Abra M. TSE

• Coordinated internal company-wide meetings, executive committee meetings, conferences and staff meetings for over 200 staff members.
• Updated reports, supported operations by translating key departmental documents such as fact sheets and internal recommendations materials.
• Provided cultural input to speakers to help parties who did not speak similar languages communicate with and understand one another.
• Communicated corporate objectives across divisions through regular correspondence and scheduled status updates.
• Planned and executed company events such as year-end holiday party, meetings and staff mixers to promote office morale and cohesion.
• Assisted marketing department in planning client functions.
• Created and updated physical records and digital files to maintain current, accurate, and compliant documentation.
• Oversaw office inventory activities by ordering and requisitions and stocking and shipment receiving.

• Provided oral interpretations for clients during special events, successfully maintaining pace with native speakers to deliver real-time comprehension.
• Provided language translation and customer service skills to clients in humanitarian and private business sectors for over 5 years.
• Maintained message content, tone and emotion as closely as possible.
• Interpreted conversations simultaneously to help both parties conduct business or manage personal concerns.
• Attended over 15 business meetings to provide accurate consecutive translations of conversations between members.
• Freelance translator-interpreter for various european businesses in Togo.

• Translated numerous documents from English & German to French.
• Translated numerous documents from French to English & German.
• Provided verbal summaries of non-French documents for immediate use.
• Proofread, edited and improved documents of different sizes.
• Applied cultural understanding to discern specific meanings beyond literal written words. Replicated flow, style and overall meaning of original texts.
• Used translation memory software to verify consistency of translation within documents and improve efficiency.
• Supported operations by translating key departmental documents such as fact sheets, manuals and internal recommendations materials into german and english.
• Compiled information, such as technical terms used in sustainable economic development projects settings, into glossaries and terminology databases.
• Completed precise translations of over 50+ official documents with correct words and phrasing to meet legal standards.
• Reviewed final works to spot and correct errors in punctuation, grammar, and translation.

• Bilingual Trade Show Hostess, negotiation interpretation assignments for professional trade fairs for 10 years.
• Multilingual Inbound Customer Service & Customer Support for 3 years.
• Coordinated with coworkers to help customers, achieving efficient operations and high customer satisfaction.

Examples of trade fairs:

PaperWorld International - trade fair for stationery;

International Frankfurt Book Fair;

Euromold - World's Leading Trade Fair for Industrial

Design and Product Development;

Airtec - International Aerospace Exhibition.