CURRICULUM VITAE

Translator:                     NGO TIEN QUYET
Working languages:     English, Vietnamese
Location:                         Ha Noi, Vietnam

Contact info:
Hand phone:                 00 84 9 12 32 38 32
Office phone:                 00 84 43 934 1056
Home phone:                00 84 43 6627 030
Fax:                                  00 84 43 934 1057
Email:                             quyet.ngo@vneway.com, vietnamese24@yahoo.com
Yahoo & Skype ID:        vietnamese24

WORK EXPERIENCE

2000 - present

Self-employed
Freelance Translator & Interpreter: English-Vietnamese

• Working with a number of companies and agencies on a freelance-basis. Areas of specialization include Automotive, Education, IT (Software & Hardware), Web design (in close collaboration with DuyViet IT JSC www.duyviet.com), Medical and Health Care.
• Affiliated to language centers in many universities, translation and interpreting agencies, event organizers; engaged in multilateral meetings, project interpretation (simultaneous) in the fields of business, finance, mechanical engineering, IT, international and humanitarian affairs.

2003 - present

Vietbook Company, Foreign Book Division

Language Assistant to Board of Directors, Book Translation & Publishing
IT Manager 

• Responsible for screening English books, following up on importing procedures, finding and assigning books for translation and publishing as well as editing and proofreading the Vietnamese version before printing.
• Negotiating with publishers and copyright holders to purchase publishing copyrights.
• Responsible for interpreting works for board of directors in daily meetings where I acted as an interpreter for shareholders, publisher rep., foreign businessmen, and the foreign relations section of company.
• Responsible for designing, developing, implementing, maintaining and repairing Wired, Wireless Network, Computer Systems.
  

2000 – 2005

IDP – Australian Education Promotion Company
Language Collaborator

• Translating and interpreting for the Education Exhibitors from various Australian colleges and Universities. Duties included: Being a language barrier remover for Vietnamese students and exhibitors and translating a large volume of education documents, brochures, application for admission, academic transcripts, school reports and certificates from Vietnamese into English and vice-versa.

2003 - 2004

HongLinh International Language Services

Translation Coordinator – Assistant to CEO

• Seeking interested and dedicated translators of all language pairs, working intensively with all members of the translation team of every assigned project in order to ensure quality assurance and to meet deadlines.
• Providing technical support to translators using Trados, Transit, SDLX, and Vietnamese input and conversion software.
• Proofread translated books before publishing.

2003

Vietnam Trade Union
Language Collaborator

• Providing translating and interpreting services to the India Union Delegations during their trip to Hanoi, Vietnam. Duties included translating a large volume of speeches and legal documents, from Vietnamese into English.
  

2000 – 2001

Ministry of Labor and Social Affair
Volunteer Translator/Interpreter and Tour Guide

• Providing translating and interpreting services to the Bangladesh Delegation during their trip to Hanoi, Vietnam. Duties included translating a large volume of speeches and legal documents from Vietnamese into English.

1999 - 2003

English Teacher, Private Tutor

• Providing 5 month English courses to 10 tailors, Sale staffs of the Phu Nhuan Company
• Providing Intensive English Courses and instruction to high school students to meet admission requirements for UK and US Universities.

EDUCATION

Hanoi University (previously, Hanoi University of Foreign Studies)
Ha Noi – Viet Nam
2003 - Bachelor of Art, Degree in English Vietnamese Translations

2004 - Intensive Vietnamese Language Course

2004 - Translator and Interpreter Career Orientation

Gifted High School – Nam Dinh – Vietnam
Award: Third medal in National English Studies Exam 

LANGUAGES

Vietnamese: Native Speaker
English: Fluent speaking, reading and writing

QUALIFICATIONS

• Translating, editing, and proofreading with precision and at competitive rates
• Experienced in using DTP and translation related software such as Corel, QuarkExpress, Dreamweaver and other CAT tools
• Independent and work well in a team environment

HARDWARE & SOFTWARE/TECHNOLOGY

• PC: Pentium4, 3,2 GHz; RAM: 2GB; Hard drive: 80 GB, DVD
• Laptop Dell Latitude ATG D6400 Core2Duo 2.53 GHz, 4GB RAM, DVDRW, 120 GB.
• Server: Core2Duo 2,0 GHz; Memory: 2GB; Hard drive: 1.5TB, DVDR
• HP Desk jet F380 All-in-One
• Internet broadband connection, 24-hours/day.
  
