RESUME
Name : ALAIN BLAISE NGONO
Address: Nairobi (Kenya)
Kirichwa Garden Flats
PoBox: 44776 – 00100 Shalom Language Services
Email:
[email protected],
[email protected]
Tel: (254) 789 153 827 / 020 521 3063
Skype: ShalomLanguageServices
Current job title: French Translator and Founder of Shalom Language Services
Source language: English
Target and native language: French
Duties:
- Prepare a terminological database
- Translate scripts, press releases, PR and Marketing documents for a leading global telecoms operator in their 19 markets across Africa and Asia.
Skills:
- Produce high quality translation work within prescribed deadlines.
- Good interpersonal and communication skills. Excellent command of the French and English languages.
- Ability to place team agenda before personal agenda, and to support and act in accordance with final group decisions, even when such decisions may not entirely reflect own position.
- Ability to identify priority activities and assignments, and adjust priorities as required; and to use time efficiently.
- Ability to produce high quality translation work within prescribed deadlines.
- Computer literacy and familiarity with commonly used translation technology.
- Commitment to pursuing in-service training, external study and/or independent study to acquire the ability to perform at higher levels of difficulty and complexity.
Software used
- Déjà Vu, Computer Assisted Translation ;
- Trados, Antidote ;
- Windows 2007 ;
- MS-Office 2000 Professional (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Front Page);
- Linguistic databases : TERMIUM, Grand dictionnaire terminologique, and TransSearch.
Some references
- Ogilvy Africa
- Airtel Africa
- Xinhua News Agency
- Ogilvy Advertising
Additional information
- I am a French native Speaker who studied in Canada.
- I use a 3G+ Internet modem and i am online 20h per day.
- I use a PC with Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox
- I also use SDL Trados Multiterm
- I have an instant Messenger Account (
[email protected]) and a Skype account (ShalomLanguageServices) through which we can keep in touch.
- I can translate between 2,500 and 3,500 words per day.
- I am ready to undergo a quick evaluation test to show my proficiency and professionalism.