(Last update: 06/Dec./2011)

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1) IN BRIEF
2) CLIENT TESTIMONIALS
3) SPECIALIST SUBJECT AREAS
4) RATES
5) CURRENT CLIENTS
6) RESOURCES
7) SWORN TRANSLATION / GBP£3M WINE ESTATE DEAL


1) IN BRIEF:

I am a very competent all-round translator with excellent resources and extensive general knowledge, a high IQ, and research skills and so I will take on most texts that are not overly technical. I am an active learner. My main specialist subject area is legal.

I have translated approximately 320,000 words per year over the past five years or so.

Diverse cultural mix: I was brought up in Ireland (by English parents) where I studied Irish as well as English, I then studied French in Haute Loire in France, from the age of 16, in an International Baccalaureate programme, and I went to university (studying English Language and Literature and UK and US History) in Scotland.

I studied translation at night school at the Dublin Institute of Technology, leading to a business translation qualification from the Institute of Linguists, London.

I am now 37 years of age (year of birth: 1974).


2) CLIENT TESTIMONIALS:

"All in all a great job. I really like your rich vocabulary and your way of putting things".
- Björn Houben, Freelance Translator, Ghent, Belgium (previously known as Global Communication NV).

"Thank you very much for your translations, fast work and your cooperation".
- Michaela Michailova, Project Account Manager, Applied Language Solutions, Greater Manchester, UK. (Winner of HSBC Start-Up Star Award 2006.)

"Merci pour cet excellent travail, vos traductions sont parfaites et c’est pour nous un gain de temps important car il n’y a pas de correction nécessaire."
("Thanks for the excellent job, your translations were perfect and that means that we will save a lot of time because we won't have to make any corrections.")
- Fabrice Bénichou, CEO of Imhotep Création, 38780 Pont-Evêque, France.


3) SPECIALIST SUBJECT AREAS:

- Legal (contracts, summonses, court submissions, court rulings, comparative law, litigation etc.);
- Finance (annual reports, Balance Sheets, P&L Sheets, general accounts, etc.);
- Business;
- Marketing / Market Research;
- Food & Drinks Industry;
- Real estate (sales, leases, surveys, etc.);
- General.


4) RATES:

€0.06 - €0.11 per word / approx. GBP£51-GBP£94 per 1,000 words.
(Currency conversion from XE.com, as of 06/Dec./2011.)


5) CURRENT CLIENTS:

- Applied Language Solutions (translation agency, Greater Manchester, UK, visit their website), since 2004.
(Winner of HSBC Start-Up Star Award 2006.)
- Inlingua Bourgogne (translation agency, Dijon, France, visit their website), since 2003.
- Imhotep Création (Pont-Evêque, France) (mechatronics solutions -- visit their website), since 2007.


6) RESOURCES:

- Dictionaries:
Legal:
Dictionnaire de l’Anglais Juridique (Business Management Series), The Council of Europe French-English Legal Dictionary (F.H.S. Bridge), Dahl's Law Dictonary (Henry Saint Dahl).

Financial:
Le Robert & Collins du Management, Glossaire Comptable et Financier (Elizabeth Zgradic-Zirnhelt), Lexique Bilingue Comptabilité Finance (Langues Pour Tous series), Dictionnaire de L’Economie, de la Finance et de la Comptabilité (Marie-Claude Esposito).

Technical: Routledge Technical Dictionary.

Human Resources: Dictionary of Human Resources (Editions Liaisons).
IT: Dictionnaire Bilingue de l’Informatique (French Computing Dictionary) (Maxima).
Wine: Lexivin (Paul Cadiaux).
General: The Oxford English Dictionary (English-English), Le Robert (French-French).

- Other resources:

- Online resources: ProZ.com term searches, Le Grand Dictionnaire Terminologique (Canada), WordReference.com/fren, Linguee.fr, InterActive Terminology for Europe / IATE, specialised glossaries e.g. Vernimmen's financial glossary, Google searches, "Canada searches" etc.
- Personal resources: personal database (Excel) and glossaries found on the internet and saved.
- Human resources: my partner (an English-French freelance translator and interpreter), my contacts in business, finance and industry in Ireland, France, the UK and elsewhere.


7) Sworn translation / GBP£3m wine estate deal:

Sworn translation:

In 2006 I worked as a sworn translator and interpreter (traducteur et interprète assermenté) attached to the Cour d'Appel (the Court of Appeal) in Dijon, Burgundy, France.
I no longer offer sworn translation.


GBP£3m wine estate deal:

In November 2006 I was involved as an interpreter in a GBP£3m wine estate deal:

"Domaine's the game for Rangers chief Murray as he pours £3m into vineyard in Burgundy

William Lyons - Wine Correspondent

David Murray, the chairman of Rangers Football Club, has dramatically upgraded his wine business with the acquisition of a prestigious vineyard in France's Burgundy region.
The 54-year-old has splashed out more than £3m for Domaine Jessiaume, a vineyard in the village of Santenay at the foot of the prestigious Côte de Beaune wine region in Burgundy."

Link to full article in The Scotsman newspaper: "Domaines the game for Rangers chief Murray as he pours £3m into vineyard in Burgundy
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