Native English linguist with 16 years' experience in producing natural-sounding translations of IT and other technical documentation from French into English.

Areas of expertise

• IT - specifically:
  
            - Computer organisation / architecture
  
            - CPU design
  
            - Main & secondary memory design
  
            - Fetch-execute cycles
  
            - Designing for performance
  
            - Data representation
  
            - Operating systems
  
            - Process management / scheduling
  
            - Networking protocols
  
            - OSI and TCP/IP models
  
            - Web authoring and design
  
            - Java programming
  
            - Management information systems
  
            - Security, authentication and encryption
  
            - Discrete mathematics (set theory, functions, logic, etc.)
  
  
• Law of contract
  
• Telecommunications
  
• Multimedia
  
• Video games
  
• Wastewater treatment
  
• QSE auditing
  
• Sport - specifically bodybuilding (HIT & volume, nutrition, supplements and performance-enhancing drugs), MMA, snooker/pool, PADI scuba and skin-diving, and athletics
  
• Adult content
  
  

Document types

• Invitations to tender
  
• Data sheets and specifications
  
• Installation, operations and user guides
  
• Brochures and leaflets
  
• Game concepts and designs, voice-overs, scripts, walkthroughs, interfaces
  
• Training manuals and aids, guidelines
  
• Commercial contracts, vendor agreements, partnership agreements, terms and conditions of use
  

Education

• Since 2009 - Studying for a BSc degree in Computing & Information Systems (University of London)
  
• 2008 - One year's study of the law of contract (University of London)
  
• 1999 - TESOL certification
  
• 1994 - BA(Hons) degree in French/German with specialisation in translation (University of Southampton)
  

Professional memberships

• Member of the Chartered Institute of Linguists
  
• Member of the Société Française des Traducteurs
  

Interests and other information

• HIT bodybuilding, cycling and jogging
  
• Video games
  
• DIY
  
• Cider-making / wine-making
  
• Scuba and skin-diving
  
• Lead guitarist and banjo player in Celtic folk rock group Dogger Fisher!