Craig Lister
Medical/Legal Interpreter, Medical Writer and Editor, AI Content Developer, Instructional Designer
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About
Over 20 years of publishing, copy-editing, proofreading, content creation, and development experience. Currently working on a project for developing an automated AI process for interpretation. Upgrading skills to include courses on AI prompt Engineering, Large Language Models and Agents, and AWS Machine Learning Specialties.
More than nine years of experience as a Medical, Clinical, and Legal Interpreter with expertise in patient health care facilitation and communication between doctors and patients. Vast interaction with medical professionals from all over the United States and England, with unique understanding of navigating the industry despite language and cultural barriers. Strong public interaction and public relations skills.
Experience
Hindi Language Annotator and Researcher - Meta via Tek Systems - NYC, Remote
(2025-09 - 2026-08)
Joined as a consultant on a special project as a Hindi language and Indian cultural knowledge annotator and researcher for the search engine being developed by the company.
Medical Affairs Senior Editor - PharmaQuant - Dublin, Ireland, Remote Freelance Contract
(2024-03 - 2026-03)
Senior editor for the Scientific Communications Division. Primary role was editing, proofreading and developing Health Economics documents. Job included development of reports and editing analyses.
- Development of reports: Network Meta-Analyses (NMAs), Reporting Systematic Literature Reviews, Indirect Treatment comparisons, Cost-effectiveness analyses, and Budget impact analyses
- Editing analyses of Drug Messages reports: efficacy, risks vs benefits, and affordability
Interpretation Trainer and Mentor / AI course developer - Language Line Solutions - Monterey, California, Remote position
(2017-03)
Joined as a Medical Interpreter for interpretation for Hindi, with capabilities for four other Indian languages (Gujarati, Marathi, Maarwaari and Punjabi). Telephone Interpretation in the Medical, Clinical, Hospital, Courtroom, Immigration, Automobile, and Insurance industries. Moved up to Training and Mentoring within the organization within the first year. Specializes in training for Clinical and Medical interpretation.
- Primary team member from the Linguistics side that created the Interpreter Assessment, the exam that qualifies interpreters to interpret, with a voice feature that enables test takers to record their answers matched to pre-recorded answers within the testing software
- Sent to India in March 2018 as a Trainer/Linguistic Subject Matter Expert
- Onboarded to the AI Development team in March 2025, working on prompt creation to formulate predictive responses, script creation to input into the LMS for AI-based automated responses, and testing content in both script and voice for veracity
Technical Content Editor - McGraw Hill - New Jersey, remote position
(2014-01 - 2016-12)
K-12 project requiring creation of engrossing and intuitive interactive white board activities for Grades 1 to 6. Challenge was to ensure the activities were interesting and adhered to white board specifications without losing out on the learning objectives.
Technical Writer, Editor - Pearson - Remote position, New Jersey
(2012-01 - 2013-05)
Higher-education project requiring different concepts (involved in effective communication) to be depicted through a set of 37 videos using narration, minimal on-screen text, and real-life images.
Technical Writer / Business Analyst - JBL RN-BSN Nursing Leadership - Remote position, New Jersey
(2006-09 - 2011-12)
Higher-education project requiring the development of 15 courses for Registered Nurses who had associate degrees and wanted to get their Bachelor's degree through online study. Project adhered strictly to AMA standards.
Senior Instructional Designer / Analyst - Lionbridge / Pearson Development Center / NetG Development Center - Mumbai, India
(2002-06 - 2006-01)
Employed with the Pearson Development Center in capacity of Senior Instructional Design Writer and Analyst. Worked on creating consumer courses and testing courses for various organizations.
- Creating consumer courses for Microsoft and Macromedia
- Creating and testing courses for Parker, ExxonMobil, Acadient Learning Systems, ADL
- Online learning modules and CDs for SmartForce and PowerPoint, Fireworks, Freehand and Dreamweaver
Education
Post Graduate Diploma - English Literature (Part I) - University of Bombay
Bachelor of Arts - English Literature - University of Bombay
Diploma - Journalism - St Xavier's College
