BRYAN ADRIAN CV
Batumi, Georgia
http://britishcouncil-tbilisi.angelfire.com/Tbilisi-Poetry-Readout.html
Oxford Academy, Tbilisi [May 2015 to June 2016] Conversation
classes for pre-intermediate, intermediate, and upper intermediate students in
Tbilisi, near the Philharmonia.
THE EUROPEAN SCHOOL, Tbilisi,
[Shanghai Square, Tbilisi, Georgia], an IB
method school -- [August 2014 to
April 1 2015] -- Teacher of Language-A Literature and Language, 6th to 10th grades. My teaching subjects at this IB European
School of Tbilisi: novels, short stories, poetry, film & theater
appreciation and review writing, academic writing, essay writing-- teaching to
Georgian, Russian, Greek, Azeri, Uzbeki,
Kurdish, Polish, Swedish, & Kazak [privileged] teens.
JEJILI SCHOOL, Tbilisi, Abashidze St., Vake GEORGIA [Sept 2013 to April 2014]
Literature and English
grammar and conversation, 7th-11th grades. Short story analysis, movie
appreciation and interpretation, essay writing, SAT drills, PET practice,
guided and open conversations.
LANGATE AMERICAN-GEORGIAN LEARNING CENTER, Tbilisi, Barnovi St. 73 -- [Feb. 2012-current]. Instructor and lecturer in TOEFL and SAT
English test preparations, and academic writing lessons. Tour agency English speaking assistant on group tours throughout
Georgian regions. Editor of children’s fairy
tales. Contact: Mari Changiani,
owner; infolangate@gmail.com
LINGUA HOUSE, Deputy Director & Senior Teacher/English Programs at Lingua House,
in Tbilisi [Sept. 2006—Feb. 12, 2012] T. Tabidze St
114, Tbilisi, Georgia – TRAINER for AAT [American Academy Tbilisi] essay
writing exam; TOEFL and SAT test preparations, using the CD self-scoring disk
from newest books published by ETS/Prometric, Business
writing seminars. Creative Writing & Film seminars. Poetry Read Outs also, at Caravani Art Cafe, near TBILISI Parliament. http://bryanadrian_writer.tripod.com/caravan-flier.html
Wines
of Georgia! (blogs by Bryan Adrian)
http://britishcouncil-tbilisi.angelfire.com/Fifth-Tbilisi-Wine-Cheese-EXPO.html
http://britishcouncil-tbilisi.angelfire.com/Georgian-Wineries.html
http://britishcouncil-tbilisi.angelfire.com/Levan-Ujmajuridze-AGRO.html
New Kidney New Life
http://britishcouncil-tbilisi.angelfire.com/Georgia-Today-10May2013.pdf
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WRITER AND EDITOR for hire
Editor of English translation of short story by Irakli Lomouri, for USTARI
PUBLISHING, September 2013, owner and publisher TAMARA NACHKEBIA,
119 Tsinamdzgvrishvili st,
Tbilisi, Georgia, 0102, Telephone 995 322 964081-----E-mail:
ustari2010@gmail.com, Website: www.ustari.ge
VOICE OVER narrator for TV ads for ADactive Advertising
Agency, July 2013, Mariam Mikelashvili,
manager, Afaqidze 11, Tiflis Business
Center, 3rd. Floor, 0183 Tbilisi,
Georgia, Tel: 0322 24 20 40, a subsidiary of Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide
CTC Consulting and Training Center, Tbilisi, Georgia , May
2013, Otar Chkheidze St.
0177 Tbilisi | Phone: +995 32 220 67 74, Copy Editor for May
2013 report on "Sustainable Integration of the Internally Displaced People
into Value Chain Creation of the New Settlement Areas". http://www.ctc.org.ge/en
Bryan Adrian's iREPORTS on CNN online's "EYE ON GEORGIA"
fotos: https://web.archive.org/web/20151203103531/http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-628246; https://web.archive.org/web/20151203103923/http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-628248
videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1GINLm2Ing
https://web.archive.org/web/20151203103320/http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-628249
THE GEORGIAN TIMES, June 2013, "Tbilisi Tempest in a
Rainbow Colored Teapot?", by Bryan Adrian, go to page 13 to read
Bryan's article in the original PDF, Bryan's LGBT article on page 13, and the 4-page
interview with Bidzina Ivanishvili in the same issue
“NEW
KIDNEY, NEW LIFE – Doctor-Patient Trust Brings Joy to Many" By
Bryan Adrian for "GEORGIA TODAY" – GEORGIA
TODAY full page article about 8th floor of Tbilisi’s new High Technology
Medical Center University Clinic, in the Department of Renal
Replacement Therapy and Nephrology, under the guidance of Dr. Irma Tchokhonelidze, a new revolution in medical practices in
kidney healthcare, dialysis, and kidney transplantation has gone into full
swing in the struggling Republic of Georgia.
