Bhabha Padmanabhan

Description

WORK EXPERIENCE
October 2008 to Present Self- Employed, Inverness, IL, USA
Tamil and Malayalam Linguist with security clearance

Provide freelance linguistic services to various companies.
• Provide telephone interpretation services in Tamil and Malayalam to Cyracom, CTS Language Link, Language Line Solutions, Language Select and Language Services Associates for their medical, immigration, legal and insurance claims calls.
• Provide face to face interpretation services in Tamil and Malayalam to Interprenet LLC for their legal clients (was assigned to a high profile Federal Court case, United States vs Annie George) and to Translations Today LLC for their Early Childhood screenings at school districts in Chicago land.
• Provide oral proficiency testing services, designed and certified by ACTFL standards, in Tamil and Malayalam to LTI for their Department of Defense clients in US Army, Navy and Air force. Participated in DLPT item review projects in Tamil for Defense Language Institute using ILR guidelines to rate the test items.
• Provide interpretation services in Tamil and Malayalam to Lionbridge LLC for their Department Of Justice client, Executive Office for Immigration Review for their immigration court proceedings.
• Provide interpretation services in Tamil and Malayalam to FLS, Inc for their legal clients involved in depositions of Plaintiffs in multiple mass action law suits, Kurian David et al vs Signal International and Achari et al vs Signal International in US District Court at Eastern District of Louisiana; Reji Samual et al vs Signal International and Joseph et al vs Signal International in Eastern District court of Texas. Also interpreted at the Jury Trial of Kurian David et al vs Signal International presided by Judge Ms. Susie Morgan in US District Court at Eastern District of Louisiana.
• Provided simultaneous interpretation services in Tamil for Factory tours, seminars, conferences, trainings and meetings using various audio devices coordinated by Clarus Language Solutions for their client Herbal Life Inc.
• Provided simultaneous interpretation services in Tamil to Capital Communications Group for their client Meridian International and US Department of State to host a delegation of Journalists from India for the International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) in “Human Rights and Foreign Policy Reporting for Journalists” conducted by the Bureau of Educational and cultural affairs.
• Provided simultaneous interpretation services to the State of Minnesota for interpreting in Tamil for the case State of Minnesota vs Leo Charles Koppala in the fifth judicial district court at the county of Faribault.
• Provided translation/proof reading services to Translate Plus for their client in translating medical research questionnaire (4000 words) from English to Tamil.
• Provided translation/ proof reading services to ASET for their client, Dept of Justice in translating Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (8000 words) from English to Tamil. (http://www.justice.gov/criminal/fraud/fcpa/docs/fcpa-tamil.pdf)
• Provided subtitling services in Tamil to Softitler and US Translations for Hollywood movies and provided transcription services in English to ALSI for their client Bureau of Prisons in transcription of inmate communications in Tamil to English.