Mike Mansoor

(Linguist-Translator-Advisor / Analyst / Investigation & Intelligence)

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Beverley Hills, MI 48220 US Citizen; Top Secret Clearance with SCI / Poly Phone: 248-***-**** OBJECTIVES/FIELDS OF INTEREST

Seeking to bring immediate value via operational-structural Arabic-English linguistic accuracy for military, social, cultural; colloquially transferring general/technical professional language/topics to equivalent summaries/gist-précis-time constraint; contextual information/ extracts/verbatim; utilizing Target Audience Analysis Worksheet (TAAW); supporting sensitive missions and briefings for senior officials, summarizing factual points-abstract concepts; adhering customer standards for quantitative/statistical analysis, collection operations- metrics, grids/coordinates; Document/Media Exploitation (DOMEX-DOCEX), foreign media, political-military analysis; [Battlefield Information Collection Exploitation, Geographic Information-Special Operation Intelligence (BICES+GIS+SOIS) Systems]; identifying/ analyzing intelligence voice communications/signals’ network techniques; applying multilingual-multicultural acquisitions; providing cultural perspective critical communications, regional blog sites for mission support-management in multifaceted ventures & atmospherics EDUCATION & TRAINING

Master of Science: Chemical Engineering-Process-Kinetics/ Wayne State University, Detroit, MI. USA. BS Industrial Chemistry: Instrumental Analysis, Negotiations, Marketing and Mathematical Modeling ACCOMPLISHMENTS, PROFICIENCIES, ACQUISITIONS & SKILLS’ SUMMARY

• Skilled in preparing, conducting accurate gist, translations with proper mode/register, and/or transcriptions of general/technical materials; learning customer programs-abiding with Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs); familiar with Translation Industry Standards-ability to process large amounts of foreign language material; identify critical information; quickly scan/process large critical/essential elements. Ability to recognize language transmission modes’ changes, comprehensive transcriptions/military analysts’ translation; read variety of unfamiliar subjects; ideas-make extrapolations; identifying Arabic language in its specific dialogue/accent at geographic area; response to various specialized databases/data and conducting accurate gist. Ability to speak fluently, read/write modern standard Arabic-Farsi-Pashtu keyboard utilization; regional Arabic-Middle East-Gulf Regional District

(GRD) & Levantine dialects; converse professionally in formal-informal situations; 30+years Arabic translating advanced level printed/recorded materials, technical manuals/specifications, periodicals/business correspondence, audio/videotaped programs and technical discussions adhering to Target Language (TL); 25 years cultivating Arabic/international/socio-cultural dynamics-foreign governments organizations’ history/ economics; logistics training; state department; certified passport mediator-immigration in host nations for the US Air Force, embassies, visas; and media tactical operational-strategy.

• Expert in language quality control, interpreted research protocols; triage documentation; translating for “Allied Joint Doctrine- Operational Planning” US Army; coarse-instructing higher ranks Iraqi Army's special forces, COMJFSOCC, NATO’s operational planning process; on line implementation, COMCJTF’s pre-explained restraints/constraints,& COMCJTF/Priority Intelligence Requirements (PIR), tripled Iraqi students graduation & future registration; Adept in conducting periodic and after action reviews/evaluations of translated documents; corrections-recommendations; technical translated material; Microsoft (MS) Suite- Word, Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint, Access/Outlook; word-processed output; Novel-New Horizon (Virtual-Board Teaching-NOVA NET); Michigan Interpreters/Translators Network’s (MiTiN’s) MI immigration guidelines; competent Arabic/English bilingualism, cultural economics; training manuals; political speeches-position papers; slide presentations & official correspondence.

• Knowledge of Internet-based research, search engine/database resources, social media, social networking tools, data exploitation; commercial-industry-based databases; familiar with computer assisted translation tools such as translation memory, terminology management databases-online dictionaries; trained in Speech Communication Research Laboratory (SCRL); practical consecutive/simultaneous sight interpretation, interviews; newspapers & ability to write analytical open-end articles analysis, abstract concepts & audio/visuals-electropneumatic-social media.

• Multiple awards/commendations-strategic initiatives exemplary support; Iraq’s municipal/public works-irrigation status; ethnic identity & post conflict-historical memory programs; cultural-religious obligations, cultural mastery in variety dialects/jargon; seized socio-text essentials; historic-ethnic elements; supporting US Army-DOD operations; high-level executives, conferences; ascertained substantive texts conformity; drafted abstracts-succinct formats; assigned to Iraqi Training Advisory Mission- Transition Assistant Office (ITAM-ITTA)); facilitated 900 Foreign Claims Commission (FCC); supported Collaborative Product

& Product Design (CPPD); assisted Office Provincial Affairs (OPA); In-country Contracting Officer Representative (ICOR); US military’s Provincial Reconstruction Team-Development Committees (PRT-PRDC), Commander Emergency Reconstruction program (CERP) and United States Agency Coire Engineers (USACE).

