Morteza Asadi

CURRICULUM VITAE

Morteza Asadi

Siam Complex Mansion # 314, Phetkasem 33/1,

Bangwa Phasichareon, Bangkok, 10160, Thailand

Mobile (0066) 8 9-160-50-45

Fax: (0066) 2- 412-66-79

Morryasadi@yahoo.com

Translator, Editor ,  Proofreader

PERSONAL PROFILE:  A Competent translator with excellent linguistic skills. I consider myself to be a committed, well organized, diligent and a reliable person.

DATE OF BIRTH   18 July 1968

MARITAL STATUS: Single

NATIONALITY     Iranian  

EDUCATION

Nov. 2005             Master of Arts in Political Science, Institute of International Studies, Ramkhamhaeng University, Bangkok, Thailand (4.00 GPA)

August 1992          B.A. English Language & Literature; Islamic Azad  University , Iran (3.50 GPA)

HONORS/AWARDS

Nov. 2005             Scholarship award received from the Institute of International Studies, Ramkhamhaeng University for obtaining the GPA of 4.00 for two consecutive semesters

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENT

April 2005              Appointed as the Chairman of the IIS Students Club, the Institute of International Studies, Ramkhamhaeng University

ACCOMPLISHMENTS:

-Managed to create the Charter, Organizational Chart and set up the Club

-Managed to organize and hold the Orientation Day for the Academic year 2005 for the newly–enrolled students( July 2005)

-Developed the first issue of the IIS Students Club Newsletter

-Organized and held the 1^st Annual IIS International Cultural Day (Oct. 2005)

LANGUAGES

English:                 IELTS TEST (Score 6.5) June 2003

                             IELTS TEST (Score 6.5) Oct. 1998 

Thai:                     Only spoken

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

I have over 7 years of work and translation/Interpretation  experience in Farsi ( Persian)  and in the following areas of specialization: auditing, accountability, literature, travel & tourism, history, politics, linguistics, computers/IT, education, Islamic studies and women studies

PROFESSIONAL  EXPERIENCE

1994-2000           Translator/Interpreter, Supreme Audit Court of Iran

ACCOMPLISHMENTS:

-Translation of Tens of articles, reports, correspondence and official documents about auditing and accountability from Farsi to English & vice versa

-Translation of the International Journal of Government Auditing during 1999-2000

-Translation of Asian Journal of Government Auditing, 1994-2000

- Translation of Audit Report of Auditor General of Canada to Parliament  for years 1997, 1998, 1999

--Managed to translate “The Supreme Audit Court Act of Iran” from Persian into English

-Produced  and edited the first issue of ECOSAI Newsletter in English, a technical magazine dealing with auditing and accountability

-Participated in the 16^th INTOSAI Congress , Montevideo, Uruguay as interpreter to the high ranking delegation from the Supreme Audit Court of Iran(Oct.1998)

-Managed to organize the 3^rd ECOSAI Conference in Tehran, Iran, (May 1998) &  provide translation and interpretation service

-Managed to organize and hold the 5^th ECOSAI Conference in Tehran, Iran, (May 2000) &  provide translation and interpretation service

-Participated in the 5^th ASOSAI Congress in Chiang Mai, Thailand as the interpreter to the high ranking delegation from the Supreme Audit Court of Iran (Oct.2000)

Dec.1994-

Nov.2000              Head of the International Relations Office, Supreme Audit Court of Iran, Tehran

Nov. 2006–Present         Part-time Translator/ Interpreter, Cultural Center, Embassy of I. R. of Iran in Bangkok, Thailand

Nov. 2000-Current          Full time English Instructor, government schools and language institutes, Bangkok, Thailand

SKILLS                -English Language instruction (Teaching English as a foreign language)

-Curriculum development

-English course design

COMPUTER          Windows XP and Microsoft Office

PROFESSIONAL TRAINING

August 1996          One-month intensive training workshop on “ Translation & Edition of Literary Texts”

October 2005        Two-day workshop on Mind mapping, British Council, Bangkok, Thailand

March 2006           Two-day workshop on Presentation Skills, British Council, Bangkok, Thailand

REFERENCES

Available upon request