COPY
EDITOR of United Nation's UNDP [United Nations Development Program] major
report "GEORGIAN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT REPORT: The Reforms and Beyond
2008 UNDP, [United Nations Development Program] –
[2007-2011] Independent contract editor for many long UNDP reports coming
out of Georgia. Tbilisi, Racha, Rustavi,
and UNDP newsletter editing too. Reports range in length from 6 pp to 340 pages. contact persons:
sophie.tchitchinadze@undp.org; khatuna.chanukvadze@undp.org; nkakiashvili@telenet.ge;khatuna.sandroshvili@undp.org;
Martin Christenssen and many many others.
Ministry of
Environment Protection and Natural Resources of Georgia – [2009-2010] Editor of many
reports, short and rather long. Contact: Natia Kakiashvili
Georgian National Science Foundation -- [2010-2011] Editor of
reports in English. Contact persons: Lela Khubutia and Natia Jokhadze.
UNICEF, Tbilisi, Georgia [2008 February] Final edit on
English version of Giovanna Barberis’s “Newsletter of the
UN Children's Fund, UNICEF in Georgia”. Contact person:: mtskitishvili@unicef.org
ECMI. Editing/Copyediting/Proofing, for near 80-page Report,
for ECMI Regional Representative in the Caucasus, Tom Trier,
in Minority Issues and Rights, in the Republic of Georgia. [June/July 2007]
ECMI Monograph #6, “Resettlement of Ecologically Displaced Persons: Georgia 1981-2006
[funded by Danish and German governments]
SECO-SDC-Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation [Swiss
Embassy branch, Tbilisi, Georgia]-- [Feb. 2007] "Ad Hoc" editor,
rewriting and editing and proofing of website pages in English for this
Humanitarian Aid Society of the Swiss Regional Cooperation Office for the South
Caucasus. http://bryanadrian_writer.tripod.com/SDCFilm.doc
Reporter, The
NGO Observer, April 2015, "Will the
Agreement between GAHSC/Gilead and Georgian Ministry of Health Bring a
Financial Hematoma to the People of Georgia?"
and "A
Look at the Faces Behind the overnight created sudden expert staff of
GAHSC"
ICCN Conflict Resolution NGO, Tbilisi [
Oct 2013-Aug 2014] . Editing of
conflict resolution reports and surveys for director Maia Katsitadze. Mostly reports concerning Abkhazia
& Georgia.
Copy/Content Editor of Master's Degree Thesis papers for
international graduate students in Europe [2012-2015]. St Andrews Scotland; University of Ghent, Belgium; Grenoble University, France,
and others.
Click here to read-
FULLY
RELOADED TBILISI PARLIAMENT 2008, by Bryan Adrian
REVIEWER for TripAdvisor -- http://www.tripadvisor.com/members-reviews/bryan-in-tbilisi Reviews
of hotels, restaurants, and destinations written by Bryan Adrian on TripAdvisor.
"Jumping Ship in Batumi" short story by Bryan
Adrian, which can be read at http://carpathian_bronze.tripod.com/jumping-ship-Batumi.html
POETRY by Bryan Adrian published in "AISLING," in
the Aran Irish-Scottish Isles https://www.angelfire.com/poetry/aisling/bryanadrian.html
Click here for
ACTOR, Bryan
Adrian as the warden in Tamer Ezzat's award
winning movie THE DECISION [2002]
Senior Copywriter, Columbia University Press [CUP],
NYC, [1987-89] Book
jackets, catalogue copy, promos, press releases, marketing strategies, book
reviews & direct mail advertising. Books published by Columbia during my
tenure included, architecture, cosmology, psychiatry, science, politics &
social sciences, i.e., any field in which Columbia has a faculty member or
author on their staff. Direct Supervisor: Catalogue and Advertising Manager,
Judy Bernstein. Outside Clients: (1987-89) Churchill Livingstone
Medical Books, 650 Ave. of the Americas; WH Freeman (Scientific
American), 41 Madison Ave., NYC. Atcom Press Science
Newsletters. Kluwer Publishing. http://bryanadrian_writer.tripod.com/PORTFOLIO.html
STORY
TELLER for children at the BRITISH COUNCIL of Tbilisi. [2007-2008].
