Objective:             To obtain a position as a freelance in which I can expand my skills and responsibilities to add to the overall success of the organization.

Experience:

September  - Present                       Dazhu Middle School                              Dazhu, China

                               ESL Teacher

Teaching conversational English to High school students whose age range from 14 to 17. As classroom teacher, built rapport with students from wide range of cultural backgrounds. Create trusting atmosphere through sensitivity to students’ strengths, weaknesses, and personal learning styles. Engage students through humor and activities designed for maximum interaction in large and small groups. Develop curriculum that is appropriate to students’ learning abilities and reflect their needs and interests. Achieve maximum results by breaking down seemingly large learning tasks into meaningful and manageable segments.       

April – May 2010                             TEFL International                                             Phuket, Thailand

TEFL Certificate                                             

Taught ten hour lessons to a range of ability levels from Starter to Upper Intermediate; using a variety of course material such as: New English File, Cutting Edge, Total English and Reward.

2005-Present                                Freelance                   

                  Translator/Transcription/Project Manager

Translate written documents and spoken words from English into Spanish.  Provide an extended comprehension of standard concepts, practices, and procedures within particular fields.  Translate, edit, rewrite, and proofread in addition to project managing of technical and non-technical documents from/into several European and Asian languages for various for-profit, not-for-profit and non-profit organizations. 

Cabarrus County School System                 Concord, NC

2005-2008        Lead Teacher Assistant – Department of English as a Second Language

                                     Cabarrus County School System                Concord, NC

2005 – 2008     Translator / Interpreter

                                Translate written documents and spoken words from English into Spanish.  Provide an extended comprehension of standard concepts, practices, and procedures within particular fields.  Perform a variety of tasks, such as create new form, interpret teacher / parent conference, create messages for ConnectED, call parents to provide school information in Spanish, and help teachers / school administrators with Spanish speaking students. Coordinate the preparation of school system publications.

               CJS Aluminum                             Orlando, FL

2003-2005        Bilingual Project Coordinator

Relieve the project coordinator of administrative type functions in order to increase the time he has available for executive level responsibilities.  Process orders, prepare correspondence in English and Spanish, and fulfill customer needs to ensure customer satisfaction. Responsible for bookkeeping and compiling amounts owed from purchase orders, sales tickets, preparing invoices and recording transactions. Maintain all payment records of scheduling and review factors, which affect production schedules. Operate a data entry device to record a variety of standard coded and uncoded business and statistical source data into a computer. Plan and coordinate project scheduling with installation team to insure project completion. Managed a team of 20 workers (national and international).  

Turbine Technology Services               Orlando, FL

2000-2003          Purchasing Agent

Generated monthly and long-term material requirements to facilitate the purchase and delivery of all raw materials.  Provided capacity requirements and schedule attainment reports to management while coordinating the implementation of machinery changes.  Also, successfully negotiated with numerous suppliers and vendors for swaps of redundant materials for new goods.  Worked along side the accounting department and project managers to insure proper financial budgeting for projects. Scheduled customer order ship dates while coordinating activities of all shipping functions, in-house manufacturing, production control, material planning, and stock room material flow to meet production delivery deadlines.

                                               Walla Walla College                   College Place, WA

1996-2000      Office Assistant 

Responsibilities included answering phones, faxing documents, coping studying material, typing letters and, handling mail. Assist college professors in grading homework, term papers and exams.  Provide tutoring for students enrolled in the Spanish classes.  Created a filing system for the Modern Language Department.  Proctored exams in the absence of professors. 

Education:        Rollins College                                       Winter Park, FL

2000-2004                  B.A. Psychology

Certifications:  TEFL Certificate, Presented by TEFL International.  Phuket, Thailand

                                     TEFL Certificate for Teaching of English to Young Learners, Presented by TEFL International.

Spanish Literature and Grammar, Presented by Universidad Nacional de Córdoba

English for Teaching ESL, Presented by Edmonds Community College

Effective Negotiation Course.  Presented by KARRASS.

                   Essentials of Purchasing.  Presented by University of Central Florida.

                   Notary Public for the State of North Carolina (Commission expires on 03/12/2011)

                   IPT Training-of-trainers.  Ballard & Tighe (Test for ESL Students)

                   GroupWise E-mail Training (level 101 & 102.)  Cabarrus County School

                   Microsoft PowerPoint Level 1 Training.  Cabarrus County School

Languages:       Fluent in writing, reading and speaking English and Spanish.

Computer skills:    Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP, Internet Explorer, Netscape, Word, Outlook, GroupWise, Excel, PowerPoint, Word Perfect, Windows Explorer, Trados 5.0, Great Plains, Red Wing, Translation Office 3000 V7, and Projetex 2005 Workstation.