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Gibran BANHAKEIA, PhD

Gibran BANHAKEIA, PhD

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Summary

Experienced Polyglot Translator with proven track record of delivering precise interpretations and translations between English and other languages ( French, Spanish, Arabic, Berber, Russian ) . In-depth understanding of cultural nuances to effectively bridge communication. Dedicated to accuracy and reliability. Plus to that, He masters the current skills of BL / Linguist using the most advancing tools like VR headset for simulation, analysis and interpretation. His fascination with security studies developed during his childhood in Nador, Morocco. Currently in the final year of his Ph.D. studies, his research is centered on The Circulation of Berbers in Europe .


Notes : His pursuit of studies in security and informatics is driven by a self-assessed passion for the field, stemming from a genuine love for issues related to securitization ( via Coursera, EDX, and others )

Overview

6
6
years of professional experience
16
16
Certificate

Work History

Volunteer Transcriber

Smithsonian Institute
01.2023 - Current
  • Verified signatures and checked medical charts for accuracy and completion.
  • Scanned and filed medical records in alphabetical order to maintain organized and up-to-date filing system.
  • Met all confidentiality guidelines as directed by company.
  • Translated abbreviations and jargon into long form during transcription process.
  • Transcribed court documents and records to enhance traceability and overall organization.

Arabic Translator

Proton Onsite
01.2024 - Current
  • Developed translated forms and educational materials for non-English speaking populations.
  • Listened to, comprehended and translated oral or written communications from English to Arabic and vice versa.
  • Reviewed and transcribed audio or internet materials with high degree of accuracy and expression.
  • Identified and carefully summarized factual points and abstract concepts.
  • Maintained message content, tone, and emotion as closely as possible.
  • Provided cultural input to speakers to help parties who did not speak similar languages communicate with and understand one another.
  • Interpreted conversations between foreign language-speaking clients and others.
  • Monitored progress of translation projects and reported issues to appropriate personnel.

Translator and Analyst

IAPTI
11.2023 - Current
  • Applied cultural understanding to discern specific meanings beyond literal written words.
  • Reviewed final works to spot and correct errors in punctuation, grammar, and translation.
  • Translated documents from English, Spanish, to Arabic, Berber, .
  • Provided verbal summaries of non-English documents to diverse audiences.
  • Listened to recordings and translated confidential information.
  • Updated existing translations to meet contemporary trends in communication.
  • Replicated flow, style, and overall meaning of original texts.

Polyglot Translator

New York Circle Of Translators
10.2023 - Current
  • Reviewed final works to spot and correct errors in punctuation, grammar, and translation.
  • Replicated flow, style, and overall meaning of original texts.
  • Provided verbal summaries of non-English documents to diverse audiences.
  • Repeated and restructured complex translations to optimize understanding.
  • Used translation software to verify complex terms and expedite communication process.
  • Listened to recordings and translated confidential information.
  • Reviewed news and current events in international publications, translating relevant information for leaders.
  • Applied cultural understanding to discern specific meanings beyond literal written words.

Arabic Translator and Interpreter

Chartered Institute Of Linguists
04.2023 - Current
  • Reviewed and transcribed audio or internet materials with high degree of accuracy and expression.
  • Identified and carefully summarized factual points and abstract concepts.
  • Developed translated forms and educational materials for non-English speaking populations.
  • Listened to, comprehended and translated oral or written communications from English to Arabic and vice versa.
  • Developed strategies to perform accurate and consistent translations.
  • Translated website content from other languages to English.
  • Assisted foreign language-speaking clients with inquiries.

Translator and Proofreader

US Translated
01.2023 - Current
  • Applied cultural understanding to discern specific meanings beyond literal written words.
  • Worked with other translators to facilitate real time conversations.
  • Prepared detailed notes per client specifications, assisting in business meetings and proposal presentations.
  • Reviewed final works to spot and correct errors in punctuation, grammar, and translation.
  • Replicated flow, style, and overall meaning of original texts.

