Charlie Bavington

Educational Details
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July 1987
B.A. Hons in Business Administration with French
Loughborough University of Technology, UK

Professional Qualifications
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November 1996
Institute of Linguists’ Diploma in Translation (French to English)
(Merit awarded in the Technology paper)
University of Westminster, London, UK.

Professional Experience - Translation
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Experience Summary:

I have 15 years' experience of writing I.T.-related documents of all kinds, notably user requirements, technical specifications, operations guides and user guides.  I have also been an end-user of such documents produced by others. Therefore, I am able to offer a practical added-value which another translator without the benefit of years of both writing and using such documents would not.  I have some 6 years' experience of translating such documents, including 2 years living and working in Paris.

Freelance Translator: 18/02/03 – present

My translation experience includes:
- IT documents for Euler Group (see below): technical and user guides, test scenarios, specifications, etc.
- Various documents for an industrial waste processing company (internal group newsletter, brochures, etc.)
- Invitations to tender for rolling stock
- Documentation for a charity operating in developing countries on such subjects as running post-natal clinics, nutrition guides, an explanation of the organisation's budget procedures, guides for drilling water wells, etc.
- Website for a French telecoms/call-centre company, which apart from translating the text,  included ensuring that each page looked as it should in a web browser, and maintaining the links between pages.

Senior Analyst-Programmer: 09/05/95 - 17/01/03

Euler Trade Indemnity
One Canada Square, London E14 5DX
and
Euler SFAC
1, rue Euler, 75 008, Paris

During my time at Euler, I translated (from French to English) documents for each stage of the I.T. project lifecycle:
- Feasibility study
- System architecture selection
- Invitation to tender
- Software selection documentation
- Business Requirements specifications
- Program specifications
- Technical user guides for common modules, technical procedures (file transfer, etc)
- Business end-user guides for functionality - screens etc, training sheets

Plus more general documentation such as:
- a multilingual glossary of business terms
- discussion documents
- meeting minutes
- on-screen application error messages.

Professional Experience - IT
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Senior Analyst-Programmer: 09/05/95 - 17/01/03
Euler Trade Indemnity (ETI)
One Canada Square, London E14 5DX

From 1999, I worked exclusively on a project to build a single IT system for use by insurance underwriting departments in the UK, in France (ETI's parent company is French) and in the Dutch and Belgian subsidiaries. This role was a move away from what was previously an essentially technical IT role, both in this and in previous jobs. My everyday work - which could be summed up as specifying the system and then explaining the system to various parties, both end-user and IT - was conducted in both English and French interchangeably, including the writing of specifications in French.

I began my time at ETI working as an analyst-programmer on enhancements and minor projects on ETI’s in-house underwriting system, such as the installation of a name-searching system, and the implementation of Insurance Premium Tax in 1996.
In 1997, following ETI’s acquisition by a French credit insurer, I worked on projects to exchange information with our French and Belgian partners, both on-line and in batch mode, using both English and French software.

(Self-Employed) Analyst-Programmer: 04/01/93 - 28/04/95
F.I.Group (now known as Xansa)
Hemel Hempstead, Herts.

Maintenance and support of mainly financial (payroll, accounting) IT systems - responding to user requests or queries, programming, working on the on-line applications, creation and manipulation of files, on-call overnight support, and implementation of software upgrades.

Analyst/Programmer: 08/09/87 - 28/06/91
Northern Telecom Europe (NTE)  (now known as NorTel)
New Southgate, London, N11

Tasks essentially as per position with F.I.Group at Hemel (1993-1995) but with heavy bias towards payroll and including effective responsibility for that system.  Also worked on the successful project to outsource all mainframe software & systems to F.I. Group.