Christopher DeSantis

4310 South Diana Way

Salt Lake City, UT 84124-3802

Telephone: (801) 652-3423

Fax: (801) 272-4651

email: mailto:ccdesan@comcast.net

http://mywebpages.comcast.net/ccdesan

“Translation for the 21^st Century”

CHRISTOPHER C. DeSANTIS

•     Quality written translations from FRENCH, ITALIAN, and GERMAN into ENGLISH

•     Translations delivered in various PC formats as needed.

•     Internet, E-mail, Fax, 56K Modem

EDUCATION

1978-1980 BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY Provo, Utah

      1. Master of Arts in Applied Linguistics

Thesis: "Towards the Automatic Selection of Prepositions in the Interactive Computer-assisted Translation of English to French."

      2. Certificate: Teaching English as a Second Language        

1969-1974 UNIVERSITY OF UTAH  Salt Lake City, Utah

            Bachelor of Arts, Magna cum Laude, in French, Italian, and English

OCCUPATIONAL EXPERIENCE

1977-Present    FREELANCE TRANSLATOR

Providing quality translations from French,  German, and Italian into English for clients in a wide spectrum of fields.  Specialties: Data Processing/Software Localization, Industry/Manufacturing, Agro/Chemical, Religion, Medicine

2002-Present    OLYMPUS COVE HEALTHCARE – Holladay, Utah

Director, Administrative Support - Administration, billing, IS management for  Olympus Cove Healthcare, a private family-practice clinic in Holladay, Utah.

1985-Present  THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS

    Translation Department  Salt Lake City, Utah

Localization Project Manager, Computational Linguist, Translation Supervisor - responsible for supervision of teams translating ecclesiastical texts into Turkish, Albanian, Bulgarian, Romanian, Slovenian, and Serbian; management of internal localization projects; team management, job tracking, quality control, pre-production supervision.

1984  ALPS, S.A.  Neuchâtel, Switzerland

  Customer Support Specialist - responsible for customer support and satisfaction, customer training, sales and marketing support, trade shows and exhibitions of ALPS translation aids throughout Europe.

1982-1984  AUTOMATED LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS Provo, Utah

  Linguistic Systems Analyst - responsible for design and development of computer-assisted translation systems: French-English, German-English, Italian-English; lexicography, language analysis and development of linguistic processing algorithms in Algol and Pascal.

1980-1982  STATE OFFICE OF FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT  Olympia, WA

  Senior Design Programmer - responsible for financial database system design and maintenance. IBM MVS/OS JCL, PL/I

1978-1980  TRANSLATION SCIENCES INSTITUTE  Provo, Utah

  French Team Leader - responsible for research on and development of language modules for Brigham Young University's Interactive Translation System.  IBM VM/CMS, PL/I

•  French, German, and Italian teams

TECHNICAL INFORMATION

Computer: PC, Office XP (MS Word XP, Excel, Power Point, Access, Front Page); Pagemaker; 56K Modem.

TM Software: SDLX Professional

PERSONAL INFORMATION

•  Born 15 June, 1951, in New York City, USA.  

•  Married; three children

Linguistic Ability

Fluent in English, French, German and Italian; general translation ability into English from Spanish and Portuguese; communication ability in Croatian, Serbian, and Japanese; familiarity with numerous other languages; working knowledge of all world writing systems.