Translator and Proofreader (English to Spanish)

United Nations, UNDP, UN Biodiversity LAB
04.2023 - 06.2023
  • Replicated flow, style, and overall meaning of original texts.
  • Translated documents from English to Spanish.
  • Applied cultural understanding to discern specific meanings beyond literal written words.
  • Reviewed final works to spot and correct errors in punctuation, grammar, and translation.
  • Prepared detailed notes per client specifications, assisting in business meetings and proposal presentations.
  • Worked with other translators to facilitate real time conversations.
  • Updated existing translations to meet contemporary trends in communication.

Reference : Lea Phillips, lea.phillips@undp.org, Senior Biodiversity Policy Coordinator, UNDP

Translator

Translation Documents
01.2018 - 07.2022
  • Replicated flow, style, and overall meaning of original texts.
  • Translated documents from Arabic dialects to Modern languages (English, French, Spanish )
  • Applied cultural understanding to discern specific meanings beyond literal written words.
  • Reviewed final works to spot and correct errors in punctuation, grammar, and translation.
  • Updated existing translations to meet contemporary trends in communication.
  • Worked with other translators to facilitate real time conversations.
  • Prepared detailed notes per client specifications, assisting in business meetings and proposal presentations.
  • Translated documents for research departments, supporting data collection and reporting.

Certification


Cybersecurity and Security Certificates


  • CISSP® - Certified Information Systems Security Professional

Certified Information Systems Security Professional or CISSP Certification is globally recognized for information technology security professionals. Aligned with the latest (ISC)2 version launched in 2023, this course provides you a deep technical and managerial knowledge and experience to effectively design, engineer, and manage the overall security posture of your organization. This course comes with a CISSP Exam Voucher.

Skills Covered

  • Security and Risk Management
  • Security Architecture and Engineering
  • Identity and Access Management IAM
  • Security Operations
  • IP addresses
  • Asset Security
  • Communication and Network Security
  • Security Assessment and Testing
  • Software development security


  • Cert Prep: ISC2 Certified in Cybersecurity (CC)Cert Prep: ISC2 Certified in Cybersecurity (CC)

The first step to a rewarding career with Certified in Cybersecurity (CC) from ISC2, the world’s leading cybersecurity professional organization known for the CISSP. You don’t need experience — just the passion and drive to enter a field that opens limitless opportunities around the globe.

Skills :

  • Domain 1. Security Principles
  • Domain 2. Business Continuity (BC), Disaster Recovery (DR) & Incident Response Concepts
  • Domain 3. Access Controls Concepts
  • Domain 4. Network Security
  • Domain 5. Security Operations


  • Practice Exam 1 for ISC2 Certified in Cybersecurity (CC)Practice Exam 1 for ISC2 Certified in Cybersecurity (CC) ( an overall of 91/100)

Exam Results :

  • Access Control Concepts : an overall of 92/100
  • Security Operations : 79/100
  • Security Principles : 94/100
  • Network Operations : 95/100
  • BC and DR : 100/100


  • Terrorism and Counterterrorism, Leiden University, by Edwin Bakker, Head of Research Department of Netherland Police Academy

Skills :

  • Trends and Developments in (Counter)Terrorism
  • Assumptions on Terrorism
  • Assumptions on Counterterrorism
  • Dealing with the impact of Terrorism
  • 5/5 and 8/8 CounterTactics


  • Homeland Security and Cybersecurity Future, University of Boulder Colorado, by Richard White (Zero Error)

Outcomes :

  • Learn in-demand skills from university and industry experts
  • Master a subject or tool with hands-on projects
  • Develop a deep understanding of key concepts
  • Earn a career certificate from University of Colorado System


  • International Security Management (Specialization) RotterdamErasmus University RotterdamIssued May 2023

Syllabus :

