BRYAN ADRIAN
Vake district, Tbilisi,
Georgia
Tbilisi
Telephones:
[995] [32] 29 13 48 [home]
895 74 09 31 [mobil]
Email: bryan00adrian@yahoo.com
BRYAN
ADRIAN's CV
- ENGLISH
LANGUAGE TEACHER/English Programs--Used
Books Shop deputy manager, at Lingua House, in Tbilisi, Georgia,
[Sept. 2006—currently] Ms. Nino Mgeladze, owner/executive director. Tel. 91 37 85,
Abashidze 25, Tbilisi, Georgia – one on one
and in groups TOEFL test
preparations using the CD self-scoring disk from Barron's books;
advanced and intermediate English grammar and conversation--excellent
teacher from intermediate to advanced levels--composition writing
lessons--editing in English--rewrites of translations -- Murphy's grammar;
Enterprise books; Cutting Edge books; Cambridge
First Certificate FCE preparation.....much more! Business writing
seminars. Creative Writing & Film seminars. Poetry Read Outs also, at Caravani Art Cafe, near Parliament.
- Editing/Copyediting/Proofing, for near 80-page Report, for ECMI Regional
Representative in the Caucasus, Tom Trier, in Minority Issues and Rights, in the Republic of Georgia.
[June/July 2007] ECMI Monograph #6, “Resettlement of
Ecologically Displaced Persons: Georgia
1981-2006 [funded by Danish and German governments]
·
SECO-SDC-Swiss
Agency for Development and Cooperation [Swiss Embassy branch, Tbilisi, Georgia]-- [Feb. 2007-current] "Ad
Hoc" editor, rewriting and editing and proofing of website pages in
English for this Humanitarian Aid Society of the Swiss Regional Cooperation
Office for the South Caucasus. see two
samples in links below:
http://bryanadrian_writer.tripod.com/SDCFilm.doc
http://bryanadrian_writer.tripod.com/SDCmedia.doc
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EUROPEAN
LANGUAGE SCHOOLS EXPERIENCE:
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Cologne, West Germany. English lecturer/teacher for evening courses at the Volkshochschule
(the People's University
of Germany), and at Linguarama, an
Oxford-based language institute near The KÖLN Dom. Please contact the Volkhochschule, Cologne.
·
DRESDEN, East Germany. "inlingua"
co-director of the first western commercial language school in the East Block
after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Taught English language teaching techniques
and testing to many former Teachers' College of Dresden educators, who qualified for
this highly competitive and pioneering East-West program of the Arbeitsamt, Hamburg/Treuhandanstalt.
Also taught for inlingua
sister school in Hamburg.
·
Sofia, Bulgaria, private English tutor
for the daughters of older statesman/law historian, Josef Kraptchev.
·
Barcelona, Spain -- taught English to Olympic Village
construction workers on the olympics work site;
onsite “working class” interpreter/laborer, for fellow Irish, British,
Portuguese, Quebecoise & Spanish construction day labourers,
to facilitate project needs & settle on-site intra-nationality workers
disputes, preceding the Olympic Games in Barcelona.
EDUCATION:
- GOETHE INSTITUT, Hamburg, Germany;
accelerated beginners course. Basic German Conversation Certificate.
- SAN
FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY, [1982-86] Bachelor
of Arts earned in a Publishing/Political Journalism/Creative Writing
program, self-designed yet university board-approved bachelors degree.
- SAN FRANCISCO ART INSTITUTE Painting & life
drawing (emphasis on live models).
- UNIVERSITY OF CHARLESTON, SC. Full Merit
Scholarship earned for mathematics [topology] & medical school
studies. Graduate
School fellowships
awarded for PhD studies geared towards infinite topological neighborhoods.
In addition to journalism and publishing courses, extensive undergraduate
studies in biology, premedicine, chemistry and
algebraic topology.
Languages:
Spanish [formerly fluent]; German [basic conversant]; French/Portuguese
[elementary basic level of conversation]
DESKTOP
PUBLISHING EXPERIENCE:
HEAD
START, Washington, DC – [Jan. 2006-May
2006] Writer/Editor, HTML code proofing, for T-MSC Consultants,
intra-governmental agency for Head Start, a program for underprivileged kids
started by LBJ, and now under Michael Leavitt, Secretary of Health & Human
Services [HHS]. Frequent use of online and agency software
developed by military subcontractors ICF, Cleverex,
and Caliber, for HHS. Head Start manager: Kevin Jones http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/hsb/about/index.htm
NAHB,
Margaret Elgin, PhD --[Summer,
2005], Washington, DC--National Association of
Homebuilders, a partner of Wells Fargo Bank and Fannie Mae. Desktop publisher. Tables, charts, text, electronic formatting, electronic visuals, Paintshop Pro, some web design. Four-color printing. I was the
freelance desktop publisher on this project putting
together a very large bound color report on distance learning [online] for the members and the Board of
Directors, of this home building trade association. Margaret Elgin, PhD,
project leader.
