Alexandra Gannon

Alexandra Gannon M.A., MCIL

Personal Information

Nationality: German

Lived in Germany for 28 years

Professional Experience

Feb 2005 – Sep 2005            Hewlett Packard GmbH            Herrenberg, Germany

Executive Assistant/Marketing Assistant

Personal assistant of two executive managers in the Equipment Management and Remarketing department (EMR) of HP: managed their correspondence and diary; organised international meetings and events in Germany and abroad including agendas and presentations, minutes and reports; translated business and IT papers (German-English, English-German); responsible for travel organisation, office supply management, and office layout coordination for a team of 65.

Marketing Assistant: translated customer presentations; controlled and supervised marketing budget (1.2 Mio $); established a new customer gifts programme in cooperation with agency; responsible for worldwide distribution of marketing items; event management.

Jan 2003 – Feb 2005            Robert Bosch Foundation            Stuttgart, Germany

Project Assistant

Programme Area “Youth, Education, the Civic Society”: part of the project management team; performed financial and administrative controlling and supervision regarding content, development and results of various welfare projects (budgets between 1K and 200K €); wrote presentations and reports; translated and proofread project contracts and reports; organised events (for up to 150 people); worked with extensive project database, coordinated and supervised outsourced branch of the organisation.

July 2002 – Dec 2002            Robert Bosch Foundation            Stuttgart, Germany

Intern

Programme Area “Youth, Education, the Civic Society”: event management; wrote presentations and reports; translated and proofread project contracts and reports; prepared publications; carried out internet research.

April 1997 – May 2002            University of Constance            Constance, Germany

Research Assistant

Department of English Literature and Department of Linguistics: carried out scientific and empirical surveys and research; translated and proofread scientific papers and surveys; presented results in research group; prepared publications; held tutorials for undergraduate students; organised international research conference.

Education

Jan 2006 - Jan 2007               City University                                      London, UK

Diploma in Translation, Institute of Linguists 

April 1995 – Dec 2001            University of Constance            Constance, Germany

Master of Arts, German and English Literature and Linguistics

Sep 1998 – April 1999            University of Sussex             Brighton, UK

English Literature Studies

Additional Training

Feb 2002 – April 2002            Coachacademy k³             Constance, Germany

Management Techniques: project management, marketing, public relations, presentations, team management, etc.

June 2001            Università per Stranieri             Perugia, Italy

Italian language course (intermediate level).

Languages

German (native speaker)

English (fluent, Cambridge Certificate of Proficiency in English - ESOL)

Italian (good knowledge)

French (basic knowledge)

Latin (advanced proficiency exam)

Computer Skills

Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Mac, Internet, Trados