Jean-Evens Berret
Haitian Creole Translator
Phone: 954-935-9454; Cell: 954-678-7729
Fax: 954-667-6698
E-mail address: or
OBJECTIVE
Finding great projects for utilizing my excellent skills in translation and Desktop Publishing
(DTP).
FIELDS OF SPECIALITY
Experienced Translator with strong native writing skills in Haitian Creole and English languages. Working experience in social services, medical, pharmaceutical, educational, financial, social, health services, mathematical, legal, statistical, science, economic, and law fields in United States.
PROFILE
§ Specialized in large projects
§ Certified Translator (ATA)
§ Full-time freelance at present in performing translation and DTP jobs
§ Eighteen (18) years of experience in transcription, translation and editing/proofreading and DTP jobs
§ Average of 40,000 words per month for private and state agencies based in Florida, Massachusetts, California, New York, Maryland, Oregon, Georgia, Colorado, Washington and England
§ Ability to perform Desktop Publishing (DTP) jobs from English into Haitian Creole and French
§ We estimate the size and scope of your project to provide an accurate schedule and cost quotation
§ We bundle the final product, including the updates to source files.
§ We ensure that the user information will be flexible, coherent and readily available to eliminate delays in launching the local English of the product.
§ We check the final product to verify accuracy and consistency amongst actual software, online and hardcopy documentation.
CONFIDENTIALITY
§ Any information that is obtained through a contract will never be disclosed.
§ We will be abided by the policies and procedures as follow in the Contract Agreement, between the two parties.
EDUCATION
§ Bachelor’s degree as Specialist in Haitian Creole
FACULTE LINGUISTIQUE (LINGUISTIC FACULTY), Port-au-Prince, Haiti (4 years).Certificate in Translation Technique into Haitian Creole Translation
CENTRE DE TECHNIQUES DE TRADUCTION (TRANSLATION TECHNIQUE CENTER) (1 year)
§ Bachelor in Computer Science
COMPUTEC, Port-au-Prince, Haiti (W.I.) (3 years)
§ Degree in Economics and Statistics
CTPEA, (Centre de Techniques de Planification et d’Economie Appliquée) Port-au-Prince Haiti (W.I.) (4 years)
TRANSLATING EXPERIENCE
§ 1988-present freelance Translator and DTP service provider: Full-time
§ English>Haitian Creole educational translation and DTP jobs performed for THE MCGRAW-HILL COMPANIES. Jobs performed: glossaries such as social, American republic, economics, world history, world geography, U.S. government, civics, mathematical banks and several question banks of geography and world history.
§ English>Haitian Creole translation of social services documents and DTP jobs performed for Early Head Start National Resource Center (state agency and direct services)
§ English>Haitian Creole translation of social services documents performed for Florida Department Children and Families (State agency)
§ English>Haitian Creole translation jobs performed for Miami Municipality Office (Press Release, Social and Statistical Documents)
§ English>Haitian Creole translation and DTP jobs performed for Boston-based MASSATRANS (Websites, mathematical, legal and medical documents).
§ English>Haitian Creole translation jobs and DTP performed for Florida-based MONDIAL TRANSLATIONS INTERPRETING (Social Services, Educational, Websites, legal, mathematical, medical and HTML documents).
§ English>Haitian Creole translation and DTP jobs performed for Boston-based WORD WISE TRANSLATORS (Social Services, Medical Documents)
§ English>Haitian Creole translation and DTP jobs performed for Boston-based FOREIGN TRANSLATION SERVICES. (Social Services, Websites, legal, mathematical and medical documents).
§ English>Haitian Creole educational translation of social services documents performed for Miami-based CITITRANS.
§ English>Haitian Creole translation and DTP jobs performed for Miami-based CREOLETRANS (Social Services, Websites, mathematical, legal and medical documents).
§ English>Haitian Creole translation and DTP jobs performed for Boston-based BLITRANSLATION. (Websites, mathematical, legal and medical documents).
§ English>Haitian Creole translation jobs performed for Oregon-based TELEPORT TRANSLATION (Websites and legal documents).
§ English>Haitian Creole translation of social services documents performed for North Carolina-based US Translating Network (Websites, legal, mathematical and social documents).
§ English>Haitian Creole translation and DTP jobs performed for New York-based MERILLCORP (Websites, mathematical and legal documents).
§ English>Haitian Creole educational translation and DTP jobs performed for New York- based MULTI-LINGUAL TRANSLATION (Websites, mathematical and social documents).
§ English>Haitian Creole educational translation and DTP jobs performed for Massachusetts-based INLINGUA (Social, medical, mathematical and legal documents).
COMPUTER APPLICATION
a) Hardware:
IBM PC compatible
Laser Printer
High Speed Modem, Router
Fax Machin
Scanner, CD Burner, Zip Drive, USB, FTP Site
b) Software:
1- Translation Memories
TRADOS 7.1 with great skills in Tag Editors and Translator’s Workbench,
and SDLX Lite 2005
2- Word Processing
MS Word 2003 – Haitian Creole Spellchecker - ExamView 4.0.8
Corel Word Perfect 12 – Power Point 2003 – Excel 2003 – Quattro Pro 12
3- Desktop Publishing (DTP)
Quark Express 6.1 (PC), PageMaker 7.0 (PC), Frame Maker 7.1,
Adobe Photoshop 7.0, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Indesign CS, Corel Draw 12,
Corel Photo Paint 12, Corel Trace 12, Adobe Acrobat 6.0 (PDF reader and writer), Gemini Solo, Solid Converter PDF
c) Online Services:
High Speed Internet
CompuServe
REALIZATION
English Haitian Creole Dictionary in association with Educa Vision
(More than 70,000 entries)