Freelance technical translator: English-French and French-English

NATIVE LANGUAGES : French and English with dual nationality and culture.

Born in England from a French mother and an English father, I was later raised and educated in France.
After finishing university, I worked from 1995 to 2004 in the UK as a process engineer in the water industry. I moved to France in 2005 where I have since been working full time as a freelance technical translator.

TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE :

10 years experience in the UK of which 8 years as a chemist/process engineer for a British environmental engineering consultancy part of the Suez group and 2 years as a process scientist for Severn Trent Water RD department.

MAIN SPECIALISATION:

Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
Environmental Studies and Environmental Engineering
Health and safety
Food industry, culinary and cookery
Mechanical Engineering
General and Industrial Engineering
Urban security

MOST RECENT TRANSLATIONS (FR<>EN):

• Health and safety assessments and requirements for various industries (nuclear, gas and oil, chemical, food, fisheries, transport and packaging).

• Material safety data sheets (SDS/eSDS) in line with ECHA guidance and REACH regulation.

• Technical sections in renewable energy tender documents: hydroelectricity, photovoltaics and biofuels.

• Environmental impact assessments (EIA, ESIA).

• General and technical environmental documents relating to water, wastewater and waste.

• Capacity reviews and plant upgrade documents in the oil and gas industry.

• Publications by the European Forum for Urban Security: “Citizens, cities and videosurveillance”, “GOAL – preventing violence in sport”, “EU street violence” publication and database, “Safer Drinking Scenes”, “Innovative strategies for the prevention of reoffending”, “Use of CCTV”, “Manifesto of Aubervilliers and Saint-Denis”.

• Motor industry: Website updates for a large US manufacturer. Tyre manufacturing manuals, presentations and specifications.

• Brochures for a large player in the mining industry.

• Pest control: pest database and treatment options, training course for pest control technicians.

• Industry: CNC machines, packing, labelling, logistics.

• Instruction and installation manuals for tools, site, office, medical and household equipment (from chemical tanks to filing cabinets, air scrubbers to washing machines, refrigerators to air conditioning units).

• General engineering - Instruction manuals, operating and maintenance manuals. General technical and scientific texts, mechanical engineering technical documents and equipment lists.

• Online training courses, automated helpdesks and voice prompts for IT / Sat Nav systems / games console.

• Surveys.

• Food industry: websites and brochures on cheese, chocolate, delicatessen, sustainable fish and industrial baking.

• Culinary, cookery, gastronomy: translation of menus, recipes, technical and creative ingredient lists.

EDUCATION :

1995 - DEA Ingénierie du traitement et de l’épuration des eaux - INSA Toulouse
1992-94 - Licence and Maîtrise de Chimie - Université de Bordeaux I
1991 - DEUG Physique-Chimie - Université de Bordeaux I
1989 - One year as a Rotary Exchange Student in Pennsylvania, USA
1988 - Baccalauréat D