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Chinese > English
Language locales: English - United States
Editing, Proofreading, Translation Specialization | TOP |
Marketing, Medical, Patents Subject Areas | TOP |
Advertising, Anatomy, Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering, Biology, Biomedical, Biotechnology, Business General, Business Marketing, Genetics, Health, Linguistics, Medicine (General), Medicine - Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine, Medicine - Dentistry, Medicine - Medical Technology, Medicine - Microbiology and Bacteriology, Medicine - Neuroscience, Medicine - Nursing, Medicine - Occupational Health and Industrial Hygiene, Medicine - Ophthalmology, Medicine - Pharmacology, Medicine - Psychiatry, Medicine - Public Health Education and Promotion, Medicine - Social Psychology, Medicine - Toxicology, Molecular Biology, Patent Translation, Psychology, Radiation Biology, Science (General), Sport and Fitness Kerilyn A. Sappington
Chinese-to-English Translator
(Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese into English)
Oak Park, California
( 818-212-5419
Areas of Expertise
Back translations - Biotech patents - Clinical trial protocols
Editing - Healthcare materials - Informed consent forms
Market research - Medical journal articles
Prescribing information
Experience
December 1997 – present. Freelance Translator and Editor. Translate materials in medical, marketing, and technical subject areas. Edit translations for accuracy and consistency. Average 200,000+ words per year translating biomedical materials in the fields of general medicine (journal articles), biotechnology (patents), healthcare (drug prescribing information), medical devices (catheters and sheaths), and pharmaceuticals (clinical trial protocols, informed consent forms). Special focus on autoimmune diseases and novel therapies combining Traditional Chinese Medicine and Western pharmaceuticals.
October 1995 – June 1997. Focus Group Participant. Consulted for Bay Area focus groups performing market research of the car rental, children’s apparel, laundry products, natural-language search engines, and social networking sites.
June 1992 – September 1995. Producer. Worldview Systems, San Francisco, CA. Sourced, translated, wrote, and edited Asian destination content for fledgling travel web site. Translated Chinese to English and copyedited English content for destinations in the United States, the Caribbean, Europe and Asia. Sourced and managed overseas correspondents.
February 1991 – September 1992. Buyer and Catalog Writer. Eastwind Books, San Francisco, CA. Purchased Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) books for specialty bookstore supplying course titles to local TCM schools. Wrote copy for TCM catalogs.
September 1988 – June 1990. Library Assistant. Contemporary Chinese Studies Library, University of California at Berkeley. Berkeley, CA. Cataloged Chinese-language monographs for academic library focused on contemporary (post-1949) China. Supervised computer production of Chinese/English catalog cards, including proofreading of all English and Chinese materials. Sourced references for A Day in the Life of China (HarperCollins, 1989).
November 1986 – August 1988. Project Manager. Berlitz Translation Services. San Francisco, CA. Supervised freelance translators and editors in over 22 languages. Proofread translations from all languages. Coordinated multilingual DTP projects in European languages and Cambodian, Laotian, Tigrinya, Vietnamese, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean non-Roman scripts.
October 1981 - November 1983. Laboratory Assistant. Department of Genetics, U.C. Berkeley. Berkeley, CA. Responsible for weekend care and feeding of fruit flies (Drosophila melanogaster). Prepared media and food for fruit flies and performed basic lab tasks.
September 1981 - May 1982. Research Assistant. International Plant Research Institute. San Carlos, CA. Searched for reference materials and literature in the more than 26 branch libraries of the University of California at Berkeley, including the Botany, Genetics, Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Chemistry libraries. Arranged for duplication and mailing of requested articles.
Education
M.A. Chinese. San Francisco State University.
Advanced Chinese (two semesters). Mandarin Training Center, Taiwan Normal University.
B.A. Spanish. University of California at Berkeley.
Additional Coursework
Science Fundamentals Certificate (in progress). American Medical Writers Association. Basic Cell Biology. Basics of Molecular Biology. Immunology.
Chinese Perspectives in Holistic Health. San Francisco State University. Yin-yang, five-element theory, principles of qi, patterns of disharmony and health, and Chinese diagnostic and healing modes.
Copyediting. U.C. Extension, Berkeley, California.
Editing and Proofreading Translations. American Translators Association seminar.
Professional Organizations
American Medical Writers Association
American Translators Association
- Adobe Acrobat
- Windows Office XP
AMD Athlon 64 Processor, 2GB RAM American Translators Association, American Medical Writers Association, Society for Technical Communication
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