Career / Experience

Professional freelance translator from French, Spanish and Portuguese to English:

Motto Professional, painstaking,prompt.

Experience: I have worked with reputable translation agencies: SDL International, Language Networks (Netherlands), Lingua World (Germany), Eurotra (France) Juris'Traduction (France), Comms Multilingual (UK) (and some disreputable companies who have not paid me). Individual clients have included the University of Southampton, UK, and the International Gestalt Journal, USA.
Specialisms: Medical, financial and legal translation., education, and media. As a former academic I can also undertake academic translations in the social sciences, also education and media.
Interpreting:I am also a part-time community interpreter with French and Spanish, specialising in medical interpreting.
Qualifications: BA Honours French, University of Exeter, UK; MA Linguistics, University of Essex; BA Hispanic Studies, University of Sheffield; MA Translation Studies, University of Sheffield, UK (with distinction).
Before becoming a translator I was a university lecturer in Communication Studies at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. In addition to teaching I developed new courses, carried out research and published books and articles on a range of communication- related topics.
Facilities: I use Microsoft Office, Adobe Acrobat, Windows XP , SDLX and Trados. Texts sent via e-mail in Word or PDF format.