After a hiatus of 12 years, I’m excited to relaunch my small company and website, Anciaux International Communication (AIC).
I first founded this company in 1988 when I was hired by the State Department Foreign Service Institute to develop a F.A.S.T. (Familiarization and Short-Term) language course for Serbian (in Cyrllic). I continued with a major Russian translation project with SpaceLabs, and a number of smaller and larger translation and language-related projects. Then the collapse of the Soviet Union happened and the dissolution of former Yugoslavia. My translation projects dried up. (In addition, I was busy focusing on completing my dissertation at the University of Washington, “Word-form Recognition and Generation: A Computational Approach to Russian Morphology,” which I successfully defended in May 1991.)
When I went back to work full-time for Safeco Insurance Company as a project manager for their Distributor Management Project in 1992, I closed AIC. But, I opened it again in 2000 when Karen Kodama invited me to consult with the new “international school” in Seattle, which launched as John Stanford International School in September 2000.
In 2008, I was fortunate to have the opportunity to work full-time for the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction in Olympia as World Languages and International Education Administrator. So, I closed AIC again. In 2014, when Karen Kodama retired from Seattle Public Schools, I took her position as International Education Administrator. In September 2019, I retired from Seattle Public Schools.
Although I am retired now from these wonderful “jobs” that I worked very hard at, the meaningful “work” continues. I am mainly a volunteer now, but I still do project management training for Key Consulting. I may occasionally do language consulting with AIC. We’ll see.
You can reach me at michele@anciauxinternational.com.