Amal El-Reedy
Ph: 571-***-**** Fax: 413-***-****
accebv@r.postjobfree.com
Security Clearance and Polygraph: TS/SSBI with CI poly
PROFILE
Senior Native Arabic Translator/Analyst/Workflow Coordinator. Worked for
ten years on one contract. Comfortable working with civilians and military
personnel.
Experience Related to Desired Position
. Fluent in Arabic, and English with little experience in French, and
Farsi.
. Possess strong knowledge of current terrorist groups with a firm
background in Middle Eastern history.
U.S. State Department Office of Language Services
Provide Arabic-English language interpretation and translation services
WORK EXPERIENCE: Full time on site / 40 hours or more per week for 0ne
customer for the last 10 years
2004 to 2013
1- Role and duties as a Workflow Coordinator
. Responsible for maintaining, tracking, and assigning the daily work
projects.
. Coordinating and balancing the priorities of the different IC partners
and customers.
. Identifying and eliminating redundancies and other problems effecting
productivity.
. Ensuring high priority requirements were completed on time and
efficiently.
. Reporting on the status of projects, translations, and general
productivity to management.
. Assisting customers with linguistic questions.
2- Role and duties as TRADOS Expert
. Responsible for building a new database for a team of linguists and
quality controllers.
3- Role and duties as a Linguist
. Exploited, translated, and screened tens of thousands of files in
support of "The War on Terror".
. Provided idiomatic translations of non-technical material using
correct syntax and expression from the Target Language to English.
. Provided written translation of general and technical material from
the Target Language into English, including handwritten material.
4- Role and duties as an Analyst/Linguist
. Processed a large amount of material, utilizing the Target Language,
for critical and essential elements of information.
. Provided input to the production of written reports developed from
captured material utilizing the Target Language, such as provide a
gist, summary, transcript or written translation of the material.
5- Role and duties as a Quality Control expert
. Quality Control expert responsible for the final product produced by a
team of linguists.
. Elected by management to provide Quality Assurance on the final
product produced by the Quality Control team.
6- Role and duties as a Trainer
. Part of a team responsible for Coordinating and developing Linguist
workshops.
. Part of a team responsible for training new Linguists to perform their
daily tasks and duties.
Senior Arabic Linguist 2000 - 2004
. Lead responsibility to seek, and acquire contracts for translation or
linguist services and held responsibility of final translation and
quality control of each contract.
. Worked in legal environments where linguist services were required.
. Worked with healthcare and hospice care officials in instances where
translation was required.
. Translated corporate contracts in the role as lead translator.
. Translated many Arabic marriage, birth and education certificates.
. Translated several books and many confidential documents from Arabic
into English.
. Provided consecutive interpretation of on-going conversations.
EDUCATION
. Law Degree, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt.
LEADERSHIP & MANAGEMENT EXPERIENCE
. Responsible for a team of linguists and for the work produced by them.
. Coordinating and balancing the priorities of the different IC partners
and customers.
. Responsible for maintaining, tracking, and assigning the daily work
projects
AWARDS & CERTIFICATES
. Several letters and certificates of Achievement
. JMTC Asymmetric Warfare Intelligence Analysis Course
. Intelligence Community Linguist Workshop
COMPUTER SKILLS
. Microsoft Office (word, PowerPoint, Excel)
TDY
. Assigned to an office in the Middle East in 2012
References Available Upon Request