Sahar E.

Provide translation, interpretation, voice-over, audio/video transcribing, proofreading and localization from and to Arabic, Chaldean Neo Aramaic, and English

•Perform translation and interpretation work for the United States Army
•Transcribe and translate audio/video tapes
•Provide sight translation and consecutive interpretation of meetings, interviews, briefings, and training
•Instruct U.S. military personnel regarding how to resolve cultural conflicts with Iraqis
•Teach and tutor Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) and Iraqi dialects to non-native speakers
•Monitoring military personnel in their language activities, progress, and grammar

•Perform translation work for U.S. Army during training exercises
•Translate military commands, instructions, documents and other written information captured during an exercise from English >< Arabic
•Provide consecutive interpretation during interviews, briefings, and training

•Managed and maintained personnel files for 1, 000 expatriates and local national employees
•Tracked contract metrics such as numbers of personnel required on sites (Mosul, Kirkuk, Abu Ghraib, Umm Qsar, and Baghdad International Zone)
•Assisted in the recruiting and on-boarding process, prepared offer letters, coordinated relocation, and initiated employment background screening
•Scheduled employees’ vacations, coordinated international travel, hotel, and visas for expatriates
•Prepared monthly/weekly payroll sheet for over 200 local guards
•Coordinated with Iraqi Ministry of Defense MOD to issue badges, passes, and identification cards for local national and expatriates
•Liaised with HR of Amman, Jordan office in updating employees’ files and contracts
•Conducted administrative works between Falcon Security and the U.S. Army
•Provided logistics support for DOD contract; procured supplies from local market
•Conducted inventory and maintained property books for project assets
•Tracked and verified all timesheet submissions of the local national employees and PSD to verify accuracy and completeness, and ensure all timesheets are approved by the employee, team leader and client
•Audit and determined budget parameters, and operated travel expenses
•Provided simultaneous and consecutive interpretation during meetings
•Prepared and translated official letters and memos from English to Arabic

•Prepared and updated the PHC Primary Healthcare Centers test reports
•Archived files, documents and PHC's contracts
•Translated various correspondences, documents and minutes of meeting (English to Arabic); Editing documents
for grammar and punctuation
•Maintained and documented reports, files, contracts on a daily basis regarding the projects assigned to various departments, progress, schedule, budgeting, and forecasting
• Liaised with Parsons Corporation, Flour INT, AMEC, and Bechtel, to provide administrative and payroll support

•Prepared, translated, and computerized security reports and minutes of meeting
•Prepared correspondence, various documents and disseminate to appropriate individuals
•Tracked employees’ daily time sheet; Maintained logbook of operational activities
•Trained local workers to speak and understand simple communicative English phrases
•Generated and maintained files and records for multiple ongoing and completed projects
•Updated, and controlled calendar, and meeting schedule for management, and staff
•Routed incoming mail and faxes, make copies, order supplies, and performed other clerical duties as assigned