RESUME’/ ARABIC LINGUIST/ANALYST
ABDELAZIZ HAROON
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Address: **** *********** ****; Nashville, Tennessee 37221
**********@*****.***
Email:
Phone: 615-***-**** 615-***-****
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
04-2010- 05-2010 Calnet Inc.
Deployed to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba as an Arabic
Linguist in support of the Prosecution Team.
Our mission focused on Audio Listening, Documents
Translation, Analyzing data, Gisting, Translations, and
Editing.
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1995-2007 Freelance Court Interpreter
Selected and appointed by the Trial Courts within the juris-
diction of the State of Tennessee to provide services for
over three hundred eighty courts in Tennessee. Interpret
from English/Arabic- Arabic/English consecutive and
simultaneous interpretation.
Interpreted in all Arabic dialects and possess full awareness
and comprehension of cross-culture factors, including but
not limited to expectations, values, roles, institutions, and
linguistic differences and similarities.
Current Clearance Level Secret Security Clearance (Final).
Granted on 08-20-2007 by D O D.
Anticipated Future Clearance: TS/SCI-with Polygraph.(in FINAL PHASE/ IN
PROCESS). Since 01-23-2009.
Dyner Corporation
11-2007 TO 12-2009
Worked as a direct representative to the United States Department of Defense/ United
States Army as an Arabic Linguist Interpreter. Primary station
was in Baghdad, Iraq and traveled in this capacity to many
provinces in Iraq.
Providing operational Arabic language support to U.S Army linguist operations in Iraq.
Interpreting and translating written and spoken communications.
Transcribe and analyze verbal communications. Perform document exploitation, scan,
research, and analyze foreign language documents for key
information. Translate and gist foreign language documents.
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Identify and extract information components meeting military
information requirement list criteria. Provide input to reports.
Provide cultural advice on dealing with every day situation with
the public.
A-Z Financial and Real Estate Services.
1996-2007:
President
Operated a comprehensive private business serving
Individuals and companies in the sale and development of real
estate, placement of life, accident, disability and property and
casualty insurance along with personal pension, annuities and
financial planning.
Massachusetts Mutual Insurance Company
1979-1996
General Agent handling all facets of Life, accident and health Insurance along with
disability, annuities and pension products.
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
1971 Al-Azhar University Cairo, Egypt
Bachelor of Arts : Language and Interpretation
1975-1978 Middle Tennessee State University
Major: Business Administration
1982- 1985 Tennessee State University
Adjunct Professor/Moderator
SUMMARY OF SKILLS & QUALIFICATIONS:
**Fluent in reading, writing and fully understanding ARABIC LANGUAGE (Mother
Tongue).
**Highly skilled in speaking and understanding Iraqi, Yemeni, Syrian, Saudi, Lebanese
and Gulf States dialects.
**Have achieved 3+ score level in all ALATA test language.
**Recent deployment experience in Iraq for 2 full years in ANALYSING Intelligence
Reports/ collections of data from various sources, particularly working at the Iraqi
Ministry of Defense assisting the MNF-I Team AS AN ANALYST/CULTURE
ADVISOR in communicating with their Iraqi counterparts on highest level up to the
Minister of Defense echelon (level) .
**Maintaining an active and FINAL SECRET SECURITY CLEARANCE since
August 2007.
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**Expected future clearance level TS/SCI W/POLY. (IN FINAL PHASE since 01-
09.)
**Served as a linguist/role player for the US Army in various military bases in US such
as FT Bragg, FT Drum, Camp Landing in Florida and in Port Rico Base as well assisting
the deployed soldiers in understanding the Iraqi culture, customs and traditions through a
role play depicting all aspects of Iraqi people’s daily life. Culture Awareness lessons (Pre-
deployment Training).
**Highly skilled in PR, was able to resolve many problems and disputes between the US
MARINE CORPS Unit in Haditha and the Tribal leaders such as water, electricity and
prisoners issues.
Resolving such issues in warm and amiable means helped restoring the security and
safety to our soldiers in the town of Haditha which gained high media exposure and bad
publicity at that time.
REFERENCES:
1-Judge John Aaron Holt
Contact# 615-***-**** 6PM-9PM CT
2-Judge William Higgins
Contact# 615-***-**** 8AM-2PM CT
3- Attorney
David King
Contact# 615-***-**** 8:30AM-9PM CT
4- Attorney
Jim Higgins
Contact# 615-***-**** 10AM-5PM CT
5- Real Estate Developer
Angelos Darsinos
Contact# 615-***-**** 10AM-8PM CT
6-Professor/Tennessee State University
Saleh Sabatto P.H.D (Engineering School).
Contact# 615-***-**** 6PM-9PM CT
7- Major Bobb Doughtry
US MARINE CORPS
INTELLIGENCE&RECONNAISSANCE (HUMNT)
Contact# 610-***-**** 10AM-9PM ET
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