Curriculum Vitae

Nationality: British and French

Mother tongue: English

Professional experience

• After 01/2007 Full-time professional translator

• 04/2005 – 01/2007 Part-time professional translator

• 02/2001 – 01/2007 IT Services Company COGNITIS France Senior Software Engineer, subcontracted to clients:

  • Société Générale (3 contracts)

  • Direction Informatique Services Financiers de La Poste

  • Renault S.A.

• 03/1999 – 02/2001 Ubizen (Courbevoie, France). Software Developer.

• 08/1984 – 03/1999 Prudential Bache International (London and Paris). Back office and front office positions.

• 11/1976 – 08/1984 Royal Navy: Radio Operator

Service at sea: 

HMS Ariadne 03/10/1977 - 28/01/1980

HMS Broadsword 01/04/1981 - 30/08/1982

HMS Danae 05/01/1983 - 26/06/1984

Specialist skills

• • Specialist in high-quality post-editing of machine translation for high-volume projects, sometimes with tight deadlines. Full post-editing consists of correcting intelligibility, grammar, spelling, terminological consistency, meaning (eliminating misunderstandings) and style (fluidity). All translations are intended for distribution/publication.

  • Specialist in the advanced use of MemoQ or Trados Studio.

  • Specialist in software development, particularly in Internet/Intranet applications for the financial services industry

  • Working knowledge of the following programming languages: Java; JavaScript; HTML; XML; Smalltalk; Eiffel; C; C++; Visual Basic; VBScript; Python; PERL; Object Pascal; PHP; COBOL;

  • Good knowledge of the financial markets and economic matters. My knowledge of financial and economic matters is kept up-to-date by reading the specialist press and through the research necessary for my work as a translator.

• Strong technical, financial and legal translation skills, kept up-to-date by constant research with each different project.

Training and diplomas

• 2024 Training in Linguistic Project Management (www.tradupreneurs.fr/)

• 2020 Institute of Data & Marketing Award in Digital Copywriting

• 2020 SDL Post-editing machine translation

• 2006 Institute of Linguists' Diploma in Translation (French to English)

• 1998 SUN MICROSYSTEMS: Certified Java developer

• 1997 Microsoft Certified Professional: Developing Applications with Visual Basic 5 – Windows Architecture 1

• 1997 The Open University: Diploma in Computing

• National Association of Securities Dealers Series 7 Examination

• National Futures Association Series 3 Examination

• Basic training: Radio Communications, Royal Navy

Professional associations

• • La Société Française des Traducteurs

  • Chartered Institute of Linguists (London)

  • HMS Broadsword Association

  • South Atlantic Medal Association