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BRYAN ADRIAN

Vake district, Tbilisi, Georgia

Tbilisi Telephones:

[995] [32] 29 13 48 [home]

895 74 09 31 [mobil]

BRYAN ADRIAN's CV

UNDP, Georgia [United Nations Development Program] – [2007-current] Independent contract editor for many 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 person: Martin Christenssen.

STORY TELLER for teens at the British Council of Tbilisi. [2007-2008] Please see link below:

http://www.angelfire.com/poetry/linguahouse-tbilisi/BRITISH-COUNCIL.html

ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHER/English Programs; also, Used Books Shop deputy manager, at Lingua House, in Tbilisi, Georgia, [Sept. 2006—currently]

http://www.angelfire.com/poetry/linguahouse-tbilisi/school.html

Ms. Nino Mgeladze, owner/executive director. Tel. 011 995 32 36 81 76, Abashidze 25, Tbilisi, Georgia – one-on-one and groups TOEFL test preparations, using the CD self-scoring disk from Barron's books and Kaplans; advanced and intermediate English grammar and conversation--repeatedly proven successful 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. http://bryanadrian_writer.tripod.com/caravan-flier.html

UNICEF, Tbilisi, Georgia [2008 February] Final edit on English version of Giovanna Barberis’s “Newsletter of the UN Children's Fund, UNICEF in Georgia”

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-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

EUROPEAN LANGUAGE SCHOOLS EXPERIENCE:

· 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/Treuhandanstalt, Hamburg. 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).

COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON, SC. Full Merit Scholarship earned for mathematics [topology final interest] & medical school studies. Graduate School fellowships awarded for PhD studies. In addition to journalism and publishing courses, extensive undergraduate studies in biology, premedicine, chemistry, and courses leading up to and including algebraic topology.

Languages: Spanish [formerly fluent]; German [basic conversant]; French/Portuguese [elementary basic level of conversation]

DESKTOP PUBLISHING EXPERIENCE:

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 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. Trans-Management Systems Corporation (TMSC) manager: Kevin Jones // Head Start Knowledge & Information Management Services Warehouse, 1200 N. Henry St., Suite E, Alexandria, VA 22314 http://www.trans-mgmt.com/

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 along with many others 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. http://bryanadrian_writer.tripod.com/PORTFOLIO.html

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

“Strike Against Globalization Now!” [1996] http://web.archive.org/web/20000815233252/www.pcug.co.uk/~whip/usa/strike.htm

http://web.archive.org/web/20000815233231/www.pcug.co.uk/~whip/usa/dictator.htm

http://www.angelfire.com/de/Boiishaft/B-Traven-Circle.html

THE ELECTRONIC WHIP archived online 1996: INDEX
STRIKE 2
http://web.archive.org/web/20000815233259/www.pcug.co.uk/~whip/usa/strike1.htm

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.