British FI-EN Translator with Over 16 years' Experience

- Meticulous and Accurate

BACKGROUND
- native British English speaker and permanent Finnish resident (about 23 years)
- have worked as a translator and as a proofreader for over 15 and 20 years respectively
-qualified geologist (BSc Honours Geology (2:1), University of St. Andrews, 1979-1983; postgraduate research training, University of Glasgow 1983-1987).

- good Finnish skills and a working knowledge of US English.

-have also worked in Finland as, for example, a geologist, a research assistant and an English teacher/trainer and have attended various training courses in Finland (including basic IT skills [2005, 2006] and entrepreneur training [2006]; all held in Finnish).

SERVICES OFFERED
* Finnish-English translation (FI-EN/GB/US)
* Monolingual Review (Proofreading, EN/US-EN/GB; EN - EN/GB/US)
* Bilingual Review (Proofreading, FI-EN/GB/US)
* LQI: Language Quality Inspection
* English Training (individuals or small groups)

SPECIALISATIONS AND OTHER WORKING FIELDS
- specialise in geology and its sub-disciplines as well as general scientific topics
- also translate and proofread business, marketing, technical, industrial, IT / ICT, environmental matters, legal and medical texts (all general)

SOFTWARE
- mainly Wordfast Classic 6.03t, Wordfast Pro 3.1.x, OmegaT 2.2.3 (CAT tools); Microsoft Word 2010 and Excel 2010; some experience of using the XTM 'cloud' CAT tool
- familiar with the basics of Microsoft PowerPoint
- also use PDF Xchange Viewer 2.5, which allows the mark-up of PDF text files and OCR of image PDF files, OpenOffice 3.4, various web browsers professional, antivirus and firewall software, Windows 8, etc.

STYLE GUIDES
- familiar with the European Commission’s style guide (British English), the EU’s 'Interinstitutional style guide', and with several other GB/UK and US English style guides.

CONTACT
wallergt(at)saunalahti.fi
+ 358 44 2060 488

My detailed CV/Résumè is available on this site (references available on request)