ELL/TEACHER CONSULTANT

Résumé

ISABEL GARCIA ORTEGA E-mail: ***************@*****.***

**** ****** ****** **** *********: 205-***-****

Mt. Juliet, Tn. 37122_____________________________________________

Summary of Qualifications

• ParaProfessional Interpreter/Translator

• Bilingual: Fluent in English and Spanish

• Multi-tasker.

• Over 20 years of leadership, teaching experience working with individuals with diverse backgrounds, cultures, and nationalities.

• 18 years community outreach

• Self motivated, professional, punctual and courteous

• Well-versed in computers and new technology

• Creative mind, strong problem-solving abilities, able to think out of the box

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Work Experience

Employer: Birmingham City School

-Carver High School, Bilingual ParaprofessionalJan.2011-present.

Duties: Tutoring ESL, Interpreter/Translator, grading, Assist ESL teacher, Bridging Gap among Students and Parents with Teachers and Special Educators. Promote Parents involvement, etc.

-EPIC Elementary School (Sep-Dec 2011)Bilingual Permanent Substitute Teacher

-Duties: Work one-on-one whit a special needs bilingual first grader. Assist the

Classroom teacher with various responsibilities such as photocopying, grading and filing homework. Assist the ESL teacher as needed.

Employer: Cathedral of the Cross (Aug. 2003- Nov.2010)

-Duties: 7 years Teaching in Cathedral Christian School Spanish grades 6th-8th, 3k and 2K and COTC Adults Teacher-Coordinator English as Second Language classes, 4 levels and citizenship classes. Worked extensively with Church Youth Group. Leader of Hispanic Ministries, Community Outreach, Interpreter/Translator and advocate for Hispanic community in areas of Health, Law Enforcement, Landlord-Renter relations, Schools, Government, Hospitals, Courthouse, Coroner Office, Law offices, completed Immigration documents, counseling, etc.

Coordinator of: Community Benevolence and Health Fairs, Emergency Shelter, Health Dept. Immunization Program, and Habitat for Humanity Workshops. Hosted differents Hispanic Consulates.

Employers: Xtramilage Interpreters and BiLatino Medical Interpreter/Translator (2003-current)Duties: Interpreted/Translator on call (part-time), at Hospitals, Doctor Office. (Compensation Work)

Employer: Sanders Boots Factory (1985-1989)

Duties: Bilingual Prime Cost Manager, calculate product factoring cost. Prepare weekly legal export papers/forms for finished products to be exported. Performed physical quarterly inventory of manufacturing goods.

Employer: Commercial Bank (1981-1985)

Duties: Personnel Manager, in charge of human resources section, performed day-to-day duties in the absences of main manager. Accounts and Loan officer. Principal cashier did all kind of monetary transactions.

Entrepreneur Experience: (1989-2003)

- Real-estate office: Broker, sales, listing, rent and property management.

- Flower Shop, design, decorated and arrangements for parties, funerals, churches.

- Imported Clothes: Imported global clothes for mass retail and individual sales.

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VOLUNTEER WORK

- HICA Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language to professionals, Interpreter/Translator for Cooper Green Hospital, Children Hospital, Birmingham Health Care, UAB Hospital, Health Dept. Coroner Office, Family Services, Eye Clinic, Cahaba Valley Health. (2004-currently).

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EDUCATION

Degree/License /Certificate School

-Law degree /Humanities (Bachelor) Guadalajara University (Mexico)

-Business administration/Hum. (Collage) Capacitacion Comercial (Chihuahua, Mex)

-Humanities High School

-English as Second Language Preparatoria Guadalajara (Mexico

Gadsden Community College/Alabama Language Institute

-Bridging the Gap(Acculturation & Effectiveness Interpreter/Translating) HICA-Birmingham, Al.

-Health Care Interpreter/Translator

-Training Program Samford University, Birmingham, Al

-Nurse Assistance

-Phlebotomist and CPR Bessemer Technical College

Phlebotomist Birmingham School

-Bible School-Emphasis on counseling and

-Social Service Holiness Pentecostal, Chihuahua, Mex. and

Global University/Borean School.

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