Professional native Hindi translator, Trans-creator & Proofreader
Creative writer
Master’s degree in Hindi language and literature
Bachelor’s degree in English Literature
9+ years of extensive and diversified experience in translations

OBJECTIVE
To become a premier provider of translation and value-added language services to businesses throughout the globe and to go ahead with an effective process and an ongoing eagerness to exceed my client expectations make my solutions simply among the best and more affordable in the industry.

PERSONAL INFO
Date of birth: September 24, 1976 / New Delhi / India
Civil status: Married, two children (born in Dec. 2005 & Dec. 2009)

Education:
2001-2002 – Master’s degree in Hindi language and literature, Delhi University
1999-2001 – Bachelor’s degree in English literature, Delhi University
1997-1999 – Diploma in Computer Programming and System Management
2006-2007 – Diploma in creative writing, IGNOU, New Delhi

 Services:

- Translation
- Software localization
- Trans-creation, Creative writing, Proofreading & Editing
- Transcription
- Subtitling
- Typesetting & re-keying
- Professional evaluation of translation tests

EXPERIENCE

2001-till present - Freelance Translator for clients and agencies worldwide (cooperating with more than 60 direct clients and more than 150 translation agencies worldwide, having more than 30 regular clients)

2003-till present - Freelance Hindi Scriptwriter for National Radio Channel, All India Radio, AIR, 79 scripts on AIR till date.

Areas of Expertise

MULTIPLE. Fields of specialization as per below:

• Telecommunication Localization, Manuals, and Brochures etc. More than 10,00,000 words (mobile strings) have been Translated so far for various Mobile companies in China and for Nokia, Siemens etc.
• Pharmaceutical (medications’ instructions for use, inserts/labels/carton texts, MA papers and research documentation on various pharmaceutical components and medications). Medical Translation of Patient Information Sheets, Concern Forms, Medicine and Drug Brochures, Health Care Documents, Health Care Ads, Health Care Questionnaires, etc. Dr. Reckeweg & Co, Glennmark Limited, Cadila Healthcare, Herbal Life Inc, Dr. Shaklee; are some of the companies that I have in-directly worked for Medical Translations, apart from that I have undertaken many more ICF translations from many reputed translations.
• Legal  (Translation of Legal Examination Question Papers, Govt. Documents, Marriage & Death Certificates, Insurance Claim Documents, Immigration Documents, Patents, Contracts, Pleadings, Various personal documents, etc.)
• Technical (instructions, user’s manuals & catalogues for machinery, constructional machines & tools, constructional parts & materials, household power tools, etc.)
• Software (localization of software for mobile phones, Volvo trucks & busses, traffic control devices, warehouse management solutions, Computer games etc.)
• Finance & banking (financial & accounting reports, books on banking practices)
• Insurance (life insurance documents, contracts, instructions, promotional leaflets, etc. for Gestfinanz, Switzerland)
• Electronics (instruction & user’s manuals for consumer electronics - home appliances, entertainment systems & equipment, various kinds of electronic devices, digital cameras & video-cameras, digital imaging products, mobile phones, etc.)
• Marketing & advertising (promotional materials and PPT presentations for Sony-Erickson, Toshiba, Beko, etc.)
• Art (Art Brochures, Books, Interviews, Movie subtitling TV Games/Video Games)
• Literature (Creative Writing, Poetry, Novels, Stories, Short Stories, Play/Drama, Theatre, Screen-plays and Subtitles etc)
• Media (Print Media, Press releases, Interviews, Advertisements, Short Plays (Adaptation for Indian context & Tag/Punch Lines,)
• Business correspondence
• Foreign Affairs (Immigration, Interpreting, Law etc.)
• Transportation & automotive (instruction manuals and service bulletins for Volvo trucks and busses, Fiat & Zastava)
• Multimedia (subtitling, dubbing, narration, audio-transcribing: movies, commercials, documentaries, cartoons, corporate, travel and marketing promotional clips, web-sites)
• Religion (Hinduism, Buddhism)
• Literature (novels, poems, short stories, children’s books, word’s games)
• Cultural, music-related (classical, modern) and art-related (medieval, modern, museums) texts and newspaper articles
• Travel, tourism (promotional video, audio and printed materials)
• Fashion, cosmetics (women’s magazines’ articles on fashion, modeling, nutrition, cosmetic products)
• Education (Literary, Educational & Children Books, Humanities, Social Science)
• Personal documents.
• Comics (Snoopy, Garfield)
• Games (presentations, newspaper articles)

MEMBERSHIP

INDIAN TRANSLATORS ASSOCIATION

2004 till present –Founder Member of Indian Translators Association (www.itaindia.org). This is the only Translator Association in India.

Profile: http://www.itaindia.org/members_list.pdf

PRICING

Pricing for any service vary depending upon a number of factors viz. Subject, Difficulty, Word Count, Turn-around time and Deliverable output. My rates are based on the Source word count as determined by the word count feature in MS-Word. An idea to that is as under:

Translations: USD 0.07 to 0.12

Proofreading: USD 0.03 to 0.05

Minimum charge: USD 20