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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, Taiwan National Museum of Fine Art, Beijing Film Festival, VICE, Books from Taiwan.• 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 65s, teens etc).• 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• Team work: liaising closely with other translators, design and production teams and other teams in China and the UK to coordinate timely asset delivery and publication.Cross-cultural office environment• Initiating and creating processes for the whole team: including style guides, glossaries, workflow and document tracker.• SDL Trados, Multiterm, MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint templates

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• Interpreting, network services testing, leading other testers, 8 week secondment to Paris

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• Content generation: working with Publisher on concept and content development; some content authoring• Author point of contact: contact for authors and external partners; maintaining excellent relations to ensure delivery of content to specification; including resourcing, budgeting, point of contact, feedback, invoices etc• Team work: Frequent liaison with design, production, and project management teams. Training new team members. Supporting wider team with Mandarin expertise• Self-managing on a day-to-day basis, escalating issues to Project Manager; training other project coordinators• Customer facing: Email and helpline support work during site launch period

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 for students and business English learners; contributing to English Digest, Listen In Speak Out and Breakthrough Business English; with online research• 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 government policies and regulations to domestic and overseas audiences• 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• Working to Chicago Manual of Style• Part of the 2008 Taiwan Yearbook updation team, copy editing and creating new content for the chapter on Taiwan's culture, including online and archive research, proofreading final copy.

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.

Intermediate Program In Mandarin Chinese