Experience

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  Iraqi ministry of finance

  Sept 2011 - Sept 2015

  Translator

  - Debt Management Office (DMO)· Translating agreements, tenders, correspondences, etc. with different genres of texts (legal, commercial, journalistic, financial, and economic.)· Admin woks including the preparation of official letters, reports, and internal memos in relation to debt management meetings and correspondences- Department of Administration · Welcoming delegations and briefing them on the key points to be discussed in meetings· Keeping a record of delegation’s arrival and departure times, and the number of attendants and their names and positions· Sitting in the meeting and making notes of the main themes discussed in the meetings to be used when making the meetings minutes and reports Show less

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  Iraqi translators'​ association

  Jan 2012 - Jan 2016

  Freelance translator

  · Providing sworn (verified) translation work for different texts (official documents, technical texts, legal texts, and researches)

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  Management systems international

  Feb 2013 - Feb 2014

  Translator

  · Translating primary health education documents such as curricula, guidelines, handbooks, training materials, power point presentations, etc.· Translating documents and reports for the Monitoring and evaluation (M&E) department· Translating different kinds of texts such as official letters and correspondences with Iraqi Ministry of Health (MoH) and partners, contracts, financial invoices, etc.· Translating advertisement and promotion materials such as brochures, posters, booklets, newspaper articles, etc.· Providing simultaneous, escort and consecutive interpreting services in staff meetings, symposiums, conferences, training workshops, and other events· Providing staff members with detailed translation work time-frames and deadlines and involving in prioritizing the material that need to be translated· Looping advisors in on expected delays of delivering any translation and keeping a record of the translated material Show less

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  Urc construction (p) ltd

  May 2014 - Aug 2014

  Freelance translator

  · Providing translation services for the initiation of U.S. Defense Threat Reduction Agency’s (DTRA) Cooperative Biological Engagement Program (CBEP)· Submitting an immediate feedback to the client on the estimated time of completing the assigned translation and the charge· Working with sensitive and close deadlines delivering professional translations in timely fashion

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  Cleveland clinic

  Jun 2016 - Aug 2016

  Translator/ proofreader

  · Heavy editing and/or proofreading of more than 200 documents of Patient Education material and sending a word count document along with every edited or proofread batch of documents· Working on an online Website to facilitate the management of the project and the workflow· Following the guidelines and briefs given by the project manager, adding to it and sending a feedback to the project manager

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  Kent state university

  Aug 2016 - Jul 2023

  Graduate assistant

  · Teaching undergraduate Arabic, culture, translation, and translation technology courses. Teaching Master level translation courses

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  Localingua

  Jan 2017 - Dec 2018

  Freelance translator

  · Translating and reviewing translations of health marketing material using SDL Trados 2014

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  University of illinois urbana-champaign

  Jul 2023 - now

  Instructor of arabic and translation studies