Project Manager Quality Control

SARAH GEIGER

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OBJECTIVE

Permanent position as legal specialist, project manager, project assistant

or analyst. Candidate has a JD degree, and is fluent in German, French,

Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and Hebrew, in addition to English.

PROFILE

J.D. with over fifteen years of experience managing research, document

review and translation staffs. I have spent nearly two decades analyzing,

translating, summarizing and editing complex legal, political, economic,

scientific and literary texts in seven languages.

SELECTED ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Headed the International Department of a national Ministry of the

Environment, serving as point-man for all other national environment

agencies, and compiling and providing information for distribution abroad.

Authored a book giving step-by-step guidance to visiting academics about

how to manage life in Jerusalem. The book was published, and has since

gone through bi-annual reprinting with updated information.

Managed a staff of contract attorneys, serving as liaison between the

project attorneys and the temporary staff, training new reviewers and

translators, fielding questions and performing quality control on document

tagging and translations.

Served as interpreter at a major international trial; have also translated

for Supreme Court justices, diverse academic institutions, and publications

such as Atlantic Monthly and Newsweek.

Oversaw the selection, ordering and distribution of all foreign language

publications for an active, well-funded think tank.

EDUCATION

J.D., March 1985

University of Chicago School of Law, Chicago, Illinois

B.A., June 1981

St. John's College, Annapolis, Maryland

Graduate work in Linguistics and Neurolinguistics

University of Texas, Austin, and University of Wisconsin,

Madison

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Contract Attorney 2007 to

present

Law firms in Washington, D.C. (including Cadwalader, Wickersham

& Taft; Kirkland & Ellis; Baker & McKenzie, and Debevoise & Plimpton)

Document review/translation in Italian, French, Spanish, German,

Portuguese and Hebrew.

Projects included an FCPA investigations from December 2008 through

December 2009, and March to April 2010, pharmaceutical cases, antitrust,

and securities. After the document reviews ended, I stayed on to perform

quality control, translations, to conduct searches and additional

investigation, write reports and summaries, etc.. My tasks included

tracking terminology and investigation information, training new reviewers,

interface with IT and program specialists, drafting interview questions,

interviewee proposals and targeted searches.

Translator, Abstracter and Research Assistant

1997 to 2002

The Israel Democracy Institute, Jerusalem, Israel

Responsibilities included selecting and then reading political

science publications in French, Spanish, Italian and German, and

abstracting them in English. The second component of the position entailed

comparative research on a wide range of political science, economics and

international relations issues. I trained and supervised a team of

abstractors for the Information Center of the Institute.

Grant Writer / Donor Liaison 1989 to 1997

The Gimmel Foundation

In this job, I traveled to development areas where the

Gimmel Foundation had ongoing projects, and where projects were

contemplated. I developed ideas for improvement and innovation, and

communicated these ideas to donors and potential donors. I wrote periodic

progress reports about the projects, and conducted site tours for donors

when they visited. I wrote, designed and published annual reports of the

Foundation's activities (in English and French).

Head of International Relations Department 1991 to 1993

Israel Ministry of the Environment, Jerusalem, Israel

This position involved comparative research on environmental programs

and strategies implemented around the world; editing of Ministry

publications in English; and serving as liaison between the Israel Ministry

of the Environment and all other national environment ministries.

Freelance Translator and Editor 1993 to

2010

Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, Israel and USA

Regular contracts issued by The Israel Academy of Science and the

Humanities, The Hebrew University, Tel Aviv University, Be'er Sheva

University, Bar Ilan University, the Mandel Institute, Hever Translators'

Pool, the Gimmel Foundation, and the Conservative Movement. Recent

translations for The Atlantic Monthly, a retired Supreme Court Justice

(Israel), museum archives, and the Movement for Progressive Judaism.

LANGUAGES English, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish

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