--------------------- I am a translator from English and Dutch into French. To do my work without collapsing or stinking too much, I use a tiny teensy fraction of the water that a Data Center would use to do the same work. Please send your translation jobs to me 🙂, [email protected], and enjoy a large Pastis or a large glass of water while you wait. My clients call me The Flash. -----------------------------

I have been working in the localisation industry for the past 26 years, both as a freelance translator and within two of the largest localisation companies in the world, LionBridge Technologies and SDL (now RWS), before becoming a freelance translator in order to be able to give my clients all the time and attention they need.

I handle a lot of technical projects (medical, heavy machinery, debitmeters, pumps, civil engineering, machine tools, building industry etc.), but I also handle nature and environment related translations, marketing translations and other more general translations (for example I translated the 3000 Cocktails Bible and its update (difford's guide)). Lately I have handled quite a lot of medical translations, such as:

- IFU for Medtronic, Pipeline Vantage Embolization Device with Shield Technology

- Patient/Carer Questionnaires for Vitaccess studies (studies exploring the impact of myasthenia gravis from the patient’s perspective)

- Brochure for a gastric protection diet for a Flemish Hospital

- Internal information for Nutrison products (Food for Special Medical Purposes for the dietary management of disease-related malnutrition)

- IFU for a ventilator for babies

- Questionnaires for Apdia In Vitro Diagnostic Medical Devices

- IFU for Nidek ophtalmology diagnostic tool

- IFU for Hologic’s Faxitron Core Specimen Radiography System

- Educational Module for CP@clinic

On another note, for the past two years, I have been handling about a million words of meeting minutes of Corporate Boards, mostly from Flemish into Belgian French.

I also translated for a while the highly interesting ABB Review quarterly magazines ( ABB Review ).

But the most interesting thing I have done in a while is the translation of the educational program of the European Space Agency. 100000 words to present to teenagers and teachers all the activities of ESA.

I have a deep knowledge of what translation entails, of the fact that a translated text should feel like it was originally written in that language and never translated.

Precision and Detail orientation are one of my fortes and I am a fast learner. For me, a translation should be useful, it should help make a difference for a company or a non governmental organisation, helping them reach their goal.

A language is not only a way of communicating, but reflects a way of thinking. The job of the translator, uneasy as it seems, is to convey into a language, the way of thinking of another one.

My clients appreciate me mostly for my speed and punctuality as well as for the quality and consistency of my translations.