Freelance Translator of Georgian, Portuguese, and others into English

Frank Anthony Miller

Address: *** **** ***** *****, *******, VA, U.S.A. 23669-1245

Phone: +1-757-***-**** (U.S.A.); +995-***-***-*** (Georgia) Email: *****@**********.*** (preferred method of contact) Citizenship: U.S.A.

EDUCATION

Georgetown University Washington, D.C., U.S.A.

B.A. in Portuguese and Linguistics, minor in Hebrew (May 2014) Undergraduate GPA: 3.651 – cum laude

M.S. in Linguistics (May 2015)

Final Research Paper: The Reconstructed Phonology of Proto-Algonquian Graduate GPA: 3.697

Study Abroad: Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Spring 2013) Lisbon, Portugal American Councils for Int’l Education (Summer 2014) Tbilisi, Georgia

FLAS Fellowship to study Georgian language

WORK EXPERIENCE

Freelance Translator, Editor, and Proofreader Worldwide Georgian/Portuguese/Spanish/French/Italian into English 11/2013 - present

• Has produced publication quality translations of academic works, contracts, and other written documents; work has been both remunerated and, at times, pro bono

• Clients include The Big Word (translation agency); Burg Translations, Inc. (translation agency); Dr. Tinatin Bolkvadze (professor of Linguistics at the State University of Tbilisi); Tbilisi-based NGOs (e.g., Civitana and American Language Center of Tbilisi); and Georgetown University Law Center

• Can comfortably translate up to 3,000 words per day

• Willing to travel for assignments both short- and long-term as well as domestically and internationally

American Councils for International Education Washington, D.C., U.S.A. Portuguese Language Consultant 11/2015 - 07/2016

• Selected and reviewed listening and reading materials for test development; provided Portuguese to English translations for said materials

• Both listening and reading materials spanned ILR levels 0 through 3+ General Dynamics Information Technology Rockville, MD, U.S.A. Translator of Portuguese and Spanish 09/2015 - 06/2016

• Translated articles into English from Portuguese and Spanish for public consumption dealing with military happenings in the Portuguese- and Spanish-speaking worlds U.S. Department of State, Washington Language Center Arlington, VA, U.S.A. Contracted Translator of Portuguese (Brazilian and European) 11/2013 - 05/2014

• Produced translations (Portuguese English) for documents of all difficulties for the Department of Romance Languages and the Language Testing Unit at the U.S. Department of State's Foreign Service Institute as a contractor through Washington Language Center

U.S. Department of State Arlington, VA, U.S.A.

Summer Intern 06/2012 - 08/2012

• Participated in practice language testing as an examinee (Spanish, Portuguese)

• Composed summaries for a large number of texts in Portuguese (Brazilian and European) and edited the summaries of others whose native language was not English

• Updated HTML code for Portuguese students’ SubLearnCentre at the U.S. State Department’s Foreign Service Institute (FSI); also updated the website for FSI’s Spanish- to-Portuguese Conversion Course

• Received a temporary Secret clearance for this position (most likely inactive now) Virginia Department of Education, Governor's Spanish Academy Richmond, VA, U.S.A. Resident Assistant 06/2011 - 07/2011

LANGUAGE SKILLS (N.B.: Scores are ILR scale estimates.) Language (length of training) Spoken Written Read

Portuguese (8 years) 3+ 4 4+

Spanish (10 years) 3 3 4

French (3 years) 2 3 3+

Galego (1 semester in Lisbon) 2+ 2+ 3

Italian (self-study) 2 2+ 3+

Modern Hebrew (4 years) 2 2 2+

Georgian (intensive summer

study in Tbilisi)

2 2+ 3

Polish (1 year) 2 2 2+

Ukrainian (1 year) 2 2 2+

Tétun (1 semester in Lisbon) 1 1+ 2

Latin (4 years) N/A 2+ 3+

Sanskrit (1 semester) N/A 1+ 2

• Studying Svan and Megruli (languages related to Georgian) at Tbilisi State University

(03/2016 - present)

• Has also been exposed to basic Mongolian through the Global Language Network and to Biblical Hebrew through the Catholic University of America (both in Washington, D.C.)

• Can understand at an intermediate level written Romanian and most other Romance languages not listed above (e.g., Catalan, Ladino)

• Can read Latin, Greek, Georgian, and Cyrillic alphabets; Devanāgarī; and the Hebraic abjad

• Has also worked with the International Phonetic Alphabet, Maltese, and the syllabaries of Ethiopia, the Cherokee, and the First Peoples of Canada while studying Linguistics OTHER EXPERIENCES

• Led a tasting of Portuguese wines in collaboration with the Camões Institute and Honorary Consul of Portugal in Georgia during Tbilisi State University’s celebrations for Portuguese Language Day (May 2016)

• Gave presentation entitled “Georgia and Portugal: Friends on the Frontiers of Europe,” which discussed the commonalities between the two countries and also explored Portuguese dialects

(December 2015)

• Pro bono translation work for a court case involving an Angolan client and Portuguese- English and English-French translations (February – April 2015)

• Member of National Language Service Corps as a speaker of Portuguese, Galego, Spanish, French, Georgian, and Modern Hebrew (NLSC; 2015 – present)

• Hampton City Schools, Student Member of Hampton City School Board (2008 – 2009)

• Eagle Scout (2007)

• Extensive knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite, HTML, and Adobe Photoshop

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