Daud Omar
SOMALI/SWAHILI INTERPRETER/TRANSLATOR/PROOFREADER/TRANSCRIPTIONIST
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About
Competent and certified medical interpreter, court interpreter, freelance Interpreter, Translator, copy editor, and Proofreader and transcriptionist with strong communication skills in both writing and verbal way. Proven ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously and with Hundreds of hours of interpretation and translation combined.
Experience
Medical interpreter - MULTILINGUAL INTERPRETERS
(2024-07)
Handling medical interpretation calls and calls from Amazon.
Translation Project - BM securities
(2022-10 - 2023-12)
Transcriptions of calls and translations of the Swahili language to English.
Interpreter - LANGUAGE LINK
(2022-06 - 2022-12)
- Serviced calls for a wide range of American social service programs such as SNAP, TANF, WIC, Unemployment, Public Housing, Childcare, Child Protection Services, Adult care, Medicare, Medicaid etc.
- Interpreted and handled calls from Insurance Companies as well as schools.
- Facilitated communications between individuals and groups with limited English proficiencies (LEPs) and agents servicing them from source language to target language and vice versa.
Customer Service Interpreter - ONE WORD GLOBAL SERVICES (OWGS)
(2020-11 - 2022-04)
- Accurately interpreted and translated critical medical information between healthcare providers and patients with limited English proficiency.
- Acted as a Swahili – English interpreter between a wide range of people with diverse voices, accents, speaking tempos and personalities. Translated a wide range of medical information including medical conditions, treatment options, follow-up appointment details, billing and insurance.
- Handled both video (VRI) and audio (OPI) calls.
Proofreader, Translator - MARY WANGUI AND Co ADVOCATES
(2020-01 - 2020-08)
Produced multimedia content for the firm's website as well as social media accounts
- Performed thorough reads, reading for typos, grammar and sense and providing suggested edits when necessary
Education
Bachelor of Science - Civil and Environmental Engineering - EGERTON UNIVERSITY (2018-09 - 2022-12)
Secondary School - MACHAKOS HIGH SCHOOL (2014-02 - 2017-11)
Primary School - FURQAN INTEGRATED ACAEMY (2005-01 - 2013-12)
