Terry Thatcher Waltz, Ph.D.

PLEASE NOTE: As a full-time professional translator, I work ONLY into my native language (US English) on written translations. However, as a conference interpreter working with Chinese, I work bidirectionally between Chinese and English in consecutive and simultaneous modes. Please note that I do *not* offer telephone interpreting services, nor do I translate handwritten Chinese documents, edit work into English not performed by qualified, native-English-speaking translators, or offer discounts for the use of CAT tools. Minimum charge applies to all jobs.

WORKING LANGUAGES:
Translation: Chinese>English, Spanish>English
Interpreting: Chinese<>English (simultaneous, consecutive and escort); Spanish<>English (consecutive and escort)

Major Translation Projects Have Included the Following Areas of Specialization:

o         Legal (contracts, legislation, correspondence, patents, summonses, briefs, etc.)

o         Technical (patents, semiconductors, engineering, electronics, technical reports and conferences, product specs, industry reports, etc.)

o         Medical (drug trials, research papers for publication, doctors'' case files, lab experiments, etc.)

o         Government (regulatory, open-source monitoring, development plans, compliance, etc.)

o         General (advertising, business correspondence, building management, frozen foods, stationery products, immigration documents, certificates, magazine articles for publication, essays of former Taiwanese presidential candidate, watercolor exhibitions, etc.)

Instructor for various oral interpretation classes (escort, consecutive and simultaneous): National Taiwan University, Foreign Service Training Institute of the ROC (ROC Ministry of Foreign Affairs), National Taiwan Normal University, etc.      

Ph.D., Applied Linguistics, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA. 

M.A., Conference Interpretation, Fujen Catholic University, Taiwan, ROC.

M.A., Mandarin Chinese, Department of Oriental and African Languages and Literatures, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA.  

BSLN, Linguistics, and BSLA, Chinese, Georgetown University, Washington, DC. 

Certificate in Consecutive and Simultaneous Interpreting, Chinese Culture University, Taipei, Taiwan (160 hours)

Certificate in Medical Interpretation, Northern Virginia Area Health Education Center (AHEC); Spanish and Mandarin Chinese (40 hrs.)

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  Full Chinese capabilities (traditional and simplified characters)