Aurore Bui
Masters from Kings College, MBA from Geneva University, 10 year consulting experience, Expertise in Monitoring & Evaluation
| Headline: | Entrepreneur |
| Website: | http://aurorebui.net |
| Skills: | Business, Database Administration, Databases, Design, English, Entrepreneurship, French, German, Languages, Leadership, Management, Marketing, Public Relations, Public speaking, Sales, Spanish, SQL, Web design, Web Development, Windows, Windows applications |
| Location: | Geneva, Switzerland |
| Groups: | Global Social Venture Competition 2011, Global Social Venture Competition GSVC 2012, [INACTIVE] Global Social Venture Competition 2009-10 |
| Visas: | Europe, Australia |
| Interested in: | Brainstorming, Finding business partners, Finding cofounders, Finding team mates, Meeting new people, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Raising money, Recruiting for my startup |
| Schools: | Geneva College, King's College |
FEATURED STARTUP
SOFTWEB
SOFTWEB
SOFTWEB is redefining itself as a philanthropy facilitator
- Startup type: Competition Entry
- Stage: Prototyping
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Employer: | SOFTWEB Sarl |
| Position: | Company Founder & Consultant |
| Time period: | January 2001 - Present |
| Description: | Softweb is the consulting company I created in 2001. I successfully developed this company by selling IT and organisational skills and developing a partnership network. I was engaged actively on projects, in Switzerland and in Australia, for multi-national companies as well as for non-profit organizations. Major achievements as a non-profit consultant include:
Creating Women Change Makers, an NGO specialized in women empowerment, for a local entrepreneur Development of the marketing strategy Definition of the monitoring and evaluation system, to gather information about project holder’s progress Development of the local and global partnership scheme Participating to the organization of the OXFAM International Youth Partnerships events in Sydney Technical and organizational consulting to develop an online knowledge sharing platform for the forum participants Participation to the evaluation and selection of development projects Marketing initiatives to promote the event Other major projects include: Designing a datamart for sales and marketing analysis for Japan Tobacco International, in Geneva Developing a risk-management solution for finance and human resources for a petroleum company (Caltex) Providing database expertise and managing projects for MSCI (Morgan Stanley Capital International), in Geneva Creating a Content Management System Intranet for a state department in Sydney |
| Employer: | MSc (Mediterranean Shipping Company) |
| Position: | Database & Business Intelligence Architect |
| Time period: | May 2005 - March 2009 |
| Description: | MSc (Mediterranean Shipping Company) is the world’s 2nd largest shipping company. I was in charge of:
Creating and managing a team in charge of database administration and business intelligence system development Analyzing change requests on existing applications or propose new system implementations Managing IT or process-related projects Major achievements include defining and promoting a data-warehousing enterprise application. This system provides management with key performance indicators for different business units: Financial indicators : providing comparison of commercial sectors results, statistics on agency and IT budgeting Logistics indicators: delivering summary reports on stocks and repositioning ; identifying transportation charges Operational indicators : reporting on port productivity |
| Employer: | CAST S.A. |
| Position: | Consultant |
| Time period: | January 1999 - December 2000 |
| Description: | Cast is a consulting company, specialised in database systems. I participated to the creation of the Swiss subsidiary, by:
- participating to the recruitment process and to the business development of the company - setting up of the company’s infrastructure and developing internal knowledge sharing platforms I was also involved in customer projects, for various clients including Cotecna, CARAC and BIORG. Achievements include: Integrating Communications’ applications for the ILO (International Labor Organisation) in Geneva Developing a datamart for stock management and designing dashboards for the Kronenbourg breweries Managing a team for the Design of a incubator web site for France Telecom Mobiles |
| Employer: | ACOSS |
| Position: | System Engineer |
| Time period: | January 1997 - December 1998 |
| Description: | My first full-time professional experience was for ACOSS, which is the IT management department for 150 French social security agencies. My responsibilities ranked from IT maintenance to application definition and implementation, including the design of an agency budgeting facility using Electronic Document Management systems and a nationwide workflow.
I also volunteered to moderate an IT expert group to formulate recommendations for the Internet infrastructure of the branch. |
EDUCATION
| University: | Geneva College |
| Time period: | 2008 - 2010 |
| Degree: | International Organizations, MBA |
| University: | King's College |
| Time period: | 1996 |
| Degree: | Master of Telecommunications |
INFORMATION
| Memberships: | Board Member of the FTI (Foundation for Industrial Land), Geneva
Honorary member of an association advocating the development of eco-friendly housing in Geneva (www.ecoquartiers-geneve.ch) |
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Rade Glomazic
Currently a Doctoral candidate in Political science at the European Center for Peace and Development of the UN University of Peace. Have over ten years of professional experience working in socio-economic development activities and int. cooperation