  

Packages:

Microsoft Office 2003 - 2007, Adobe PageMaker, Adobe FrameMaker, CorelDraw, QuarkXpress, Macromedia Flash, Dreamweaver, Freehand, Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign.

I can handle the following formats using the SDL Trados, STAR Transit system:
Microsoft® Office: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Publisher, Access, FrontPage
Adobe®: [All versions] InDesign, PageMake, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, Flash, FrameMaker, Acrobat, Photoshop
Quark®, WordPerfect®, HTML, SGML, XML, PHP (.php file translation), and other tagged formats

Translation Aided Tools: for the creation of new, high-quality translated material I use the most up-to-date market leading technology

STAR Transit, SDL Trados, SDLX Translation Suite, Metatexis, Wordfast Classic, Déjà Vu, IBM TranslationManager, Idiom WorldServer, MemoQ, MultiCorpora, MultiTrans, PASSOLO, TRANS Suite 2000, Sisulizer

CLIENTS & REFERENCE LIST

I have been involved in the translation industry since 2000 and the best evidence of my experience and quality of work is my far-reaching client base including businesses, government agencies, research and development organizations, academic institutions, not-for-profit organizations and private entrepreneurs.

The following are some of my clients:

• All Languages Ltd – Canada
• AsiaRain Automated Translations Pte Ltd - Singapore
• Translation Avenue – Healthcare coverage, manuals, flyers, DTP
• PT STAR Software Indonesia – Automotive Services Manuals
• New-Global Corporation – Press Releases, Labor Contracts, News, Certificates
• DELTALANGUE – Letters, Certificates
• GlobalVision – Healthcare coverage and guidance
• AppliedLanguages
• Cefiro Language services
• Company Translations – Holland
• Dow Global Translation
• Kap Center – Korea
• TRANSLEXinternational
• Studio Melchio – Healthcare coverage, manuals
• Berkeley Scientific Translation Service, Inc. – Software Localization
• International Development Program Co. (IDP) – Education Exhibition Interpreter
• Ilanguage – Forestry products marketing
• Vietnam Trade Union – Interpreting, Translation of Political and legal documents
• USAcademics – Education Material and Web page translation
• Pulse Group – Website localization, Flash application
• APlusTranslation – Proofreading
• Klique Solutions – Power Equipment and Manuals
• MOLISA – The Ministry of labor, Invalid and social affairs – Interpreting
• Tunhi Trading Company – Business Contracts and Bid Documents
• HongLinh Company – Translation, Proofreading, Editing
• EquestGroup – Education Materials, GreTest….
• AnyLanguage Network
• CBG Konsult & Information AB – Automotive documents
• Foreign Language Specialists - document translation
• EuroxTrade – website localization
• Eriksen Translations – document translation
• East Sun Translation - document translation
• Absolute Interpreting and Translations Ltd - document translation

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP

• Member of the International Language Services
• Member of English – Vietnamese Translators Network
• Accredited by Hanoi University of Foreign Studies – Translation Studies
• Master Member of TranslatorsCafé

PREFERRED PAYMENT METHODS

• Bank transfer (Bank details available upon request)
• Moneybookers (http://www.moneybookers.com)
• Western Union
• Xoom services (https://www.xoom.com) (PayPal related services)
• Paypal

PERSONAL INTERESTS

Photography, Reading, Translating, Surfing the Internet, Translation Related Technologies

• Adobe Acrobat
• Adobe Illustrator
• Adobe InDesign
• Adobe Photoshop
• Déjà Vu
• IBM TranslationManager
• Idiom WorldServer
• MemoQ
• MetaTexis
• MultiCorpora
• MultiTrans
• PageMaker
• PASSOLO
• PowerPoint
• QuarkXPress
• SDLX Translation Suite
• STAR Transit
• TRADOS
• TRANS Suite 2000
• Wordfast
• Sisulizer,Corel Draw 13, Illustrator CS2, Photoshop CS2, Quark press 7.0, In design CS 2, CS3, Macromedia Flash 8.0, Dream weaver MX, Autocad