TECHNICAL TRANSLATOR (SOFTWARE LOCALIZATION)

Christian Le Bras

2 rue du 11 novembre 1918

93260 Les Lilas

FRANCE

VAT: FR52 409 563 954

Tel.: (33 1) 48 46 38 60

e-mail: jfleming@club-internet.fr

TECHNICAL TRANSLATOR

(SOFTWARE LOCALIZATION)

WORK EXPERIENCE

2005 Translation of the "Workforce Scorecard" for Pearson Education

1998 Co-translation of "The Profit Zone" by A. J. Slywotzky & D. J. Morrison

1996 - to date Freelance translator involved in various IT projects: Sybase DBMS, SAP R/3

(for L’Oréal), CorelDraw7, Intergraph's InRoads, SPSS, various Lotus products

(for Sykes & Simultrans), Flight Simulator 2000 (for Bownes Global Services).

Various translations for Lionbridge using Logoport. Numerous translations of

business cases (from the Harvard Business Review) for INSEAD business school.

1995 - 1996 Technical translator, Lionbridge, France

1993 - 1995 Assistant lecturer in French, Northeast Normal University, China

Desktop publishing of two manuals for Chinese teachers of English

1991 - 1993 Technical translator, INK France (localization of various software products)

1988 - 1990 Technical translator, WORDSTAR FRANCE, Paris

Localization of WordStar 4 and WordStar 2000 (word-processing software)

1987 Translation of two books introducing C language (Eyrolles Publishers)

1983 - 1988 Technical translator, UNIXSYS (system integrator), Paris

Localization of various user manuals and software (UNIX and MS-DOS)

EDUCATION & TRAINING

1990 - 1991 Programming course on C language and UNIX

1982 - 1983 MA-level course in Technical Translation (IT), University of Paris VIII

1980 - 1981 Trilingual Secretarial Course (French, German, English)

1977 - 1979 National diploma in Business Translation, Paris (BTS)

HARDWARE PC Windows XP PRO SP2, ADSL, Office 2000, Trados 8.3, SDLX 2007