C.V.

Bassem Mohamed Ibrahim Fahmy

Personal Home Address: Mossaed Al Azmy St.,

Block No. 12, Avenue No. 8,

Salmiya

Kuwait

Mobile: 009**********

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Marital Statues: Married

Nationality: Egyptian

Date of Birth: 18-6-1972

Education

Faculty of Al Alsun (Languages College) - English Department Ain Shams University

Graduation Degree: Good

Year of Graduation: 1994

Educational Studies

General English courses in the American University in Cairo (A.U.C.).

Simultaneous interpretation & translation (A.U.C.): advanced level.

General French courses in the French Center.

General German courses in El Shrouk & Gohte Institute.

Computer Courses: Windows, Word, Excel, Power Point & elementary ICDL

Ability to use the typewriter: very good.

Leadership and Team Building Training Course from the International Center for Etudes (ICE).

Personality Development Courses: Several courses in the Central Bank of Kuwait (CBK), including but not limited to, etiquette & personal dealings with employees and customers, Kaizen (Continual Improvement), drafting & writing reports, .. etc.

Languages

Arabic: Excellent (mother tongue)

English: Excellent (first language)

German: Good (second language)

French: Fair (third language)

Work Experiences

Place: Kuwait City, Kuwait

Position: Main Translator

Company Name: Central Bank of Kuwait (CBK)

Hired Date: 16/02/2014 - current.

Title Duties

Translation: Translating all Central Bank of Kuwait (CBK) materials (circulars, correspondences, letters, contracts, ...etc

Supervision: Supervising and managing the translation team and proofreading their final works as being responsible for the results before the Top Management. Essential Responsibilities & Duties:

Performing translation of assigned tasks into both English and Arabic in a timely, accurate and consistent manner and ensuring the quality of translations done by other individual translator.

Checking and proofreading translated documents to ensure accuracy, quality, and appropriateness of translation and utilizing standardized translation of banking and legal terminology in current usage at the bank.

Compiling terminology and information used in translations, including technical terms such as those of legal or financial material.

Identifying and resolving conflicts related to the meaning of words, concepts, practices or behaviors.

Referring to reference material, such as dictionaries, lexicons, encyclopedias, and computerized terminology banks, as needed to ensure translation accuracy.

Ensuring correct grammar, punctuation and spelling.

Drafting and translating high-level summaries of meetings from English to Arabic and vice versa.

Prioritizing work to meet deadlines.

Assisting the Department Official in the selection of new translators.

Following ethic codes that protect the confidentiality of information, and ensuring that other translators are following the same manner. Tasks Performed:

Tasks performed, including but not limited to, translating some of the following types:

CBK regulatory legislations & instructions.

CBK internal policies and administrative circulars.

Governor’s letters, speeches and remarks.

Financial and economic documents issued by CBK, International Monetary Fund (IMF) and foreign central banks.

Other translation tasks including the translation of:

Training Manual, Operating Remarks, Regulatory Rules, Letters, Drafts, Meetings, Press Releases, Legal Contracts, Memos, and Appendices of some of the CBK Projects, including:

- E-Banking

- Kuwait’s Electronic Cheque Clearing System (KECCS)

- Core Banking

- Cash Management System (CMS)

- Kuwait National Payments System (KNPS)

- E-Government Payment (EGP)

Miscellaneous tasks:

Being responsible for the update of the CBK Portal topics.

Attending meetings with the Department Manager to help in drafting and translating the meetings minutes.

Being responsible of preparing the Annual Plans for CBK Employees’ Courses.

Coordinating with other employees from the different departments to translate the materials they need in their daily work.

Sharing in the translation of some of the CBK Annual Reports.

Being responsible of enhancing Sakhr Enterprise Translation (SET) Machine Translation System, including but not limited to, training new users, and giving training courses for system orientation for new employees, as well as updating the SET System data.

Subtitling:

- Being responsible for the subtitling from English into Arabic of some religious programs like :( Parables in the Quran) .. etc., and other political programs like: (Counter Current) that were broadcasted on Iqraa Satellite Channel in the ART Translation Center in Cairo.

