Family name: Romain
Forenames: Victor Broderick
Nationality: British citizen
Address: 41, Queens Avenue, Canterbury, Kent, CT2 8BA.
Mobile: + 447710432865
Skype: victor.romain
E-Mail: victor.romain@gmail.com
Websites: www.linkedin.com/in/victorromain www.victor-romain.branded.me
Profile:
 Attended The Charles Dickens Secondary Modern School, Broadstairs, Kent, UK.
 Managed and worked in our family retail/wholesale business for several years,
upon leaving school.
 Lived/worked + studied German, in Germany, for 18 months, in the early 1980’s.
 From May 1980-1988, worked on the cross channel ferries as a ship’s cook –
reaching the rank of Chief Cook.
 Worked in Russia from May 1995-May 2013; teaching general English +
International Business English to most of Russia’s top companies and their
personnel. For the last few years I have been working mostly in the capacity of a
freelance Business English language consultant in Russia.
 The first ever foreigner to give a two hour lecture/talk: on how our native
language shapes the way we view other/different cultures + the importance of
culture bridging in a globalised world, at Rosatom’s Nuclear Research University,
“MEPhI.” Six Nobel Prize winners including N.G. Basov (MEPhI graduate), A.D.
Sakharov, N.N. Semenov, I.E. Tamm, P.A. Cherenkov and I.M. Frank worked at
the MEPhI.
 Vast experience of teaching people from a wide variety of cultures – from Asian
to Arabian; as well as Russian and European.
Core Skills
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Excellent organisational and practical skills.
Bi-lingual and bi-cultural in English and Russian.
Effective business meetings and social events organiser.
Excellent communication skills.
Ability to work effectively alone or as a part of a team.
A patient listener, with excellent motivational and mentoring skills – developed
over many years of working with students: from teenagers to adults.
 Effective at conducting background research and seeking out solutions to
problems.
 Excellent writing/proof-reading skills.
Employment History
Current status
ESL teacher at Golders Green College, London + at their Princess College centre, Central
London + I am currently working, on a freelance basis, for a Russian businessman, in
London, providing intensive FCE and Business English lessons + personal assistant
duties. I am also working with the EFL teacher supply (Evocation EFL) agency, in
various EFL educational establishments around London.
I am also providing Skype English lessons to students in Russia, London (to Russian
children/teenagers in the UK) and Turkey.
ATC International University of Bath: teaching Italian teenagers general English –
intermediate to advanced levels. June 2013-August 2013
Anglsikiy ot Anaglichan, Moscow: Worked with adults, teenagers and children, in the
teaching of business and general English, Moscow, Russia. September 2012-May 2013
English language consultant/portfolio worker: in Business, Energy, Legal and Nuclear
English, to the top directors of RusHydro, Rosatom and the Rosatom Academy’s
personnel, Moscow. September 2008-September 2012:
OGK-4: now Eon, Moscow: Business English language consultant/portfolio worker:
training the top four directors + key personnel in Business English. Topics included:
effective negotiation skills, cultural awareness, body language and how to interpret “nonverbal” communication signals, how to give effective presentations and write effective
and polite emails. May 2008-Sept 2008
The Spectrum Group of Companies, Moscow. Business English language
consultant/portfolio worker. Responsible for working with the top management in giving
structured Business English Lessons. Topics covered cross-cultural awareness issues,
effective business negotiations, effective e-mail writing as well as translating, into
English, the English language pages of their website and press releases. September 2005March 2008
Renaissance Capital Moscow: Financial English consultant/portfolio worker: giving
Business English lessons, on International Finance. January 2005-January 2006
Rusal, Ltd, Moscow: Business English language consultant/portfolio worker: giving
financial and legal Business English lessons to one of the top directors at Topics included
International Finance, and corporate cultural items – in preparation for an MBA exam,
with a UK university. January 2005-May 2007
Concorde International, Canterbury, Kent, UK teaching Business English to some of
the top businesspersons of multinational companies, from China, Japan, Italy, Spain and
Kazakhstan. June 2003-August 2009
Stankoimport, Ltd, Moscow and AstraZeneca Moscow English language
consultant/portfolio worker: involved with some of the top management in Russian
companies: personnel training programmes involved: MBA preparatory programmes and
marketing September 2002-September 2004.
English First, Corporate, Moscow. Most of my work has involved training executives
and other personnel in Business English, Legal English, Oral Presentations and
Telephone Skills, as well as exam preparation courses, September 2002-September 2003
Key Achievements
 1988 Drew up and presented a petition (under my own initiative) in Brussels, in
front of 350 MEP’s calling for tighter laws: in connection with the safety of the
construction of passenger RoRo ferries, using European ports – following the
Herald of Free Enterprise capsizing. Petition was supported and made into law.
 1995 Moving to Russia and starting a successful new career and life in Russia +
learning the language and culture.
 March 2004. Went to Hong Kong in the capacity of a personal
translator/interpreter, for a Russian businessman, and took a pro-active part in all
the high-level meetings and was instrumental in his opening a western bank
account.
 Nov 97-Sept 98: Established my own English language company, within the
territory of the Moscow Aviation Institute, together with three other partners.
 2005-2007: Successfully helped a very large Belgium-based logistics company,
establish themselves in the Russia market.
 Designed and implemented very industry specific “Nuclear” English, as well as a
Business English course, for the Rosatom Academy, Moscow, Russia, in a
modular format.
 English sub-titles for various Russian films, for international release + doing the
English language voice over, for a presentation for the visiting CEO, to Moscow,
of Pepsi Co; following their nine billion dollar acquisition of a large, Russian food
and beverage company.
Additional Education & Training
 07-96: International House Certificate CELTA certificate in TEFL
 09/1995-09/1997: While assisting in running an English language school at the
Moscow State University of Culture and Arts, I actively studied the Russian
language there, with the assistance of a professional tutor, while assisting in
running an English language school, on the campus, for BKC International House.
 94-95: Canterbury Christ Church College. First module of the Diploma/MA in
TEFL.
 09-93: Pilgrims Certificate in TEFL.
 O4-90 Dept of the Environment, Driving Standards Agency Approved Driving
Instructor.
 10-82 City & Guilds of the London Institute Certificate in Cookery and Catering.
Publications & content writing work:
Closing the Culture Gap. Published in the Russia Journal, November 2001
Financial/economic content writer:
I have a keen interest in the financial (forex) markets – I write/submit blog articles, for
forex-ratings.com + forex-awards.com.
*All published articles are available for viewing on my Linkedin.com profile page + on
the Forex Ratings and Forex Awards websites.*
Other corporate clients were:
E&Y, PWC, KPMG, BBDO, British Airways, Merloni Elettrodomestici Spa and
PepsiCo.
Other work projects – film + TV/Radio work:
I have acted in various films – with (accredited) speaking parts. I also worked on English
language sub-titles and voice over’s + have appeared TV’s Comedy Club series: for one
episode. I have also worked with The Voice of Russia Radio.
*All film project work is available for viewing on my Linkedin.com profile page + my
personal website: www.victor-romain.branded.me
Interests
Golf, networking, photography, intellectual conversation/debate, reading, writing,
politics, chess, swimming, fencing, cooking, organising things, TED Talks, documentary
films, the arts and cinema.