Career / Experience

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA
CENTER FOR STUDY OF INTERNATIONAL LANGUAGES AND CULTURES
August 2009- Till date
• Target Language expert, Curriculum developer for beginners, intermediate and advance level students.
• Supporting the development of Pashto Lessons, exercises and online language learning programs..(Defense Languages Institute)
• Researching Pashto Reading, writing & Listening modules.
• Finding Sources, transcribing, translating and proof reading of lessons in Pashto.
• Communicating team members in all stages of the course development.
• Proof Reading, editing and reviewing
• Expert level Pashto typing skills.
• Voice over and recording in Pashto and Urdu languages.


UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND
NATIONAL FOREIGN LANGUAGE CENTER
Dec 2009 – Till date

• Worked as Content Object Selector and Learning Object Developer
• External consultant for the LangNet Learning Object project. (LOAT)
• Responsible for locating ILR Level 3 content in the Pashto language
• Development of the content object into a learning object
• Review the pedagogical activities developed by our Second Language Acquisition team

EXAMINATION SUPERVISOR - BRITISH COUNCIL
April 2006 till April 2007
• Conduct “O level” University of Cambridge International Examinations.
• Ensuring safe and timely delivery of question and answer Papers.
• Ensuring timely start and ending of Exam.
• Preparing attendance registers and seating plan of candidates.
• Refer candidate’s enquiries to examination officer.
• Ensuring no unauthorized person enter the exam hall.
• Instructing the Invigilators regarding examination.
• Issuing instructions to candidates regarding exam.
• Timely communication and meetings with examination services officer.

PASHTO INSTRUCTOR/PASHTO CURRICULUM DEVELOPER
July 2004-till date
Registered Translator in the language pair English to Pashto and vice versa.
• Working for many international translation companies around the globe
• Successfullycompleted Pre Assignment Training Course (PAT) for Pashto Instruction and teaching jobs.
• Successful completion of the Oral Proficiency Test (OPI) for Pashto and English.
• Experience in Instructing, Pashto Curriculum Development, E lessons Development, Editing, Proof reading, Transcription, Translation, website localization, voice overs, subtitling etc.
• Co owner and Business Development Director of CRITICAL LINGUISTICS LLC Tampa Florida. The company is providing languages related services like translations, proof reading, QA, transcription, voice overs and recordings, language teaching and cultural orientations, e-learning etc.
• Pashto Basic Course developer including interactive Pashto lessons for beginners.
• Translated some large projects from 5000 words to 80,000 words.
• 6 Years experience of working as a Pashto linguist.
• Translation experience in Business, educational, Scientific, and other important fields. My online profile can be seen at http://www.....com/profile/624456

   Pricing / Other services

I charge between 9 to 15 cents per word depending on the quantity and nature of text.

I provide translation, transcription, localization, proof reading, voice over, language recording, QA, linguistic review, Pashto Curriculum development, Subtitling, Editing etc.

   Certification / Accreditation

English > Pushto

University of South Florida