Candidates About
LANGUAGES: English – Dutch
TRANSLATION AND INTERPRETATION AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Legal (including patents), life sciences, general technical, public policy documents, telecommunications, tourism/hospitality, and personal documents. Foreign Language Officer (as contractor), U.S. State Department. Volunteer, United Nations On-Line Translation Volunteers. U.S. Departments of Justice and State Public Trust Clearance. Contract translator, National Geographic Society.
EDUCATION
Stenographic and Typewriting
Translation Course Dutch and English to Papiamentu
Translation Course Papiamentu to English and Dutch
Translation Course Spanish to Papiamento and English
Translation Course English and Papiamentu to Spanish
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Translator and Interpreter (fulltime 2000 – present)
Translation: Recent clients have included major law firms in Washington, DC, many domestic and international translation agencies representing Fortune 500 corporations (ASML, Philips, ING, AHOLD, Heineken, ABN-AMRO, KLM Cargo, Skyteam, Fortis Bank, Ketel One, Ladbrokes, Monsanto, HP, Bayer, Eli Lilly, Merck, Solvay, BMS, Johnson & Johnson/Janssen, Valeant, Pfizer, Schering Plough, Synthon, Ancron, TheraTech, Wyeth, Sepracor and others, involving legal matters, clinical trials, medical devices, manuals etc.), medical texts (patient and lab reports, medical journal articles and clinical research documents), the U.S. Department of Justice (thousands of pages for 3 agencies with government contracts), numerous domestic agencies and individual clients, the U.S. District Court for D.C., and the U.S. Postal Service. Interpretation: U.S. State Department’s International Visitor Leadership Program, depositions and on-site legal document reviews, Department of Justice (Federal District Courts) and U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission cases.
On-Site E-Discovery Document Reviews: Mayer Brown, Kreindler & Kreindler, Cadwalader, Skadden Arps, Gibbons, Kenyon & Kenyon, Sullivan & Cromwell, Goodwin Procter, Howrey LLP, Cooley & Godward, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, AngioTech Pharmaceuticals, Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler, and Oliff and Berridge.
Born and raised in the Netherlands.
EDUCATION
Pre-university education at the ‘Algemene Middelbare School’ (AMS)
Subjects: Dutch, English, Spanish, Economics, Sociology, Geography, History
1996-1997: Post-graduate Course, Teaching Specialization in New Didactics, High school Katholieke Leergangen, Tilburg, The Netherlands
1994-1995: : Post-graduate Course, Teaching Specialization in adult education and Dutch as second language, High school Katholieke Leergangen,Tilbug, The Netherlands
1993-1994: High Vocational School, Tourism and Recreation Management, Instituut Notenboom, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Higher education
Three-year teacher training course Spanish at the ‘Instituut voor de
Opleiding van Leraren’ (IOL), first and second year completed
Licentiate in Translation Studies course in Dutch, English,
Portuguese, at the ‘Erasmushogeschool Brussels’ (Erasmus Institute), the Department of Applied Linguistics, from 1989 till 1996
Licentiate in Translation obtained on 28 June 1996
Postgraduate course in International Relations followed at the Catholic University of Leuven from October 1996 till September 1997
SPECIALIZATIONS
Dutch, English, Portuguese, French Written and oral translation of general and specialized texts
(legal/medical/slightly technical/economic and IT-related texts), written communication techniques (letter-writing), oral synthesis
EXPERIENCE
Embassy of the Republic of Suriname in Brussels
Work carried out:
– general and legal translations into Dutch from English and French
-legal translations into English and French from Dutch
-letter-writing in English and French
-answering of the telephone in French
-Co-worker at the Automation Department of the Regional Health Service Foundation (RGD) in Paramaribo,
from 28 June till 13 September 1999 (voluntary work)
Work carried out:
Registration of patient data with Navision Financials, database programme
February-July 2000Administrative Assistant employed by the European Union and the United Nations Development Programme (National United Nations Volunteer)
Work carried out:
-general and legal translations into Dutch and English
-oral translation of general and legal texts
-interpretation of documents and at meetings
-administrative, secretarial, logistic support to the Coordinator of the European Union Observation Unit, to the Principal Election Adviser and to the Logistician (Project elections 2000 in Suriname)
Freelance translation work from May till August 2000 in Dutch, English and French for the World Confederation of Labour in Brussels
-Freelance translation work and oral translation (among other things via the Internet) into Dutch, English, Portuguese and French for Surinamese and foreign clients since 1 October 2000 (Translation Bureau Interlingua founded), for among others; the Police: translation work, translation from the page and oral translation at interrogations and for rogatory commissions (English, Portuguese, French, Dutch); Court/Public Prosecution Office: oral translation into Dutch/English/Portuguese/French; the French Embassy: translation work into Dutch and French; the Dutch Embassy: oral translation and translation work into Dutch and Portuguese for the Police Liaison Officer at the Embassy; World Wildlife Fund (WWF): translation work and oral translation into English and Dutch; UNDP: translation work into English/Office of the European Commission in Suriname: translation work into English and French; VSH United: oral translation (the British Consulate) into English/VSH Company: translation work into English and Dutch; other companies in Suriname: Soeng Ngie & Co./Fernandes Bakery en Bottling/Telesur/CKC Surmac/Atcar Chemicals: translation work into Dutch and English; lawyers, undertakers and private persons from Suriname, French Guiana, Guyana, Brazil, China: translation work (of official documents among other things) and oral translation into Dutch, English, Portuguese, French; translation work into Dutch and English for foreign translation agencies (in the USA, Canada, Spain, the Netherlands, Belgium, the United Kingdom, China, Belarus, India, Hungary, Germany, Greece, France, Egypt);
March 2006: oral translation into English for the Californian Cal’s Safety Compliance Inc. (visit of a Consultant to the Coca Cola Company in Suriname)
October 2005: oral translation into French and Dutch for the Deputy Prefect of Saint-Laurent (French Guiana)
June and October 2005: oral translation into French and Dutch for the French Special Intervention Team (RAID)
November 2005: Oral translation into French for the French Customs Service
April 2006: oral translation into French and Dutch for a French Rogatory Commission and for the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Justice (visit of a Judge and Police Commissioner to Suriname)
August 2006: oral translation into Dutch and Portuguese for the Police of The Hague (The Netherlands) in Paramaribo/Suriname and in Belém and Manaus/Brazil
October 2006 oral translation into French and Dutch for the ‘Conseil Régional’ (Regional Council of French Guiana)
January-July 2001 Teacher of French conversation at the ‘Alliance Française du Suriname’
June 2007-April 2008 Part-time interpreter-translator French, Dutch, English, at the French Embassy in Paramaribo
Work carried out:
-Translation of newspaper articles from Dutch into French
– Translation of official documents from French into Dutch and English
– Oral translation into Dutch and French
May 2009: oral translation into English and Dutch for the Californian Cal’s Safety Compliance Inc. (visit of a Consultant to the Coca Cola Company in Suriname)
November 2010: translation English-Dutch at the 4th Summit (for Heads of States and Government) of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) and Related Meetings