BRYAN ADRIAN CV
TBILISI, Georgia (near Lokomotiv Stadium (Mikheil Meskhi Stadium)
BRYAN ADRIAN CV
bryan00adrian@yahoo.com
(995) 599 00 43 05
TEACHING in TBILISI (& Batumi)
English Book Education Georgia/Kings
& Queens School,
Tbilisi, Georgia
2021 Summer School teacher -- https://youtu.be/nV2e_T2AqJU
TBILISI
English tutor/teacher, Nov. 2020 to current 2021) HOME LESSONS & ZOOM
lessons--back to the capital Tbilisi after 3 years in the province
of the Black Sea, Batumi
ENERGO-PRO Power Company, Adjara, Batumi, Georgia [Sept 2016 to
Jan 2017] On-site teacher of Pre-Intermediate, Intermediate, and Upper
Intermediate grammar and conversation to the management staff, on location in
the company, at the Batumi headquarters.
CHALC CULTURAL CENTER BATUMI, Batumi,
Georgia --
[May 2016 to December 2016} -- TOEFL Trainer Specialist, English language
instructor, and reports editor American-European English language training and
cultural center in Batumi, on the Black Sea eastern coast.
INT Batumi--The Centre of Teaching English "INT", Batumi,
Georgia (July 2016) Four day intensive English language summer seminars with 4
large separate groups. Neli Kukhaleishvili, Director of Studies, Mob: (+995)
599-57-62-33 Tel: ( 0422) 27-71-74
Oxford Academy, Tbilisi [May 2015 to June
2016] Conversation classes for pre-intermediate, intermediate, and upper
intermediate students in Tbilisi, near the Philharmonia.
THE EUROPEAN SCHOOL, Tbilisi,
[Shanghai Square, Tbilisi, Georgia], an IB method school -- [August 2014
to April 1 2015] -- Teacher of Language-A Literature and Language, 6th to
10th grades. My teaching subjects at this IB European School of Tbilisi:
novels, short stories, poetry, film & theater appreciation and review
writing, academic writing, essay writing-- teaching to Georgian, Russian,
Greek, Azeri, Uzbeki, Kurdish, Polish, Swedish, & Kazak [privileged]
teens.
JEJILI
SCHOOL, Tbilisi, Abashidze St., Vake GEORGIA [Sept 2013 to
April 2014]
Literature and English
grammar and conversation, 7th-11th grades. Short story analysis, movie appreciation
and interpretation, essay writing, SAT drills, PET practice, guided and open
conversations.
LANGATE
AMERICAN-GEORGIAN LEARNING CENTER, Tbilisi, Barnovi St. 73
-- [Feb. 2012-current]. Instructor and lecturer in TOEFL and SAT English test
preparations, and academic writing lessons. Tour agency
English speaking assistant on group tours throughout Georgian regions. Editor of children’s fairy tales. Contact:
Mari Changiani, owner; infolangate@gmail.com
LINGUA HOUSE, Deputy
Director & Senior Teacher/English Programs at Lingua House, in Tbilisi [Sept. 2006—Feb. 12, 2012]
T. Tabidze St 114, Tbilisi, Georgia – TRAINER for AAT [American
Academy Tbilisi] essay writing exam; TOEFL and SAT test preparations, using the
CD self-scoring disk from newest books published by ETS/Prometric, Business writing
seminars. Creative Writing & Film seminars.
Poetry
Read Outs at Caravani Art Cafe,near
TBILISI Parliament http://bryanadrian_writer.tripod.com/caravan-flier.html
Writing & Editing
THE GEORGIAN
TIMES, June
2013, "Tbilisi Tempest in a Rainbow Colored Teapot?", by Bryan
Adrian, go to page 13 to read Bryan's article in the original PDF, Bryan's LGBT article on page 13, and
the 4-page interview with Bidzina Ivanishvili in the same issue
“NEW KIDNEY, NEW LIFE – Doctor-Patient Trust
Brings Joy to Many" By
Bryan Adrian for "GEORGIA TODAY" – GEORGIA TODAY full page article about
8th floor of Tbilisi’s new High Technology Medical Center University Clinic, in the
Department of Renal Replacement Therapy and Nephrology, under the guidance of
Dr. Irma Tchokhonelidze, a new revolution in medical practices in kidney
healthcare, dialysis, and kidney transplantation has gone into full swing in
the struggling Republic of Georgia.
