UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA
CENTER FOR STUDY OF INTERNATIONAL LANGUAGES AND CULTURES
August 2009- Till Date
Target Language expert, Curriculum developer for beginners, intermediate and advance level students.
Supporting the development of Pashto Lessons, exercises and online language learning programs..(Defense Languages Institute)
Researching Pashto Reading & writing Listening modules.
Finding Sources, transcribe, translate and proof reading of lessons in Pashto.
Communicating team members in all stages of the course development.
Proof Reading, editing and transcripting including expert level Pashto typing skills.
Voice over and recording in Pashto and Urdu languages.


UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND
NATIONAL FOREIGN LANGUAGE CENTER
Dec 2009 March 2010

Worked as Content Object Selector and Learning Object Developer
External consultant for the LangNet Learning Object project
Responsible for locating ILR Level 3 content in the Pashto language
Development of the content object into a learning object
Review the pedagogical activities developed by our Second Language Acquisition team

FREELANCE TRANSLATOR/ PASHTO LESSONS DEVELOPER

July 2004-till date
Registered Translator in the language pair English to Pashto and Urdu and vice versa.
Working for many international translation companies around the globe
Experience in Editing, Proof reading, Transcription, Translation, website localization, voice overs, subtitling.
Pashto Basic Course developer including interactive Pashto lessons for beginners
So far translated some large scale projects in range of 5000 words to 50,000 words e.g. for Denmark Immigrations, Croydons County UK, Google, Microsoft.
Translation experience in Business, educational, Scientific, and other important fields.
Other small and large capacity translations in intervals since 5 years

Mar 2010

Critical Linguistics LLC

Website localization and translation

Reviews for this job by:

Chad Ramsey

Currently I work for The Center for the Study of International Languages and Cultures at the University of South Florida and I can confidently say that Amir is the life blood of the office. There is no task to great for Amir Khan. His work ethic is impeccable and he always meets his deadlines. He is an asset to any organization he is a part of.