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Summerville, SC, US

Summerville, SC

As a certified member of the American Translators Association and ProZ, my clients include Gerson Lehrman Group, Diplomatic Language Services, Teneo Linguistics, The Translation Team, the South Carolina Court Administration, and several local attorneys. I specialize in marketing, journalism, health, education and environmental affairs, and work with MemoQ.

Santarém Area, Brazil

• Visiting Team Coordinator 2002 - 2012Hosted the mission guest house, responsible for and facilitating more than 120 international teams. Planned and supervised every element of their visits, including in-country.
• Hosted a team of 40, including 22 medical and dental professionals, enabling them to serve over 3,000 needy patients in a remote area of the Amazon. Coordinated and trained 21 medical translators; provided three large.
• Traveled to Guajará-Mirim, a dangerous Brazilian border town near Bolivia, to assist a team of young people from Samaritan’s Purse Canada. Served as their guide, interpreter, and interface with locals. Facilitated the.
• Designed the full-color preface to the mission’s new custom-printed Bible.
• Translated PAZ’s 44-page discipleship manual from Portuguese to English, for international distribution.
• Provided simultaneous interpreting from English to Portuguese for a 13-week, college-level video series spanning a wide range of fields.

Corpus Christi, Texas; Surry, NH

Projects included logo design, brochures, annual reports, photography and illustration, as well as sign design and production, serving clients such as: Feature Corpus Christi Magazine, Momentum Advertising and Design, Solar Age Magazine, FEBCO, Energy Design Update, Vitality Shop, Good News Counseling, Agape Christian Fellowship, Christ Evangelical Church.

Corpus Christi, Texas

Designed and engineered scores of successful commercial signs for satisfied clients. Signs ranged from towering pylon signs with interior-lit embossed Lexan faces, to message centers and reader boards, to neon and channel lettering, to single-faced painted ply signs. It was always a thrill to see my drawings transformed to huge reality and transported to.

Rio De Janeiro, Brazil

DataNews, a biweekly newspaper, was the first Brazilian publication dedicated to computer technology. As Art Director, I designed it from the ground up, and was responsible for layout, illustration, and advertising design. It was later purchased by Computerworld.

Rio De Janeiro, Brazil

The Brazil Herald was an English-language daily newspaper catering to foreign business executives, tourists, and students of ESL. Our team brought it up a notch in quality. In addition to designing and producing cover art and illustrations for two feature editions, I contributed scores of photographs, transformed the standing heads for our columnists with.

Four-Year Diploma, Graphic Design, Photography, Watercolor

Scholarship for Outstanding Book Design

12 Credit Hours, Biblical Studies, Missiology, Homiletics, Evangelism, Systematic Theology

Diploma, Top Student In 10-Year French Program