  • Week 1 - An introduction to the international security landscape
  • Week 2 - Managing security
  • Week 3 - Internet Intelligence and Investigation
  • Week 4 - Illicit Drugs and Internal Communication
  • Week 5 - Leadership in security management
  • Week 6 - Illicit trade and Mass Human Trafficking
  • Week 7 - A positive lens on safety


  • Harvard UniversityCs50 Understanding Technology (six tests)Cs50 Understanding Technology (six tests)

Overview :

  • Designed for those who work with technology every day but don’t necessarily understand how it all works underneath the hood or how to solve problems when something goes wrong,
  • this course fills in the gaps, empowering you to use and troubleshoot technology more effectively.
  • Through lectures on hardware, the Internet, multimedia, security, programming, and web development, this course equips you for today’s technology and prepares you for tomorrow’s as well.


  • Roles, Processes & Operating System Security Cybersecurity Roles, Processes & Operating System Security, IBM + Introduction to Cybersecurity Tools & Cyber AttacksIntroduction to Cybersecurity Tools & Cyber Attack + TWO IBM PREMIUM BADGES and XIBM COMMUNITY

Outcomes :

  • Learn new concepts from industry experts
  • Gain a foundational understanding of a subject or tool
  • Develop job-relevant skills with hands-on projects
  • Earn a shareable career certificate


  • FullBridge X Communication Skills and Teamwork, EDX, Honor Certificate

Skills :

  • Effective writing and presentation skills are essential for career success. Learn how to create and deliver high-impact communications, improve your soft skills, and effectively lead and collaborate on teams.


  • Safety and Security challenges Safety and Security challenges, Leiden University, by Pr. Bibi Van Den Berg, and Pr Ruth Prins

Outcomes :

  • The course will introduce you to the broad theme of security and safety in an increasingly complex world. Together we will search for answers to important questions: what is security and safety? How can we understand complex modern-day security and safety challenges? And how do we deal with such challenges?
  • This course combines scholarly inquiry from multiple disciplines (ranging from terrorism studies, to crisis management, to medical science) with real-life cases to explore and understand complex modern-day safety and security challenges.


Humanities Certificates


  • International Protection of Human Right, Honor Code Certificate, UNIVERSITE CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN, BY Olivier de Schutter

Overview:

  • the course of international protection of human rights is divided in two parts. First, it examines the international mechanisms for the protection of human rights, particularly those established at the universal and European levels and, in lesser detail, those created within other regional organizations. Second, the course examines the substantive law of human rights, on the basis of the main international treaties which implement the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and of the concepts these treaties rely upon (restrictions to rights and freedoms, derogations, absuse of rights, progressive realization, etc.


  • Etourism : Communication Perspectives, USI, Universita Della Svizerra Italiana, Iversity ( Instructors : Lorenzo Cantoni, Kalbaska Nadzeya, Elena Marchiori, Silvia Matilde de Ascaniis)

Skills

  • Chapter 1 : Communication and History
  • Chapter 2 : The Online Model Communication(OCM)
  • Chapter3 : Web Analysis and Web Analytics
  • Chapter 4 : Localisation
  • Chapter 5 : B2B activities
  • Chapter 6 : Used Generated Contents (UGCS) and WEB 2.0
  • Chapter 7 : Media Reputation (0-5)
  • Chapter 8: Argumentation in online travel reviews


  • Region, Eu Institutions, and Policy Making, European Committee of the Regions, Central CLass ( Alberto Alemanno, Claude Moraes, Fiona Fishland, Stefan Lehner)



  • Espace Mondiale, Science Po,

Overview:

  • Semaine 1 - Inégalité et égalité
  • Semaine 1 - Régionalisation
  • Semaine 2 - Acteurs mondiaux
  • Semaine 3 - La mondialisation
  • Semaine 4 - Les Identités
  • Semaine 5 - Religions
  • Semaine 6 - État-nation
  • Semaine 7 - Pouvoir

Semaine 7 - Guerre et Paix



  • Verified Certificate - Ancient Masterpieces of World Literature - by David Damrosch and Martin Puchner - HARVARD UNIVERSITY

Overview :

  • This short literature course, based on the first half of the Masterpieces of World Literature edX MOOC, examines how civilizations and cultures of the ancient world defined themselves through literature and how that literature has continued to contribute to our understanding of those civilizations and cultures today. Cities, nations, and empires from antiquity through the middle ages drew on foundational histories and myths for their identities, relating these narratives through generations by means of oral-storytelling and new writing technologies.


