Nasser Abousamak

• Performed bookkeeping activities, such as balancing accounts and conducting nightly audits.
• Recorded guest comments or complaints, referring customers to managers as necessary.
• Assisted guests with any special requests during their visits
• Improved customer service ratings.
• Conducted daily pre-shift and weekly departmental meetings to ensure organizational efficiency.
• Scheduled and directed staff in daily work assignments to maximize productivity.
• Continually monitored restaurant and took appropriate action to ensure food quality and service standards were consistently met
• Minimized loss and misuse of equipment through proper restaurant supervision and staff training.
• Developed and maintained exceptional customer service standards
• Optimized profits by controlling food, beverage and labor costs on a daily basis.
• Native (Egyptian born) Arabic speaking linguist
• Fluent in most Arabic Dialects; such as Egyptian, Jordanian, Palestinian, Iraqi, Syrian, Lebanese, and Gulf.
• Raised in the US(1978-present), Kuwait(1967-1978), and Egypt(1960-1967)
  

Over 7 years of experience with the Department Of Defense serving as linguist in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. I have had the honor of serving with the Marines (HET TEAMS) during and after the war in Iraq delivering both linguistic support and cultural insight to a team who conducted over 300 interrogations of enemy prisoners of war and debriefs of civilian Personnel. I have also assisted in many interrogations and helped collect critical information leading to the rescue of an American prisoner of war.

• Seek out, interview, and test applicants to locate qualified employees for linguist job openings.
• Select applicants from resumes that job seekers send to the company.
• Implement the government's guidelines on discrimination.
• Enforce company's needs, programs, benefits, management structure, and advancement policies.

USASOC (SOTF), Fort Bragg, NC (Supported an immediate Temporary Duty Requirement).

• Contracted by the US Army 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment–Delta to support on-going GWOT operations.
• Analyze language training needs and create class instructional materials in the Palestinian dialect to enhance language training program.
• Presented sub-region and country specific cultural training.
• Plans, develops, and organizes training syllabus and materials for training courses.
• Capture issues identified during training and provide feedback and offer post training recommendations.

(National Media Exploitation Center, “NMEC”/ DIA Vienna, VA)

• Responsible for conducting quality control on documents and material translated by other linguists to ensure the accuracy and validity of the translation.
• Translate, identify, and extract secret classified intelligence reports, documents, media, and information components meeting Military information requirement list criteria.
• Responsible for training other staff members.
• Provide input to reports that categorize and identify information and materials that require further exploitation and analysis.
• Assigned to special projects with the FBI translating source sensitive materials

(Iraqi Survey group “ISG”, NMEC/ DIA Camp Al- Sayliah, Doha, Qatar).

• Processed and translated over 1200 secret classified Intelligence reports, files, media and over 60,000 pages from Arabic to English in order to identify sensitive foreign information that answers priority Intelligence requirements .
• Responsible for conducting quality assurance tests on documents and material translated by other linguists to ensure the accuracy and validity of the translation.
• Provided input to reports that categorize and identify information and materials that require further exploitation and analysis.
• Performed document exploitation.
• Assigned to special projects translating source sensitive materials.
• Scan, research and analyze foreign language documents for key and sensitive information.
• Identifying and extracting information components meeting Military information requirement list criteria

(Field Office South West Asia, 202ND Military Intelligence Battalion, Camp Doha, Kuwait May, 2003- April 2004)

• Assisted HUMINT source operations providing valuable social, cultural, religious and economic insight of Arabic society.
• Assisted agents in conducting liaison with Kuwaiti officials to ensure cooperation with Force Protection issues.
• Went on temporarily duty to Najaf, Iraq with the OGA, to help investigate the car bomb assassination of Ayatollah Al- Hakim.
• Went on temporarily duty with the 13th Marines Expeditionary Unit to Basra, Iraq to help investigate major oil smuggling operations.

3rd Battalion 2nd Marines- Task Force Tarawa, HUMINT EXPLOITATION TEAM 16, Intelligence Detachment, Iraq
March 15 2003 thru May 9 2003

• Translated during meetings of senior officers and key Iraqi officials during the war.
• Assisted in interrogations of enemy prisoners of war.
• Helped collect critical and key information leading to the rescue of an American prisoner of war, the capture of over 25 enemy paramilitary officers, countless weapons caches and the capture of the first headquarters facility taken during the war.
• Debriefed Iraqi civilians during the war ranging from Saddam Hussein’s senior leaders to common people on the street.

Task Force Warrior-Officer Candidate School- Taszar Air Base, Hungary
January 11 2003 thru February 18 2003

• Worked as an interpreter, while training the future Iraqi leadership, Freedom Iraqi Fighters “FIF” in Camp Taszar, Hungary prior to the war.

Medals and
Awards

• Received the Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal Award from the Secretary Of the Navy for collecting valuable information and for outstanding performance during the war in Iraq.
• Received an award from the 13th Marines Expeditionary Unit for outstanding performance while serving in Basra, Iraq.
• Received an award from Task Force Warrior/ Officer Candidate School for outstanding performance while serving in Hungary.
• Received a Plaque award from Field Office South West Asia, Military Intelligence, for outstanding performance while serving in Kuwait.
• Received a Certificate of Appreciation from the DIA for superior performance.
• Received several letters of appreciation and recommendation for outstanding performance from several officers in charge while serving overseas.