The Chinese < 2 > English < 2 > German Consultancy
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“The Art of Using English As the Anchor to Bring Indo-Germanic and Asian Languages Together"

Contents
I. Philosophy in Service
II. CV / Resume
III. Pleasing Clients in A Context of Heterogeneous Quality Standards


Mark Hatfield Chilson, Principal Prepared: Feb 10, 2008

I.

A) "Your client does not care how good the translator looked on paper. Shoot me a couple hundred words and compare it to your best-on-paper translator when idiomatic Business English is the only deliverable acceptable.”

B) "Last minute emergency? Call me after hours with a tight over-night deadline."

C) Test me on a translation that has obfuscation via one technical subject operating in the context of a diametrically opposite technical arena: i.e Insurance and Technology; Computer Science ERP within a Manufacturing Environment.

Email: [email protected]
+001 (858) 344 – 5151 07:30 - 22:30 Monday through Saturday
+001 (619) 330 – 4756 fax
(Beijijng location: Zhanlan Lu 24 Talou #407 Xicheng District, Beijing, China 100037; +1 (86) 137 1767 5172)

Languages
Chinese: Beijing Putonghua, two academic semesters at China Foreign Affairs University
German: Fluent written and spoken (Nordrhein-Westfallen Hochdeutsch)
English: Native speaker, US Citizen, Low level written or conversational fluency in: Spanish (Argentine), Portuguese, Swedish, Norwegian & Russian; through residence in respective countries minimum 1 month in length.
"Business Translations Via A Business Background with A Depth & Seniority Uncommon Among Professional Translators"
Last project completed today Jan. 10, '08: Health, Over-the-Counter Drugs & Medical Products Description & Marketing Plan Topology & Narrative Descriptions in Select Strategic Consumer Markets US & Asia
Performed in last 60 Days: Patents; Insurance Software Metadata & Tags Documentation & Topology Localization; Defense & Security Related Subjects;
Foreign Policy Journal Translation, Beijing
Automotive Convention Website and Registration Engine Translation, Beijing
Joint Venture Research & Analysis, Database Administrator, State of Nordrhein-Westfallen, Germany -- Speech writer for English- and German-language presentations
Achievements