  • Inglés Empresarial: Gestión y Liderazgo Inglés Empresarial:

Overview :

  • Enhance your English business communication skills with the "Inglés Empresarial: Gestión y Liderazgo" course offered by Arizona State University. This course is designed for business executives and managers who utilize English in their professions. The comprehensive curriculum covers various aspects of effective business communication, team management, and leadership skills.




Education

Ph.D. - North African Research: Berber Studies

Lorraine University
Lorraine, France
06.2024

Master of Arts - World Literature And Comparative Studies

Paris University
France, Paris
06.2021

Master of Arts - Literature And Translation

Multidisciplinary Faculty of Nador
Nador, Morocco
06.2019

Bachelor of Arts - English Studies

Mohamed First University
Oujda
01.2012

High School Diploma -

Otman Bno AFAN
Beni Ansar
01.2009

Skills

  • Ethical Codes Adherence
  • Word Conflict Identification
  • Courtroom Procedures
  • Micro / Decomposition of Computers
  • Attention to Detail
  • Consecutive Translation
  • Accurate Translation
  • Critical Thinking
  • Document Review
  • Document Translation /

Timeline

Arabic Translator

Proton Onsite
01.2024 - Current

Translator and Analyst

IAPTI
11.2023 - Current

Polyglot Translator

New York Circle Of Translators
10.2023 - Current

Arabic Translator and Interpreter

Chartered Institute Of Linguists
04.2023 - Current

Translator and Proofreader (English to Spanish)

United Nations, UNDP, UN Biodiversity LAB
04.2023 - 06.2023

Volunteer Transcriber

Smithsonian Institute
01.2023 - Current

Translator and Proofreader

US Translated
01.2023 - Current

Translator

Translation Documents
01.2018 - 07.2022

Ph.D. - North African Research: Berber Studies

Lorraine University

Master of Arts - World Literature And Comparative Studies

Paris University

Master of Arts - Literature And Translation

Multidisciplinary Faculty of Nador

Bachelor of Arts - English Studies

Mohamed First University

High School Diploma -

Otman Bno AFAN

Enrollments

  • a Phd Alumnus at Cyber Watch Center
  • a Phd Volunteer Transcriber at Library of Congress
  • a Phd Alumnus at Project Zero Classroom , Harvard University
  • a Phd Alumnus at SANS institute of Cyber Security Training
  • a Verified Premium Translator at PROZ
  • a Phd Alumnusat Cyberhub
  • a Phd Linguist at New YORK CERCLE OF TRANSLATORS
  • a PhD Translator at IAPTI
  • a Phd Linguist at TCTERMS Translators
  • a Phd Linguist at CIOL
  • a Phd Translator at Infotranslastar
  • a Phd Linguist at AR/ VR
  • a Phd Alumnus at MIT
  • a Phd Linguist at Techforward
  • a Phd Linguist at LEXIS PRO ( INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY OF LANGUAGE SERVICE PROVIDERS )
  • a Phd Alumnus at IMUN INTERNATIONAL UNITED NATIONS
  • a PhD Alumnus at HARVARED COMMUNITY STUDENTS

Skills

  • Confidential Information Protection
  • Ethical Codes Adherence
  • Word Conflict Identification
  • Courtroom Procedures
  • Microsoft Office
  • Attention to Detail
  • Consecutive Translation
  • Accurate Translation
  • Critical Thinking
  • Document Review
  • Document Translation
Gibran BANHAKEIA, PhD