CURRICULUM VITAE

Personal Information
Surname: Va
Given Name: Vannak
Address: 159A Street 182, Phsar Depot I Quarter,
Tuol Kok District, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Telephone No: 855 12 38 51 98
E-mail Address: vannakva@yahoo.com
Date of Birth: March 20, 1984
Place of Birth: Kompong Thom Province
Nationality: Cambodian
Present Resident: Phnom Penh
Martial Status: Single

Key Skills
Translation, Adminstration and Teaching (plus management and leadership)

Education
Present - Prospective Master Degree in Development Studies
RUPP (Royal University of Phnom Penh)

2001 – 2007 - Bachelor’s Degree of Engineering in Electric and Energy

Institute of Technology of Cambodia

2002 – 2007 - Bachelor's Degree of Arts in English Education (Teaching)

Institute of Foreign Languages

1999 – 2001 - Senior High School Certificate

Hun Sen Balang High School

Work Experiences
June 2009-present Translator at CDRI – Cambodia’s Leading Independent
Development Policy Research Institute
- Translate the research documents, including Annual Development Review
(ADR), Cambodia Development Review (CDR, issued very three month),
Flash Report on the Cambodian Economy (issued every month)
- Check and edit translated documents
- Interprete for Excecutive Director during internal meeting and audience
with government officials and other NGOs representative
- Compile bilingual lexicon (English and Khmer)
July 2009- present Part-time Translator/Section Editor at the Post Media Co., Ltd.,
publishing the Phnom Penh Post News and related papers
- Translate both English and Khmer texts from reporters
- Translate hot news to be hosted in the Post’s website

Feb-June 2009 Senior Translator/content Editor for website, AngkorOne.com, the

first Khmer world-class website based in the United States with
branch office in Phnom Penh
- Interpreting assistant to CEO
- Traslate the whole website’s content into Khmer and vice-versa
- Edit both Khmer and English contents

2005 – 2009 Pyramid Translation and Interpreting Co., Ltd.

- Administrative documents: Authorizations, appointments and
correspondences
- Legal documents: power of attorney, complaints, civil judgment and
other legal procedures
- Business letters: company registration, contracts, leases and articles of
association
- Personal documents: registration procedures, adoption and certificates
- Immigration forms filling facilitator: forms for visit, study and residence

2008 – present ECCC’s freelance translator

2007 – 2008 Freelance translator for UNICEF Organization

- Child Friendly School, School Cluster, Rooster Crow (health education
booklet)

May - July 2007 Teaching profession (Teaching English as a Foreign Language)

- Teaching trainee for Bridging Course at Institute of Foreign Languages
- Preparing study plan, teaching methodology, student competence
assessment, grading

2006 – 2007 Teaching coordinator for AITSS Forum, under the sub-supervision of
RUPP, for English teaching program in various orphanages and
organizations supporting the poor and street children in Kolap 4 orphanage
and Road of Life organization
Vocational Training
19-20 Mar 2009 MEDICAM’s Annual General Meeting Precised Over by H.E. Prof. Mam
Bunheng, Minister of Health
Emperial Hotel, Phnom Penh

19 Mar 2009 The 2nd Consultative Meeting on HIV/AIDs prevention among casio worker
in Phnom Penh and Svay Rieng province
Nagaworld, Phnom Penh

Oct 2007 Teaching methodology, CamTESOL conference

Royal University of Phnom Penh

2001 – 2002 Certificate of Bridging Course in English

Institute of Foreign Languages

Sep – Oct 2002 Sales and Marketing Institute for

Specialty of Cambodia

Feb – May 2002 General Accounting

Mahaputra International Institute

Jan – May 2002 General Administration

Institute for Development of Education and Agriculture

Languages
Khmer: Excellent formal and official linguistic competence (Mother tongue)
English: Excellent formal written and spoken communications
French: Limited comprehension
Computer application: Microsoft Word, Excel, Power Point, Access Database I, Intermediate
Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS), Email, Internet
General Knowledge
- Civil Servants Commentary of the Kingdom of Cambodia
- Cambodian Public Administration
- Law and Regulation of Investment in the Kingdom of Cambodia
- Law on Commercial Enterprise
- Business and Property Right Law
- Contract Law
- Diplomatic Law

Hobbies
Reading, aerobics, football and badminton
References
Mr. Touch Chea: Senior translator at PYRAMID Co, Ltd.
E-mail Address: weizheng_xi@yahoo.com
Telephone No: 855 12 40 09 72

Mr. Puy Kheang: IFL lecturer

E-mail Address: puy_kheang@yahoo.com
Telephone No: 855 12 96 96 86

Mr. Kruy Virak Research Associate, Democratic Governance and Public Sector
Reform, Cambodia Development Resource Institute (CDRI)
E-mail Address: virak@cdri.forum.org.kh
Telephone No: 855 12 91 54 75