BACKGROUND

- Full-time freelance translator since 2007, specialising in the areas of Pharmaceuticals, Marketing and Business (see below for further details)
- Native UK English speaker, also accustomed to translating for US audience
- Excellent writing skills are combined with the highest standards of accuracy and reliability
- Educated at the University of Oxford and the University of Salford
- Previous professional experience includes teaching English in France, Spain and Japan, and working on the Oxford English Dictionary


SPECIALIST AREAS (and examples of types of work undertaken recently)

Medicine and Pharmaceuticals
• Patient information leaflets
• Summaries of product characteristics
• Marketing authorisation documentation
• Pharmacovigilance reports
• Clinical trial documents (protocols, participant information sheets, informed consent forms)
• Drug manufacture documentation
• Patient medical records

Marketing, Advertising and PR
• All kinds of promotional material (print ads, brochures, press releases, packaging, websites, TV ad scripts) in areas including cosmetics, clothing, electronic equipment, luxury pens and watches, wines and champagnes, food products, sports equipment and nutritional supplements
• Subtitling of promotional videos

Business
• Company newsletters, internal reports, memos, minutes of meetings, press releases, etc
• Material for a variety of trade fairs including wines, arts and crafts, and agriculture
• Official reports on business and the economy for INSEE (French office for national statistics)

International Development
• Funding applications and progress reports on projects to combat disease in developing countries
• Children’s rights projects
• Cultural heritage projects

Tourism and Travel
• Tourist board websites, city guides, travel agency brochures, etc
• Material for major French motorway and tunnel company

Other
• Arts and culture: art gallery brochures and press releases; architecture; museum literature
• CVs, academic certificates, official documents


ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS

- Postgraduate Diploma in Translating (Spanish and French), University of Salford (2006)
- MSt in Linguistics, University of Oxford (Lincoln College) (1996)
- BA in French and English, University of Oxford (Lincoln College) (1994)