I was born in a tiny town on the Brazilian border with Guyana, South America.

My formal education, right through university, was first in Guyana then I moved back to Brazil to take up teaching English as a second and foreign language. Though my major at university was Electrical Engineering, I took up English language teaching in 2002 investing in this new field - my now chosen career.

I worked with the leading language school in the city for three years, a year and a half of which in the capacity of Academic Coordinator, before setting out to start my own school in partnership with a fellow teacher. In the three years of our existence (2005 - 2008), we have grown from two classroom operation to the only language institution offering six languages in the northern most states of Brazil and a member of the elite few in the entire country offering English, German, French Spanish, Italian and Portuguese.

I am fluent in two languages - English and Portuguese and one English based creole dialect of the Caribbean. As a translator/interpreter my CV includes work done for jungle hotels and resorts in the Amazon, the Brazilian Armed Forces, the Brazilian Federal Police, the Federal Courts in the City of Boa Vista, an American Multinational Agricultural Company, the Federal University of Roraima, the State University of Roraima and private citizens in the cities of Boa Vista and Manaus, Brazil. I have also done work in the city of Georgetown, capital of Guyana, for companies and private citizens alike.

I am currently employed by an American company as a permanent translator/interpreter handling all monthly communication between headquarters in Columbus, Iowa, USA and their sister company in Boa Vista, Roraima, Brazil and simultaneous translation on directors visits to Brazil for company business and conferences. I am also preparing my second batch of students - university professors - for the English Language Entry Examinations to the Masters Degree and Doctorate Selection Programme in Boa Vista.