Translator's detailed profile

Committed to quality

Quality / Stylistic Refinement
As recommended by the French union of professional translators, the Société Française des traducteurs (SFT), I translate into my native language in order to ensure the highest degree of quality. "Professional translators work into their native language, they can render the message of the original text with appropriate style, terminology and respect typographic rules".

Accuracy / Reliability
My work is carefully produced. As a professional translator, my translations will meet your requirements (terminological researches, reference documents, creation of glossaries, layout, proofreading). Should your source text present any inconsistencies or ambiguities, I will for sure liaise with you.

Responsiveness / Timeliness
Your need determine the deadline. You can rely on me to treat your project as a high priority. However, I will agree only on reasonable completion time in order to guarantee the delivery on time.

Confidentiality
The professional secrecy is part of the professional code to which I subscribe. Each document assigned to me for translation is subject to strict confidentiality.

Translation Languages
As a French native speaker, I practice the profession of translator in three language pairs: from English into French, from Norwegian into French and from Chinese into French. The Chinese language concerns the Simplified Chinese, i.e. Mandarin, and the Traditional Chinese from Taïwan.

Diplomas and education
The translation diploma I completed is a University Degree of General Translator with specialized orientation (technical, legal, economics and business) by the University of Rennes II (France). At the time I selected this course, I was regularly carrying out in-house translations within a company in a trilingual sales-assistant position (French, English and Chinese) for several years. The aim was to improve my proficiency as a professional translator and furthermore to get a recognized translator diploma.
At the same time, I passed a level diploma in Chinese, the advanced level of the HSK (Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi). This diploma turns out to be quite difficult to pass for foreigners used to writing Chinese with a computer, since the exam requires handwriting of the Chinese characters. In order to give a telling example, this can be compared to ask you to draw a screw, a salamander and an engine: in your mind, you can visualize the three elements perfectly and you can right away identify it on a screen, but when it comes to draw it promptly and exactly, that is another story!
More recently, I decided to pass the Bergenstest, the highest diploma in Norwegian for foreigners. I achieved the advanced intermediate level in reading comprehension and grammar (Bokmål). After a 4-week Summer University, I also obtained the Trinn3 diploma from the University of Bergen.
A copy of both diplomas is enclosed hereafter:

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Translation specialties
Whether it comes to translation, proofreading of documentation, layout, website or software localization, or even to video subtitling, you can rely on me to cover your needs. My first specialty of translation concerns the smartcard industry, i.e. the smartcard printing and personalization systems, mailing and packaging systems, secure ID programs, biometry and data management. I namely carried out the French localization of the Datacard Group website, as well as many datasheets which can be downloaded on the website.
My second translation specialization concerns the Information Technology (Software - Hardware) area and software localization. As an example, I produced the French version of ID Works software. What is more, HTML, PHP, CSS and SEO languages hold no secrets for me; and namely, this very website is truly homemade, created with the only use of Notepad+.
This little symbol promotes the correct coding of my website:
Another of my specialty relates to marketing, i.e. the translation of advertising documents, catalogs, market studies, commercial brochures and other kinds of communications. I give particular importance to transcreation (creative translation).
My translation specialties also include the petroleum industry, and namely all about gas stations, gauges and tanks, metrology, as well as biofuels. Amongst others, I translated a large study related to bioethanol.
Beyond these specializations of translation, I am thus an experienced translator in the following fields: technical (specification sheets, instruction leaflets, maintenance manuals, standards, patents, quality manuals), administrative (tenders, financial reports, business plan, releases, human resources, training) and legal (contracts, licensing, judgments, powers).
Some other non-listed above fields of translation may also fall within my area of responsibility, do not hesitate to send me a request.

CAT tools
I work with SDL Trados Studio 2019 software as CAT tool (Computer-Aided Translation), both for the English language, the Norwegian language and for the Chinese language. Here is a link toward my SDL certification page. I also work with Alchemy Catalyst 12.0 when doing software localization. Upon request, I can also use the Wordfast software.

Memberships
I am currently an active member of Aprotrad, a French professional organisation of translators located in Orleans in France, i.e the little sister of the SFT, the French union of professional translators, and I adhere to their Code of Professional Conduct.
Besides, I am a free member of the Proz community, please follow this link to find my ProZ profile.
I also take part in different Linkedin discussion groups and various mailing lists specialized in the translation industry.

Translation samples
In order to consult some samples of translation English > French and Chinese > French that I performed, please feel free to visit my blog Chine ouvre-toi! Indeed, the articles displayed on this blog are French translations, whose author is myself, of interesting articles related to China and the Chinese language available in English or in Chinese over the web.

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