Quality Control Software

URL: http://www.proz.com/translator/*****

William Stein

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Kokomo IN 46902

USA

Tel: 1-765-***-****

Cell phone: 1-317-***-****

Fax: 1-765-***-****

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Objective

Freelance translating, proofreading, editing, consecutive interpreting

Professional memberships

Full member of American Translators’ Association

Accreditation

ATA-accredited in Portuguese-, French- and German-to-English

Other Working Languages

Spanish, Russian, Italian

Translation experience

19 Years in total (including 10 years in France)

3/2002 to present: Freelance translator in US:

Recent translations include

Legal/Administrative: Companies Act (commercial code) for the new Republic of East Timor (Portuguese to English; Legal documents for the City of Vienna, Articles of Association, Licensing Agreements, Patents; Companies Act for the Republic of East Timor, Recording Contract, Nondisclosure Agreements, etc. United Nations: Seven judgments of the International Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia, witness testimony, and several articles on forensic pathology for the War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague; German environmental protection regulations and administrative procedures

Financial/business: Deloitte & Touche: Auditing Reports, Management Reports, Financial Statements; Siemens: Presentations for 4-day Seminar on Six Sigma Quality Control Procedure

Marketing: Press releases and advertising materials relating to tobacco (Austria Tabak), winegrowing, BMW Science Club newsletter, etc.

Information Technology: Construction Project Management Software, Microsoft FrontPage 2002 manual (180 pages); Microsoft Windows XP Professional manual (250 pages).

8/2001 to 3/2002: Teacher/translator, Baden-Baden/Stuttgart, Germany

Worked as freelance translator (major projects: automotive (Daimler-Chrysler) paper mill machinery (Voigt), elevator installations (Thyssen), marketing (Arno)) and taught English to corporate clients at BBS Sprachschule in Baden-Baden.

1983 – 1994: Freelance translator in Paris, France

Areas of specializationLegal/business/financial: software localization for BNP (Banque Nationale de Paris) Atlas Automated Banking Software System + compilation of terminology data base, annual reports, auditing reports, financial statements, sales contracts, employment contracts, distribution contracts; marriage contracts; insurance policies; articles of association; invitations to tender; requests for quotation.IT and software localization: telecom network operating software, machine tool programs (Matra), architectural design software (Batisoft), test software, operating manuals (Bull, IBM).Automotive: Renault, Citroen (monthly newsletters, quality control manuals, minutes of meetings, etc.).

Education

1987 - 1990 University of Paris 7 Paris, France

Doctorate in linguistics (focused on translation)Dissertation topic: Reported Speech in its Narrative Context: A Comparative Study of Translation in English, French and German.

1985 - 1986 University of Paris 7 Paris, France

D.E.A. (French post-Master’s degree in linguistics)

1983 - 1984 Indiana University Bloomington, Indiana

M.A. in Comparative Literature (focused on translation)

Including year of studies abroad at the Free University of Berlin. Awarded with distinction )

1980 - 1982 Indiana University Law School, Indiana

Two years’ worth of law school credits

1976 – 1979 Indiana University

B.A. in German / Psychology

Including exchange programs at Heidelberg and Berlin (GPA.3.8).

Additional training

One-year technician training program at Delco Electronics (1975)

Software

Trados 6.5, Word 2002, PowerPoint 2002, Windows XP, Adobe Acrobat 5.0, PDF-> Word converter

Dictionaries and glossaries

French: Termium, Robert & Collins Management, Commercial, Financier, Economique, Juridique, M nard, Le Petit Robert, Robert and Collins Unabridged, Ernst’s Comprehensive Dictionary of Engineering and Technology, Ginguay’s Dictionnaire d’informatique, Fischer’s Dictionnaire des nouvelles technologies (telecom, video, robotics, artificial intelligence, optics and holography), Pessis-Pasternak’s Dictionnaire de l’audiovisuel (cinema, photography, press, radio, television, video); CTB’s Electronique; Delmas’ Business Dictionary; Harrap’s Business Dictionar.

German: Robert and Collins Unabridged; Schaefer Hyperbook Wirtschaftsenglisch; Pons Gro w rterbuch f r Bibliotheken und Universit ten; Ernst’s Comprehensive Dictionary of Engineering and Technology; Wahrig’s Deutsches W rterbuch; Dietl’s Dictionary of Legal, Commercial and Political Terms; DeVries’ German-English Science Dictionary.

Spanish: Robert and Collins Unabridged; Diccionario de la Real Academia Espa ola, Routledge’s Spanish Dictionary of Business, Commerce and Finance, Routledge’s Spanish Technical Dictionary, Orellana’s Glosario internacional para el traductor, Barron’s Spanish Business Vocabulary, Cabellana’s: Law Dictionary; West’s Spanish-English Dictionary of Law and Business.

Portuguese: Robert and Collins, Michaelis Unabridged

References

Available upon request

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