• Post Graduate-kinetics/process engineering; completion permanent continuing educational courses license-Urban studies; class- active mental participation/public speaking; C+ knowledge; Quality Function Deployment (QFD) Computer-Aided Design/ Numerical Control (CAD-CNC); Design For Six Sigma (DFSS), Failure Modes Cause & Effects Analysis (FMCEA); Risk Management Analysis (RMA); Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM); Design Of Experiments (DOE); Temporary Variance Authorizations (TVAs), Process Flow Diagram (PFD); Statistical Process Control (SPC); Six-step Problem Solving technique; Time Event Charts (TEC); Process-simulation Hazard Analysis (PHA), human factors & Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS). TASKS, RESPONSIBILITIES and ACHIEVEMENTS

06/2019-01/2020: Quality Control-Linguist-Analyst. CMS, 43062 Valle Ducale Dr, Ashburn, VA 20148

• Translated written/Audio/Video of Arabic in several dialects, transformed to summaries, extracts & verbatim; conducted intelligence traffic queries seeking mission exploitation leads, accurate gist, and/or transcriptions of general-technical materials key signals, dashboards, supported development of collection priorities, intelligence reviews & corresponding Analyst Notebook, charts, converted, reformatted, parsed, and exploited media files using customer tools to ensure compatibility and readability.

• Prepared files/metadata for transfer to translation systems, reviewing foreign-language data ensuring correct American English grammatically/idiomatically; and/or transcriptions of general-technical materials, air safety emergency track-maintenance protocols, evaluated broadcasts, researched methodology for topical/regional studies.

• Provided wide range applicable input to documents’ Standard Operating Procedure (SOP), processing methods of ideal understandable products; media-document exploitation, intelligence operations support services; assigned appropriate metadata- information, applied Harmony, Geo-Gazette to finished records, media reports/products for uploading into national databases; scanned-processed large materials in foreign language for critical and essential information elements; demonstrating history of screening/translation projects-maintaining integrity-meaning. 08/2017-08/2018: Linguist-Analyst/Joint Operations-Iraq. ABM, 101 Walton Way, Hopkinsville, KY

• In Iraq, translated news releases-scripts; general, scientific/technical-non-technical ledgers to mobilizing military missions for high government ministerial-level; provided Improved Target Acquisition System (ITAS); interfaced complex security programs, investigative evaluations, on-site support for meetings/ conferences, ascertaining texts, conformity (comparisons); businesses/ institutions, diaries, maps, speeches, minutes, financial-legal contracts, promoted ties-senior leadership coalition forces; maintained Local National Advisors (LNAs) network.

• Provided operational logs-records intelligence based on gist, factual written-spoken material; conducted complex open-all- source operations on client monitoring priorities; categorized signals’ activity type; foreign communiqué’-interactions-tone change, provided translation expertise to analysts; distributing-coordinated sensitive grids/coordinates-geography.

• Utilized fluent language skills to analyze messages obtained via reconnaissance, on ground, media aligned with cultural/political/ security interests and during flight; provided threat warnings/actionable intelligence to assist in mission planning; gathered language sources; interpreted words, intent, and tenor of communications, intercepted signals providing threat-warning support-rescue/ recovery for other aircraft and/or ground forces; tracked air safety emergency/maintenance protocols acquisition, geo-location.

• Provided cultural analysis-strategic intelligence support; assisted intelligence officers in aerial views from law enforcement databases, surveillance, timely distribution of tactical military movement reports field observation, confidential sources-public records; networks-geographic systems; fusion, intelligence data (video-voice experience); collected, disseminated tactical, mapping, charting data application; plans, human, signals, imagery; segregated incoming data to facilitate comparison, and accessibility. 03/2012-07/2017 Cultural Advisor & Linguist. ALC, Inc. Rockville, MD, USA-UAE-Kuwait

• Assisted in building sustained/positive relationships with host nations (HN’s), consented USAF capability to continue unhindered operations-South West Asia; procedures/policies-Office Provincial Affairs (OPA); transmitted cultural references, non-translatable expressions; provided cultural approaches traditions/norms; interacted local government officials & outsourced partners at embassies, consulates, high commissions personnel; processed residency visa applications-cancellation-US state level; admin duties with global immigration case management; uniformed arrivals-departures (Entry-Exit); handled payments-reimbursements; all global immigration matters, residence permits, extensions; maintained database and minimizing/eliminating late charges.

• On a daily basis logged names for outside base employees/HN’s public officials from more than 12 countries mostly India, Pakistan, Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Bangladesh & Lebanon among others residing in UAE/Kuwait working on the base; processed base entry via Defense Biometric Identification System (DBIDS), analyzed country’s curriculum vitae style; applied 16-step form requirements; passes; various security breach situations; and USAF Security Forces electronic equipment/phones diagnostics.

• As an Arabic-English liaison/cultural linguist for wing/group leadership/designated representative of 380th AEW’s-Al Dhafra US Air Base (ADAB)-UAE & 405th AEG commanders & 407th Squadron-Ahmed Al Jaber Air Base (AJAB)-Kuwait; supported base security forces, firefighting programs, coordinated Civil Engineering (CE) practices, regulations, compliance, calibrations & digitized specifications, on line support; mitigating risks; international standards ASTM-flow/yields; bids, cost analysis- management of sustainable operations/programs & work-sequencing-tracking.

