Ensuring style and accuracy in French to English translation. Business, legal and marketing texts. Experience including: freelance translation (over 560,000 words translated), translation project management, and Masters-level translation training on long-term projects. Capacity: 1,500-2,000 words per day. CAT Tool: SDL Trados.

Professional experience:
Full-time independent translator. Four years of experience with translation, proofreading and editing, specialising in business, legal and marketing fields. Numerous clients in over 10 countries. Clients include translation agencies, businesses, individuals, universities and international academic institutions.

Key achievements:
• Over 250,000 words of business contracts translated.
• Translations of official government strategy papers and reports for education and taxation.
• Over 60,000 words of culture and current events articles translated.
• Continually positive feedback from a long list of clients.
• Numerous translations and articles published online.
• Accreditation by the South African Translator’s Institute.
• Translation of two full-length novels.
• Received multiple awards and scholarships for my undergraduate and postgraduate studies.