Contact: Rusudan.Bakhtadze@ge.britishcouncil.org
TV INTERVIEWS while
a local teacher in Tbilisi:
GEORGIAN WINES
advertisement, featuring Bryan Adrian
Bryan on RUSTAVI-2 Georgian TV speaking about
working at LanGate Georgian American
Education Center, March 11, 2012 http://www.myvideo.ge/?video_id=1645703
Bryan on PIRVELI Georgian
TV at Lingua House Language Center, May 19, 2008
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iqMaSI5tDE
EUROPEAN language schools TEACHING experience:
EDUCATION:
Languages: Spanish [long ago almost fluent];
German [basic conversant]; French/Portuguese [basic level of reading and very
elementary conversation]
U.S.A PUBLISHING & Editing EXPERIENCE:
Street News weekly newspaper, New York City; deputy manager and feature writer
for the first newspaper on homeless issues and veterans without jobs in
USA. :"Why We Have More Lawyers than Toilets in America" http://britishcouncil-tbilisi.angelfire.com/Street_News_NYC.html
Electronic Whip, Egyptian-British-American pioneer cyber-magazine
on world issues published in London and New York City. Deputy manager and feature writer. “Strike Against Globalization Now!” [1996]
https://www.angelfire.com/de/Boiishaft/history-Times-Square.html
https://www.angelfire.com/de/Boiishaft/god-of-war.html https://www.angelfire.com/de/Boiishaft/B-Traven-Circle.html
HEAD START -- Trans-Management Systems
Corporation (TMSC), 1133 15th
Street, NW Suite 450, Washington, DC – [Jan. 2006-May
2006] Writer/Editor, HTML code proofing, for T-MSC Consultants,
intra-governmental agency for HEAD START, a program for underprivileged kids
started by LBJ, and now under Sylvia Mathews Burwell, Secretary of Health &
Human Services [HHS]. Frequent use of online and agency software developed by
military subcontractors ICF
Kaiser International, Cleverex, and Caliber,
for HHS. Trans-Management Systems Corporation (TMSC) manager: Kevin Jones //
HEAD START Knowledge & Information Management Services IT
Warehouse, 1200 N. Henry St., Suite E, Alexandria, VA http://www.trans-mgmt.com/partnering/
NAHB, Margaret Elgin, PhD --[Summer,
2005], Washington, DC--National Association of Homebuilders, a
partner and frequent meetings venue for officers of FANNIE MAE semi-federal
loan agency. Desktop publisher. Tables, charts, text, electronic formatting, electronic
visuals, Paintshop Pro, some web design. Four-color printing. I was the freelance desktop
publisher on this project putting together a very large bound color report on
distance learning [online] for the members and the Board of Directors, of this
home building trade association. Margaret Elgin, PhD, project leader.
IFPRI, Akhter Ahmed, PhD, Senior
Research Fellow for the International Food Policy Research Institute,
a division of USAID--[Summer, 2005], Washington, DC. I was Desktop
Publisher for Mr. Ahmed's MS Word 2005 report on food distribution among the
poor of India's many states. Power Point Tables, charts, text, formatting,
visuals.
THE PRESIDENT'S
INITIATIVE ON RACE, White House Annex — WASHINGTON DC, Summer 1997. Researcher and data operator for the
husband and wife team Clintons' race initiative (Marian Wright Edelman), first term. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_America_Initiative
DKWR, DRESDNER KLEINWORT WASSERSTEIN RESEARCH,
75 Wall Street office, NYC. [April 2001--SEPTEMBER 7th, 2001, Friday, 6pm]
Editor/Desktop publisher for Financial Analysts on Wall Street until the Sept.
11th 2001 disaster http://www.gasandoil.com/news/2001/06/ntr12288
WASHINGTON REPORT ON MIDDLE EAST AFFAIRS -- "Biased
Mideast Coverage" Letters To The New York Times,
Feb. 8, 1994 https://www.angelfire.com/zine/cetaceandragon/WRMEA.html
REFERENCES: PROVIDED UPON REQUEST
