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BRYAN ADRIAN
Bryan Adrian CV -- resume of Bryan Adrian
BRYAN ADRIAN
Vake district, Tbilisi, Georgia
Tbilisi Telephone
599
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Email: abp4j2@r.postjobfree.com
LANGATEAMERICANLEARNINGCENTER, Tbilisi,
Janashia str. 11 -- [Feb. 2012-current].
Instructor and lecturer in TOEFL and SAT test preparations, and academic
writing lessons. Tour agency English
speaking assistant on group tours throughout Georgian regions. Editor of children s fairy tales.
LANGUAGE TEACHER/English
Programs at Lingua
House, in Tbilisi [Sept. 2006 Feb. 12, 2012] T. Tabidze St
114, Tbilisi, Georgia TRAINER of AAT [American Academy Tbilisi] essay
writing, for the admissions exam to the American high school here; one-on-one
and groups TOEFL and SAT test preparations, using the CD self-scoring disk from
newest books published by ETS/Prometric, 13th edition Barron's books, and
Kaplans workbooks; advanced and intermediate English grammar and
conversation--repeatedly proven successful teacher from intermediate to
advanced levels--composition writing lessons--editing in English--rewrites of
translations -- Murphy's grammar; Enterprise books; Cutting Edge books;
Cambridge First Certificate FCE preparation much more! Business writing
seminars. Creative Writing & Film seminars. Poetry Read Outs also, at
Caravani Art Cafe, near Parliament. http://bryanadrian_writer.tripod.com/caravan-flier.html
UNDP,
Georgia [United Nations
Development Program] [2007-2011] Independent
contract editor for many long UNDP reports coming out of Georgia. Tbilisi,
Racha, Rustavi,
and UNDP newsletter editing too. Reports range in length from 6 pp to 340
pages. contact person: Martin Christenssen.
STORY TELLER for children at the British Council of Tbilisi. [2007-2008]
UNICEF,Tbilisi, Georgia
[2008 February] Final edit on English version of Giovanna Barberis s
Newsletter of the UN Children's Fund, UNICEF in Georgia
ECMI. Editing/Copyediting/Proofing, for near 80-page Report, for ECMI
Regional Representative in the Caucasus, Tom Trier, in Minority Issues and
Rights, in the Republic of Georgia. [June/July 2007] ECMI Monograph #6,
Resettlement of Ecologically Displaced Persons: Georgia 1981-2006 [funded by Danish
and German governments]
SECO-SDC-Swiss
Agency for Development and Cooperation [Swiss
Embassy branch, Tbilisi, Georgia]-- [Feb. 2007-current] "Ad Hoc"
editor, rewriting and editing and proofing of website pages in English for this
Humanitarian Aid Society of the Swiss Regional Cooperation Office for the South
Caucasus. see two samples in links below:
http://bryanadrian_writer.tripod.com/SDCFilm.doc
http://bryanadrian_writer.tripod.com/SDCmedia.doc
EUROPEAN LANGUAGE SCHOOLS EXPERIENCE:
Cologne, West
Germany. English lecturer/teacher for evening courses at the
Volkshochschule (the People's University
of Germany), and at
Linguarama, an Oxford-based language institute near The K LN Dom. Please
contact the Volkhochschule, Cologne.
DRESDEN, East
Germany. "inlingua"
co-director of the first western commercial language school in the East Block
after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Taught English language teaching techniques
and testing to many former Teachers' College
of Dresden educators, who qualified
for this highly competitive and pioneering East-West program of the
Arbeitsamt/Treuhandanstalt, Hamburg.
Also taught for inlingua sister school in Hamburg.
Sofia, Bulgaria, private English tutor for the
daughters of older statesman/law historian, Josef Kraptchev.
Barcelona, Spain -- taught English to
Olympic Village construction workers on the olympics work site; onsite working
class interpreter/laborer, for fellow Irish, British, Portuguese, Quebecoise
& Spanish construction day labourers, to facilitate project needs &
settle on-site intra-nationality workers disputes, preceding the Olympic Games
in Barcelona.
EDUCATION:
GOETHE INSTITUT, Hamburg, Germany;
accelerated beginners course. Basic German Conversation Certificate.
SAN FRANCISCOSTATEUNIVERSITY, [1982-86] Bachelor of Arts earned in combined PublishingPolitical JournalismCreative
Writing program bachelors degree.
SAN FRANCISCO ART INSTITUTE Painting &
life drawing (emphasis on live models).
COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON, SC.
Full Merit Scholarship earned for mathematics [topology final pursuits] &
medical school studies. GraduateSchool fellowships
awarded for PhD studies in math. In addition to journalism and publishing
courses, extensive undergraduate studies in biology, premedicine, chemistry,
and courses leading up to and including algebraic topology.
Languages: Spanish [formerly fluent];
German [basic conversant]; French/Portuguese [basic level of reading and
elementary conversation]
U.S.A
PUBLISHING & Editing EXPERIENCE:
HEAD
START -- Trans-Management Systems Corporation (TMSC),1133 15th Street, NW Suite
450, Washington, DC [Jan.
