About
As a translator by training, I understand the importance of multilingual communication. My educational and professional background in computer technology gives me the power to make it happen. I started programming computers when I was 8 (a Texas Instruments TI-99/4A) and went to France for the first time when I was 15 (I spent many summer in Brest), and thanks to the possibility of dual majors in college, I didn’t have to give up either of my passions.
My first professional experience was as a technology business consultant, but I soon yearned to return to my French ‘roots’ so decided to go to graduate school to get my M.A. in French translation. After graduate school I worked for a few years as a project manager at a translation company. It was the synergy of all three of these experiences – business consulting, translation and project management – that lead me to the field of localization.
As a Multilingual Media Engineer, I help my clients produce translated documents that look just as good as the original. Whether cookbook or comic book, talking head video or Flash animation, nothing is impossible to present in another language.
Recent Projects
Subtitling project from French into three languages. I handled transcription of the source language, and generation of final video files.
RoboHelp project for a software company from English into three languages. I prepared the files for translation and compiled the final output.
PageMaker and QuarkXPress DTP project from French into six languages. There were five files totalling just under 200 pages. I prepared the files for translation, imported the translations back into PageMaker and Quark before doing post-translation cleanup.
Past Experience
2005-2007 – Project Manager for Medialocate in Monterey, CA
2003-2005 – M.A. in French Translation at the Monterey Institute of International Studies in Monterey, CA
2000-2002 – Experienced Consultant for Arthur Andersen/BearingPoint in Chicago, IL
1996-2000 – B.A. in Computer Science and French at Indiana University in Bloomington, IN