IFPRI, Akhter Ahmed, PhD, Senior Research Fellow for the
International Food Policy Research Institute, a division of USAID--[Summer, 2005], Washington, DC.
I was Desktop Publisher for Mr. Ahmed's MS Word 2005
report on food distribution among the poor of India's many states. Power Point
Tables, charts, text, formatting, visuals.
Editor/Desktop publisher for Financial Analysts, DKWR, DRESDNER
KLEINWORT WASSERSTEIN RESEARCH, 75 Wall Street, NYC.
[April 2001--SEPTEMBER 7th, 2001, Friday, 6pm] Six-month freelance editor & desktop publishing for DKWR
Research, Wall Street. Publications
department of Equities Research Division. Inputting and editing
Notes and Reports for top analysts and international economists. Financial
desktop publishing, financial reports editing. Laid off the Friday preceding infamous Sept. 11th,
2001 [Tuesday]. Our office was a few blocks away from World Trade
Center. http://www.drkw.com/eng/research/index.php
Senior
Copywriter, Columbia University Press [CUP], NYC, [1987-89] Book jackets, catalogue copy, promos, press
releases, marketing strategies, book reviews & direct mail advertising.
Books published by Columbia
included, architecture, cosmology, psychiatry, science, politics & social
sciences, i.e., any field in which Columbia has a faculty member or author on
their staff. Direct Supervisor: Catalogue and Advertising Manager, Judy
Bernstein. Outside Clients: (1987-89) Churchill Livingstone Medical Books, 650
Ave. of the Americas; WH
Freeman (Scientific American), 41 Madison
Ave., NYC. Atcom Press Science Newsletters. Kluwer Publishing.
Deputy Editor & Feature Writer of THE
ELECTRONIC WHIP, LONDON/ NYC – in addition to editing, I
also wrote four long conjectural essays on Mideast
History/Culture/Politics interfaces, on controversial topics. Samples of my writing from THE ELECTRONIC
WHIP, LONDON
http://www.angelfire.com/poetry/aisling/ElectronicWhip.html
“Strike Against Globalization Now!” [1996] http://www.angelfire.com/de/Boiishaft/STRIKE_part1.html
http://www.angelfire.com/de/Boiishaft/god-of-war.html
http://www.angelfire.com/de/Boiishaft/B-Traven-Circle.html
Feature Writer for "STREET
NEWS," NYC (Jan. 1993-Aug. 1993) a quality bi-weekly activist
newspaper [before print/paper tycoon Sam Chen in Chelsea snatched it in a hostile takeover] on
joblessness, and on the public, popular, and political sponsorship of Hillary
Clinton's nationalized health care
program initiatives. My most popular article: "Why We
Have More Lawyers than Toilets in America" http://www.angelfire.com/zine/cetaceandragon/ems.html
REFERENCES:
PROVIDED UPON REQUEST
SKILLS: 8+ years of
extensive hand coding of HTML for creative non-corporate websites. Paintshop Pro, PSP-7 graphics, Front Page website
production software; filmscript writing.
Adobe PDF files for hardcopy & electronic copies. Lots of essay writing, prose writing, and online tramp journalism.
Editing jobs too. Typing/transcriptions, 70 wpm. MS
Word advanced functions & editing; "tweaking" of large documents,
and construction of economic and scientific charts, tables, text, and graphs.
Raw and/or hand HTML coding; Paintshop Pro, graphics
design, JPEG Wizard; AI Picture Utility 4.7.0; WinZip; MS Photo Editor; Wang
Imager; MS & MAC Paintbrush; Visio; PowerPoint; Scanners, banner
advertising, and Usenet marketing strategies.
Poetry
published in "AISLING," in the Aran
Irish-Scottish Isles, and several U.S. national poetry publications.
Film scripts registered with the Writers Guild of America. Early childhood
lived in Japan,
so some familiarity with Japanese customs and fairy tales. Many following years
lived and worked abroad [especially in Germany, and Brasil].
Extensive us of 'First Call' software for online stock postings on Wall Street,
which reported on the rises & falls in global financial markets.