JAMES L. JONES 鍾傑穆 钟杰穆

LinkedIn.com/in/jimxlat Twitter: @han4yu3 E-mail: ac8fx8@r.postjobfree.com

Possess expert-level spoken and written Mandarin Chinese.

Language spoken well for over 30 years; accent is very highly regarded and standard.

The preparation of PSAs for the US Department of State, for the services, for domestic use by the US Health and Human Services Administration.

The preparation of voiceover files.

Collaboration with governmental and jurisdictional language experts in the creation of news and instructional content, consulting regarding language programs, and related services.

Registered court interpreter for Mandarin and English, a translator, an editor, and a tutor.

Provide writing, design, illustration, cartooning, and technical communication services.

Language Chair of ATA Chinese to English team, profile on atanet.org listed under Jim Jones. EDUCATION

NORTHEASTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY [NEIU], MA in Linguistics, December 2016

21st, 22nd, and 23rd Annual CRAS Student Symposium Presentations on Mandarin and Linguistics [2013, 2014, and 2015].

Attended Linguistics Society of America conference in 2015 at the University of Chicago, all of July 2015. Mini-Classes included

Articulatory Phonetics Pragmatics

Influence of Media on Language Speech Technologies – ASR Introduction to Forensic Linguistics Structure of Cantonese

Poster presentation at LSA 2015 at the University of Chicago: 'Mandarin tones can also be pragmatic,' 28 July 2015. Online version available.

Working on MA in English [began second MA program in January 2017].

25 semester hours beyond first year college Spanish completed; six graduate level hours.

Assisted in month long basic writing Bridge to English program, 60 hours of contact, 2017. UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, AB, Linguistics, 1984

Intensive Mandarin Chinese language program.

Credit for first year college Spanish because of performance on proficiency exam.

Former Physics major: some courses in science, math, and statistics.

Mathematics through Analysis. One Statistics course.

Former National Merit Semifinalist.

JAMES L. JONES 鍾傑穆 钟杰穆

LinkedIn.com/in/jimxlat Twitter: @han4yu3 E-mail: ac8fx8@r.postjobfree.com HONORS AND ACTIVITIES

Member of ATA [American Translators Association], former senior member of both the STC

[Society for Technical Communication] and CHICATA [Chicago Area Translators and Interpreters].

Assisted the ATA Chinese to English team create certification exam in 2014. Became Language Chair in 2017.

Awarded DCSA [Distinguished Community Service Award] of the Society for Technical Communication, March 2009.

Assisted with preparations for STC Chicago's hosting of, and attended, the 2012 STC International Summit near Chicago. Attended the 2014 ATA 55th Annual Conference [Chicago].

Attended various CHICATA events, including monthly meetings, holiday gatherings [at which made Mandarin presentations], and a workshop by Russian - English interpreter Cyril Flerov on interpretation skill development, May 2015.

Two day workshop on interpretation skill development hosted by AOIC, September 2015.

Articles and cartoons for an ATA newsletter [of the Chinese Language Division]. Writing

o Completed a series of writing courses, UIC Extension, mid-2000s. o Currently MA in English student at NEIU.

Translation

o Translation and QA of documents completed for a range of private clients. Editing

o Substantive, copy, and QA of documents completed for a range of private clients. o Edited a book that was software instruction on Open Office Writer, which was then self-published by the author on lulu.com, 2009.

Other

Tutored and coached a new immigrant from China, in Mandarin and in English. Two hours a week, all of 2018. On contract with an NGO. Very good results obtained regarding the development of communicative competence.

For PBS News Hour-related site [universalsubtitles.org], English into Mandarin, also on Youtube: i- hope-there-are-young-politicians-out-there. [from English into fully idiomatic Mandarin Chinese, Simplified; the gear icon popup lets one select]. Political content, 2013. Editor Katharine O'Moore-Klopf tweeted ...good consulting had been rendered for a client meeting. And, mentioned at http://editor-mom.blogspot.com/2012/10/when-opportunity-knocks.html : ...phrases in Mandarin...created an .mp3 file. October 2012.

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