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| Title: | Always meeting deadlines and accuracy |
| Posted by: | Dan Butuza |
| Location: | , |
| Date: | August 16, 2003 |
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Details: Name Dan BUTUZA Date Of Birth August 6, 1969 Present Address Cluj-Napoca, Cluj, Romania Marital Status Married Native Language Romanian Working Languages Romanian, English Background I've been translating since 1994, starting with miscellaneous documents during my academic years, then then becoming a certified translator in the field of literature (2001). I worked 4 years (1998-2002) as a translator/interpreter in a military unit. Throughout these years I did various translation works covering many fields: literature, technical, medical, psychology, patents, operator manuals etc. I work mainly for agencies in USA and Romania. Most of my translation work is for Schreiber Translations (mostly patents) and Yu-Jian-Yo Language Services (documents and user's manuals for wood processing company). In Romania I work on a regular basis for a company named Transmondo (located in my residence town): architecture documents, user's manuals for pumps, printing presses, electrical instruments, safety data sheets etc. Education And Qualifications 1984 - 1988 “Petru Maior” Highschool in Gherla, Cluj, Romania 1989 - 1996 Technical University in Cluj-Napoca, Electrotechnics Faculty, Electrical Engineering Work Experience Apr. 1998 - July 2001 Type Of company: Military Unit - Rapid Reaction Force in Dej Post: Translator/Interpreter Responsibilities: translation of military documents; teaching english language; interpret for the commander and his staff in their official activities with foreign delegations July 2001 - October 2002 Type Of company: Military Unit – 7th Operational Corps in Dej, Cluj, Romania Post: Analyst/Programmer Responsabilities: developing software in Visual Basic 6.0 October 2002 - Present Full time freelance translator Rates As I am now a full time freelance translator offering translation services throughout the whole week, I deem it necessary to give you details regarding my rates and my computer equipment. If I am to give precise figures, my rates would stay between 5 and 9 US cents/sw, with an extra 50% for editing (if required). For proofreading my rates are 50% of my translation rates for documents above 1000 words. For documents under 1000 words I charge a fixed amount of 20 USD for unpretentious texts and a fixed amount of 30 USD for texts that contains heavy terminology. All the rates charged for each job vary depending on the volume of work,subject matter, technical content, legibility of text, delivery format and the timescale of the work. My daily capacity is approximately 2000 words. I work with MS Office XP, QuarkXpress 5, Adobe Photoshop 6, Adobe PageMaker 7, Adobe Framemaker+SGML 6.0, CorelDraw 9. My only CAT tool is Wordfast 4.2. I have an AMD Duron at 900 MHz with 256 RAM, a 40 Gb HDD, a CD-ROM, a 56K voice/fax external modem and an inkjet printer. Miscellaneous In 1996 I took the TOEFL test with a score of 637, as well as Test of Written English with a score of 5 (scale from 1 to 6). In May 2000 I gave the test for receiving the title of certified english-romanian translator (literature). The grade I took was 8.5 (scale from 1 to 10). My hobbies include soccer, swimming and volleyball. As for my passions I must mention music (I play classic guitar) and literature. |
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