2006-May 2006] Writer/Editor, HTML code proofing, for T-MSC Consultants,
intra-governmental agency for Head Start, a program for underprivileged kids
started by LBJ, and now under Michael Leavitt, Secretary of Health & Human
Services [HHS]. Frequent use of online and agency software developed by
military subcontractors ICF, Cleverex, and Caliber, for HHS. Trans-Management
Systems Corporation (TMSC) manager: Kevin Jones // Head Start Knowledge & Information Management Services IT Warehouse,
1200 N. Henry St., Suite E, Alexandria, VA http://www.trans-mgmt.com/history.php
NAHB, Margaret Elgin, PhD --[Summer, 2005], Washington, DC--National Association of Homebuilders,
a partner of Wells Fargo Bank and Fannie Mae. Desktop publisher. Tables,
charts, text, electronic formatting, electronic visuals, Paintshop Pro, some
web design. Four-color printing. I was the freelance desktop publisher on this
project putting together a very large bound color report on distance learning [online]
for the members and the Board of Directors, of this home building trade
association. Margaret Elgin, PhD, project leader.
IFPRI, Akhter Ahmed, PhD, Senior Research Fellow for the International Food Policy Research
Institute, a division of USAID--[Summer,
2005], Washington, DC. I was Desktop Publisher for Mr. Ahmed's MS Word 2005
report on food distribution among the poor of India's many states. Power Point
Tables, charts, text, formatting, visuals.
Editor/Desktop
publisher for Financial Analysts, DKWR,
DRESDNER KLEINWORT WASSERSTEIN RESEARCH, 75 Wall Street office, NYC. [April 2001--SEPTEMBER
7th, 2001, Friday, 6pm] Six-month freelance editor & desktop publishing for
DKWR Research, Wall Street. Publications department of Equities Research
Division. Inputting and editing Notes and Reports for top analysts and
international economists. Financial desktop publishing, financial reports
editing. Laid off along with many others the Friday preceding infamous Sept.
11th, 2001 [Tuesday]. Our office was a few blocks away from WorldTradeCenter. http://www.gasandoil.com/news/2001/06/ntr12288
WRITER
Senior
Copywriter, Columbia University Press [CUP], NYC,
[1987-89] Book jackets, catalogue copy, promos, press releases, marketing
strategies, book reviews & direct mail advertising. Books published by
Columbia during my tenure included, architecture, cosmology, psychiatry,
science, politics & social sciences, i.e., any field in which Columbia has
a faculty member or author on their staff. Direct Supervisor: Catalogue and
Advertising Manager, Judy Bernstein. Outside Clients: (1987-89) Churchill
Livingstone Medical Books, 650 Ave. of the Americas;
WH Freeman (Scientific American), 41 Madison
Ave., NYC. Atcom Press Science Newsletters. Kluwer Publishing. http://bryanadrian_writer.tripod.com/PORTFOLIO.html
Deputy Editor & Feature Writer of THE ELECTRONIC WHIP, LONDON/ NYC in addition to editing, I
also wrote four long conjectural essays on Mideast History/Culture/Politics
interfaces, on controversial topics. Samples of my writing from THE ELECTRONIC
WHIP, LONDON
Strike Against Globalization Now! [1996] http://web.archive.org/web/200***********/www.pcug.co.uk/~whip/usa/strike.htm
http://www.angelfire.com/de/Boiishaft/god-of-war.html
http://www.angelfire.com/de/Boiishaft/B-Traven-Circle.html
Bryan Adrian's 1994 Letter to the
Editor, WASHINGTON REPORT ON MIDDLE EAST
AFFAIRS -- click here "Biased Mideast Coverage" Letters To The
New York Times, Feb. 8, 1994 http://www.wrmea.org/component/content/archive.html?year=1994&month=6
Feature
Writerfor
"STREET NEWS," NYC (Jan. 1993-Aug. 1993) a quality bi-weekly
activist newspaper [before print/paper tycoon Sam Chen in Chelsea snatched it in a hostile takeover] on
joblessness, and on the public, popular, and political sponsorship of Hillary
Clinton's nationalized health care program initiatives. My most popular
article: "Why We Have More Lawyers than Toilets in America" http://www.angelfire.com/zine/cetaceandragon/ems.html
REVIEWER for TripAdvisor
-- http://www.tripadvisor.com/members-reviews/bryan-in-tbilisi
Reviews
of hotels, restaurants, and destinations written by bryan-in-tbilisi on TripAdvisor.
REFERENCES:
PROVIDED UPON REQUEST
SKILLS:
Poetry published in "AISLING," in
the Aran Irish-Scottish Isles [http://www.angelfire.com/poetry/aisling/bryanadrian.html ], and also in several U.S. national poetry publications.
Film script registered with the Writers Guild of America. Early childhood lived
in Japan,
so some familiarity with Japanese customs and fairy tales. Many following years
lived and worked abroad [especially in Germany,
and Brasil and Georgia].
Short stories and poems by Bryan Adrian
available by using Google search.
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