Reporter,
The NGO Observer, Tbilisi Georgia April
2015
http://britishcouncil-tbilisi.angelfire.com/GILEAD-in-TBILISI.html
UNDP,
[United Nations Development Program] COPY EDITOR http://britishcouncil-tbilisi.angelfire.com/UNDP-Report2008-GEORGIA.html – [2007-2011] Independent
contract editor for many long UNDP reports coming out of
Georgia. Tbilisi, Racha, Rustavi, and UNDP
newsletter editing too. Reports range in length from 6 pp to 340
pages. Contact persons:
sophie.tchitchinadze@undp.org; khatuna.chanukvadze@undp.org; nkakiashvili@telenet.ge;khatuna.sandroshvili@undp.org;
Martin Christenssen and many many others.
Bryan
Adrian's iREPORTS on CNN online's "EYE ON GEORGIA"
fotos: https://web.archive.org/web/20151203103531/http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-628246; and https://web.archive.org/web/20151203103923/http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-628248
videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1GINLm2Ing
https://web.archive.org/web/20151203103320/http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-628249
REVIEWER for TripAdvisor - Reviews of venues,
hotels, restaurants, and destinations written by Bryan Adrian on TripAdvisor.
https://www.tripadvisor.com/Profile/bryan-quiller-hire?tab=reviews&fid=627cfdd3-7e56-4b70-9957-def6c0dbb6b7
Poetry SLAM
http://britishcouncil-tbilisi.angelfire.com/Tbilisi-Poetry-Readout.html
Editor of English translation of short
story by Irakli Lomouri, for USTARI
PUBLISHING, September 2013, owner and publisher TAMARA NACHKEBIA,
119 Tsinamdzgvrishvili st, Tbilisi, Georgia, 0102, Telephone 995 322
964081-----E-mail: ustari2010@gmail.com, Website: www.ustari.ge
VOICE OVER narrator for TV ads for ADactive Advertising
Agency, July 2013, Mariam Mikelashvili,
manager, Afaqidze 11, Tiflis Business Center, 3rd. Floor, 0183
Tbilisi,
Georgia, Tel: 0322 24 20 40, a subsidiary of Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide
CTC Consulting and Training Center, Tbilisi, Georgia , May
2013, Otar Chkheidze St. 0177 Tbilisi | Phone: +995 32 220 67
74, Copy Editor for May 2013 report on "Sustainable
Integration of the Internally Displaced People into Value Chain Creation of the
New Settlement Areas". http://www.ctc.org.ge/en
Ministry of Environment
Protection and Natural Resources of Georgia – [2009-2010] Editor of
many reports, short and rather long. Contact: Natia Kakiashvili
Georgian
National Science Foundation -- [2010-2011] Editor of reports in
English. Contact persons: Lela Khubutia and Natia Jokhadze.
UNICEF, Tbilisi, Georgia [2008 February] Final edit on
English version of Giovanna Barberis’s “Newsletter of the UN Children's Fund,
UNICEF in Georgia”. Contact person:: mtskitishvili@unicef.org
ECMI. 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] "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.
http://bryanadrian_writer.tripod.com/SDCFilm-bryanadrian.htm
ICCN
Conflict Resolution NGO, Tbilisi [ Oct 2013-Aug
2014] . Editing of conflict resolution
reports and surveys for director Maia Katsitadze. Mostly
reports concerning Abkhazia & Georgia.
Copy/Content Editor of Master's Degree Thesis papers for
international graduate students in Europe [2012-2015]. St Andrews Scotland; University of Ghent, Belgium;
Grenoble University, France, and others.
