1. Claude-Marie DESPREZ– CV – Page 1
Claude-Marie DESPREZ
Rue de Bruxelles, 201
1472 Vieux-Genappe
Belgium
Mobile phone :
+32 (0) 475 / 53.02.15
E-mail :
claudemarie.desprez@yahoo.fr
Date and place of birth :
19/06/1962, Brussels
Sex : female
Nationality : Belgian
Mother tongue : French
Other languages : English /
Dutch / German / Italian
CURRICULUM VITAE
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
 INSTITUT DES SACRES COEURS DE WATERLOO (Enseignement) - CDI 01/16 - 05/16
Function
→ English Teacher (2ème générale de transition et 4ème qualification)
 COLLEGE JEAN XXIII (Enseignement) - CDI 09/15 - 06/16
Function
→ Dutch Teacher (1ère et 3ème générale de transition)
 XPERTHIS (ICT – Medical) - Temporary job 04/15 - 12/15
Function
→ Management Assistant
 COFELY FABRICOM (Electricity) - Temporary job 02/15 - 04/15
Function
→ Legal Secretary
 AV APPLICATION (Audio-visual) - Temporary job 11/14 - 01/15
Function
→ Commercial Secretary
 ALLEN & OVERY LLP (Law firm) - Permanent job 10/08 - 04/14
Functions
→ Personal Assistant - Employment and Benefit Practice Group
→ Personal Assistant - Competition Practice Group / German Team
Main tasks
 Administrative support / lawyers (typing, copying/scanning, filing, profiling e-mails…)
 Logistical support / lawyers (travels, expenses, calendars, address books...)
 Translation of contracts and agreements
 Preparation of notifications to be submitted to the EU (DG Competition) to the German
Cartel Office and to the Belgian Labour Courts
 McKINSEY & COMPANY Inc. (Consulting firm) - Permanent job 02/06 - 04/08
Functions
→ Support Staff Member responsible for mobility and social activities (02/08 - 04/08)
→ Executive Assistant to the Marketing and Sales R&I Manager (09/07 - 02/08)
→ Executive Assistant to the Pharma & Medical Products R&I Manager (02/06 - 08/07)
Main tasks
 Administrative support
 Administrative follow-up of the recruiting process
 Assistance to visitors and expatriates
 Organization of special events

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 TOYOTA Belgium (Automotive industry) - Temporary job 11/05 - 02/06
→ Assistant to the Public Relations Manager
 MASTERCARD Europe & MC Advisors (Banking sector) - Temporary job 12/04 - 10/05
→ Support to the UK team / RBS project (2 days / week in London)
→ Administrative assistant to the Vice-President in charge of Belgium, France & UK
→ Support to the account payables department
→ Personal assistant to the Financial Director
 AC NIELSEN (Marketing firm) - Temporary job 06/04 - 07/04
→ Support to the translation of the customer satisfaction questionnaires
 CCIPIF (Lobbying) - Temporary job 03/04 - 11/04
→ Administrative support to the Brussels’ office and organization of seminars
 LHOIST GROUP (Lime a dolime industry) - Permanent job 01/95 - 12/03
Functions
→ Executive Secretary / Sr. Advisor to the COO (04/03 - 12/03)
→ Executive Secretary / Executive VP (BU Germany, CE and Mexico) (08/00 - 03/03)
→ Executive Secretary / Executive VP (merger & acquisition Germany) (10/97 - 07/00)
→ Assistant Secretary / Chairman of the Executive Committee (02/95 - 10/97)
→ Secretary / HR Manager (11/94 - 01/95)
→ Receptionist (11/94 - 01/95)
Main tasks
 Administrative support
 Elaboration and translation of letters and memorandums
 Organization of internal and international meetings
 Providing assistance to expatriates
 Support of private activities (private farm & forestry site, shooting parties, art
collection...)
FREELANCE ACTIVITY + TEMPORARY & PERMANENT PART-TIME JOBS 02/92 - 01/95
 LHOIST GROUP (Lime a dolime industry) - Temporary job
→ Receptionist
 CHÂTEAU DE LIMELETTE (Hotel) - Permanent part-time job
→ Receptionist
 COPA / COGECA (Lobbying), EZI (Industry), PKHA (Services) - Temporary jobs
→ Administrative support
Freelance activity : “translation and office services”
→ Translations from English, German, Italian and Dutch to French
→ Interpreter services in Brussels and abroad
→ Private tuition in French & German
→ Administrative and commercial assistance
 UGAL (Lobbying) - Permanent job 04/89 - 01/92
→ Assistant (secretary / translator) to the Secretary-General
 Secretarial and administrative tasks
 Organization of international meetings
 Translation of memorandums
 Interpreter during above-mentioned meetings

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 KLÖCKNER-MOELLER (Electronic industry) - Permanent job 12/87 - 04/89
→ Multilingual secretary to the Financial and Administrative Director
 Commercial assistance (German Firm)
 Financial and technical translations
 ACV INTERNATIONAL (Water heaters and heating systems) - Permanent job 03/86 - 12/87
→ Multilingual secretary to the Managing Director
 Commercial assistance (German market)
 Translation of commercial and technical brochures
 JOLLY HOTELS BELGIO (Hotel) - Permanent job 08/85 - 02/86
→ Receptionist
 Assistance to the clients
EDUCATION
1981 - 1985 Higher education
Institut Supérieur de l’Etat de Traducteurs et Interprètes (I.S.T.I.), Brussels / Belgium
“Licence en Traduction” in German and Italian
Thesis : French / German glossary on office & school stationery : driven by my interest
in the systematic approach of the glossary and the handling of writing supports
1980 - 1981 Educational stay in Germany
Mädchengymnasium St-Mauritz, Münster / Germany
Free student in last year of secondary school (Gymnasium – Oberprima)
Optional subjects : English and Pedagogics
1968 - 1980 Primary and secondary school
Institut des Sacrés-Coeurs, Waterloo / Belgium
Classics - “Langues Modernes” (Dutch, English, German)
MISCELLANEOUS
IT Word, Excel, Power Point, Outlook
TRAININGS First Aid Certificate and Fire Extinguisher Training
HOBBIES - Active social worker (handicapped adults)
- Private lessons (French, English, Dutch, German),
- Travels, nature, hiking, motorbike, decoration, gardening, photography,
scrapbooking, music (djembe), reading, personal development…
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