• Assisted in training medical & ministry personnel, processed HN security badges submission; prepared HN’s bilingual documents, contractors guidance; completed projects ranging $5K-$5M; translated technical contract document, construction site development oversight, main water/sewer systems’ assessments, runway repairs in support of transition; ordnance disposal (EOD)- HAZMAT/High yield Unexploded Explosive Ordnance (UXO); Rendered Safe Procedures (RSP) & materials development emergency explosive response-management-fly air tasking order.

• Translated/interpreted spoken passages, posters-newspapers, radio broadcasts, academic institutions articles; advanced level instructional technical manuals, news releases-scripts, books, magazines, advertising campaign fliers; colloquial expressions, slang-out of ordinary expressions; researched foreign-domestic websites; assisted Shirts (First Sergeants); processed high traffic Air Force/civilians emergency leave; guided classroom outdoor training sessions-Fire Dept.; safety violations, consecutive interpretation-activities for HN’s contractor’s inspection and test requests’ surveys.

• Initiated significant high-level contacts/coordination within HN’s Ministry Director General; coordinated events, base access for US Designated Visitors (DVs), VIPs & US international attendees’ arrivals/departures; instructed HN’s comprehensive understanding-Middle Eastern culture/customs, emphasising Gulf Regions District (GRD) customs; updated HN’s military charts via US embassy, passports; participated in analytical meetings, conferences; predictive analysis to identify trends in emerging media space; tracked quotes resonance/statements; measured viral themes/ changes to customer’s language processing platform. 03/2009-03/2012-Linguist and Translator. Dyne Corp., USA; Shee Atika’ Languages-Iraq

• In northern Iraq, familiarized military with ethnic-intercultural awareness; shared brigade commander how religious/social events impact population; conducted open-source online library research; assessed needs of local area residents-imparted information through oral presentations-written documentation wrote/ transcribed information/expression dealing with various regional dialects; utilized charts/ graphs, disseminated classified material/gist, debriefed; security posture increased 80% at FOB Warhorse-Iraq; timely conducted media/phone exploitation; exceeded requirements’ list; connected with community leaders/neighborhoods; engineered Commander Emergency Response program (CERP) micro grants & USG funds, infrastructure, renovation, supported Military’s advisers, commanders’ planning reconciliation; coalition forces division/corps headquarters, provincial council & Ministry Director General; assigned Fund Control Points (FCPs); powered & increased food-medicine delivery/ transportation, communications/medical emergency; efficiency raised by 90%.

• Successfully translated various voice intercepts; prepared reports submitted to higher headquarters; examined communications/gist/activities; transmission modes; strategic- tactical intelligence preliminary/ initial/original draft reports; identified, analyzed written-spoken/ advertisements/personal writings (scribbles)-photos)-individual identifications long forms, public communications originated from MOE/MOH logistics-plans; provided analytic assistance on serialized product reports; as Arabic translator-subject matter expert-OCF-I joint task forces in Ballad-Iraq, analyzed ministries’ visitations; partook Logistics Civilian Augmentation Program (LOGCAP); assisted Government of Iraq’s (GOI’s) projects’ standardization.

• In affiliation with United States Agency for International Development (USAID)-Air Force Contract Augmentation Program (AFCAP) task order assisted Base’s Expeditionary Squadron Civil Engineering (ESCE); performed Base Operating Support-Integration (BOS-I) program; U.S. Army Corp of Engineers (USACE)/(GRD), regional field personnel, elements of MNF-I, MNC-I & R/BCT, Iraqi provincial councils, locals & Ministries in projects ranged $100 million.

• In Iraq, familiarized ethnic-intercultural awareness; shared brigade commander religious/social events; reviewed audio/video material with several regional dialects; utilized charts/graphs, cataloged historical records; organized via public relations compensation claims via Foreign Claims Commission (FCC)/Strategic log Tiger Team; executed statistical logistics-class II-V-VII; supported future design/capabilities at Taji Joint Base Workshop (JBW)-IDN & ITAM; Frequency Division Multiple Access (FDMA), Local & Wide Area Network (LAN-WAN) and Network Interface Card (NIC); built sphere of influence diagrams enterprise/inventory management-First IN First Out (FIFO) with Iraqi MOD & MOI specifications.

• At Joint Base Balad (JBB)-Tikrit, Iraq at IBIZ (Iraqi Based Industrial Zone), supported 103rd. Expeditionary Sustainment Command (ESC)

& 332d Expeditionary Security Forces Group Commander ESFG/CC - CUB meetings; Command & Control Information Requirements

(CCIR) & Combined Joint Forces Special Operations Component Command (CJFSOCC) mission & intent; transformed Iraqi businesses and security operations at East Iraqi Free Zone (EIFZ). Technology / Communications

MS Word; Output; Zoom forums, Mac OSX; Excel-Pwr Pt.; JWICS; Grids Read; Outlook; Names Title-CELLEX & Harmony N.B.: References and more detailed information regarding certifications/endorsements are available upon request.