Freelance travel and science writer, Sept.-- Dec. 2003, SLOVENIA. Researched and wrote up the story of the human fish in the Slovenian karst cave and disappearing river and lakes regions [Postojna and Cerknica].
ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHER/English Programs 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.
EDITOR of numerous UNDP REPORTS [United Nations Development Program] 2008-2009/ongoing, in the South Caucasus. Includes UNICEF reports too....
Editor/Copyediting/Proofer, for
near 80-page EU/UN Report, for ECMI
Regional Representative in the Caucasus, Tom Trier, in Minority Issues and
Rights, in the Republic of Georgia.
[June/July 2007]
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.
·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, 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.
Senior Copywriter, Columbia University Press [CUP], 562 West 113th St.,NYC, (1986-90) Book jackets, catalogue copy, promos, press releases, book reviews & direct mail advertising. Also, Senior copywriter for Plenum Press/ Kluwer Publishing [1989-1990], also, at 233 Spring Street, NYC. Freelance Clients: (August 1983-Oct. 1989) Atcom Press Newsletters, 2315 Broadway; Churchill Livingstone Medical Books, 650 Ave. of the Americas; WH Freeman (Scientific American), 41 Madison Ave., NYC; DaCapo Museum Books.
ACTOR -- lead actor in "THE DECISION", [October 2001], playing the role as a warden of an all womens' sanatorium, from a South American short story about the female troubles of mentally deranged women in NYC. Directed by Tamer Ezzat Khedr, an Egyptian Fulbright scholar, former film editor, and a lecturer at the New York Film Academy.
DEFINITION of a
"tramp online essayist": -->
the likes of conspiracy/coincidence theory writers & independent online publishers, David Ickes, Jeff Rense, Jim Marrs, Andrew Bestor, Peter Bis, Kathleen Dickson, et al.
POETRY in HELL'S KITCHEN performance -- RUDY'S BAR & GRILL, NYC. I read several poems on July 14th, 2002, at the "Poets Slam Fest" in the summer garden of Rudy's Bar, featured on New Jersey cable TV.
click here ...
PUBLICIST and webdesigner for Bulgarian movie actress, Rositsa Chorbadjiyska, from Sofia, who starred with Judge Rheinhold in MINDSTORM [late 2002 release], a film about telepathic CIA Bulgarian twins that are experts at remote viewing, in the region of Rila Monastery.
PUBLICIST and webdesigner for John Michel [michelj@cofc.edu], Sculptor, at website "Cetacean Dragon Public Relations Presents the Sculptor JOHN MICHEL" ...click here for JOHN MICHEL website
ACTOR -- lead actor in "THE DECISION", [October 2001], playing the role as a warden of an all womens' sanitorium, from a South American short story about the female troubles of mentally deranged women in NYC. Directed by Tamer Ezzat Khedr, an Egyptian Fulbright scholar, former film editor, and a lecturer at the New York Film Academy.
Sofia, Bulgaria (Sept. 95 - Jan. 96) private English tutor to the 2
daughters of a well-known Sofia opposition party politician/senior lawyer.
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain-- (Feb '92-Feb. '93) taught English to Olympic
Village construction workers on the work site; interpreter for Irish, British,
Portuguese & Spanish laborers to facilitate project needs and settle labor disputes.
Cologne, West Germany (Oct. 90-February 1992) English lecturer for evening
courses at the Volkhochschule (the People's University of Germany), and at
Linguarama, an Oxford-based language institute.
DRESDEN, East Germany
(Nov. 1989-Oct. 1990) Co-director of the first
commercial language school in the East Block after the fall of the Berlin
Wall. Taught English-teaching and testing to many former Teachers' College of
Dresden educators who qualified for a special East-West program.
WRITER, WEBDESIGNER, EDITOR & CONTENT PROVIDER
in strictly NON-CORPORATE CYBER-PUBLISHING (Consultant): Bryan Adrian produced the following NON-CORPORATE cybermagazines below, often employing his skills as Webdesigner [using raw HTML coding], as a Contributing Graphics Designer, as Editor, and as Writer [Nov. 1996-current]
... more on websites produced by Bryan Adrian
... here the URLs begin!! "HMOs Are Organized to Dismember You"
DRESDNER KLEINWORT WASSERSTEIN RESEARCH [DKWR], 75 Wall Street, NYC. [April 2001-SEPTEMBER 11-TH, 2001] Equities Research Department, Editorial Dept., Desktop Publishing. Formatting & Editing of text, charts, tables, and graphs for the Analysts and Economists, who write the Notes and Reports for Dresdner Kleinwort. Steven Matza, Managing Editor. Typing 75 wpm.
LIEFF, CABRASER, HEIMANN, BERNSTEIN LLP, 780 THIRD AVENUE, NYC (Aug. 2000 -- Dec. 2000), New York City. Managing Word Processor and Senior Desk Top Publisher for this law firm, specializing in politically and socially relevant cases, most often involving class action lawsuits. More than a dozen of their cases are current national headlines, or in the academic journals, or on the Net [e.g. Anti-Handgun litigation; Swiss bank hoarding of Nazi-confiscated-gold and its unlikely Restitution; Firestone Tire Recall; Perdue Chicken Wage Disputes Settlements; Denny's Labor & Pension Management-Labor disputes; BIG FIVE Tobacco Industry lawsuit [i.e. "The Insider"]; W.R. Grace "A Civil Action" lawsuit; Monsanto "Terminator" Genetically Engineered [GE] Seeds monopolization lawsuit; Vanderbilt Radiation Litigation; Christie's/Sotheby's Auction House Litigation; current law suits against Microsoft, Harley Davidson, Kaplan Testing, Columbia HCA and Cigna and Aetna, Fleet Bank, AT&T, and AOL-Time Warner].
LINKLATERS lawfirm, London/NYC -- a global lawfirm headquartered in London with a growing large branch in NYC. I worked in the German legal department for much of 2003, entering and editing documents in German-English. Contact: Juergen Killius
Charles Schwab StreetSmart MoneySide software
--- HelpDesk administrator [1994-1995] San Francisco.
Walked clients through difficulties with the trading software and their home hardware. Charles Schwab is the biggest online broker in the country and also the most expensive, both in terms of the minimum initial deposit (the minimum amount of money -- $25,000 -- that you must put into the account when you start it up) and high costs to trade stocks.
Independent Contractor in Washington, DC
[1996-1999] -- among Bryan's clients were: President's Initiative on Race, Hillary and Bill Clinton, under direction of John Hope Franklin; American Association of Museums; Winston Peace Foundation; and several others.
EDUCATION:
GOETHE INSTITUT, Hamburg, West Germany, accelerated courses for the
German Conversation Certificate
SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY. Bachelor of Arts
earned in a Publishing/Political Journalism/Creative Writing program,
self-designed and university board approved.
SAN FRANCISCO ART INSTITUTE --
Painting & drawing (emphasis on live models rather than still lifes)
UNIVERSITY OF CHARLESTON, SC -- Full Merit Scholarship earned for pure
mathematics [topology] & medical school preparation. Graduate School fellowships awarded for Ph.D. math studies. "Math is really about the human mind, about how people can think effectively, and why curiosity is quite a good guide. Curiosity is tied in some way with intuition!"
"Poincare’s conjecture is fundamental to topology, the branch of math that deals with shapes, sometimes described as geometry without details, compact and finite, or giving definition to most of the vagaries of infinitude." – Grigory Grisha Perelman