Linguist Translator Proofreader Copywriter Arabic - English

Diya Takrouri

Linguist & Translator Arabic - English

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Profile:

A linguist and translator having innate passion for excellence with an established talent for tailoring target language texts reflecting faithful approximations to the spirit, style, tone, nuance and verbatim of the source texts; a passion developed over 21 years of proven expertise anchored by an academic major in Linguistics, with an instinctive lookout in spotting / anticipating ambiguities, double meanings and inconsistencies as well as coining / unearthing and introducing novel, unique and straightforward approximations.

Established background in wide range of translation specialty, including: business, legal, political, technical, petroleum, and creative writings translation. Professional Experience:

Sinopec International Petroleum Corporation (SIPC), Syria Ltd. Nov. 08 – June 2015 Chief Translator

Reviewed, proofread and ensured accurate and correct renderings generated by the translation team members as well as by other departments' translators; improving the overall output in terms of volume and on time delivery, besides ensuring and sustaining error free yields.

Selected to do the rendering, proofreading and copyediting of the weekly BODs' and the shareholders' minutes of meetings and (in constant direct cooperation and liaison with Deloitte office in Syria) translate the quarterly financial auditing reports; striking delicate balance between very tight deadlines while maintaining strict approximation to tone, mode and style of the original texts.

Translated wide variety of documents, including contracts, legal texts of all types, PSAs, materials data sheets, financial reports, communications, publications, and corporate policies.

Originated unique drive by introducing first-of-its-kind Arabic-English intranet specialized petroleum terminology glossary, for easy access by company staff; saving the time for answering queries regarding the meaning of the Arabic-English equivalent words.

Handpicked to lead a team of 9 members, developing an in-house corporate business writings and translation policy to be tracked at large by staff members of 900+; improving the overall standards of the company's writings and conducting inductions on the same.

Envisioned and spearheaded development of novel, large-scale, and nation-wide project to have certain API's (American Petroleum Institute) Standards (3700 pages) be translated into Arabic, saving the company as well as other resident OPCOs the hassles and cost of resorting to specialized external sources.

Selected to lend a hand in copy editing the company’s monthly newsletter, proofreading, fact- checking, archiving, and researching articles for publication. Freelance Translator Jan. 05 - Nov.08

Performing wide range of translation projects, academic researches, and business support rendering services, the most important of which was doing the translation of the ground paper works for the establishment and introduction of Dublin International Petroleum Company, Syria,

(DIPCO) into the country and subsequently joining the company as contractor-employee.

Conducting consecutive and telephone interpreting in business meetings. Abu Dhabi Customs Department, UAE April 94 - Dec. 04 First Translator

Maintained proactive involvement in rendering, copy-editing, proofreading all bilingual communications, advertisements, and publications, including manuals, Web content, informational brochures and instructional training guides’ content for the customs officers.

Drafted to act as media watchdog, going over the daily newspapers, business magazines and the internet to retrieve articles that have to do with the Customs Dept.'s operations, make summary of the same, decide on the most significant ones for translation in full, and keep the concerned stockholders well informed about the issue.

Doing interpretation during seminars hosted by the Customs and during meetings held by the top management with foreign parties.

Key Achievements

Translated 3 course-books of 900 pages on “Customs Inspection Methodology & Techniques”, in close coordination with the lecturing officers from the US Customs Service; employing my study background in Linguistics to coin new localized special Arabic words and terms in the industry for easy understanding by the local customs officers, and desktop edited the same in a record time period of just three months only.

Scheduled assignments for external translation resources, reviewed, and provided guidance to improve readability, exact approximation of meanings, and timely delivery vis-à-vis the translation into Arabic of the GATT Agreements (1500 pages).

Accomplished the rendering of the maiden version of “UAE Customs Tariffs Schedule", and desktop edited its bi-lingual edition, besides an over 500 pages “Study on Re-organization of Abu Dhabi Customs Department Setup”; seconded to work hand in hand for over 9 month with experts from KPMG.

Selected to conduct ESP training courses for the customs officers, deploying my teaching specialist tactics to coach staff improve their industry-related language skills and enhance their verbal and formal writing lexicon.

Education:

Translation & Arabization Postgraduate one year Diploma Courses, 1987 University of Damascus

English Linguistics Postgraduate one year Diploma Courses, 1986 University of Damascus

Bachelor of Arts, (English Language & Literature), 1985 University of Damascus

Certified Sworn-in Legal Translator, 1999

From UAE Ministry of Justice

Other Skills:

Versed in MS Office package software, especially in Word and Power Point, Webpage design tools, Photoshop, Macromedia Flash and many related software packages.

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