Rob Stuart CURRICULUM VITAE May 2007
PERSONAL DETAILS / CONTACT INFO.
Name: STUART, Robert William Kenneth
Birth date/place: 07-04-58; Bingley, W. Yorkshire, UK
Nationality: British
Address: Mgr. v.d. Weteringstr. 14-A
3581EH UTRECHT
Home phone: 030-2369689
Mobile phone: 06-40475088
e-mail: robst247@xs4all.nl
EDUCATION / TRAINING
period institution qualification
Aug. '96 – Sept. '96 Inlingua Teacher Training, Trinity College Cert. TESOL (Grade B)
Cheltenham, UK
Oct. '76 – June '81 University of Coventry (former BSc Mechanical Engineering (with
Lanchester Polytechnic, distinction)
Coventry), UK
Sept. '74 – June '76 Coventry Technical College, ONC Mechanical Engineering
Coventry, UK
Sept. '69 – July '74 Warwick School, Warwick, UK GCE O-levels: English language and
literature, maths, physics, geography,
geology, biology
EXPERIENCE
period organisation/dept./position tasks and responsibilities
Jan. '03 – Apr. '07 Centre on Housing Rights and • Detailed editing and proofreading of
Evictions (COHRE), Geneva publications on regional and thematic
contract (based at home) aspects of economic, social and cultural
English editor, (ESC) rights and violations thereof,
external publications especially forced evictions and forcible
displacement.
• Production liaison with authors and
graphic designers.
• Setting and monitoring writing and
editing standards, in consultation with
Executive Director.
• Maintaining ISBN and ISSN registry.
• Based on quarterly activity reports from
Regional and Thematic Programme
Coordinators, collating and editing
(and, if necessary, rewriting sections
of) COHRE's annual Narrative Report to
the Board, donors and partners.
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EXPERIENCE (continued)
period organisation/dept./position tasks and responsibilities
Aug. '03 – Nov. '03 ORS Lek en Linge, Culemborg • secondary school teaching of English
contract language (VWO/HAVO/MAVO/VMBO)
teacher
Sept. '02 – Jul. '03 Montessori Lyceum • secondary school teaching of English
Herman Jordan, Zeist language and physics (VWO/HAVO)
contract
(replacement) teacher
Oct. '00 – May '02 Babel, Utrecht • in-company and institute-based
freelance/contract teaching of general, business, financial
English language trainer and and technical English to Dutch and
translator Ned.-Eng. foreign students.
March '98 – Sept. '00 Linguarama, Royal Tropical • individuals and groups, elementary to
Institute (KIT), Foreign Affairs advanced.
and ELCT, Amsterdam • intake interviewing and testing of
freelance students.
English language trainer • writing mid-course and final evaluation
reports.
• developing tailor-made teaching
materials.
• attending workshops on teaching
methods.
Sept. '98 – Jan. '99 Utrecht University, • editing and re-writing of a 300-page
Dept. of Cultural Anthropology Ph.D. thesis on religio-cultural aspects
freelance of beekeeping among the Maya of
text editor Yucatan, Mexico.
Sept. '97 – Feb. '98 Save Exiled Tibetan Scholars • teaching general English to Tibetan
Association (SETSA) refugees (teenagers and adults)
Multi-Education Centre • individuals and groups; beginners to
Dharamsala, Northern India upper-intermediates
volunteer • skills-testing and registering of
English teacher students, organising classes
• writing and grading end-of-term
examinations for upper-intermediate
students
Oct. '96 – May '97 Inlingua Idiomas language • teaching general English to Basque
institute teenagers and adults
San Sebastian, Spain • individuals and groups, beginners to
contract upper-intermediates
English teacher • preparing students for Cambridge First
Certificate examination
• teaching in-company course in 'English
for International Trade and Finance'
July '92 – March '96 Radio Netherlands World • writing, translating and editing news
Service, English Department, bulletins
Hilversum • writing press reviews of the 'big four'
freelance Dutch national daily newspapers
news-writer and translator • interviewing sources
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EXPERIENCE (continued)
period organisation/dept./position tasks and responsibilities
Oct. '91 – Aug. '96 freelance (based at home) • writing, translating and editing a wide
writer/translator variety of Dutch and English texts,
incl.: articles on science and
technology; PR brochures for
universities and technical colleges,
museums, private-sector companies
and NGOs; programmes for literature
and music festivals; CD sleeve-notes
for record companies
Oct. '90 – Sept. '92 Utrecht University • planning, writing and editing PR
– Int./Ext. Liaison and PR Dept. material
– Physics and Astronomy Faculty • writing and editing press releases and
contract articles for the university's bi-weekly
press and public relations officer magazine for the Dutch media, with
news of educational and scientific
developments
• answering enquiries from public and
press
• advertising the faculty to potential
students using textual, graphic and
audio-visual media
• producing information for Dutch and
foreign students on: course structures
and research programmes; social and
financial aspects of studying; further
study and career possibilities.
• writing faculty news-letters for
students and staff.
May '88 - Sept. '90 ASM Europe bv, Bilthoven • writing and illustrating operation and
Publications and Training Dept. maintenance manuals for
contract hardware/software systems for
technical writer and illustrator microprocessor production
• preparing printed training materials;
liaison with client, photography, writing
and review
• writing company sales brochures and
videos, incl. liaison with product
managers, graphic designers and film-
makers
• writing quotations for clients; liaison
with product managers and sales co-
ordinators, planning and review
• word-processing and DTP (Apple)
• courses in technical writing and DTP
Dec. '87 - Apr. '88 ASM Europe bv, Bilthoven • design of loading equipment for
Product Detail Engineering furnaces used in microprocessor
Dept. manufacture
contract • planning and administration, incl.
design draughtsman Engineering Change Control
Feb. '86 - July '86 Mouldin Techniek bv, Utrecht • detailed design of computer-controlled
contract installations for transport and storage
design draughtsman of dairy products
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WORK EXPERIENCE (continued)
period organisation/dept./position tasks and responsibilities
Nov. '83 - July '85 Organisation of Dutch • teaching English language, technical
Volunteers (SNV) drawing and workshop technology to
Moshi Secondary Tech. School, Tanzanian boys and girls, aged 12-21,
Tanzania in English and Swahili
contract
teacher of English and mech.
engineering
Sept. '82 - May '83 travelling in Africa • Morocco to Tanzania overland in eight
months
Oct. '81 - Sept. '82 DHV Eng. Consultants, • design of water-treatment pump
Amersfoort installations
Mech. and Environmental • Dutch-to-English translation of
Engineering Dept. technical texts incorporated in tender
contract documents
design draughtsman and
technical translator
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