alexis avedissian

 AVEDISSIAN  Alexis            

3 rue Cuvier 92500 Rueil-Malmaison France                                    

French Nationality     - Date of birth 20 July 1973   

Tel:  (0033) 645317116 aavedis@gmail.com / mnateam1@gmail.com

Translator (English / German to French) – 7 years                                                                                     

                                                                                                                                                                                    2004- now      

MNALanguages/ MNATEAM (SARL), Language services,                 

* Translation/ Proofreading:  5 years as a freelance translator:  English/ French (and German/French):

approximately 4,500,000 words

Examples of some of our translation projects:

- Business/ Finance (2,000,000 words): Annual report (2 financial years) - U.S. company listed on the NYSE (150,000 words), Financial documentation and user manual – Risk Management/anti money-laundering (350,000 words), Finance Management (20,000 words), Newsletter and internal news update (IT company – 100,000 words), etc.

- Engineering/ Technical translations (800,000 words): Course for solar water heater installers – Canadian Community Colleges (100,000 words), Instruction manual - Power unit – GE Energy (50,000 words), Instruction - Jet start engines (8,000 words), Regulation of the solar systems (10,000 words), etc.

- IT (800,000 words): Online training courses for Database management systems (70,000 words), Operation, Administration and maintenance Guide for Database management systems (110,000 words), OAM Guide for Fraud management systems (120, 000 words), etc.

- Other fields (400,000 words): Human resource (100,000 words), Software website (IT/ Marketing) (30,000 words), etc.

Editing/Proofreading: Financial software (200,000 words), Travel company’s website (20,000 words), etc.

ING Bank France, Financial Markets: Derivatives Trader                                             (Paris, France 2002-2004)

Management of three option books, (Proprietary trading AUD/USD, USD/CAD and EUR/SEK): (currency options and underlying currency). Updating and following up of the market parameters in connection with the Risk Management. Quotations and management of the spot rate for the institutional clients, along with the spot trader

ING Bank France, Market Risk Management (3 years): Risk Control Management      (Paris, France-1999-2002)

Result and sensitivity measurement, simulation on three types of activities                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               

* Equity Risk arbitrage (volatility arbitrage: bonds and convertible bonds, stock arbitrage).

* Directional equity trading on a basket of European Stocks, Options on stocks. Value at Risk

* Equity swaps (exchange of performance between Indices) (45 Mo Eur). Following up of the Eurostoxx50 hedging and result calculations

SOCIETE GENERALE: Equities and Derivatives (9 months: trainee)                             (Paris, France – 1998)                                    Trading floor, Stocks and Indices: Options, Futures, Warrants                                                                                

Issuing derivative and structured products: warrants, pricing of structured products

LESENS - groupe VIVENDI (4 months : trainee)                                                               (Paris, France -1997)

- Field survey: improvement of the company’s marketing (electrical work)                                                           

GIE Lyon Nord - consortium BOUYGUES- SUEZ LYONNAISE (3 months: trainee)    (Lyon, France -1996)

Assistant to Business Engineer – Quality Control of two subcontractors                                          

S.N.R (1 month: trainee) Annecy: Translation of a technical document into French

(Translation of a user manual for a machine tool - 60,000 words)                             (Annecy, France-1995)

EDUCATION

Grenoble 3 Stendhal – Bachelor’s degree Teaching French as a Foreign Language (Français Langue Étrangère) by distance- learning                                                                                                                   2008-2009

ESCP: Masters Degree, Finance, (European School of Management, Paris), top leading French Graduate Business School, Paris                                                                                                                                           

                                                                                                                                                                         1997-1998                                                                                                                       

ESTP: Masters 2, Mechanical and Electrical Engineering (École Spéciale des Travaux Publics, (School of Civil Engineering - Paris)                                                                                                                     1994-1997

Janson de Sailly: scientifically orientated subjects for French Engineering School                      1992-1994

LANGUAGES

English, German: fluent

Thai: spoken (Intermediary level)

French : Native language

Stay abroad: Germany (8 months), England (2 months), United States (9 months)

PERSONAL DATA

Enjoying hiking, reading

Interests in psychology                                                                                                     

Visited countries: Greece, Ivory Coast, Malaysia, Thailand, China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Taiwan, Sri Lanka, India

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