James Laughton-Smith Email & Phone Number

London, UK

• Providing language services including translation, proofreading, editing, localization, and subtitling
• Specializations: General business, contracts, PR/marketing, market research (FMCG), ICT, fine art
• End clients include: Huawei Technologies (contract translator for Huawei's various industry magazines), Mintel International, Messefrankfurt, Tempel, Vorwerk, L’Oreal, Christie's, Sotherby's, Cartier, H.Moser & Cie.
• Proz Certified Translator: http://www.proz.com/translator/1936775

London, United Kingdom

• Translator in the Digital Publishing department
• Editing, translation and translation quality checks, ensuring accuracy, consistency and suitability. Mandarin<>English
• Deep-dive B2B market trend reports covering FMCG, financial services, food service, clothes, retail, auto retailing, e-commerce, lifestyle (internet and social media, sports, exercise, education, hotels, travel, over.
• Including market information, drivers, trends, brands, companies, consumer behaviour
• Legal, PR and marketing translation
• Time management: managing schedules and priorities, fast-paced publishing environment, tight deadlines, updating Head of Publishing weekly

London, United Kingdom

• Building and managing the project file directory, setting up organisational structure and tracking system, for this £7 million ICT software project
• SharePoint 2007: Building and managing the project file directory, implementing organisational structure and tracking system
• Administrative support: booking meeting rooms; setting up equipment for meetings; taking and circulating meeting minutes; managing office equipment; clerical filling; expense claims, booking travel and accommodation
• Project management: raising, tracking and managing POs and CRs in digital and hardcopy; ensuring documents are correctly formatted
• Translating project-critical documents and PR material for Huawei's corporate website; working to tight deadlines in this high-pressure project environment while preserving accuracy
• Communicating effectively in this cross-cultural office environment in Mandarin and English with colleagues from the UK, China, India and France

Cheadle

• Working on MYLO, a free interactive online KS3 and KS4 language learning resource funded by the Department for Education used in schools globally; see: http://mylo.dcsf.gov.uk/
• Content management: Using various CMS to manage MS Word documents and digital assets, including ensuring templates were correct
• Copy editing using style guides to ensure consistency and critically reviewing sense, appropriateness and clarity of the content
• Quality check prior to publication, escalating content issues to the Publisher; signing off content
• Content digitalization (Flash, XML, HTML), including use of Photoshop; proofing and testing the online content, reporting bugs and updating content
• Identifying audio requirements and organizing audio production

Taipei, Taiwan

• Writing, proofreading and copy editing test sheets, dialogues, sentence patterns and articles on diverse topics for this leading China market ELT publisher of monthly bilingual magazines, textbooks and digital content.
• Researching, planning and writing original articles; discussing and planning content with the Publishing team on a daily basis; feeding back to other editors; proofing final proof. AP style
• Time management: multiple assignments, working to word limits and deadlines

Taipei, Taiwan

• Provided Mandarin Chinese to English translation and copy editing support to the Presidential Office and senior government staff at this central government department responsible for disseminating information on.
• Translating and copy editing PR material and other content for publication to the web.
• Press releases, policy statements, laws and regulations, speeches, official correspondence and current affairs features on diplomatic, cultural, social, political and economic topics
• Including President Ma Ying-jeou's 2008 inauguration address and presidential interviews.
• Subtitling (films; documentaries; voiceover texts)
• Copy editor for GIO-published current affairs publication Taiwan Journal

Taipei, Taiwan

• Copy editing daily news releases, speeches, political commentary and analysis for publication to the website (http://old.npf.org.tw/english/main-eng.htm)
• Translating newspaper opinion pieces from Mandarin into English; Research and report-writing; Writing content for the website
• Working with the Editor-in-chief (former US Ambassador Stephen S. F. Chen) in a process of review and discussion; drafting official correspondence

Advanced Mandarin, Advanced Program In Mandarin Chinese

Funded through a BACS scholarship; modern Chinese literature and newspapers; classical Chinese literature; early Chinese history

Ba, Chinese Studies, 2:1 Hons

Activities and Societies: Secretary of the Chinese Society 2002-2003; Choir Member Hild and Bede College • Core modules: Translation and.

Intermediate Program In Mandarin Chinese