Hasan Alkan

EDUCATION 01/08 – Continuing GOLDEY BEACOM COLLEGE Wilmington, DE Master in Business Administration Information Technologies Concentration 09/01 – 06/05 ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY Istanbul, TURKEY Faculty of Letters Department of Translation Studies Translation and Interpreting Department in English 01/05 – 06/05 ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY Istanbul, TURKEY Hasan Ali Yucel Faculty of Education English Language Teaching Department English Teaching Certificate Program EXPERIENCE 01/08 – present THE TURKISH LINK, INC. New York, NY Project Manager • Develop and maintain solid work relationships with the focal points and members of the linguistic teams, and collaborate with them to create, implement and maintain appropriate work procedures and solutions, for example for quality control, new staff recruitment and development, freelance vendor recruitment and management, etc., to meet business objectives. • Develop and maintain solid client relationships; identify opportunities for new and/or expanded services; set and manage expectations. • Resolve questions and issues in a timely and effective manner for clients and internal teams • Implement, maintain and enhance the unit business systems and computer-aided translation/terminology support tools such as Trados, SDLX, Transit and Wordfast that support the translation and interpretation process for freelancers. • Ensure that procedures for recruiting, managing, and paying freelance language service providers meet the business needs and are in accordance with company policies. • Recruit, coach, develop and motivate freelance staff in support of the growing level of client demands. • Work individually or in a team in order to complete translation projects from Turkish into English and English into Turkish. Assist Turkish customers with consecutive simultaneous interpretation services in cases where they don’t feel comfortable speaking in English such as in courts, depositions, exams, hospitals, etc. Translate the necessary documents to be used at schools, government institutions, consulates, etc. • Based on project, teach Turkish language (grammar, spelling, pronunciation and speaking) to the individuals. 05/06 – 08/06 MAJOR DIRECT COMMUNICATION Istanbul, TURKEY Assistant Manager • Assist the managers of Istanbul based direct marketing company in daily management operations. • Responsible for interacting with guests, clients, and associates to ensure excellent guest service and to communicate the goals of the management department. • Receive incoming calls, act as a liaison between the various departments in the company • Responsible from the correspondence and interpreting services for company and Holland based international direct marketing association. • Translation of marketing related texts that helped company to develop its direct marketing business. 08/05 – 08/06 SET-SYSTEMS TRANSLATION SERVICES Istanbul, TURKEY In House/Full Time Translator • Provide translation services for Istanbul based translation company. • Present reports abouth the status of the assignments to upper management. • Participate in the teams of translators for big translation projects. 11/03 – 05/06 TURKISH NEWS WEEKLY Sydney, AUSTRALIA Part Time/Freelance Translator • Translate news about Australia for the leading newspaper for the Turkish community in Australia during the weekends. • Translate and edit the news, current affairs and Australian issues along with community based news for the newspaper which is published weekly, with a readership of approximately 28,000. • Translation of documents provided to Turkish community in Australia. SKILLS LANGUAGE SKILLS Full fluency in Turkish and English. Beginner Degree in Spanish COMPUTER SKILLS Hardware: PC O/S: Windows Vista, XP, NT, 2000, Me, 98, 95. Mac OS X. Software: MS Office 2003, XP,2007 (Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Outlook, Publisher, FrontPage) , Adobe Creative Suite 3, QuickBooks, Trados, Transit, SDLX PERSONAL SKILLS • Substantial and diverse experience in all facets of the job. • Ability to build strong relationships with internal & external partners. • Experience with implementing end-user business technology solutions and adapting workflow management processes to new software capabilities. • Proven track record in client relations, contributing to the business development process and ongoing relationship development with customers. CERTIFICATIONS ATA/NYCT Court Interpreting & Translation Seminar. April 25, 2009. • Advanced Simultaneous Interpreting Techniques • Transcription and Translation of Evidence Tapes EVENTS ATTENDED Embrace Diversity at the New York Public Library. May 12, 2009.

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