Teri Gibson - Mattapan, Massachusetts

Court Reporter

Mattapan, Massachusetts

Legal Services

Looking for work as Court Reporting in freelance work or providing CART services for the Deaf and hard of hearing.

COURT REPORTING and COMMUNICATION ACCESS REALTIME TRANSLATION (CART)
Providing court reporting services in the legal setting: Courtroom,
depositions, hearings.

CART Services for the deaf and hard of hearing community: Meetings,
educational settings, seminars, etc.

QUALIFICATIONS
Certified Shorthand Reporter - State of Illinois, 11/4/81;

-State of Massachusetts, 5/89
Massachusetts Superior Court Official Court Reporter Test, 12/1/90
NCRA Certificate of Merit, Four-Part Test, passed two portions, Literary
and Jury Charge, 5/1/93

National Court Reporters Association, Registered Professional
Reporter, (RPR) 5/7/94

CART Training Seminar held May 18 and 19, 2001, Certificate of Completion
Certified Realtime Reporter (CRR) - Passed Examination given May 2004.
Certified CART Provider (CCP) - Passed Examination given November 6, 2004
Certified LiveNote Reporter - April 25, 2009
Notary Public, Commission Expires October 1, 2010.

EDUCATION
1975-1979 Chicago Vocational High School - Major, Stenography
1979-1981 Associate Degree in Business - Major, Court & Convention Reporting

Continuing Education through the National Court Reporters Association
and Cambridge College.

EMPLOYMENT
11/23/02 to present
Free-Lance Court Reporter
- Court Reporting Services in following settings using my realtime skills:
Depositions,
Federal Court (to 2005 per diem)
Massachusetts Superior Court, per diem


Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART) Experience:
2005 to present: Massachusetts Commission of the Deaf and
Hard of Hearing Contract - provided CART in the Courtroom in Superior Court for hearings and trials; meetings, seminars for state agencies and private companies.


Harvard University:
Graduate School of Education, doctoral classes, accounting.
Harvard Law School - 1st
year , 2nd year , and 3rd year law student
North Shore Community College, First year student, English and writing
courses.


2004 (Summer, Fall): Simmons College - Organic Chemistry, Anatomy Lab
2004 (Fall): Wellesley College - Chinese History, Astrology, Anthropology

2003 (Fall): Curry College - providing Communication Access
Realtime Services. Classes: English, Psychology, Career Development, Photoshop

2003-2004 Boston University - providing Communication Access
Realtime Services. Classes: Law School - Civil Procedure, Torts, Criminal Law,
Health Law. General Education: Electronics courses,
Statistics, Physiological Psychology, U.S. History, Physics


Fall of 2001 Harvard Extension School
Classes: Introduction to Computers and Statistics


3/22/93 to 11/22/02 (Official) - 2002 to 2005 (Per diem)
Official Court Reporter - United States District Court

Provided Realtime Services in proceedings: 1996 - 2002
Assigned to The Honorable Reginald C. Lindsay - 1/21/94 to 9/16/02

12/17/81 to 6/23/85 and 4/1/88 to 3/21/93
Free-Lance Court Reporter
Chicago, IL - Carter Reporting Services
Boston, MA - Attorneys in General Practice, The Superior Court
Eyal Reporting Service, Kay Reporting Service
Melvin Lipman Reporting Service, O'Brien & Levine Court
Reporting

CART Provider through Commission of the Deaf and Hard of
Hearing


6/24/85 to 3/31/88
Hearings Stenographer - Department of Industrial Accidents

DESCRIPTION OF DUTIES

As a Court Reporter, my major duty has been to provide a verbatim record of
proceedings. I use a stenographic machine and a computer with software
designed to provide computer-aided transcription. I provide verbatim
transcription for depositions, trial proceedings, motion hearings, and
arbitrations.

From 1996 to 2002 in my position as an official court reporter, I did
provide realtime services to Judge Lindsay and other judges on a daily
basis for court proceedings of trials, hearings, etc. These proceedings
comprised of general terminology to complex terminology.

As a CART reporter, my major duty is to provide communication access to a
consumer who is hearing impaired and provide an ASCII disk when requested.
I have provided services on a one-on-one basis or projected for three or
more consumers during meetings and in educational settings. In addition to
my stenographic skills, I use organizational skills, accounting skills, and
management skills in performing my job as court reporter/CART reporter.