ANNA L. SHEFL WORK EXPERIENCE: Communications consultant and copy editor with Alba Saga Digital Freelance (from 2010). The day-to-day work has continued the operations outlined in the following item but with greater emphasis on the needs of internationalising companies and on work with house style guides. Duties also include functioning as chairman of the Management Board. Entrepreneur sourcing and providing communication and language services, such as proofreading, translation, and copy-writing, registered in Finland as Anna Shefl Digital Freelance (2002-2010). Regular clients have included major and smaller translation and localisation agencies in England and the Nordic and Baltic regions as well as academics, not-for-profit organisations, and corporate entities in fields such as mobile telephony, information technology, law, industrial equipment, medicine, the social sciences, the music industry, and government from the local to the supranational. Types of work have included - but by no means are limited to - copy-writing for one-off and long-term projects, urgent proofreading, assessment of translators' skills, research, style guide preparation, project management, review of Web-site and other interfaces, and training of translators. Freelance proofreader and copy editor of documents in English as used in the UK and US (2000-2002). The work included government documents and papers for publication in academic journals as well as business- and press-related prose for agencies such as Done Information and Translatum in Finland. Other work involved editing and polishing of manuals, speeches, business agreements, press releases, and other copy for companies and private individuals. Supervisor in the Cambridge University Social Anthropology department (1999) in areas such as the 'Text in Context' paper on use of the text metaphor, translation, and anthropology beyond the professional text. Private proofreader (1992-2000) of documents written by academics and businessmen in the US and UK. Other work included training academics from countries such as South Korea and Taiwan in written and oral expression in English. Private tutor (1993-2000), involving working with individual students to supplement course materials, provide research guidance, and evaluate written work. Many of the students were non-native speakers of English. Computer adviser (1995-1997), which included assisting users of networked machines in DOS/Windows and UNIX environments. Aided system managers. Provided ad hoc computer skills and graphic design instruction (Mac platform) for students and teaching staff. Administrative aide (1994-1995) for Mount Marty College English department, involving course development, research, and clerical work. Newspaper worker (1991-1995), which included being managing editor (1994-1995) and doing design and graphic art for the Mount Marty College campus newspaper. Reporter and artist for other newspapers. 'Academic computing consultant' (1993-1994), providing telephone, hands-on, and e-mail support for users of Mount Marty College's IBM mainframe. Author (1993) of a series of instructional books for Taiwanese children learning English, which also involved observation and analysis of then-current learning and teaching styles. EDUCATION: University of Cambridge, Clare Hall (Cambridge, England) PhD in Social Anthropology (1996-2000 course), with thesis entitled 'Transformation at the Boundaries of Intentional Association'. This research involved social dynamics and boundaries for US Roman Catholic nuns, a project dealing with issues of frontier and of theoretical and on-the-ground models in and for transformation. MPhil in Social Anthropology (1995-1996 course), with major project involving research on albinism as a lens for examining concepts of intracultural colour difference. Languages: English, Spanish, reading ability in various Romance languages Awards: grants from Babe and Peg Sampson Memorial Trust, Wm Wyse fund, Cambridge Overseas Trust, misc. Activities: presentation of papers at Cambridge seminar, on the researcher as a teacher bringing native mapping of the field to the reader and on models for transformation of associations through time; film discussion group; singing (mediaeval styles, 1995-1996); membership in Mensa, Society for Study of the Short Story Mount Marty College (Yankton, South Dakota, US) BA (Summa Cum Laude) in English and Social Science with history emphasis, minor in Philosophy (1991-1995 course). Awards: college's top ('Presidential') scholarship, Phi Alpha Theta honour society, Kappa Gamma Pi honour society, National Dean's List, various grants Activities: conference presentation of papers on trends in the post-Soviet military of the Baltic states, the legacy of the Scopes trial, personal vs social orientation in gender-based value difference; drama (two leading roles, assistant director, playwright for locally produced plays); community service (fund-raising, awareness campaigns, library assistance, secretarial and research work); singing (college and community choirs); misc. Offices: president of Sigma Tau Delta International English Honor Society chapter; elected chairman of Student Government Association's Academic Affairs committee; member of Educational Policies Council; member of Curriculum Development Committee; member of Rank, Retention, Tenure, and Promotion Committee Saint Mary's High School (O'Neill, Nebraska, US) -- 1987-1991 Activities, honours: various at local, state, and national levels; also valedictorian CONTACT INFORMATION: Anna L. Shefl Lai 33-11, 10133 Tallinn, ESTONIA telephone: +372 5697 1161 e-mail: info[at]asdf.ee