Olga Bolbocean

My area of expertise is working under pressure in real-life stressful environments where emergencies are common. Exceptionally dedicated and educated in International Humanitarian Law and Peacekeeping with excellent training records and deep knowledge in the Protection of Civilians, Civilian-Military Cooperation and Hostile Environment Awareness. Training in a UN school equipped me with all the necessary tools to be deployed to a country burdened with political and civil unrest in need of international assistance in the form of peacekeeping advisors. I have personal experience in human trafficking and refugee issues.

I'm a qualified midwife with thirteen years of experience.

Four years of progressive professional experience supporting women and children who experience domestic abuse in risk assessment, intake and recovery in Refuge service. I demonstrated real-world problem-solving skills by innovating creative solutions. From these experiences, I demonstrated to take responsibility and rely on myself, as well as, to ask for help from other members of the team.

Excellent research skills and IT skills. I'm a natural leader and problem-solver. I put theoretical learning into practice by developing additional leadership, organisational, and team-player skills. One means by which I sought to implement my academically acquired knowledge was by leading a student research proI was trained in cultural and gender awareness—flexible travel scheduling availability to any part of the world. Detail-oriented team player with strong organizational skills. Ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously with a high degree of accuracy.

• Scuba-diving
• Cross-fit and hiking
• Travelling
• Playing piano
• Exploring the world and the diversity of cultures

Coordination and management: As a Domestic abuse key worker, I have demonstrated the ability to analyse complex information, see the big picture and put forward practical recommendations for action, identify different types of safety risks and act immediately to plan and implement the safety plan.

• Documented and resolved incidents which led to preventing this from happening in future.
• Effective coordination and management of student research project Students-as-producers. I assisted the students in Investigating Satisfaction Levels with the Public Bus Service in Galway through an online questionnaire using the LimeSurvey platform from 2016 to 2017.

Practice Leadership: I demonstrated my leadership, organisational, and team-player skills by supporting coworkers in the decision-making and critical thinking on shirt-team and long-term support plans for each client.

• Achieved positive results by effectively helping coworkers with CRM software.
• Documented and resolved incidents which led to preventing this from happening in future.
• Lead others by example, and construct network collaboration with the staff
• Worked on my initiative and introduced Downtime for residents in the refuge. I provided a positive role model to build confidence and a positive relationship with the clients and introduced a problem-solving holistic approach
• Contributed to the Monolingual and Bilingual Population project. Assisted a PhD Student with Critical Thinking and Problem-Solving in the Monolingual and Bilingual Population project. Practised my leadership skills by organising and supporting students. Gained an experience in the various stages of preparing the project to collect data from 2017 to 2018

Collaboration. My present employment has enabled me to practice team-player skills, by cooperating, planning and sharing the duties with other team members.

• I put effort into team building, resulting in trust-building, increased morale and transformed pessimistic attitudes into positive thinking.
• I have also increased staff sensitivity toward an awareness of gender roles and current cultural values.

• 2023 ASIST HSE
• 2023 Trauma-informed training HSE
• 2023 First Aid response HSE
• 2021 ZSA Suicide Awareness Training HSE
• 2021 The Impact of parental alcohol and drug use HSE
• 2020 Children First Tusla
• 2020 The GDPR staff awareness training HSE
• 2019 CIMIC (Civilian Military Cooperation Training) United Nations Training School, Ireland.
• 2019 Hostile Environment Awareness Training (HEAT). An Bradán Feasa. Ireland.
• 2019 Security Awareness Training. An Bradán Feasa. Ireland.
• 2018 Protection of Civilians Course. United Nations Training School, Ireland.

• 2023 Gocom radio interview about Cope Domestic Abuse service
• 2018 Published in Urban Science. Urban Sci. Urban Sci. 2018, 2(4),102; https://doi.org/10.3390/urbansci2040102
• 2017 The interview was published in the Galway Advertiser newspaper. Galway Advertiser newspaper. http://www.advertiser.ie/galway/article/96960/student-led-research-to-investigate-satisfaction-levels-with-galways-public-bus-service
• 2018 Conducted an interview broadcast on Galway Bay FM, college radio Flirt FM
• 2018 Presented at Fourth Annual Undergraduate Research Conference in NUI Galway