Michel Asselbergs

Certification

·      Atheneum-A (1984)

·      Mechanical Engineering (MTS WTB) (1998)

·      Translator French-Dutch / Dutch-French (2005, ITV Utrecht)

·      Legal translation English-Dutch / Dutch-English (2009, SIGV)

·      Legal translation French-Dutch (2010, SIGV)

Professional memberships

• NGTV (Netherlands Association of Interpreters and Translators)
• SIGV (Association of Court Interpreters and Legal Translators)
• SFT (Société Française des Traducteurs)

Other qualifications

Sworn at the court of Dordrecht (NL) for the combinations FR-NL, NL-FR, EN-NL, NL-EN

Relevant knowledge /skills

• Excellent knowledge and control of Dutch (mother tongue), French and English, reasonably well acquainted with German
• Highly familiar with technical subjects (especially mechanical engineering) and belonging terminology
• Software: MS Office 2007, Trados 2007, SDLX, SDL Studio 2009, MemoQ 5.0, Acrobat X Pro

Relevant work experience

• 2009-2010
  Translations in mechanical engineering (various machinery, army equipment, weighing equipment, small equipment) and in other domains (automotive, petrochemistry, construction, legal translation, patent translation, tourism)
• 2007-2008
  Freelance translations focusing on mechanical engineering, user manuals of various equipment, EU-related subjects, marketing, contracts, internet courses. Clients include Caterpillar, Sika a.o.
• 2005-2006
  A couple of freelance translations French-Dutch in various domains (general, biological, commercial/marketing, technical)
• July 2001- January 2008
  Technical writer at Huisman, a manufacturer of heavy lifting, offshore and other equipment
  http://www.huismanequipment.com/en
  This function implied technical writing (in English) of user manuals as well as reviewing, completing and translating the contributions from the various departments and disciplines within the company. I also did the editing and layout of the final documentation destined for customer use.
• End 2000- July 2001
  Temporary work as documentalist for HAM (now Ballast Ham Dredging B.V.)
• 1998-2000
  Writer and translator (French, English, German) of technical manuals at Numafa (now Systemate-Numafa: http://www.systematenumafa.nl), a manufacturer of industrial cleaning systems and poultry processing machinery

• Adobe Acrobat
• MemoQ
• PowerPoint
• SDLX Translation Suite
• TRADOS
• Adobe Framemaker 7.0, Microsoft Word and Excel 2003