Translation, revision, language and terminology lead roles, drafting, summarising, lexicography, interpreting
Traduction, révision, chef de file linguistique / terminologique,
rédaction, synthèses, lexicographie, interpétariat
My main fields: Information Technology, Finance, Accounts, Law, a variety of industrial technical fields
Principaux domaines d'intervention:
finance, comptabilité, droit,
une palette de domaines techniques
Facilities include:
CAT system: Trados and MultiTerm in active use;
Dragon Naturally Speaking voice-recognition software - experienced in dictation; OCR scanning platform and PDF conversion software.
Areas of activity:
The material I handle includes:
Business/finance, banking, accounts, insurance,
Annual Financial Statements, Insurance, Taxation,
French and European Law, Intellectual Property and Real Estate,
National Accounts, Economics, Econometrics, Economic Development (OECD, Club du Sahel), Statistics.
Technical translation subject areas include:
I.T., Civil Aviation, Radar, Environment & Water Treatment, Quality Assurance, invitations to tender
Currently working, among others, for:
Major French banks, international law firms and blue-chip companies.
Background:
A former pupil of the Lycée Français de Londres A graduate of London University
From a merchant banking traineeship, I became acquainted with accountancy, balance-sheet analysis and corporate finance. In a firm of money brokers, I scanned the financial press, tracked and and charted economic indicators.
A former staff translator at the OECD, I received training to the highest standards at the hands of some of the foremost revisers in the business of government-service translation, with a bias towards economics and statistics.
IT training:University of Hull, 1987 - 1988
Terminological resources:
Some 50,000 terms, collected from live work examples over 30 years of practice.
