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From: henriette@vmedium.demon.co.uk (henriette)
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Subject: International-Voice Processing/Speech/CTI position
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Date: Sat, 8 Apr 1995 10:47:22 +0000
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I am interested in finding employment in a successful and dynamic firm 
in Greater London where I might use my consulting background as well as 
my strong computer and language skills. 

As you will notice from my curriculum vitae, I graduated with great honours 
with a Masters degree in Engineering Economics before I started my career 
in Belgium in the audit division of one of the Big Six, KPMG Peat Marwick. 
I then moved to the United States to work for a major consultancy firm 
in the utility business. 

I then co-founded a company in Belgium in the voice processing business 
(Interface Voice Technology) where I developed and released a software 
providing the main features of Interactive Voice Response (IVR) systems 
(faxback, voice mail, audiotex, database access,telephone transfer, ...) as 
well as  speech recognition through the telephone. 

A year later, Interface Voice Technology joined forces with a UK based 
company, VerseMedium. With VerseMedium I have a technical role as well as 
a marketing role. I also gained considerable experience in handling business 
opportunities at top management level. 

I am now considering a career move. I am confident I would be an asset for 
companies providing multimedia services (e.g. Videotron in the City, 
Dow Jones Telerate, ...) or for companies in the resale market of  
telecommunications (Cable & Wireless,...).

Personal Details:                  

Name:           Batriz Butsana-Sita            Date of Birth: 23.10.65                                                                                                                                
Address:        6 Threeways House               Age: 29
                George Street                   Marital Status:  single
                Oxford, OX1 2BJ                 Nationality:   Belgian
                Oxon, England
Tel:            (0865) 250 520
Fax:            (0865) 250 520
e-mail:         henriette@vmedium.demon.co.uk

Education and Qualifications:

1984-1989       State University of Antwerp, Belgium

                Masters degree in Engineering Economics
                Graduated with Great Honours, First Class Degree

                Thesis on Mergers and Acquisitions documented with case 
                studies under the auspices of several financial institutes 
                including Gnrale de Banque and Banque Indosuez.
                Senior Project: simulated manufacturing and marketing 
                strategies for a production company and applied econometric 
                models and quantitative methods.

Languages:      Native in French and Dutch, fluent in English and proficient 
                in German.

Other skills:   Expert in C programming more specifically in the voice 
                processing environment, developed several computer programs 
                for commercial purposes.

                Knowledge of Basic, Pascal, SQL, windows programming & object 
                oriented programming (OOP).

                Knowledge of several commercial software packages 
                (wordperfect, word, excel, paradox+engine, quattropro, lotus, 
                datadesk, aldus pagemaker,...).

Employment History:

5/94-           VerseMedium Ltd., Oxford, England

                Interface Voice Technology co-founded by myself (see below) 
                and specialised in Interactive Voice Response (IVR) systems 
                over-the-phone joined forces with VerseMedium Ltd., 
                specialised in dictation systems using speech. 
                VerseMedium was formed to develop the profitable use of 
                automatic speech recognition by business, government and 
                the professions. Worked with VCS, Scotts Instruments, VPC, 
                Verbex and DragonDictate speech engines.

                In charge of new projects including the provision of long 
                distance calls via international callback, international 
                simple resale, and one-end resale with value-added services.
                
04/93-5/94      Interface Voice Technology, Brussels, Belgium

                Co-founded the company in the field of telecommunications and 
                computer sciences, developed computer programs whereby a 
                caller can interact with a computer through a telephone by
                using speech (speech recognition) or the keypad of his 
                telephone (dual tone multi-frequency recognition).
                Designed, built and programmed systems using Dialogic 
                Hardware platforms and C programming.
                Developed strategies to market in-house products, searched 
                for niches and identified business opportunities, contacted 
                prospective clients and organised demonstrations sessions. 
                The aim is to enable customers to achieve success in their 
                chosen markets by providing software and hardware platforms 
                for automated call processing.


1/92-3/93       Utility Management Services Group, New York, New Jersey, USA

                Position: Consultant - Research Associate
               
                Founded by a former director of Booze Allen Associates, 
                UMS Group delivers general management and highly specialised 
                consulting services to the investor owned utility industry. 
                Clients are top management teams of dozens of leading 
                utilities across the U.S.
        
                Duties: Performed benchmarking studies in the fossil 
                        generation environment which consist of comparing 
                        companies technical performances.
                        Searched for explanatory variables and developed 
                        predictive models using statistical and mathematical 
                        tools.
                        Proactively negotiated with a job manager to be 
                        delegated a significant set of responsibilities and 
                        took full ownership of any task assigned. This 
                        included assuring data, research and analysis were 
                        accurate, assigned deadlines were met and deliverables 
                        were of the highest possible quality. Took a 
                        leadership role in the development of new computer 
                        and analytic skills and transferred those to other 
                        team members, participated in proposals and follow-on
                        jobs.
                        Contributed to a publication written by the president 
                        of the company, published in the Public Utilities 
                        Fortnightly.
                        Travelled regularly for business purposes.

10/91-1/92      Club Med, New York, Phoenix Arizona, USA

                In charge of special assignment set up by the president of 
                Club Med in New York.

                Performed a procedures and policies analysis of Club Med's 
                operations centre in Phoenix and proposed suggestions for 
                streamlining. Supervised a team of four people, wrote and 
                presented the final report to the President of Club Med 
                United States.

9/89-7/91       KPMG Peat Marwick

                Position: Senior assistant - Audit
  
                Duties: Performed project work in the following areas: 
                        manufacturing, distribution and logistics, technology, 
                        consumer marketing, health care, banking, insurance, 
                        non-profit organisations and others.
                        Conducted project reviews with clients on a regular 
                        basis. Audited and drafted balance sheets and profit 
                        and loss statements of clients, proposed numerous 
                        material adjustments after consultation with project 
                        manager and partner.
                        Performed various valuation tests on multi million 
                        inventories.
                        Conducted various internal control tests.
                        Participated several times in M&A projects

Additional Information:

Lived in Zare for ten years; travelled extensively in Europe, Africa and 
the United States; enjoy very much jazz, movies, tennis, yoga and power 
training.
