Legal practice, business operations and data.
I trained as a lawyer and spent many years working with contracts and supporting documents. I later moved into business operations, CRM redesign and data modelling. This background is useful when information must be established from source material before it can be entered into a database.
Legal qualifications and practice.
I hold a five-year Specialist Degree in Law from Ural State Law Academy in Russia. I was Lead Legal Counsel at Heliopark Hotels & Resorts from 2004 to 2006 and subsequently worked as an independent legal consultant from 2007 to 2021.
My legal work included drafting and reviewing agreements, examining supporting evidence and handling property and leasing matters. It required distinguishing what a document actually established from what still needed to be checked or decided.
In 2024, I worked with the legal department at Regatta Ltd in Greater Manchester, reviewing legal records, organising documentation and developing departmental workflows. For the department, I also created and populated an intellectual-property database from scratch.
CRM, procurement and equipment records.
From 2021 to 2023 I worked in an industrial equipment and maintenance business across sales, service, procurement and finance. I restructured a Bitrix24 CRM containing more than 1,500 leads and established clearer data requirements for sales and procurement workflows.
I also designed the data model and functional requirements for an equipment-management system, including the relationships between customers, their equipment, service history, validation rules and access permissions. The assignment covered the data model and requirements, rather than implementation.
These projects involved defining what needed to be recorded, how entries related to each other and what people would be expected to maintain.
Creating and populating business records.
I take on defined projects in which a company has agreed what its database should contain, but has no complete set of records to populate it. The work may require examining contracts, checking historic information, collecting facts held by staff and working with original documents on the client's premises.
I agree the required fields, establish what the sources support, enter the records in an approved system or structured file and identify information that remains uncertain. Decisions on commercial policy and disputed legal rights stay with the client and its appointed advisers.