curriculum vitae
| PROFILE | Over 13 Years Community Interpreting Experience | |
| More than 4 years Video Relay Experience | ||
| FIELDS OF EXPERTISE | • Post Secondary | Bloomberg School of Medicine |
| w/ Partial Client List | Johns Hopkins University | |
| University of Baltimore | ||
| • Legal | Circuit Court of Howard County | |
| District Courts of Baltimore City | ||
| Parole and Probation | ||
| • Medical | Wilmer Eye Institiue | |
| GBMC | ||
| Sinai Hospital | ||
| • Human Services | Social Security Administration | |
| Chase Brexton Health Services | ||
| Department of Social Services | ||
| • Government | MD State Department of Education | |
| Fort George G. Meade | ||
| Division of Rehabilitation Services | ||
| • Performance | CENTERSTAGE | |
| The Lyric Opera House | ||
| The Kennedy Center | ||
| • Religious | Christ Lutheran Church | |
| Baltimore Hebrew Congregation | ||
| First Unitarian Church of Baltimore | ||
| • Mental Health | Sheppard Pratt | |
| Springfield Hospital Center | ||
| Way Station | ||
| • Therapeutic | Kennedy Krieger Institute | |
| The Tuerk House | ||
| Community Support Services for the Deaf | ||
| • Corporate | Mary Kay | |
| Northrop Grumman | ||
| The Baltimore Sun | ||
| • Video Interpreting | CSDVRS (SLA) | |
| Sorenson Communications | ||
HIGHLIGHTS OF EXPERIENCE | Performs 2000+ hours yearly of interpreting services in diverse settings including surgeries, job interviews, parent-teacher meetings, business calls, legal disputes, and church services | |
| Interprets for Deaf students seeking post-secondary degrees at Johns Hopkins, University of Maryland, Towson University, and others | ||
| Provides weekly interpretation services for psychiatrist, multiply-disabled Deaf patients, and Deaf caregivers | ||
| Has participated in over 45 hours of legal training and has served as Interpreter/Officer of the Court for over 200 District, Circuit, Family, and Juvenile cases | ||
| Helped open a 15-booth Video Relay Call Center, and continues to serve as Point of Contact for 65+ interpreters, provides mentoring to novice interpreters and students, while receiving numerous caller commendations | ||
| LECTURES | Guest Lecturer | |
| Howard High School, Ellicott City, MD | 2010 | |
| Towson University, Towson, MD | 2009, 2008 | |
| EMPLOYMENT | The Hearing and Speech Agency, Baltimore, MD | 1996 - Present |
| Sorenson Communications, Columbia, MD | 2006 - Present | |
| Community Support Services for the Deaf, Windsor Mill, MD | 2006 - Present | |
| Purple Communications, Rockville, MD | 2008 - Present | |
| EDUCATION | Bachelor of Arts, English | 1995 |
| Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH | ||
| Visiting Student | Fall, 1993 | |
| Gallaudet University, Washington, DC | ||
| AFFILIATIONS | Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf (RID) | |
| Potomac Chapter of RID (PCRID) | ||
| CERTIFICATIONS | RID-NAD National Interpreter Certification | since 2009 |
| Administrative Office of the Courts of Maryland | since 2003 | |
| RID Certificate of Interpretation | since 2002 | |
| Administrative Office of the Courts of Maryland | since 2002 | |