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Ari RUSILA's Resume

• Ari Rusila is a development project management expert from Finland with a special interest in the Balkan region. His other interests include civil crisis management issues and middle East.
  

Contacts

• Name: Ari RUSILA

• Address: Polttolinja 17 B 10, FIN-40520 Jyväskylä, FINLAND, EU

• E-mail: rusilaari@yahoo.se

Personal

• Home: Jyväskylä, FINLAND

• Nationality: FIN

Work history:

• 06/2004-06/2007 Project manager, Jyväskylä university of Applied Sciences/INR/NorWat project. Total progress and financial responsibility of NorWat funded by EU Intrerreg IIIB NPP. Locations in Finland, Sweden, Norway and Scotland. Budget > 1.2 MEUR


• 01/2000-10/2002 EU Municipal Expert, European Agency for Reconstruction (EAR). Seconded to UNMIK in Leposavic, Mitrovica Region, Kosovo, SCG. Capacity building of local administration, project management/ coordination, business registration; youth, culture and sport sectors


• 06/1998-12/1999 Project co-ordinator, Municipality of Salla. Project Coordinator (Lead) of Tacis CBC TSP 55/97 project. Creating the project plan and application before start. Managing the project from start to end. Location Kovdor, Murmansk Region, Russia


• 11/1983-05/1998 Economic Development Officer, Municipality of Salla. SME developing, strategy and sectoral planning at local and regional levels, project management (EU programmes and Interreg), cross border cooperation with Russia, Barents cooperation.

Education:

• Master of Arts Social Science,University of Jyväskylä, Finland
  


• Secondary upper education in Jyväskylä Lyceé, Finland

Training (e.g.):

• Pinnacle Public Relations, Communications seminar, 19.10.2005 - 21.10.2005


• NPP JPS, Training for lead partners from Interreg IIIB Northern Periphery Programme, 02.02.2005- 04.02.2005


• EU TaskForce Kosovo, Training course for EU experts in Kosovo, 15.01.2000 - 25.01.2000


• SVYS, Russian trade course for officers of Lapland, 29.09.1998 - 25.05.1999


• Lingua center, Murmansk, Russian intensive course, 21.09.1998 - 25.09.1998


• Lingua center, Murmansk, Russian intensive course, 27.06.1996 - 06.07.1996


• Oy Rastor Ab, Russian Trade training programme, 15.01.1993 - 16.06.1993


• European Democratic Studens, 3rd European Summer University, München, BRD


• European Democratic Studens Org., 2nd European Summer University, Valencia, Spain

Languages

• Mother tongue: Finnish
  


• Other: English (C1), German (B1), Swedish (B2), Russia (A2)

Skills and competences

· Team work experience also with multicultural teams

· LogFrame Approach and experience of Project Cycle management at all it’s levels

· Implementing experience with Participatory Planning Methods and Goal Orientated Project Planning methods

· Ability to survive and solve problems in crisis-/post-crisis societies

· Capacity building and SME developing at local and regional level is familiar to me with nearly 20 years experience

Qualifications:

· Field experience 1: My work in Kosovo gave me clear picture of problems in Balkans

· Field experience 2: My work in Russia trained me to make practical solutions between anarchical field work and western regulations

· Field experience 3: My work in Lapland (FIN) trained me all aspects of project management from ideas and strategies through action plans to implementation of individual projects