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Véronique Maes – Résumé
Experienced English > French translator and translation project manager
Career / Translation Experience / July 2005 – May 2007 Inco Australia Management Brisbane, AustraliaInco Australia Management – As a leading international producer of nickel, Inco is one of Canada's best-known companies and largest exporters.
Translation Coordinator , Goro Construction Team
Job description: In collaboration with the translation manager, my role consisted in running the day-to-day translation activities of the service and ensuring the timely delivery of quality translations to internal clients.
Translation experience
§ Coordination of the translation process with a focus on quality and timeliness: from reception of translation requests, quotation, allocation of work, quality control, to final delivery.
§ Directed and provided support to internal / external translators (allocating and supervising work (revision, editing, proofing), providing feedback, developing guidelines for external translators, etc)
§ Development of tools designed to improve terminology consistency (Project Technical Glossary of over 5000 terms published on the intranet, SDLX translation memories, etc.)
§ Provided advice and direction on appropriate approaches for various linguistics issues (e.g. Review of vendors’ manuals translations, etc)
§ Sourcing adequate external translators and resources (18 external translators & 2 internal resources)
Translator (in house), Goro Construction Team
Job description: My role involved the translation of project documentation and the administration of SDLX (computer assisted translation software).
Translation experience
§ Language directions: English – French mainly and French – English occasionally
§ Translation / editing / proof reading / revision
§ SDLX administrator (translation memories / term base / technical glossary)
§ Types of documents translated: activity and financial reports, reports to shareholders, audit reports, meeting minutes, HR communications and announcements, correspondence, presentations, training material, policies and procedures, guidelines, requisitions, specifications, user guides, IT manuals, visa applications, position descriptions, work contracts, newsletters, bulletins, subtitles and voice-over, websites, brochures, press releases, articles, advertisements, promotional flyers, commercial correspondence, surveys, PowerPoint presentations, etc.
§ Disciplines: business, strategic reporting, environment, health & safety, construction, engineering (civil, mechanical, piping, electrical), mining, QA/QC, risk management, HR, communication and PR, administration, commercial, marketing , IT, software localization.
2001 - 2005 Queensland Purchasing Brisbane, Australia
Queensland Purchasing: A division of the Department of Public Works recognised as the Queensland Government’s expert in procurement policy, practice and education.
Communication Officer
Job description: To support the Director and Managers in achieving the Divisions’ business objectives by undertaking communication and marketing projects that enhanced Queensland Purchasing’s profile and promote the Division’s products and services.
Translation experience
§ Translation into French of the Division’s range of information/marketing material – including newsletters, annual reports, brochures, articles, white papers, advertisements, promotional flyers - for publication in electronic format on the Internet.
§ Translation into French of specialised websites such as the ‘Procurement Resource Centre’, a centre for international purchasing and procurement information exchange.
§ Translation into English of procurement related documents sourced in French and Spanish.
2002 University of Queensland Brisbane, Australia
The UQ offered me a position as a tutor with the Institute of Modern Languages.
French Tutor - Special tuition: evening classes on customer site
§ Delivering evening classes of French to Bechtel’s employees assigned to the Goro Nickel Project, a project involving constant communication with New Caledonia.
1996 – 2000 Graham Technology Glasgow, UK
Graham Technology Plc: Dynamic, rapidly expanding software development company requiring significant development of an international training structure and documentation.
IT Trainer / Translator
Creation of a training department and strategy: Working closely with the Training Director, our mission was to start up and manage a professional training department servicing internal and externally customers. It gave me the opportunity to play a key role in all aspects of the training life cycle.
Translation experience
§ Software localization
§ Translating course material (trainee’s books/trainer’s books)
§ Delivering IT courses (GT-X, a 4GL toolkit) to small groups (max. 6 per session) to clients in the UK, USA and in France.
§ Promoting our services abroad: attending trade fairs in Paris to present our product and services. This involved translating all information/promotional material and application demos into French.
1994 – 1996 AT&T Headquarters Brussels, Belgium
AT&T Multimedia Product Group, Europe, Middle-East & Africa (EMEA): AT&T had recently relocated their headquarters for the EMEA region in Brussels.
Administrative Assistant / International Coordinator/Facilitator
Translation experience
§ Assisting the newly appointed Vice President, recently arrived from America and his wife in settling down in Brussels: they could not speak French so I acted as interpreter and translator to assist in their dealings with the Belgian administration and local businesses (Belgian immigration department, council, bank, landlord, etc)
§ Advise on cultural differences to facilitate smooth integration and team building
§ Dealing with launching and day-today coordination of international projects such as the International Sales Incentive Program and the yearly International Sales Kick-off Meeting in different countries, as well as the quarterly Managing Directors’ Meetings.
§ Frequent use of French, English & Spanish, both spoken and written. The position involved writing and translating a variety of documents on a regular basis to facilitate project implementation/reporting both at country level (in France, Belgium and Spain) and at HQ level (in English).
1990–1994 Avis Fleet Services Europe Brussels, Belgium
AT&T Multimedia Product Group, Europe, Middle-East & Africa (EMEA): AT&T had recently relocated their headquarters for the EMEA region in Brussels.
Administrative Assistant / International Project Coordinator
Translation experience: Very similar to roles played at AT&T (see above).
1990 – 1991 Centre de Promotion Sociale Brussels, Belgium
Centre de Promotion Sociale: Education institution providing accredited certificates to students achieving an independently and nationally assessed standard. Roughly equivalent to TAFE.
Language Teacher
§ Teaching English as a second language to adults (12 regular students). Beginner's level.
Education / Qualifications / National Accreditation Authority for Translators and Interpreters (NAATI) Australia
NAATI accreditation (level 3) as a translator (from English into French) awarded on the basis of my overseas qualifications.
Institut Supérieur de l’Etat de Traducteurs et Interprètes (ISTI) Brussels, Belgium
University Degree in Translation - French, Spanish and English. (equivalent to a Bachelor’s Degree with Honours in Translation )
Final year major work:
Ø Literary translation from Spanish to French of 2 chapters of the book “El libro de la peregrinación a Santiago de Compostela” by J. Salvador y Conde.
Ø A précis in Spanish: “El aporte de la cultura islámica en la cultura occidental”.
Institut Normal Provincial d’Enseignement Technique.
Enseignement Superieur Pedagogique de Promotion Sociale Brussels, Begium
Post Graduate diploma in Teaching
Professional Association / Member of Chambre Belge des Traducteurs, Interprètes et Philologues. Website: www.translators.be.
Member of the Australian Institute of Interpreters and Translators. Website: www.ausit.org.
Tools used / SDLX / Trados 2006 (Computer Assisted Translation software)
DataSearch
Termium
Antidote
Various on-line technical glossaries and term bases.