Salmah Mohamed Cornelius

SALMAH NUR MOHAMED is a certified Bahasa Malaysia / Malay translator (native tongue speaker) with excess of 500,000 words translated to date. She has over eleven years' work experience, holding various posts including Product Marketing Executive,  Account Manager and Writer in established and reputable companies including national telecommunications provider Telekom Malaysia Berhad (6 years), Antaragrafik Sdn Bhd, an internationally linked GIS software company (1 1/2 year), Creative Advances Technologies / Virtual Malaysia magazine and website (2 1/2 years) and Mercy Malaysia, a non-profit medical relief organization (1 year).

Experienced in producing various travel articles, translating, creating advertising copy for various print and web marketing projects, producing scripts and voice-over for a number of promotional and corporate videos, she has worked with various satisfied clients including publication companies, advertising agencies, government agencies, Translation Agencies, as well as Publishers. She registered Sal Translations in 2007 to facilitate her translation work and With the help of a small team of fellow translators and proofreaders, Sal Translations tends to documents ranging from articles to newsletters, advertising copy to website content, presentation material to books and official government documents.

Her goal is to continuously improve her writing and translation skills, and provide highly affordable, timely and accurate English - Malay - English translation services. 

ACADEMIC BACKGROUND

University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA (1992 - 1994)
B.A., Business Administration.
Double Majors: 1. Marketing 2. Human Resource Management
CGPA : 3.11 / 4.00

Centre of Preparatory Studies (KPP-ITM), Malaysia (1990 – 1992)
Freshman & Sophomore studies for overseas twinning programme.
Top 85th percentile (top 15 %) nationwide English SAT (Scholastic Aptitude Test)  ; 650/677 TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language) score.

Sijil Perperiksaan Malaysia (SPM / GCE), SMK Kuala Kubu Bharu, Selangor (1989)
Grade 1, Aggregate: 11 (including A2 in Bahasa Malaysia, A1 in English)

Sijil Rendah Pelajaran (SRP / LCE)), SMK Kuala Kubu Bharu, Selangor (1987)
Grade 1, Aggregate: 8 (including A1 in Bahasa Malaysia, A1 in English)

• Adobe Acrobat
• Adobe Photoshop
• Microsoft Office Suite (Powerpoint, Word, Excel)