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Richard  Perdomo

SKILLS:

• Fifteen years training personnel and students with excellent results.
• Thirty years translating documents and manuals from English to Spanish and

• Extensive work interpreting for international businesspersons, Hospital patients, and legal depositions.
• Scientific training: analytical thinking, problem solving, multitasking, and attention to detail are consistent characteristics of my work.

  COMPUTER SKILLS:

• Microsoft Office: Word, Access and Excel.
• Can prepare Power Point presentations for training.

·         Internet and E-Mail

  LANGUAGE SKILLS:

• Speak, read and write fluent native English and Spanish
• Culturally adept in North American, Latin American and European customs and etiquette.

  RELEVANT EXPERIENCE:

  Team Leader Test Grader

Measurement Incorporated.  Ypsilanti, MI                                             1999-Present

·         Train personnel to become test graders for the Michigan Educational Assessment Program.

·         Read, analyze and grade standardized test essays for content and focus.

·         Led training teams with the highest scores.

  Instructor

Washtenaw Community College.  Ann Arbor, MI                                   1997-Present

·         Prepare and conduct accredited Spanish courses.

·         Instruct students in the Language Lab, and teach students conversational Spanish.

• Attained outstanding students’ reviews in five years of teaching.

Interpreter/Translator

The University of Michigan Hospitals.  Ann Arbor MI                            1998-Present

• Translate medical procedures or protocols into Spanish for patients’ use at home.
• Translate existing physician’s diagnoses in Spanish into English
• Serve as an interpreter between patients and medical staff.

  Independent Translator and Interpreter                                                            1996-Present

MiTiN (Michigan Interpreters and Translating Network)

• Customs Translations for Personal and Industrial use.

• Contract personal interpretations.
• Professional Member of MiTiN

Supervisor and Laboratory Technician

The University of Michigan, Natural Science Bldg.  Ann Arbor, MI         1997-1998

·         Supervised and assisted students in a Genetic Microbiology Research Lab.

·         Duties: Preparation of media and reagents, acid baths, autoclaving,

      setting up and calibrating equipment, and maintaining inventory.

            (A one-year grant only)

Director

Master’s Prep.  Caracas, Venezuela                                                            1985-1995

·         Director and Principal of an Academy with approximately 20 instructors that specialized in training professionals of the state owned petroleum companies (PDVSA) and others, in Business and Technical English.

·         Prepared candidates for American College Master’s Entrance Exams. (GRE, GMAT,LSAT, TOEFL.)

·         Prepared and trained over four hundred professionals in five years, none of whom failed to get into an American University.

• Negotiated contracts for over two thousand candidates to be trained.

  EDUCATION

• Bachelor of Science. “The University of Michigan”  Ann Arbor, MI

      Concentration: Chemistry and Business.

• Electronic Technician.  U. S. Navy. “Great Lakes Naval Training Base.”  Great Lakes, IL

·         Loyola School.  (In Spanish)  Grade and High School.  Caracas, Venezuela.