Aatika Khattak

Aatika Khattak   

6705 Ainsworth St Gainesville, VA 20155

Ph. 703-222-0094 / 703-944-1233

e-mail: aatikakhattak@yahoo.com

CERTIFICATION  

Active member of National Association of Judiciary Interpreters and Translators

Oracle Certified Associate

WORKING LANGUAGES

Urdu>English, Pashto>English, Hindi>English, Punjabi>English, Farsi>English

English>Pashto, Urdu>Pashto

EDUCATION       Masters in English Literature / Bachelor of Arts, Diploma in Computer Programming

CITIZENSHIP   US and Pakistani

EXPERIENCE

September 2004 to date

Free lance Translator and Notary Signing Agent

Being a native speaker of Pashto and Urdu languages translated voice recordings/audio and video files into English. Also proficient in Punjabi, Hindko and Hindi,  translated legal, academic, IT and social sciences documents from Urdu, Pashto, Farsi, Hindi and Punjabi into English and English into Urdu and Pashto.  Interpreter for Urdu, Pashto, Punjabi and Hindi. Excellent command of proofreading and editing all translation works. Edited Urdu/Pashto into English projects and vice versa. Provided proper terminology usage in translations as editor and proofreader. 

Being a Notary Signing Agent, closed 550 loans including residential refinance, purchase, Line of credits constructions and reverse mortgages. Dependable notary that always confirms appointment, is punctual, and strives for completeness in product quality of closing documents and return signed documents within the timeframe requested. Lots of successful last minute closings. Handled complicated and tough situations and closed the loans.

May 2003 ~ April 2005

Production Operations Analyst, Intersections, Inc.

Intersections Inc. is a credit monitoring company from all 3 bureaus using its own developed web applications products promoting secure E-Commerce. It involves daily operation and maintenance of IT production files. My Dept  was responsible for offline fulfillment processing and I helped with the web presentment, of the products, database maintenance, Billing Code setup by synchronizing SQL Server database with Oracle (web database), launch more than 1000 products a month, Process 1 million fulfillments events a month. Documented processes and improved them; Program Manager for the Dept (Used MS Project in multi-functional teams); Lead error remediation teams; provided tier 3/2 support for Customer care and trained co-workers

June '02 ~ Dec'02

Oracle DBA, System and Information Services Corporation

Assisted senior DBA with the installation and configuration of  Oracle 9i on Linux and  Sun Solaris platforms; Configured RMAN and took back ups; Developed Unix shell scripts for import, export, archiving of databases etc.; Database performance tuning (Precise) and capacity planning; DB maintenance including space management; Promoted & implemented compliance with corporate standards; Investigated performance issues; Created tablespace, tables, procedures, functions, views, synonyms, dblinks etc; Created new user ids in production & development databases; Configured the Microsoft ODBC Driver for Oracle using the ODBC Data Source Administrator

Oct''99 ~Dec'01

Programmer/Analyst, I S Solutions, Inc.

Payroll Systems

On an internal contract for designing an employee payroll and biography for company review designed and developed the system after a careful analysis of the client's needs and process modeling. Created Process model; Performed  data modeling; Wrote stored procedure; Installed & configured Oracle 8i Enterprise Manager on Windows NT 4.0, 98 & 2000 Professional and Oracle Forms 6i on Win 98 & 2000 platform

Consultants Management System

Developed a management system for a consulting firm with over 100 consultants employed. Basically it was designed for recruiters to ease their task as they had difficulty in managing the consultant's information. Designed the database; Created presentation tier; Connected DB using ADO/OLE-DB

I S Solutions Website  

Designed this website for I S Solutions, Inc. which is a software consulting firm. The websites aims were to project its policies, goals, philosophy, career opportunities, etc. Designed web pages and site map; Worked on the form mailer and configured it to meet company’s requirements; Uploaded the web pages.

Network Admin and Desktop support

Provided Technical Support on Window 95/98/NT Server/Work Station/ Win 2000 Server/Workstation/Microsoft Office; Upgrading Mcafee Anti-Virus Scan & Dat files; Upgrading Internet Explorer v 4.x / Netscape Navigator; Setting up Proxies on Clients machine; Trained users on Desktop Applications; Network & windows Troubleshooting; Handled printing issues on LAN; Software Installation and troubleshooting; Trained employees in Microsoft Office 95, 97, 2000 Suite; Installed & configured Windows 95, 3.x, NT 4, Win 2000. Server/ Work Station machine; Deployed custom applications on Windows NT and 2000 Network; Provided LAN Solutions using wide varieties of clients, protocols, services and Hot fixes; Provided day-to-day support for network related problems w/ user accounts, passwords, connections etc.

May'98-July'99

Developer, The British Council    

As a developer at The British Council I developed a database application to store information about members and books, audios, videos, cds and magazines rented by them. The application provides information about overdue books, video etc. and locks that member's ID charging him/her with a penalty, usually a fine. It also allowed the user to produce ad-hoc reports and financial reports. The data can be backed up for system recovery in case of data loss.

Environment: Microsoft Office

Aug'95-April'98

Project Management & Coordination, Wadaan Development Program

Evaluated organization's situation and goals and recommended plans for marketing, development, procurement, technology, staffing and partnership. Compared current technology  for organization needs and assigned priorities to findings. Designed and directed requirements gathering activities. Gathered requirements using forms, interviews, support requests Managed projects from staffing, progress reporting, profit/loss responsibility to writing business plans, making formal presentation, training, contract negotiation and interfacing with other teams.

SKILLS

Languages:  Visual Basic, SQL, PL/SQL, HTML, C/C++, JAVA Script

Databases:  Oracle 7.3/ 8/8i/ 9i, MS SQL Server 7, 2000, MS Access 2.0/95/97/2000

Operating Systems:  MS DOS, Windows 95/98/2000/ XP, Windows NT 3.51/4.0, Windows Exchange server, Linux, Sun Solaris

Software:  Oracle developer 2000 Forms 4.5, 6i Reports 2.5, 6i, Microsoft Office 97/2000, XP, Microsoft Project 98/2000, Intuit QuickBooks 5,6,99, Track-It, Leech FTP, PGP, F Secure SSH, Procomm Plus, Internet Exchange, Secure FTP, TRADOS

Development Tools:  Business Objects, Erwin, Crystal Reports, Site Server, TOAD, SQL Loader, ODBC, Oracle RDBMS

REFERENCES:    Available upon request

• Adobe Acrobat
• Adobe Illustrator
• Adobe InDesign
• Adobe Photoshop
• Heartsome Translation Suite
• PageMaker
• PowerPoint
• TRADOS
• Wordfast