Howard David Sugar

Howard David Sugar Via Cina 451, P/D Int. 11 P 00144, Rome Tel/Fax (06)52205108 [email protected] Professional Experience Enel Spa. ,Enel University Cross Cultural Center, in-house translator, Jan 2007- present. I am currently an in-house translator of energy-related and corporate documents. The translations run from extremely technical engineering (ex: general services agreements for the supply of super- cooler components for power plant turbines, safety problems in dam desanders), to public tender offers, hiring and sponsorship contracts, quarterly and annual financial results, SAP accounting, speeches. I coordinate and control translations performed by various translation agencies in order to ensure quality and consistency with Enel terminology, especially when large numbers of suppliers are involved. I also edit work in the preparation of specialized teaching materials for various kinds of courses. interview candidates to assess their language knowledge for hiring, promotions and various kinds of specialized courses.

Real Training Solutions- 2005-2007 Real Training Solutions is specialized in Business English training, and uses in-house materials to customize courses to their clients’ needs. As an Instructor I have taught in Exxon Mobile, Adaltis, Chimec and Logista in various capacities as well as wrote two in-house books on expressing opinions in meetings for beginning and pre- intermediate levels and on explaining problems for high (Upper-Intermediate and Advanced) levels. I have also prepared materials and taught courses on Presentations and Public Speaking workshops for the WFP and courses for GMAT examinations.

Industria Farmaceutica Serono S.p.A2001-2005 , In-house translator and teacher. The Serono group is an international pharmaceutical company based in Geneva, with subsidiaries throughout the world. Reporting to the Human Resources Director, I was responsible for the language training of the staff in the Serono group’s Rome head office, including specialized courses such as financial English, how to make presentations, hold meetings and conference calls in English. I also taught French language courses, helped draft computer program users’ guides in English, French and Italian and also translated contracts, and in-house documents and coached personnel in presentations.

CONSULTANT LANGUAGES 1991-2001 Conducted business and general courses of English (and French) for top managers as well for groups in many organizations including Autostrada, Banca Nazionale di Lavoro, CONFINDUSTRIA, Bulgari, TIM, Telecom, AGIP, ENI, LASMO , Camera dei Deputati, Senato, Ministero della Difesa, Ministero della Marina Mercantile, Ministero della Pubblica Istruzione, Scuola Carabinieri, Aeronautica a Pratica di Mare., Selesta, Reuters, Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca sulla Popolazione and Telindus. I also conducted testing, special courses and placement for scholarships offered by the European Community, and for Italian NATO officers.

PROFESSIONAL TRANSLATOR 1991-PRESENT Translations on various technical economic, financial, and engineering , gastronomic and medical topics, including published books, financial statements, ( including those of Parmalat, San Egidio, Valentino, TIM and Turner Broadcasting),legal contracts (including those on behalf of ExxonMobile, Toshiba, Serono, Tim, Banca Nazionale di Lavoro), , CD-ROMS on wine and food, articles, speeches, and Internet sites (including those of TIM, Birra Peroni, and Vidimus Dominum as well as works on behalf of TIM, Camera dei Deputati, Presidenza del Consiglio, Ministero dei Beni Culturali, CONFINDUSTRIA, Croce Via , , Italchemici, Istituto Nazionale Per il Commercio Estero, Facoltà di Scienze Politiche -Università di Roma, Facoltà di Medicina-Università di Roma, Serono, Time-Warner, Turner Broadcasting, Telecom Italia Mobile, Toshiba, the Union of Superiors General, the Union of Superiors General of Women Religious, Crocia Via, Valentino, SONGINVEST Bank, San Egidio Association, and UniMed

Consultant INTERNATIONAL CELLULAR COMMUNICATIONS, Milan 1992-1993 Conducted background research on transport, industry and population in Rome and the Lazio area for placement of transmission centers in preparation of the tender for the second mobile telephone operator by the consortium that became Omnitel.

AMERICAN JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE ROME, 1989-1991 Assistant to the Director for Transmigrants and Ethiopia. Charged with handling various aspects of providing housing , medical and social services for Russian and Iranian refugee populations in Rome and Vienna. I arranged for the transport of some 32,000 refugees from Vienna to Rome and from Rome to the United States, as well as managing schools for them during their stay in Italy. Also responsible for various projects in Ethiopia encompassing resettlement of refugees from famine areas, water well drilling, pilot farms and heath clinics. (for a population of some 11,000 people)

WORLD ACCESS/BLUE CROSS WORLD SERVICES WASHINGTON D.C. 1985-1989 International Assistance Coordinator. Charged with management of international medical emergencies including coordination of overseas medical transport, and consultations with various overseas medical, governmental and insurance facilities.

JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY, SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES Washington D.C. 1982-1983 Research Assistant to the Director of Department of African Studies Education JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY, SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES MA, Concentration in International Economics 1983

Studies in Bologna Italy 1981, Harvard University Salzburg Seminar Fellow 1981, Internship at the International Atomic Energy Agency 1981-82

INSTITUT D’ETUDES POLITIQUES DE LYON, UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON II Diplome d’Etudes Politiques, (B.A.) 1980, Section Economie et Entreprise Publications  Enoteca in Case, The Wonderful World of Italian Wines, 1998 CD-ROM wine encyclopedia in cooperation with the Italian Association of Sommeliers and the Laboratorio delle Idee   An Exporter =s Guide to International Travel Insurance , Export Today 1987, vol. 2, no. 4, pp 19-26

 Biography for the Political Economy of the Ivory Coast, in I.W. Zartman and C. Delgado, The Political Economy of the Ivory Coast, New York, Praeger, 1984, pp 219-243

 African country and International Organization entries in The World of Trade, Finance and Economic Development, Washington D.C. Lambert Publications, 1984 Vol. I 951 pp, Vol II 1273 pp  African, French and Italian Entries in the World Wide Directory of Defense Authorities with International Defense Organizations and Treaties, Washington D.C. 1983 922 pp