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· 2 ½ years as an in-house translator with AM Transword in Marseille.

· Over 2 million words translated personally.

Specialist areas (and major clients/projects)

Software & Video games

· Genesis: LEA Acoustic Analysis Software

· Bipmedia: video games developer

Science & Research

· ITER Project (over 200,000 words translated)

· Commissariat d'Études Atomiques, IRSN (Nuclear Safety Institute), etc.

Aviation & Aeronautical Industry

· Eurocopter

· Enac (Ecole national de l'aviation civile)

Legal & Financial

· Court of Marseille

· Bank of America

Other major clients (direct & indirect)

France Telecom/Orange, sncf.com, etc.

· Interpreting: simultaneous and consecutive interpreting, for Eurocopter, All Blacks Rugby Team, and the Conseil Général des Bouches du Rhône

· English Language Teaching

· CAT: Wordfast, SDLX, Idiom

· Windows Vista, full MS Office suite

· High-speed broadband connection (20 Mbps)