Summary of experience
Freelance sign language interpreter working in complex and technical interpreting domains including conferences, training, legal, social care, mental health and in the emerging technology sector.
Career highlights include 14 years of experience working as an in-vision BBC news interpreter (live), attending complex assignments in the legal domain at all levels from the magistrate through to the high courts.
Having a demonstrable history of delivering assessments and feedback, performance coaching, mentoring, and training in the interpreting sector.
Experience of working overseas with both spoken and sign language interpreters and translators in the Dominican Republic (2013), Cape Verde (2016) and Thailand (2019).
Working for a multinational organisation in the delivery of sign language interpretation and translation material on digital media.
Responsibility for the learning and development needs of the team in meaning-based interpreting and translation.
Managing a team of staff and freelance BSL translators, in-vision interpreters, Deaf presenters and actors on bespoke projects. Based in London and the Netherlands.
Specialist sign language interpreter working on a nationwide basis (England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland) across all levels of the Courts, probation and prison services.
Recruited by Sign Solutions to be part of the first BSL legal interpreting team.
Senior interpreter leading in complex and technical interpreting domains.
Responsible for managing a team of staff interpreters across London, South-East and Scotland regions.
Providing staff interpreters with regular professional supervision and support to meet there professional development objectives.
Delivering high-quality interpreting provisions to government contractual requirements and budgets.
Providing interpreting services to Deaf people throughout Essex, Cambridge and East Anglia.
Responsible for managing the contractual relationship between the RNID and Essex County Council commissioners.
Providing interpreting services to Deaf and deafblind residents across the London Borough of Hounslow, commissioned by the Local Authority.
Providing interpreting services to Deaf students on campus.
Providing communication support services to Deaf students in mainstream schools and colleges funded by the London Borough of Brent.