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Yonathan Gormezano

Address:Kugleman5/19, Petah Tikva 4972223, ISRAEL;telephone: +972(0)3-930.5761;mobile & voicemail:+972(0)52-3527.313;e-mail: .

Born onthe18thJan1958inEngland;inIsraelsince1984;married;military rank:major (res.) in the Israel Defence Forces;member of:the Institution of Engineering & Technology (UK), the Israeli Communication & Press Association(איגוד התקשורת והעיתונות בישראל).

Education & Courses

University Degree

BSc in Electronic & Control Engineering, University of Birmingham, UK (1981).

Other Courses

־Journalism (2009).Programming languages C, CPP, Java at the SivanTechnicalCollege,Tel Aviv (2001).CADatCimatron, Israel(1992).Radiation Safety, at Nahal Sorek (Israel Nuclear Research Centre), Israel (1989).

Languages

English & French (mother tongues), Hebrew (fluent),Portuguese(basic working knowledge).

Professional Experience

From 2002: Freelance Technical Author & Translator

Significant Projects

־In the fields of telecoms / RF technology for Tadiran:

  • Consecutive interpretation of theoretical and practical technical training courses in French for French-speaking customers (approx. 100 hourseach course)
  • Translation from English to French of the relevant technical manuals.

־In the field of military & civilian electro-optics for Elop:

  • Authoring of technical manuals & presentations for operation and maintenance, and for the training of technical personnel
  • Editing of responses to tenders, test procedures / reports, marketing material.

־In the field of medical equipment:

  • Authoring of an electrical safety manual for the Israel Defence Forces field hospitals
  • Authoring of operation manuals and editing of a graphical user interface for a computer-based telemedicine system for Medic for All.

־Work for translation agencies:

  • To French and to English; from English, French, Hebrew
  • Technical manuals, test procedures & reports, building work estimates, an industrial fire report, health- & safety-at-work reports, a technical proposal for a security system, documents pertaining to concessions for the exploration & exploitation of petroleum and mineral resources, patents, user interfaces for software, a social sciences thesis, journalistic articles, Judaism-related texts.

1985 – 2001: Service in the Israel Defence Forces

־Served as a soldier and an officer in the technical branch of the Medical Corps; reached the rank of Major in 1997.

־Responsibilities in the fields of medical instruments and infrastructures:

  • Planning and development; drawing-up and managing public tenders
  • Evaluation & testing of prototypes
  • Solution of maintenance problems; drawing-up of maintenance procedures
  • Quality assurance, verification of conformity to standards (IEC, ISO, MIL-STD)
  • Training of technical personnel.

1984: Work in a Kibbutz in Israel

־Agricultural work

־Assistant electrician (domestic and agricultural electric installations).

1978 – 1983: GEC Electrical Projects (Alstom), (UK)

־As an apprentice during the university holidays: work in many of the Company’s departments – manufacturing, sales, test, development

־As a projects engineer: drawing-up and management of responses to tenders in the fields of control equipment for the steel and coal industries.

Knowledge & Skills

Electronic Engineer

־Technologies:electrical infrastructure, telecommunication systems, control systems, safety & security systems,information technology, medical instruments & systems, electro-optics

־Activities:evaluation, testing and maintenance of devices & systems, public tenders, manufacturing processes, QA, verification of conformity to standards, documentation

־Industries:armed forces, military industry, biomedical industry, industrial projects company for the coal and steel industries.

Technical Author

־Manuals:operation, maintenance (including D-level), setup, safety

־Presentations:for technical training of personnel, for promoting products

־Procedures/ reports:for test, evaluation and QA of devices and systems

־Technical training courses:authoring and delivery.

Translator

־From English, French, Hebrew, Portuguese to English and French

־Translations in the following fields: technical, socio-political, journalism, Judaism.

Administration of Internet Site

־Creation, editing, and formatting of contents – text, photos, videos

־Technical development of the website.

Use of Software & Knowledge of Programming Languages

־Word, Excel, Power Point(extensive experience)

־Graphics & multimedia: Visio, Gimp (like Photoshop), Inkscape (like Illustrator), Moviemaker

־Programming languages: (basic working knowledge): C/CPP, Java, HTML, CSS, JavaScript.

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