Foreign Language Program
Resume:
MARTIJNA A BRIGGS
INTERPRETER DUTCH (FLEMISH, Caribbean and Surinamese ), AFRIKAANS
Ithaca, NY 14850
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MARTIJNA A. BRIGGS 1941-
US Citizen
Paleographer, Educator of Foreign Language interpretation of primary sources for research, business. Director of The Dutch AND Afrikaans Language Program at Cornell University, Retired. Independent Certified Multilingual Translator/Interpreter for Cyracom, the NLSC
(National Language Service Corps).
Stratus, RWS Moravia/FB, Interpreters Portal
Authorized to work in the US for any employer
Work Experience
Independent Interpreter, translator, paleographer
Cyracom.com, Interpreters Portal, Ret. faculty member Cornell University - Ithaca, NY 2014 to Present
Private mentor in assisting graduate students and Doctoral candidates to interpret primary sources, including handwritten documents in Dutch, French
(of France, Canadia, Louisiana and some Caribbean Islands), most variations of Afrikaans, some German, most Netherlandic and Belgian dialects.
Standard documents interpretation for working content in foreign languages, mentioned above as well as some Scandinavian languages, Italian, Spanish, some Luxemburgisch.
NLSC National Language ServiceCorps Member
Multilingual Fair Fund Foreign Language Telephonic and Interpretive - East Syracuse, NY January 2008 to August 2010
Breeden Fair Fund
• Assistance 2008- Interpretation, Translation and Communication in various European Languages for
• Foreign Legal and Financial Document Processing and working claims.
• Globalization and Localization multi-lingually and financially.
• In every way necessary:
person-to-person, via e-mail, per telephone.
• Editing newspaper announcements and other publications as well as all written and electronic correspondence.
• Calls to banks and investors, to financial institutions and consecutive translation of personnel in conference calls. Completing all calls every day to claimants with questions, advice and concerns.
• Support with filing claims in five foreign languages: Dutch, French, Afrikaans, Flemish and English; all < >.
• Supporting co-workers with foreign language legal, financial and correspondence interpretation.
• Responsible for meeting the deadline ahead of time for finalizing claim work.
• Explaining semantic nuances to co-workers-localization, cultural specifics in procedures.
• Cold calling claimants within office hours in various time zones.
• Assisting in composing a company go-to vocabulary list, with corrections of machine translation and with interpretation of details on claim forms from countries with less common languages.
• Finishing all e-correspondence by the end of the day. NLSC National Language Service Corps Member
Certified Contributing Consultant in Dutch, French and German. Tested and certified by Cyracom. Language Testing
• CNaVT: Director of Cornell University Regional Test Center for Dutch 4-level testing and ranking, through a worldwide annual testing program: "Certificaat Nederlands als Vreemde Taal" managed sponsored and evaluated by the University of Louvain-la-Neuve in Belgium/ Europe in May annually for Cornell, fellow Ivy-League students and extramural candidates from the 90s through 2008.
Freelance:
Academic, technical, scientific, legal, classified content contiguous translation, summarization, telephonic interpretation, notarized documents, research assistance, publications. CURRENTLY
Contract experience with: Cyracom, Stratus Video OPI, Interpreters Portal, RWS Moravia/FB Language coordinator
RCB Fair Fund - Syracuse, NY
August 2008 to June 2009
leader in Multilingual Worldwide Foreign Language Processing of Financial Claims Director and Faculty member, Senior Lecturer Dutch and French Cornell University - Ithaca, NY
1985 to 1985
Ithaca, NY.
Director and Faculty member, Senior Lecturer Dutch and French, Cornell University, retired. Teaching Beginners, Intermediate and Advanced Language Learning of Dutch and related Education
MA French Utrecht, The Netherlands in French Graduate Studies Harvard U., UT Austin, TX, Cornell U Ithaca, NY
January 1972 to May 1987
Bachelor's in Education, Education Administration
Veghel, The Netherlands
September 1955 to May 1958
Skills
• Italian
• Spanish
Certifications and Licenses
Assessed for interpreter OPI by Cyracom, RWS Moravia, Stratus 2016
Assessments
Proofreading — Proficient
March 2019
Proofreading written texts.
Full results: Proficient
Social Media — Completed
March 2019
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