Curriculum Vitae Richard Peters
PERSONAL DETAILS:
Name: Richard
Peters
Date
of birth: 20th May 1973
Telephone: Mobile 0178 234 4584
Email: richard@richard-peters.co.uk
Marital
status: Single
LANGUAGE SKILLS:
Mother
tongues: English;
German
Fluent: Spanish;
French
Good: Italian; Portuguese; Dutch
EDUCATION:
1991 1995 Worcester College, University of Oxford
·
BA (Hons) Modern Languages (German and Spanish)
1989 - 1991 Greenhill Tertiary College, Harrow (UK)
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A levels 4 A levels Grade A
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
March 2006 April 2008 European
Patent Office (
Acting HR Development Manager
·
Preparation, organisation
and evaluation of individual
and group training activities
·
Analysis for and preparation of annual reports on all training activities
across the EPO
·
Administrative tasks, e.g. maintenance of personnel records, data entry into
SAP
·
Translation and proof-reading of various documents in English
May
December 2005 MANPOWER
Pty Ltd (
Various
temporary work placements
·
Telemarketing/Customer service; Reporting on website statistics
September 2002 March 2003 E.ON Sales & Trading GmbH (Germany)
Business
Developer (secondment from Powergen UK plc)
· Delivering
and carrying out a front office trading function for the Belgian gas market
· Legal due
diligence, systems implementation, technical trading analysis, staff training
·
Giving presentations on project objectives to German staff and management in
German language
August 1995 August 2002 Powergen
UK plc (United Kingdom)
Structured
Trader France (June 01 August 02)
· Delivering
and carrying out a front office trading function for the French electricity
market
·
Business development and structured transaction origination in France
Structured Trader Germany (May 99 May 01)
· Delivering
and carrying out a front office trading function for the German electricity
market
· Managing
internal interfaces with credit management, risk management and corporate
functions
· Managing
external relationships with domestic and international power companies and
brokers
·
Representing Powergen on German industry forums
(meetings held in German language)
Energy Trader (September
98 April 99)
· Building on
existing relationships with small-scale generators and building new
relationships
· Developing and negotiating purchase contracts
Analyst European
Markets (February 97 August 98)
· Analysing the electricity market structure and legislation
in several European countries
· Commercial
analysis of electricity generation projects in Europe
Acquisition
project in Brazil (May June 98)
· Commercial
due diligence including analysis of ongoing sale & purchase contracts
· Primary
market analysis of Brazils electricity market (meetings in Portuguese and
English)
Project Finance Executive (August 95 January 97)
·
Implementation of a database system for relationships with corporate banks
·
Analysis of currency exchange rate fluctuations and of infrastructure project
financing news
Acquisition
project in Chile (July September 96)
· Facilitating senior executives meetings with local figures
including interpreting
· Assisting
non Spanish speakers in various areas of their due diligence work
August 1993 June 1994 Escuela Oficial de Idiomas de Santander
(Spain)
English
Language Assistant (August 93 June 94)
· Improving the verbal English skills of students of various
ability levels
COMPUTER SKILLS:
·
MS-Office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint), Adobe Photoshop,
Dreamweaver (web design)
Munich, June 2008