Freelance Translator:

- Being a freelance translator via Internet on a daily base for more than12 years with two offices located in the Arab United Emirates and they are: House of Translation & Kamil Bashir Legal Translator.

- Leading a group of 5 part-timing high-caliper translators in delivering thousands of online tasks required on a daily base via internet in different fields of translation, the most important are: legal (contracts), financial (annual reports, financial statements), medical (hundreds of prescriptions and hospitals communications), cosmetic (pamphlets & flyers), and journalistic (online sites) translation.

UN Candidate:

- Accessing successfully the UN 2012 Competitive Examination for Arabic Language Verbatim Reporters and travelling to the USA and performing the final stage of the UN exam.

Place: Cairo, Egypt

Position: Translation Group Manager

Company Name: Sakhr Software

Hired Date: 18/12/1994 to 30/01/2014/.

Title Duties

Supervision: Supervising and controlling the Translation Department which consists of average 4-5 highly qualified translators in managing and carrying out all tasks assigned to the Department from the Administration. Recruitment: Reviewing CVs of new candidates for recruitment, selecting potential successful candidate, preparing appropriate tests and examination, interviewing the elite candidate to be recruited, training new employees, and teaching, reviewing and following up their performance. Finally, evaluating such new employees’ performance to select those to be dismissed and those to remain. Manuals: writing manuals of the Department tools to be a documented instrument for training new employees and archiving the data history of the Department used tools. Tuition & Demos: instructing and giving demos for potential customers all over the Middle East GCC countries and Turkey as part of the Company Marketing Team and the Manager responsible for the SET tool marketing. Job Descriptions

Duties: feeding into the computer the necessary logical and linguistic background by means of which it can translate any text and that by sharing in some programs such as:

Dictionary: word-for-word translation, visual revision, defining American from British expressions.

Idioms: creating basic data, classifying data into groups, creating data affixation applicability, choosing correct sense of every word, specifying modern and classic idioms, revising translation of idioms and their senses.

Stemmer: specifying stem, matching it with its derivatives, specifying its part of speech.

Ouran Mapping Project: creating manual and giving instructions in how to match between Arabic and English verses.

Machine Translation (M.T.): many projects such as Lexical Transfer (L.T.). English Monolingual Lexicon (E.M.L.). Verb Subcategorization Automatic System (V.S.A.S.) Noun Subcategorization Automatic System (N.S.A.S.). Adjective Subcategorization Automatic System (ADJ.S.A.S.).

Grammar Write: creating rules of English grammar, solving problems of unparsable & multi parsable sentences, training newcomers.

Post Editing Translation Service (P.E.T.S.):

PETS is an in-house system in which a full team is wholly dedicated for extracting Translation Memory (TM) from many sources (mainly online sites) and feeding Sakhr Systems, such as: Tarjim & SET by TM for the propose of building and using such systems (Tarjim & SET) in Sakhr Machine Translation Project. Duties:

- Leading a group consists of ten translators for more than 7 years ago.

- Participating in building SET Glossaries, in addition to following up and training the Team responsible for building SET System.

- Picking up most commonly used English terms on online sites, and translating them in Sakhr Glossaries.

- Translating a number of daily sites online, including but not limited to, Al Jazeera, CNN, Reuters, Newsweek, BBC and Moheet sites.

Sakhr Glossaries:

Duties:

- Suggesting and classifying new entries to be added into the glossaries for the purpose of enhancing the performance of Tarjim & SET systems.

Sakhr Enterprise Translation (S.E.T):

Duties:

- Participating in enhancing and developing the performance of SET System,

- Training and following up the Company translators and linguists' team on using such system.

Data Augmenting Workflow (D.A.W):

Duties:

- Marking problems found in batch of sentences to make a quality assurance of the machine translation behavior and performance from English into Arabic direction through 3 phases (marking problems, reviewing such problems and suggesting solutions, applying solutions). FINALLY, I WOULD LIKE TO SAY THAT THE BEST THING IN THE WORLD IS WHEN YOUR HOBBY BECAME YOUR WORK, AND THIS IS TRUE AS FAR AS I’M CONCERNED

BEST REGARDS

BASSEM FAHMY

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