Expertise domains

English:
• Computer Science
• Mechanics
• Aeronautics
• Chemistry
• Electronics
• General
• Role-playing games
• Fantasy and Sci-Fi

German:
• Chemistry
• Mechanics
• Electronics
• Automobile
• General


Points of interest

Foreign languages:
• English and US literature, especially JRR Tolkien and L. Jackson Braun (in English of course!)
• Far-Eastern civilizations : Japanese in learning (second year so far)

Cultural subjects:
• Classical music, Singing and 7 years transverse flute in an orchestra - learning the bassoon
• Role-playing games : translated two supplements for Fading Suns


Education

University knowledge
• 2002: postgraduate in Business Management:
Accountancy and finance
Marketing
Human Resources
• 2001: Masters in Scientific Translation and Documentation
Physics
Chemistry
Data acquisition
Electronics
• 1999: French 2-year degree in Scientific and technical translation
• 1997: One year in a math and computing faculty


Spoken languages
• Native language: French
• Fluent in general and technical English: Active foreign language (translation in both directions)
• Fluent in German: Passive foreign language (translation into French only)


Computing skills
• Good knowledge of Office applications
• Basis in the editing tool Quark Xpress
• Uses the HTML-composer Dreamweaver
• Uses the CAT software Trados
• Basis in graphic applications (Corel Draw and Adobe Photoshop)


Professional experience
• April 5-9, 2005: Interpreter for Bergerault Percussions, Ligueil , France , at the Frankfurter Musikmesse
• May-June 2004: Translator at Alltext Translation, Grigny , France
• November 2003 to May 2004: freelance translator
• October 2003: interpreter in a Master Class given by the Canadian Pianist Winston Choi at the Music School of Montlouis sur Loire, France
• 2002: contract translations for the RPG publisher Multisim in Paris
Translations published in Les marchands du réseau stellaire and Byzantium Secundus
• 2002: 3-month financial training in the banking company Crédit Mutuel in Hirsingue (France)
Financial analysis of professional clients accounting documents
• 2001: Translation jobs for KPri-consulting in Paris : financial domain
• 2000: 3-month translation training in the National Engineering College for Textile Industry-Mulhouse (France): English translation of the Internet site; Text revision