BOSNIAN, CROATIAN, SERBIAN<>ENG Interpreter

Mother tongue:
English; “Father” tongue: Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian and/or Serbo-Croatian.
One of a few rare true bilinguals; lived in both countries for a substantial
amount of time; highly educated in all aforementioned languages; keep up all
languages professionally on a daily basis. 
US Citizen

LANGUAGE
SERVICES EXPERIENCE

Over 20 years of bidirectional translation, simultaneous and
consecutive interpreting, transcription, back-translation, gisting, summarizations
of numerous hard copy, multi-media and electronic documents in numerous fields and
at dozens of seminars, lectures and conferences with varying topics for various
language service companies and clients to include: US Department of State, US
Department of Justice, Inlingua, DLS, ICLS, LLE, Language Doctors, ASET
International, Global Connections and others.

Translation topic experience:

• Advertising
  and Public Relations, Arts and Humanities, Astronomy, Banking, Business
  (general), Biography, Border Security, Computers (General), Contracts, EU
  activity topics, Economics & Finance, Education, Health Care,
  Immigration, Industrial, Insurance, Intellectual property, International
  Development, Journalism, Legal, Law, Linguistics, Literature, Medicine,
  Military Security& Weapons, Multimedia, Psychology, Religion, Security,
  Sociology, Software localization, Telecommunications and more.

Interpreting topic experience:

• Accounting
  and Auditing, Advertising and Public Relations, Architecture, Banking,
  Business (general), Economics and Finance, Labor Relations, Marketing,
  Law, Legal, Legislature, Journalism, Media, Insurance, Elections, Voting,
  Film, Music, Sports, Television and Radio, Military and Weapons, Politics,
  Social Services (General), Medical, Education, Psychology, Sociology, Taxation
  issues, Telephonic, Medical and Legal, Travel and Tourism, Immigration,
  International Development, Political Science and more.

Expert use in MS Office suites: Word, Excel, and PowerPoint

EDUCATION AND CERTIFICATIONS

University
of Sarajevo – Three years of courses in Linguistics and English

BS
Business Finance University of Maryland,

M.Ed.
Curriculum and Instructional Design, George Mason University

State
Department Certified Simultaneous Interpreter – Since June 2001

In addition to above mentioned fields of experience, have also
taught Bosnian-Croatian, and Serbian for a number of years to US military and
diplomats as well as worked as a Project Manager in the language services
industry.