Freelance Translator

Melanie Martin

*** **** ***** **, **** *, London, ON. Phone: 519-***-****. Email: ******@*******.**

Experience

October 2001- Present Freelance Translator

Translation of documents

French to English and English to French translations

- Translating for Pharmaceutical Companies,

- Law Translations.

- Swine Industry translation

July 2010 to present Echo Power Equipment Canada

Technical Administrative Assistant

- Approve and create customer credits (daily),

- Translation of documents,

- Prepare and schedule Technical Trainings,

- Help dealers/clients with technical data,

- Prepare PowerPoint presentations,

- Keep credit data up to date,

- Create Excel documents,

- Create training certifications,

- Reception Relief,

- Enter Credits Claims on EI site,

- Create new dealer data,

- Enter customer data information for credit,

- Send of non Echo or Shindaiwa credits to proper agents (via e-mail),

- Maintain non Echo or Shindaiwa credit file for follow-ups.

August 2009 – May 2010 (UPA) Union of Agricultural Producers

ATQ (Agri-traceability Quebec) &

ATI (Agri-Traceability International)

Customer Service Agent

- Translations of documents requested by the CPC (Canadian Pork Council)

- Customer Service Agent:

- Take orders for Swine Identification Tags, International sector,

- Customer support for Canadian swine producers,

- Customer call backs for bovine, ovine or cervid producers in the province

of Quebec,

- Data entry: Tag activations, animal deaths, animal site transfers, etc…,

- Communicate with Allflex

- Traveling London-Montreal 2 monthly

Experience Continued

June 2009 – August 2009 Pion & Associates, Law Firm

Secretary (temporary position)

- Create legal letters,

- Create certified letters,

- Create different legal requests,

- Take appointments at the different Court Houses for lawyers in the firm,

- Reception,

- Create customer files,

- Phone and written payment collections,

- Prepare necessary documents for the bailiff,

- Deliver requests to the Court House,

- Simple accounting (in house program).

March 2007 – Sept. 2008 Shur-Gain, animal nutrition (a Nutreco division)

Marketing administrative assistant

- Document translations (French to English and English to French),

- Conception and impression of monthly and annual flyers,

- Conception and impression of cow identification card (for trade shows)

- Prepare training workshops for reps and mill workers,

- Prepare necessary documents for training workshops,

- Reservations (hotels, trade shows, training workshops, rooms, meals, etc.),

- Photocopies,

- Keep different lists up to date,

- Send documents by currier (Purolator, FedEx and Canada Post),

- Send invitation electronically, by fax or by mail according to a distribution list,

- Prepare purchase orders on AS400,

- Reception of purchase orders on AS400,

- Reception relief,

- Customer Service,

- Filing,

- Power Point Presentations, up to 300 slides.

Oct. 2001 – Feb. 2007 Sandoz Canada Inc. (a Novartis division)

Regulatory Affairs Documentalist

- Translation of reports of analyses,

- Prepare documents to be sent to different Governments, especially the FDA,

- Filing,

- PowerPoint presentations,

- Create hierarchy on Ms Visio,

- Create or transcribe product monographs,

- Labeling (conception, corrections and/or revisions), - Prepare flyers on a given products (destined to Sandoz employees),

- Excel Tables (drug approbation - lengths of submissions submitted to the FDA),

- Send documents in archives,

- Communicate with the FDA concerning the progress of our submissions,

- Give short training sessions on how to use our in-house archival system

(FileMaker Pro),

- Burn CDs (new submissions to be sent to the FDA or other Government),

- Photocopies,

- Take minutes during FDA meetings.

COMPUTER SKILLS

- Word,

- Excel,

- PowerPoint,

- Corel Draw,

- Outlook,

- File Maker Pro,

- AS 400,

- MS Visio,

- Maximizer,

Spoken Languages

French: Excellent

English: Excellent

Hungarian: Excellent

Written Languages

French: Excellent

English: Excellent

Hungarian: Good

Education

1992 High School Diploma Durocher College, Private High School

1997 Professional Trade (Secretarial and Accounting)

École de formation professionnelle Pierre-Dupuy

2008 French Grammar University of Montreal

Diploma

Interests Reading, Golf, and Voluntary work.

References References are available on request.

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