Experience Summary
Experience:
KIWI, INC. Mobile entertainment company – Time being
• I Work in translating mobile games from English to Arabic.
Granada Islamic School, Santa Clara, 2010- time being
• I work as an Arabic teacher.
Freelance interpreter
Muslim Community Association: Santa Clara- 2011
• I worked as a head of the Arabic courses program, and as an Arabic instructor.
Arabic language Instructor at Berlitz for language services, Palo Alto.2010
• Worked as an Arabic instructor for advanced level.
ABC language school, 2010.
• Worked as an Arabic Instructor.
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Damascus, Syria
Outreach Volunteer
12/ 2007 – 01/ 2010
• Interpreted Arabic-> English and English -> Arabic.
• Identified vulnerable cases among the refugee community.
• Worked with children who went through difficult circumstances, orphans and displaced.
• Provided assistance for the Iraqi refugees in Syria.
• Attended meetings with foreign delegates and was chosen to deliver a speech at the UN headquarters in Geneva.
Al-Maaref Academy, Damascus, Syria 01/ 2006 – 11/ 2007
English teacher and interpreter.
• Worked as an English teacher in a private institute in Damascus.
• Worked as an Arabic and English transcriptionist.
Iraqi Center for Innovation and Development, Baghdad, Iraq. 05/ 2004 – 05/ 2005
Neuro-linguistic Programming
• Worked as the head of training courses
• Worked as an Arabic and English transcriptionist.
• Taught English courses for beginners, intermediate and upper intermediate students with different levels
Ministry of Education, Baghdad, Iraq. 01/ 1996 – 01/ 1999
• Worked as an English teacher for different grades including kindergarten.
• Worked as a tutor at different periods after graduation from college till 2007
Ministry of Planning, Baghdad, Iraq 11/ 1993 – 01/ 1995
• Worked as an Arabic and English transcriptionist at the library of the Ministry.
Education:
• Bachelor’s degree in English literature from the College of Arts. English department. Almustansriya University, Baghdad, Iraq.
• Diploma of the Dialogue of Civilizations, a one year course in English from the Sheikh Ahmad Kuftaro foundation, Damascus, Syria.
• Diploma in the Art and Science of Neuro-linguistic programming from the Iraqi Center for Innovation and Development. Baghdad .Iraq.
Skills and Languages:
• skilled in computer: MS Office, Internet browsers
• Fluent, Arabic and English, reading, writing and communication.