Administrator at Birmingham LGBT Centre providing admin support to their sexual health, counselling and wellbeing teams.

Tour Director organising content, visits, reading list and lectures during cultural tour holidays, themes covered include William Morris: From Red House to Kelmscott Manor, Art Nouveau Architecture in Belgium and Artists of the North.

Recent assignments include:- Ardennes Tourist Office (France, Belgium, Luxembourg) Translating text for visitardennes.com- University of Nantes (France) Translating, editing and proofreading text for academic journal articles, book chapters and research funding bids.- AddRetail Agency (Belgium) Translating social media posts (2021)- Touch Agency (Belgium) Subtitling university presentations in English (2021)- Microsoft (London) editing news stories and testing editing software for MS News (2019)- United Grand Lodge of England (Freemasons' Hall) (London) editing and formatting texts for Solomon educational database (2018)- Eggcorn Writing Consultancy (London) - sub-editing The Bartlett Review and Bartlett 100 materials for UCL Bartlett School of Architecture (2017-19)- Herbert Smith Freehills (London) - review, correction and ad hoc translation of evidence in French for major fraud case (2016-2017)- Bloomberg BNA (London) - proofreading and correcting VAT and Double Tax Treaty databases(2015-2016) - Council of Europe (Strasbourg) - proofreading and correcting academic publications (2014-2018)- Universities of Strasbourg, Brussels and Nantes - proofreading academic journal articles (2014 to date) - ALTIUS and Tiberghien law firms (Brussels) - proofreading legal submissions, academic journal articles, correspondence and website copy, translating court judgments, submissions, correspondence, academic journal articles (2007-2014)- Husson Editeur (Brussels) - translation of fine art photography books - OPT Bruxelles-Wallonie (Brussels) - translating brochures, advertisements, website copy, writing English style guide, proofreading/editing copy (2007-17)- Belgian Tourist Office (London) - translating website copy, correspondence, press releases and press packs, etc. (2007-17)- Explore.Brussels - translating press releases, brochures, etc, writing website copy, preparing and leading public and press tours in English and French (2007 to date).

I was responsible for communication to 1,500 staff in 12 offices in Europe, including the staff magazine and intranet, the quarterly staff presentations by the Regional CEO and the annual staff survey. I also proof-read and edited press articles, presentations, the annual report and quarterly market reports written by non-native English speakers.

I wrote, edited and proof-read magazine and newspaper articles, conference speeches and presentations; I managing press advertising campaigns; I wrote and updated marketing text databases; I wrote, edited and proof-read press releases; I managed relations with external translators and publishers; I updated the in-house English style guide and translated articles from French to English and from English to French.

This start-up company developed e-purse software for clients outside Belgium. I was responsible for: press relations; product and recruitment advertising; the annual report, website, product brochures and magazine articles; proof-reading commercial, legal and technical texts; giving induction training; making marketing presentations; representing the company on UK government committees and speaking at conferences.

I dealt with francophone and other European and worldwide clients of this laboratory supplies company.

1995-97 Customer Services Team Leader at an engine factory in Peterborough, run as a joint-venture with ISM of Japan. 1992-95 Commercial Liaison Manager at SNOM, Chaumont, a licensee engine remanufacturer. 1989-92 Customer Service Officer for North American then French distributors and OEMs at Perkins’ spare parts warehouse in Manchester