ADAMA D. SAVANE
Linguistic Consultant | Translator | Annotator | Localization Expert
📍 Bamako, Mali |
📞 (+223) 79 07
56 48 | ✉️ [email protected]
🔗 LinkedIn | ProZ Profile | Skype: djiby221|

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Professional Summary

Multilingual
linguist and seasoned language consultant with 15+ years of experience in translation,
transcription, localization, and annotation across French, English,
Russian, Bambara, Malinké, Soninké, and Fulani. Passionate about continuous learning, with recent training in
Artificial Intelligence(AI Fundamentals with IBM SkillsBuild: Statement of
Achievement, Learning Achievements with CISCO Networking Academy: Natural
Language Processing and Computer Vision, Machine Learning and Deep Learning, Run
AI Models with IBM Watson Studio, AI Ethics, Your Future in AI – The Job
Landscape, Course Data Science, Data Analytics Essentials, and Responsive Web
Design with FreeCodeCamp (Certificate of Achievement, JavaScript Algorithms and
Data Structures). Proven track record with global clients such as Appen, Creative Associates,
MSF, and others. Skilled in AI-supported workflows, post-edited
machine translation, and remote project delivery.

Key Skills & Tools

• Languages:
  French, English, Russian, Bambara, Malinké, Soninké, Fulani

• Services:
  Translation, Interpretation, Transcription, Annotation, QA, Post-editing,
  Language evaluation

• Tools:
  OmegaT, KoBoToolbox, Excel-based annotation tools, CAT tools, Audio
  transcription software

• Fields:
  Agriculture, Development, Health, Education, Technology, Gender, Climate,
  Insurance

Highlighted Experience

Independent Language Consultant (Remote)
Appen (Australia), Productive Playhouse (USA), United Language Solution
(India), Studio Forenix (Italy)
2020 – Present

• Bambara
  audio transcription, annotation, and evaluation for AI and NLP datasets

• Language
  data QA and disambiguation tasks

• Translation
  & subtitling (Bambara ↔ English/French)

Lead Translator & Interpreter
Creative Associates International – USA/Mali (BPA since 2020)

• High-volume
  French ↔ English translation & interpretation

• Managed
  translation and communication with local and international stakeholders

Project Translator/Facilitator – AGRA-funded Initiatives
IER & Mission Sahel (Mali)

• Provided
  multilingual support (EN/FR/Bambara) for farmer impact surveys

• Collected,
  entered, and interpreted field data using KoBoToolbox

• Report
  translation & capacity-building support for NGO teams

Select Projects

• 2024: Bambara
  Transcription – Appen, Productive Playhouse, GRAFEJ-RUBIA, MSF

• 2021: Audio
  Transcription – Studio Forenix (Bambara ↔ English)

• 2020: Quran
  Translation Project (Michael Hart, The Most Influential Man in History)

• 2019-2021: Field
  Surveys & Translation – AGRA KICAMS Project (Sikasso, Koulikoro)

• 2017-2019: Language
  QA and Evaluation – Andovar, Crimson Interactive, TunTrans

• 2014-2016: Film
  production fixer & interpreter – DreamCatcher Kenya, Mali shoots

Education

Master’s in Translation Studies (English-French-Russian)

University of Bamako / FLASH – Mali | 2007

Financial Risk Management – L.U.T.C.F. Designation

The American College / NY Life Insurance University – USA | 2003

MSc. Agronomy – Rice Research (Pre-sowing Treatments)

Kuban State Agrarian University – Russia | 1990

Continuing Education

• AI
  Fundamentals – Cisco/IBM SkillsBuild (May 2025)

• Responsive
  Web Design – freeCodeCamp (2025)

• Green
  Entrepreneurship – MOOC Bamako (2023)

• Project
  Management with MS Project – Microsoft/edX (2017)

• Financing
  for Development – World Bank (2017)