(Fax) +41 32 725 7570 (cell) +41 79 255 0308 e-mail: anais@montmollin.ch
Experienced & creative people-person with credentials in the following spheres:
ESL, ESP & Management Training / Translation & Simultaneous Interpretation / Sales & Marketing / Advertising, Commercial Art & Design / Public Relations & Communications / Arts Center Management & Events Coordination / Published Writer & Literary Translator
OBJECTIVE: Provide two major services to today’s active international and global organizations:
1) Tailor-made management and HR training workshops in English based on needs and coaching assessments . See E-go Trips information below.*
2) Full language services to business travelers worldwide in the following domains: translation of net sites and documents, preparation of bi-lingual PowerPoint presentations, accompaniment throughout foreign missions and assistance in simultaneous interpreting to ensure smooth interaction and transactions, whatever language pairs are needed.
Team of 35 independent professionals located worldwide at your disposal with major language pairs to ensure smooth international conferences, forums and business trips whatever languages are needed. Creative solutions Before, During and Follow-up After your business trip.
Personal Background:
Nationalities: Dual nationality, French & American (country of origin)
EU working papers in order thanks to French nationality.
Languages: Fluent English and French, fair spoken Spanish
Computer literate: American & French keyboards
Windows 2000, XP, Word 6, Lotus, Excel, Designer, Outlook, Picture It, Print Shop, PowerPoint, PageMaker, Publisher, Quicken, FoxPro, Corel Draw…
Experience in Training & Education:
3/2003 to present: E-go Trips (Enterprises on the Go, TRavel Internationally in Perfect Sync / Training Resulting in Perceptible Success). CEO, team of 35 (and growing) worldwide trainers, translators & interpreters whose goal is practical, hands-on training development and implementation (English only) and language services inlcuing inguistic accompaniment, developing country entrepreneurial start-up assistance, management coaching & training, international conference translation and interpretation services. Recent clients include the Geneva Forum 2003 and IBEX – simultaneous interpreting FR/ENG/FR, as well as management training workshops in English, WorldWit conference in May 2004.
1998-2003 Owner, WordWright Intensives, Chester, Massachusetts. Intensive home-stay English Training provided for European management (general, technical & managerial English). Other services: copy writing, translating & interpreting (Fr / Eng / Fr) (summers only).
1997-2003 EDF (French National Electricity Co.) – Penly (2 units) and Paluel (4 units) PWR Nuclear Power Plants, Normandy, France, 90 trainees. ESL/EFL/ESP Training project leader and coordinator, Management Trainer & Coach, Interpreter & Translator. Preparation for OSART and WANO inspections, seminars and Peer Reviews. All curriculum development for inter-active management seminars and technical language. Group, private, telephone and e-learning courses. Linked 2 sites by Lotus Notes Base for daily feedback on outages and technical problems. Undertaken under auspices of ISES-Langues.
1996-1997
ESL Trainer, Intensive and Semi-intensive Programs at all levels for the
following private schools in France:
ISES-Langues
(HQ in Tours); IFG (Paris); AQOR (Paris).
Positions required extensive travel throughout France and Paris area for
in-house technical and general English training programs in public & private
enterprises and assistance to the unemployed & University students. Curriculum
development required.
1992-1997 Primary & Secondary School Substitute Teacher in French & English, Berkshire County, MA
1992 Adjunct Professor of French at Wilkes University, Wilkes Barre, PA. French101, 102 and 204, language and literature courses. Prepared students for Junior Year Abroad and « au pair » positions in French families. Tutored as necessary.
1990 National Governors’ Task Force on International Studies, NJ. One of two invited Massachusetts representatives. Member of steering committee. Submitted reports to Governor Dukakis and State Board of Education for integration of global education into curriculum of primary and secondary schools.
1987-1989 TimeOut, a non-credit adult education center, Westfield, MA. Co-founder and Academic director responsible for HR, PR & curriculum development.
1981-1983 Assistant Director, Work-Study Programs, Easthampton High School, Easthampton, MA. Increased number of sites by 150%. In charge of the development of programs, liaison between school authorities, students and work sites, follow-up and grading. Created future white collar positions in banking, advertising, commercial art & new technology sectors.
1977–1981 Un. of Mass. & Amherst Leisure Services, Amherst, MA.: Continuing Education Trainer in spoken French for students and travelers and EFL for foreigners and immigrants seeking US citizenship.
1974-1977 Free Lance corporate ESL trainer in numerous public and private enterprises in the Paris basin, Paris, France.
1969–1977 Un. of Paris (Nanterre & the Sorbonne) Adult Continuing Education. Began as ESL trainer and simultaneous interpreter for international seminars. Later performed corporate needs assessments and curriculum development for tailor-made training programs and marketing of same.
Experience in Marketing & Sales:
1990-1996 Hospitality Industry Marketing & Sales. Positions included Assistant to the President, Assistant to Sales Director, Director of Sales & Reservations, Assistant to Director of Real Estate Sales. Other responsibilities included advertising, PR, events coordination & liaison with local authorities & chambers of commerce for trade shows. Destination inns, national luxury chain hotels, spas and resorts :
- The Inn at Great Neck, Great Neck, NY (Interstate Hotel Chain)
- Stratton Mountain Inn, Stratton Mt., VT (Interstate Hotels)
- Fox Hollow Time Share Resort, Lenox, MA
- Canyon Ranch in the Berkshires, Lenox, MA
1980-1990 Owner of Far Reaches Realty, Chester, MA, specializing in highest and best use of commercial and industrial properties, acquisitions & sales of French properties. Mass. broker’s license (presently inactive).
1977-1980 Block Realty Corporation, Westfield, MA. Sales then broker’s licenses. Responsible for acquisitions and sales, marketing of all product. Introduced to highest and best use and risk management.
Experience in Advertising, Fine & Performing Arts Center Management:
1980-1990 Owner and CEO of Art-Vertizing Consultants, a full service advertising, marketing & events coordination agency, Westfield & Chester, MA.
1980-1990 Founder of non-profit, cooperative fine and performing arts center (Adventures in Space), Westfield, MA. Chairman of Board and Manager. Obtained all funding, organized openings & shows, added café and public art classes. Implemented grants writing program, non-profit organizations.
Personal Education & Training:
§ D.U.E.L (adjunct in Anglo-American literature and sociology) 1966
§ Licence d’enseignement (BA in English), magna cum laude 1968
§ Research Certificate for Master’s degree, magna cum laude 1969
§ Maîtrise d’enseignement (Teaching MA in English) cum laude, 1970. Thesis (“Made in USA:” A Socio-political Study on the Rise of Black Power)
Honors, Memberships and Affiliations:
Who’s Who among Students
International Who’s Who among Professionals
Fellow and professor at New York College internet studies program
Member of WIN (Women in Nuclear)
Member of WIN (Women's International Networking)
Director of SwitzWIT, a Swiss division of WorldWIT (Women, Insights, Technology)
Member of CMS, the Jura-Neuchâtel branch of the Swiss Marketing Club
Past Member of NAFE (National Association of Female Executives)
Published translator, writer and poet (literary resume upon request)
Distinguished Member, National Library of Poetry
Poet of Merit, International Society of Poets 2001
Outstanding Achievement in Poetry, International Society of Poets 2003
Availability based on consulting and accompaniment contracts. References & Degrees upon request.