Frédéric Combes

Personal Data
• Nationality: Belgian
• Date of birth: 5th September 1981
• Place of birth: Ghent, Belgium
• VAT: E94038080
• Marital status: Married
• Address: Avda da Carabuxeira N°1 - 3A, 36960 Sanxenxo (Pontevedra), Spain

Education
• Higher education
Hogeschool Gent
Schoonmeersstraat 52
9000 Ghent (Belgium)
Type: Computer science
Hogeschool Gent
Schoonmeersstraat 52
9000 Ghent (Belgium)
Type: Office Management Business Translator
• Other
Participated in “international business study week” at Hogeschool Gent.
Attended following courses: Multimedia Project Management
- Multimedia Magic
- Synthetic personalities in computer software
- Intercultural workshop on comm. competence
- Image Processing

Languages
• Dutch: native language
• English: second language
• Spanish (Castellano): excellent knowledge, written and spoken
• French: excellent knowledge, written and spoken

Linguistic combinations
• English to Dutch
• Spanish to Dutch
• French to Dutch
• Dutch to English
• Dutch to Spanish

Hardware and software
• Operating systems:
Mac OS X 10.7.3 Lion, Mac OS X 10.6.6 Snow Leopard, Windows 7 Ultimate
• Office 2010:
MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Publisher, MS OneNote, Outlook 2010
• Internet:
ADSL 10 Mbit
• CAT tools:
- SDL Trados Studio 2011
- SDL Trados Studio 2009
- SDL Trados Suite 2007 (8.3.0.863), SDLX 2007
- SDL Passolo Essential 2011, SDL Passolo Translator 2011
- Idiom Desktop Workbench + proficient use of Idiom WorldServer
- Across 4 (Standalone Personal Edition)
• Other:
Adobe Acrobat X Pro

Work experience
• 2002 – 2006 Makro N.V. Eke, Belgium
IT Department: technical helpdesk assistant/translator
• February – July 2006 BnS Engineering Zelzate Zelzate, Belgium
Translation department: translator
• August 2006 – Present TransBox Sanxenxo, Spain
Freelance translator

References
References can be given on request.

• Across
• Adobe Acrobat
• Idiom WorldServer
• PASSOLO
• PowerPoint
• SDLX Translation Suite
• TRADOS
• Microsoft Office 2007 (Including PowerPoint and Microsoft Publisher), Across 4.0 Personal Standalone Edition