STORY TELLER for children at the
BRITISH COUNCIL of Tbilisi. [2007-2008]. Contact: Rusudan.Bakhtadze@ge.britishcouncil.org
Short stories, blogs, poems,
filmscripts, news articles, video & tramp journalism, by Bryan Adrian ...
click this link PORTFOLIO
ELECTRONIC WHIP Deputy Editor and
Feature Writer London/New York City
ELECTRONIC WHIP LONDON
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here to
read-
FULLY RELOADED TBILISI PARLIAMENT 2008,
by Bryan Adrian
"Jumping Ship in Batumi" short story by
Bryan Adrian, which can be read at http://carpathian_bronze.tripod.com/jumping-ship-Batumi.html
TV INTERVIEWS in Tbilisi:
GEORGIAN WINES advertisement, featuring
Bryan Adrian
Bryan on
RUSTAVI-2 Georgian TV speaking about working at LanGate Georgian
American Education Center, March 11, 2012 http://www.myvideo.ge/?video_id=1645703
Bryan on PIRVELI Georgian
TV at Lingua House Language Center, regarding
death of US anthropologist in central Georgia May 19, 2008
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iqMaSI5tDE
MediClubGeorgia 2018
click here for video with Bryan's narration --
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cb1ZHHx2Sk&feature=youtu.be
PUBLISHING
& Editing EXPERIENCE in NEW YORK CITY & Wash
DC:
Street
News weekly newspaper, New York City; deputy manager and feature writer for the first
newspaper on homeless issues and veterans without jobs in USA. :"Why
We Have More Lawyers than Toilets in America" http://britishcouncil-tbilisi.angelfire.com/Street_News_NYC.html
Electronic
Whip, Egyptian-British-American
pioneer cyber-magazine on world issues published in London and New York
City. Deputy manager and feature writer. “Strike Against Globalization Now!” [1996] https://www.angelfire.com/de/Boiishaft/history-Times-Square.html and OCT 9 1999 (3)
articles (Wayback Machine) https://web.archive.org/web/20000815064928/http://www.pcug.co.uk/~whip/usa/
https://www.angelfire.com/de/Boiishaft/god-of-war.html and https://www.angelfire.com/de/Boiishaft/B-Traven-Circle.html
POETRY by Bryan Adrian published
in "AISLING," in the Aran Irish-Scottish Isles https://www.angelfire.com/poetry/aisling/bryanadrian.html
ACTOR, Bryan Adrian as the warden in
Tamer Ezzat's award winning movie THE DECISION [2002]
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 during my tenure
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. http://bryanadrian_writer.tripod.com/PORTFOLIO.html
HEAD
START -- Trans-Management Systems Corporation (TMSC), 1133 15th Street,
NW Suite 450, 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 Sylvia Mathews Burwell, Secretary of Health & Human Services
[HHS]. Frequent use of online and agency software developed by military
subcontractors ICF Kaiser International, Cleverex, and
Caliber, for HHS. Trans-Management Systems Corporation (TMSC) manager: Kevin
Jones // HEAD START Knowledge & Information Management Services IT
Warehouse, 1200 N. Henry St., Suite E, Alexandria, VA http://www.trans-mgmt.com/partnering/
NAHB, Margaret Elgin, PhD --[Summer, 2005], Washington, DC--National
Association of Homebuilders, a partner and frequent meetings venue for
officers of FANNIE MAE semi-federal loan agency. 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.
THE PRESIDENT'S INITIATIVE ON RACE, OLD EXECUTIVE OFFICE BUILDING, White
House Annex —
WASHINGTON DC, Summer 1997. Researcher and data
operator for the husband and wife team Clintons' race initiative (Marian
Wright Edelman), first term. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_America_Initiative
DKWR,
DRESDNER KLEINWORT WASSERSTEIN RESEARCH, 75 Wall Street office, NYC. [April
2001--SEPTEMBER 7th, 2001, Friday, 6pm] Editor/Desktop publisher for Financial
Analysts on Wall Street until the Sept. 11th 2001
disaster http://www.gasandoil.com/news/2001/06/ntr12288
WASHINGTON REPORT ON MIDDLE
EAST AFFAIRS -- "Biased Mideast Coverage"
by Bryan Adrian, Letters To The New
York Times, Feb. 8, 1994
https://www.angelfire.com/zine/cetaceandragon/WRMEA.html
TEACHING
experience in EU:
Wines of
Georgia! (blogs by Bryan Adrian)
http://britishcouncil-tbilisi.angelfire.com/Fifth-Tbilisi-Wine-Cheese-EXPO.html
http://britishcouncil-tbilisi.angelfire.com/Georgian-Wineries.html
http://britishcouncil-tbilisi.angelfire.com/Levan-Ujmajuridze-AGRO.html
EDUCATION:
Languages:
Spanish [long ago fluent]; German [basic conversant]; French/Portuguese [basic
level of reading and very elementary conversation]
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