SUMERA MAQBOOL

***** **** ****** **. ******* VA *0148. Cell. 703-***-****. acr2nn@r.postjobfree.com

OBJECTIVE

To obtain a position that will utilize my current skills and experience and to expand the horizon of your corporation as well as of my successful future.

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

●(Fluent) English, (native) Urdu, and (native)Western Punjabi

● Scored 5/5 (ILR, DLPT) in Urdu Language tests.

●Proficient in Microsoft Word, Corel WordPerfect, PowerPoint, and Microsoft Excel

●TS/SCI clearance (DOD), Secret (other agency)

●Member/volunteer with National Language Service Corp (NLSC).

WORK EXPERIENCE

10/2011 – current, Research Analyst - STG Inc. 12011 Sunset Hills Road, Suite 1200

Reston, VA 20190

●Supporting Department of State’s Digital Outreach Team as their research wing.

●Conduct qualitative research [focus groups] in certain demographic areas.

●Write reports using publicly available data.

●Conduct extensive open source research on daily basis and identify items to support the client's mission.

●Summarize all pertinent factual information and abstract concepts, recognizing the significance of complex expressions, such as colloquial text or technical terminologies.

●Assist client in analyzing new products for content relevance, accuracy, and cultural sensitivity as well as make recommendations.

●Support client's mission by providing research and analytical expertise on ad-hoc requests.

●Accurately translate a wide variety of complex texts from Urdu into English

●Analyze news on the foreign Media in Urdu to accommodate the customer requests.

●PROJECT COORDINATION

●Helped Project Manager meeting work standards by following production, productivity, quality, and customer-service standards; resolving operational problems; identifying work process improvements.

●Identified and schedules project deliverables, milestones, and required tasks.

●Managed incoming client requests.

01/2011 – 10/2011 Analyst - Mission Essential Personnel, 13880 Dulles Corner Lane

Suite 400 Herndon, Virginia 20171

●Served as a collector/analyst conducting counterintelligence cyber operations in support of Department of Defense and force protection requirements.

●Provide direct analytical support to CI cyberspace operations to include consultation and advice on linguistic, technical and cultural issues impacting mission execution.

●Author daily intelligence information reports encompassing political, cultural and technical material for dissemination throughout the intelligence community.

●Conduct daily research using open source and classified database to identify and assess threat cyberspace tactics, techniques and procedures.

05/2009 – 12/2010 Analyst – SAIC Inc. 1710 SAIC Drive, McLean, VA 22102

●Tracked news trends in Urdu media

●Processed the findings and converted them into statistical data.

●Prepared the findings graphically.

●Wrote reports and executive summaries.

●Prepared summaries and gists.

●Wrote research papers on current issues and active organizations in Pakistan.

9/2008 – 05/2009 Linguist/Analyst - STG Inc. 12011 Sunset Hills Road, Suite 1200

Reston, VA 20190

●Read and analyzed news on the foreign Media in Urdu.

●Made analytical reports based on information gathered from foreign media, conducive to

●client requirement.

●Provided summary of certain news for the client.

●Translated and summarized documents from Urdu to English.

06/2008 – 10/2008 Editor/linguist - ASET International Services Corp., 6400 Arlington Boulevard Third Floor, Falls Church, Virginia 22042

●Worked on Centcom sponsored multi-language newspaper.

●Edited news article translated from English to Urdu.

●Formatted news articles according to client specifications.

●Edited work done by other linguists.

●Maintained news website in Urdu.

●Translated English articles into Urdu.

11/2007 – 06/2008 Linguist Freelance

●Translated Legal Documents from Urdu to English.

●Translated and summarized articles from Urdu to English.

●Transcribed CDs.

01/2006 – 11/2007 Linguist/Editor - MVM, Inc. 44620 Guilford Drive #150 Ashburn, VA 20147

QUALITY CONTROL

●Assisted team lead as part of quality control team.

●Edited English transcripts for grammar and spelling

●Formatted documents according to the required specifications.

●Summarized documents as part of first tier analysis

TRANSLATION AND TRANSCRIPTION

●Transcribed and edited recorded material from Urdu/Punjabi into English.

●Translated typed and handwritten documents from Urdu/Punjabi into English.

●Finished all projects ahead of time.

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7/2000 - 5/2005 Homeroom Teacher (TEFL Focus) Al-Hedayah Academy, 8601 Randol Mill Road Fort Worth Texas 76120

●Initiate and worked on a number of curriculum development projects.

●Designed and executed a number of fundraising projects.

●Effectively and efficiently managed, time, resources, and behaviors.

●Discussed results with students, parents and school officials.

●Evaluated the progress of students and lead students in activities to promote physical, mental and social development.

●Participated in staff meetings, educational conferences and training workshops.

●Prepared courses for presentation to students according to an approved curriculum.

●Planned, prepared, and administered lessons with various levels of difficulties to accommodate different levels and types of learners.

●Taught students using a systematic plan of lessons, discussions, presentations and field trips.

EDUCATION AND CERTIFICATIONS

●5/2006 - Scored 5/5 on Alta language test, ILR scale, in Urdu and English

●8/1994 - 8/1996 OKLAHOMA CITY UNIVERSITY

Masters of Arts in elementary Education (TEFL) with GPA 3.84

●3/1990 - 2/1992 Punjab University

Masters of Arts in English Literature

●4/1984 – 4/1988 Queen Mary College

Bachelors of Arts in Statistics and Psychology, minor in Arabic literature

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