Technical English to French and French to English translator

Landry Lefort

Landry Lefort
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  • 37 years old
  • Caen  (14000) France
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Professional status
Freelancer

Job/career Yes, I'm available

Technical English to French and French to English translator

I am a French technical translator looking for new customers and I am available for a lasting collaboration or simply for one-off projects. I spent the last 10 working years between corporate companies and the Academic system, mainly the French Education Nationale, that I have now quit due to my willingness to work freelance, as well as my much wider definition of the words quality and education. Widely used to CAT, I will both be fast and self-demanding over the quality of the end product. Also a good translator should always respect the time frames he has agreed with and I will dedicate myself to the completion of the task within the terms agreed between both parties in order to keep you as a partner.

Skills

Technical and general translation

  • Translation of legal, tax related and business documents
  • Historical reviews and books. Other fields: sports, tourism, travel, politics, arts
  • Technical brochures, manuals, instructions for use, website translation, software localization (French)
  • Copywriting. Marketing campaigns, slogans in French.
  • Translation of résumés and curriculum vitae

Proofreading

  • Proofreading of all kind of documents on the afore mentioned themes

Languages

  • French : mother tongue
  • English: higher proficiency
  • Italian: spoken higher proficiency, written advanced proficiency
  • German: advanced

Computer skills

  • MS Office 2007, all file format conversion software
  • CAT (computer-assisted translation): SDL Trados, Wordfast Pro 2010
  • OCR (optical character recognition): ABBYY Finereader 10

Professional experience

Education

Capes d'anglais (French concours to qualify as a certified teacher, Masters degree recognized qualification)

IUFM Caen (October 2006 - July 2007)
  • Preparation and success at first attempt at the "CAPES d'anglais" (ranking within top 20%). Translation training, English lingusitics and philology, teaching theory and practice.

DU adjoint de direction des PME (Bachelor degree in Business administration)

IAE de Caen (October 2003 - June 2004)
  • Marketing, Law, Public Relations, Accounting, Management, Business Administration in France. Transfer of prior acquired knowledge and terminology (Britain and Ireland) from English to French.

Licence LLCE anglais (English language bachelor degree)

Université de Caen (October 1995 - June 1998)
  • Third year completed at University College Dublin (major in Irish History and Litterature)

Interests

Travel

  • Numerous travels around Europe, the Middle-East and Africa. 6 years spent abroad in total.

Sport

  • Football (soccer): club practice and perfect opportunity to gather friends for fun
  • Squash: regular practice as a fitness method

Cinema

  • World cinema (Danish, Czech, Bosnian, Russian...)