Financial:
Since 1993 have personally Negotiated and Oversaw the Funding of $112,500,000 in real estate loans by 56 different capital sources.
Facilitated underwriting of individual instruments and loan-commitment packages with
California CMO Issuers & Secondary Market Securitizers
Colorado & Arizona Wholesale institutional lenders
Wall Street investment firms
Iowa & Connecticut - based insurance corporations
Bought forward rate commitments, insured against credit-risk, packaged loans and sold them onto the CMO Securities & Secondary-Instrument Markets in $2m blocks
Real Estate:
With partners, acquired, developed, platted, won reg-approvals & marketed 9 parcels in a 9 parcel project
P&L Exprnc.:
Setup a corporate branch, and an independent franchise branch of a CA licensed real estate lending corporation. Negotiated leased space, won Dept. of Real Estate Broker-of-Record Approval, and Broker-of-Record Aproval.
Owned a lending operation branch with payroll averaging 5 full-time associates
Professional
2007.06 - present – Contract Translation, German to English, Chinese to English
2006.07-2007.06 – study of Chinese language
2006 - Consumer Credit Bureau Based Marketing. Consultant to three corporate clients
2006 – Fundingintegrity.com – Marketing channel of The Chilson Group
2005 - The Chilson Group, A Private Mortgage Banking Practice
2005 – Home Loan Consultants, Inc. Branch Manager
2004 – Home Loan Consultants, Inc. Senior Lender
2004 – Home Loan Consultants, Inc. Del Mar, California. Senior Loan Officer
2001 - Real Estate Development of acreage, subdividing, selling off lots
1993 – 1999 - Cherry Creek Mortgage Co., Inc. Senior Loan Officer overseeing staff
1996 - Dale Carnegie Relationship Sales Course – Trainer & Co-Instructor (Volunteer, Non-remunerative)
1993 – Wells Fargo, Minneapolis, Minnesota
1991 – Joint Venture Research & Analysis, Database Administrator, Speech writer for English- and German-language presentations
Education
1993 - BA, St. Olaf College, Minnesota (Major Thesis: Christian Theology of the German Confessing Church 1933 – 1945; Minor: Economics of Developing Nations)
1991 – Graduate-level courses, in Micro-economic Banking Principles, Legend-genre German Literature, The German Confessing Church, University of Paderborn, Germany
Post-Graduate Coursework
Chinese: 2006.09 – 2007.07 - China Foreign Affairs University, Chinese language
Legal: 2006- Medical Device Patenting with US Patent Office
2006- Medical Device Approval Process with US Food & Drug Admin.
2005 -Real Estate Law: Legal Aspects of Developing, Acquiring, and Disposing of
California Real Estate; Water and Natural Resource Extraction Law
2004 -Title, Ownership & Encumbrance of Real Estate; Mitigating Investor Risk
Real Estate: 2005 – Advanced Real Estate Finance Practices; Preparing Final Settlement
2004 - Statements; Administrating Transactional- & Special- Escrow Accounts
-Appraisal,: Commercial & Retail Appraisal, Residential Appraisal, Appraisal Report Review & Preparation,
Appraisal underwriting, Valuation dynamics in changing environment;
I.T.: 2000 - MS Excel, MS Access
2000 - Informix Database Applications
German: 1993 – University of Paderborn, Germany – Editing of Theological scholarly monograph, and approving its translation from German to English; led to its successful publication in English
Certificates and/or Commendations
Top Sales Awards & Top Rookie Sales Awards – CCMCo., Inc.,
Duncan Group Real Estate Banking & Sales Training
Licensing
California Department of Real Estate, Sales License
California Department of Real Estate, Independent Branch License, Branch Manager License
California Department of Real Estate, Receipt of Broker’s License expected by end of 2007
Certified to Instruct
Dale Carnegie Sales Course – Trainer & Co-Instructor
Mountaineering, CPR/1stAid Water-sports, High-ropes, Rock-climbing,
Relevant Examinations
2001 - Top 7% nationally on Graduate Management Admissions Test (MBA entrance exam)
1988 – Top 1% nationally on SAT
Logistics
Residence: Resided in Beijing since July, 2006; Maintain a residence in both Beijing and San
Diego, with majority of time spent in the former
Relocation: Will relocate within Asia at my own expense
Travel: If includes travel to the Western United States 75% travel acceptable
Available: Current assignment concludes August 4, 2007
Citizenship: US

My humble suggestions to my fellow translators & agency principals….

Translators who position their professional progression & continuing education hours to “looking good on paper” are dangerous when a valuable client relationship is on the line, ergo, why take chances? Chairman Mao had a saying or two about paper tigers that we will not entertain here.
To hunt down the indications of a paper tiger, shoot me a couple
hundred words excerpted from the most complex segment of the translation: I'll send back. Titled, decorated translators are rendering translations of technical and financial documents that are literally correct, but terms are taken to be in the incorrect context, making for fault lines in the foundational premises of the translation. Ex: Umschreibung was translated 'rewrite,' a common procedure-call in Computing, appropriate to the software for which we were describing the metadata & tags. Except, because it was in the context of a rare term in Insurance (in both languages) of re-writing insurance, lost upon the translation was that the rewriting was to the policy and not to the file on the server. Small problem the client said, 'Fix it or else.' I was given fewer than 72 hours to fix the numerous points of confusion at the junction of two specialized vocabularies, in this case Insurance and Computer Science.
I translated an automotive materials ‘Novel Use’ patent document—never having a clue what it really did—but knowing the lingua franca of scientific method and its consequently precise terminology. This won the business but a non-disclosure I can't violate because of potential pending M&A activity resulting from the needed translation. (By way of disclosure, I have no idea if they had it edited by a bi-lingual
scientist/specialist after I submitted it.)

To your success in 2008!

Mark Chilson
+1 (858) 344 -5151
+1 (619) 825 – 9446
[email protected]


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