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Quality Control Assurance

Location:
Chevy Chase, MD
Posted:
January 29, 2014

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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



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