Melissa Mann

MELISSA MANN

online@melissa-mann.com

+55 11 3717-3805 (Brazil)
+55 11 8531-0810 (Brazil, cell)
+1 401 441-5772 (US)
+52 55 8421-8775 (Mexico)

Education

Georgetown University, School of Foreign Service (May 2000)
•    Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service: International Politics, Trans-State Actors.
•    Additional coursework in law governing international agencies.

Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil (1998-1999 academic year)
•    Completed full course load in Portuguese.

Independent & Consulting Experience

Independent Consulting, Analysis, Editing, Translating/Interpreting (Aug. 2006 – present)
Notable clients/assignments:
World Health Organization / Pan-American Health Organization / BIREME (Executive Consultant: Jun. – Jul. 2008)
•    Organized the “Access to Quality Health Information and Knowledge Sharing” Conference in Bellagio, Italy, a five-day event with key international guests focused on promoting and improving access to health information; sponsored by The Rockefeller Foundation as part of the “Making the e-Health Connection” Conference Series.
•    Coordinated, wrote, edited, reported and translated all communication and internet portals – written and oral – in English and Portuguese.
World Health Organization / Pan-American Health Organization / BIREME & The Cochrane Collaboration – (Executive Secretary: Jul. – Nov. 2007)
•    Organized the 2007 Cochrane Colloquium in São Paulo, a 5-day event to promote evidence-based medicine, with 750 attendees from over 50 countries.
•    Coordinated, drafted, edited and translated all written and oral communication and event promotion materials in English, Spanish and Portuguese.
•    Drafted the information and procedures sections, and edited and produced the event’s 200-page program book in English.
•    Programmed and mapped all of the event’s parallel scientific and social sessions.

Genesis Translations, S.C. (C.E.O.: Oct. 2000 – Jan. 2006)
•    Founder and co-owner of specialized translations/interpretations company at age 21. Responsible for annual sales growth of over 50%.
•    Coordinated and conducted simultaneous and consecutive interpretations and legal, socio-economic, business, government, and literary translations to and from various languages.
•    Clients included: Coca-Cola; Dell; GE Capital; ING; Wärtsila; Aeromexico; Société Générale; White & Case; Cummins; Int’l Foundation for Election Systems; and TV Azteca, among others.

The World Bank (Consultant: Sep. 1999 – Jul. 2000)
•    Provided general/socioeconomic analysis of global water and sanitation projects.
•    Reviewed policy recommendations for team project under Social Development Team/Gender Development at World Bank.

Independent Consulting, Analysis, Editing, Translating/Interpreting (May 1999 – Jul. 2003)
Notable clients/assignments:
The News; Washington Post: Mexico (Researcher, Editor: Feb. – Jun. 01; Mar. – Jul. 2003)
•    Reported on and conducted research for articles concerning current events in Mexico.
•    Edited reports written by colleagues and journalists.
CommCore Consulting Group / Bristol Meyers Squib (Consultant: May 2000)
•    Led communication and professional presentation workshops for international guests.
Law Offices of B. Gladstein, Esq. (Paralegal: Summer, 1999)
•    Analyzed cases and authored interrogatories for pending litigation.
 

Skills
   
Languages
•    Spoken and written fluency / translating ability to and from: English, Spanish and Portuguese.
•    Spoken and written proficiency / translating ability from: Hebrew.
•    Basic skills: Arabic.

Computer literacy
•    MS Office, SPSS, Trados, etc.; Windows, Mac, Linux operating systems.
 

Awards
   
Georgetown University Diversity Award Nominee, 1996
•    Nominated for Georgetown University Diversity Award in recognition of efforts to better relations among diverse campus groups.

Bronfman Youth Fellowship in Israel Award (BYFI), 1995
•    Winner of competitive scholarship to gain leadership and academic skills while studying in Israel.


Brief Biography
   
A native of the United States, after graduation from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, I spent more than five years in Mexico, where I founded and managed Genesis Translations, S.C. Subsequently, I sold my share of the company and settled in São Paulo for the purpose of writing a historical adolescent fiction novel. Having fulfilled my objective and desirous to continue writing as a hobby, I returned to consulting, analysis, cultural adaptation and translating.

• Adobe Acrobat
• Adobe Illustrator
• Adobe InDesign
• Adobe Photoshop
• OmegaT
• Open Language Tools
• PageMaker
• PowerPoint
• TRADOS
• Wordfast
• Swordfish (used in conjunction with SRXEditor, TMXValidator, RTFCleaner, CSVConverter, Stingray, etc.), Belle Nuit Subtitler, Transcriva, AutoCAD.