CV - Y Samphy
Work Experience:
2002 – Date
Self-employment, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Translator
Translating, from Khmer into English and vice versa, for individuals and such organizations as the World Bank and UNDP.
2004 – Feb 06
CommunityLegalEducationCenter (CLEC), Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Program Officer
Workplace Relations Group (WRG)
- Assist in the work of the Arbitration Council Secretariat including translating awards and decisions; regulations and labour law guides, textbooks and brochures; taking notes of meetings; and keeping the website up to date;
- Assist international consultants with the arbitration mentoring process, through preparation of awards, legal research, interpreting and translation;
- Conduct training for union representatives and other stakeholders on the arbitration process in Cambodia;
- Conduct compliance visits to NIKE-subcontracted factories and write reports on those visits;
- Assist with other duties of the Workplace Relations Group as necessary.
Feb 04 – Aug 04
Media Consulting & Development (MC&D), Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Translator/Interpreter
- Translated, from Khmer to English and vice versa, all headlines and certain articles in local newspapers;
- Translated orally, from Khmer to English, to supervisors the main local news articles they selected from different Cambodian-language newspapers;
- Wrote, in English, press reviews, using a series of articles on the same story written by different local newspapers. Such article reviews are used for the Weekly Business Press Review;
- Filed and collected all the translations by my colleagues and kept them as records;
- Kept tracks of the translations and reported to the supervisors what was done daily and weekly;
- From time to time, translated simultaneously for my supervisors during interviews with reporters.
Sept 03 – Feb 04
DocumentationCenter of Cambodia (DC-Cam), Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Volunteer
- Translated from Khmer to English (1) a report by a former Khmer Rouge who had been detained and questioned in the S-21 prison, (2) the Regulation on Association of Composers and Lyricists, (3) an interview with SIENG Vanthy, former popular singer during the 1960s, (4) documents lists and, (5) such documents as personal statements of my colleagues and (6) articles and reports for the Searching for the Truth, the monthly magazine of DC-Cam;
- Entered into a database bibliographical information from D collection which includes general documents such as bibliography, reports, minute meetings, execution logs, confessions and others;
- Typed in Khmer and English - various transcripts and documents from the interviews and other reports.
2002 – 2004
Pearson Education & Technology School (PETS), Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Teacher of English as a Foreign Language
- Taught Cambodian students English language using the Spectrum 1A, 1B and 2A.
2003 – 2004
Self-employment, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Tutor of English as a Foreign Language
- Taught Cambodian students English language using Head Start, New Headway Elementary and Pre-Intermediate.
2002 – 2003
Mahãputra International Institute, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Teacher of English as a Foreign Language
- Taught Cambodian students English language using New Headway Elementary, Pre-intermediate and Intermediate.
2002 – 2002
ESPERANTO Association, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Teacher of English as a Foreign Language
- Taught Cambodian students English language using New Headway Elementary and Essential English Book 1.
Education:
2006 - date
Nagoya University, Graduate School of Law, Nagoya, Japan
- LLM in Comparative Law Studies
2001 - 2005
Royal University of Phnom Penh: Institute of Foreign Languages (IFL), Phnom Penh, Cambodia
- Bachelor of Education: Teaching English as a Foreign Languages (B-Ed., TEFL)
1998 - 2002
Royal University of Law and Economics (RULE), Phnom Penh, Cambodia
- Bachelor’s Degree in Law
Skills:
Computer skills:
- Microsoft Office applications such as Microsoft Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Publisher and Access;
- Email clients such as Microsoft Outlook, Outlook Express and Thunderbird;
- Blogging platforms such as Blogger, Wordpress.com, Wordpress.org;
- Media makers and editors such as PhotoExpress, Picasa, Window Movie Maker and ULead
work-related skills and qualities:
- Ability to work under pressure;
- Ability to work effectively in a team or on own initiative;
- Willingness to learn;
- Willingness to take a variety of tasks; and
- Communications skills.
