of Adverbs.
1992-1994: Ph.D. studies,
Graduiertenkolleg, Institute for Computational Linguistics, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany.
February 1992: Post Master's Degree: Diplome en Ingenierie Multilingue.
1990-1992: Advanced studies, Centre de recherche en ingenierie multilingue,
Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales and Maison des Siences de l'Homme Paris, France.
1988-1990: Research assistant, Linguistic Modelling Laboratory,
Center for Information and Computer Technologies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria.
1988-1989: Part-time Teacher for Latin language at National Gymnasium for Ancient Languages and Cultures, Sofia, Bulgaria.
September 1988: Master's Degree in Classical Philology,
Sofia University "Climent of Ochrid", Sofia, Bulgaria.
1983-1988: Studies in Classical Philology (Major), Bulgarian Language and Computational Linguistics (Minor) at the
Department of Classical Studies, Sofia University, Sofia, Bulgaria.
1978-1983: National Gymnasium for Ancient Languages and Cultures, Sofia, Bulgaria.



continuous EDUCATION :


Finance and Accounting for Non Financial Managers

International Business Institute , McGill University , Montreal, Canada, 2008

International Business Institute , McGill University , Montreal, Canada, 2008

 

Executive Development Course

International Business Institute , McGill University , Montreal, Canada, 2004
 

Development Course in Management of Technical Staff
School of High-Technology , Montreal, Canada, 2004
 

Development Course in Communication

Groupe CMG, Montreal, Canada, 2004
 

Courses within Certificate Program in Business Communication

Ryerson University , Toronto, Canada, 2002
 

Certificate in Sun Programming

Xincon Technology Institute , Toronto, Canada, 2000



TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES :

Operational Systems:
  UNIX, Linux, Windows, DOS, Macintosh, AIX
Programming Languages:
  JAVA, CLIPS, LISP, Swing, JSP, WordBasic, PROLOG
Encoding Standards:
  XML, SGML, TEI, CES, HTML
Word Processing:  Emacs, LaTex, Microsoft Office applications, Microsoft Project

Professional Associations

§ Association for Computing Machinery / Association for Computational Linguistics

§ Montreal Board of Trade

Reviewer

 

Published regularly reviews in Reviews.com for the Association of Computing Machinery, NY, U.S.A. All reviews had been published in the first section of the magazine.

Academic Publications

Published scientific articles and a book. Available on demand

  Distinctions


won a scientific competition, scholarships (France, Germany), ‘Woman of the Year’ (USA),  biography published in ‘500 Leaders of Influence’ (USA)