Simone LAGRAND

En résumé

Entreprises

• Educational Office – Paris, France - Education assistant

  2012 - maintenant • In charge of the extracurricular and stimulating activities for children between 3 and 11 years old
  • Opportunity to work in different kinds of structures: elementary school, youth centres, kindergarten and recreation centres with at least 80 children
  • Assistant of the director of a recreation centres for two months during summers 2013 and 2014
  • Member of a pedagogical team for the French educational reform
  • Remedial class after school
  • Organizer of creative writing workshops for children
  
  

• Dinamo – Martinique (FWI) - Creation of a Cultural Events Agency

  2008 - 2011 I launched my own freelance agency to achieve my desire to help people in their personal development thanks to art.
  • Conception and organisation of creative writing and poetry-slam workshops
  ➢ Teachers Training Institute (Institut de Formation des Maîtres) various workshops for students and professors
  ➢ Women Help Centre (Union des Femmes): training for social workers, French lessons through poetry for foreign women coming from English spoken islands
  ➢ Youth: 2 years working with classes in primary schools on a weekly basis for a project about history of colonialism, secondary school in collaboration with departmental library’s project about violence
  
  • Organisation of cultural events (promotion, entertainment, logistic)
  ➢ Pawòlakafèt: bimonthly event (partnership with the national theatre « Atrium »). Open-mic bringing together from 70 to 100 persons and inviting poets, musicians and artists to show their work. Organised also in different libraries (University etc.)
  
  • Speaker for music festivals (Lamentin Jazz Project, Jazz in Porquerolles)
  ➢ Poetry reading, presentation of artists, conductor set up
  
  • Entertainment and happenings in cultural events (Jazz in Rueil, Urban culture festival in Guiana)
  
  • Collaboration on layout magazine and websites (L’Express, Politique Publique, Boucan…)
  

• Programs Department – La 1e, Martinique (FWI) - On-air Promotions Assistant

  2008 - 2012 La 1e: network of radio and television stations operating in nine French overseas departments and territories. Leading local TV station in Martinique (180 employees) and one of the six stations which belong to the French public national television broadcaster: France Television (10 000 employees).
  • Cumulative audience: 55,6%
  • Layout of 10 to 15 promotional materials on a daily basis
  • Rushes preview (time code marking, text writing)
  • Making of the promotion along with producers
  • Conception of the promos identification with graphists (transitions, titles etc.)
  • Development and oversee of the station’s image by conceiving promotional plan with Program’s Director and Public Relation
  • Supervision of a team composed by 4 persons (art department, audio board operators)
  • In charge of the voice over
  • Use of traffic software: maintain production files (required releases, archival material, inputs production tapes into database and archives in tape libraries, etc.).
  

• Autoroute FM – Sèvres (France) - Office Assistant

  2007 - 2008 Radio-station broadcasting all the important information regarding the roads, motorways and highways in north France.
  • Reception (15 lines): live information about traffic
  • Drafting and editing short office memos
  • Assistant to the music programs planner (selection and audition of cds)
  • Mailing
  • Voice over
  
  

• Serpents à plumes – Paris (France) - Publishing Assistant

  2006 - 2007 Book collection belonging to Publisher « Le Rocher ». It focuses on contemporary fiction, especially foreign literature (Timothy Findley, Margaret Atwood, Nuruddin Farah, John Cheever, Joao Ubaldo Ribeiro, Dany Laferrière, George Orwell...).
  • Assisting the senior publisher of foreign literature department
  • In charge of the manuscript department (archival material on File Maker software, reading in French, English and Spanish, selection, contact with authors, discovering of new talent)
  • Manuscripts’ review (Dernier compagnon du Che by D.A. Ramirez, Mémoire d’un oiseau rebelle by Julia Migenes, Je pense souvent à Louis Ferdinand Céline by Stur Dahlström, Le bon à rien de la famille by Jorge Edwards etc.)
  • Proofreading
  • Back cover and commercial material editor
  • Thematic and iconographic research
  

Formations

• Université Aix Marseille 1 Provence

  Aix En Provence 1999 - 2005 Maîtrise L.E.A Europe
  
  Masters’ Degree in Applied languages
  English – Spanish – Human Resources
  European studies with the obtaining of three different diplomas:
  • University of Provence (France): Maîtrise LEA-Europe, Master 1
  • University of Limerick (Ireland): Applied Languages Europe 2nd year Degree
  • Translation school of Granada (Spain): Licenciatura (equivalence of Bachelor’s degree)
  
  

Réseau

• Diakok MAX

• Guy DE FALCO

• Henry SANTENAC

• La Sacoche POUR L'EMPLOI

• Marc MARIE-JOSEPH

• Marie Michèle DARSIERES

• Mathilde MARC

• Ninoska ESPINOLA

• Vincent PERRAUD

• Wei XIAO