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REZA DELAVARI

ac2fyc@r.postjobfree.com

COMPETENCES

EFFICIENT LANGUAGE SCHOOL MANAGER, ESL TEACHER/TUTOR, FARSI(PERSIAN) AND KURDISH(SORANI) TRANSLATOR, INTERPRETER, AND PROOFREADER

WORK EXPERIENCE

09/2006 to date

Teaching ESL to foreign students at Sprott Shaw College-Global Education Alliance, a division of CIBT Education Group INC- Vancouver, Canada for summer camp, 2017.

Freelance translator, interpreter, editor, and transcriber in English <> Farsi(Persian) and Kurdish(Sorani) in Canada.

Collaboration with Lexitech International translation agency in Canada, Wordtrans in the USA, and numerous of other translation agencies in various countries in the following language pairs

English<>Farsi (Persian)

English<>Kurdish (Sorani)

Kurdish (Sorani)<>Farsi (Persian)

09/2004 to 2007/09

Freelance translator, interpreter, and tour guide for translation agencies and airliners. Establisher of my own language school in Hamedan, Iran, named “Delavary Communications Galaxy”(renamed to “Zabansara-Hamedan Link” Aug 2007), successful Manager, hard-working English Teacher for young adults and adults in this institute.

1999 to 2004

Freelance translator and successful ESL teacher and tutor both in private classes and in different English Institutes including Mehr and Zabansara Cultural Education Institute(Oxford Iran-based representative) in Hamedan, Iran.Close collaboration with the sworn translation agency Andisheh in Hamedan, Iran.

Volunteer translation collaboration with “The Team of A People’s United Nations (NL)”

Interpreting & translating in official meetings–hosting the Asian President of the World Profi-Kick Boxing Association, Feb. 27, 2003 to Mar. 03, 2003 held in Hamedan, and interpreting in a meeting hosting a Dutch engineer visiting a milling and flour factory from Jul.25 to Jul.27, 2003(certificates available on request.

EDUCATION

2000

Having had a high profile at university due to my hard work and passion to English, I received my B.A. degree in the field of English language translation passing 141 credits and with a general average of 15.86 from Islamic Azad University, Hamedan branch, Iran.

Freelance translator and interpreter.

Tour Guide Certificate from the Iran's Tourism Organization upon successful completion of a 4-month training courses of the Iranian Tourism & Traveling Tour Guides.

1992 to 2000

English studies in two English Institutes in Sanandaj, Iran simultaneously and at University.

OTHER EXPERIENCES

Karate teaching and practice.

Black Belt Dan One official certificate from the Iran's Karate Federation

Third position in Karate Athletic Games held on Aug. 30th, 1991 in Sanandaj, Iran. Athletic Medal and Diploma awarded by the Chairman of Board of Karate of Kurdistan Province.

Drawing and painting classes for six years(Visit my art gallery at: http://rezartgallery.webs.com/ )

Holding a Canadian driving license class "full G"

HONORS AND INTERESTS

Letter of appreciation at the end of my service duty in 1992.

Certificate of participation in the Fourth Round of state Athletic games for the selection

of Gojuryu karate National Team, held in Tehran, to be dispatched to Malaysia-Oceanic contests.

Listening, transcribing, and researching through a variety of programs on V.O.A., B.B.C.

Working with computer – knowledge of MS Office – and research on Internet.

Strong interest in the North American culture and in cultural mix.

LINGUISTIC KNOWLEDGE

Persian (Farsi)/Kurdish (Sorani): Native

English: Close to Native

French: Basic

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