Jack Alexander CORRIGALL

German to English Translator

1 Post Box Cottage                                                                    tel: +44 (0)1803 770 246

New Road                                                                                 mob: +44 (0)7738 408 927

Stoke Fleming                                                                           fax: +44 (0)1803 770 246

Devon                                                                                       skype: jackcorrigall

TQ6 0NR                                                                                   email: info@8transl8.com

UK                                                                                            URL: www.8transl8.com

Language Pairs

Language pairs:             German to English

Mother tongue:              English

Fluent:                          German

Some knowledge of:       Mandarin, Cantonese, Portuguese, French

Specialist subjects:       Art & Culture, Literature, Food & Drink, Sport & Tourism, Marketing, Telecommunications, Alternative Energy, History & Politics, Institutional Language

Rates

Translation rates:           $0.11 – $0.16 per target word

Translation capacity:      10,000 words per week

Proofreading rates:         $40.00 per hour

Career

June 2009 – present: 8transl8 Translation, Stoke Fleming, Devon, UK

Freelance professional translation, proofreading and copywriting services for agencies and independent clients: academic papers, government websites and surveys, gallery and artist press releases.  Experience using, updating and creating termbases and translation memories; using OCR and processing various file formats and using and establishing company style guides.

July 2005 – present: Kate Marshall Art, Stoke Fleming, Devon, UK

Part-time work writing press releases, constructing and maintaining the website and organizing exhibitions and logistics.

June 2006 – June 2009: Fortescue Arms, East Allington, Devon, UK

Bar Manager at Michelin-recommended Austrian chef Werner Rott’s pub/restaurant.

May 2005 – May 2006: Lamper Head, East Cornworthy, Devon, UK

Project management of a luxury accommodation conversion.  Duties involved copywriting of promotional and instructional materials.

October 2002 – May 2005: Royal Castle Hotel, Dartmouth, Devon, UK

Bar Manager.  Responsibilities included copywriting for promotional events and menus.

September 2001 – September 2002: Arthropoda Music Promotions, London, UK

Responsible for design, copywriting and distribution of marketing materials and booking acts.

September 2000 – September 2001: see ‘Education’

August 1999 – September 2000: Diners International Translation Services, Hong Kong

Freelance translation, proofreading and transcription from written, recorded and live source material such as the Financial Secretary’s annual address at Government House.

Education

September 2008 – January 2010

Exeter University, Devon, UK                              MA in Translation with Distinction

September 2000 – August 2001                            

School of Oriental and African Studies                 Diploma in Modern Chinese (Mandarin)                         

University of London, UK                                      

September 1995 – July 1999

Keele University, Staffordshire, UK                      2:1 BA Joint Honors    

(1997 – 1998 at the University                             History and German (with subsidiary

of Regensburg, Germany)                                   Mathematics)

1988 –1995

Island School, Hong Kong                                   A level English and History, AS level German and Economics, 9 GCSEs including French        

1982 – 1988

Bradbury Junior School, Hong Kong

Technology

Software:           SDL Trados Studio 2009 Freelance

                        SDL Trados 2007 Suite

SDL MultiTerm 2009

                        SDL Trados 2007

                        SDL Passolo 2009

                        Microsoft Works Ultimate 2010

                        ABBYY FineReader 10 Professional Edition

                        Nitro PDF Professional

Hardware:          Dell Vostro 3500 BTS laptop

                        Intel® Core™ i5-460M (2.53GHz, 3MB)

Windows® 7 Professional with XP Mode Installed 32 bit

Ubuntu 10.10

Sony Vaio VGN FS315E laptop

Intel Pentium M740

Windows® XP

                        HP PSC 950 printer/fax/scanner/copier

                        BlackBerry Bold 9780

Other Qualifications and Awards

Associate of the Institute of Translation and Interpreting

Introduction to Subtitling Workshop, Imperial College London, using SysMedia WinCAPS

Scholarship with the DAAD German academic exchange

Keele University Modern Languages Department Award

British Institute of Innkeeping Awarding Body Level 2 National Certificate for Licensees

Referees

Dr. James Morris                                               Dr. Chloe Paver

Director                                                             Senior Lecturer in German

Checkmate Translations                                     Department of Modern Languages          

Timestep House                                                 SALL

Collingwood Close                                              317 Queen’s Building

Dartmouth                                                         Exeter University

Devon TQ6 9LX                                                  Devon EX4 4QJ

UK                                                                    UK

+44 (0)1803 834 379                                          +44 (0)1392 264 338

peter.morris789@btinternet.com                          C.Paver@exeter.ac.uk

• Adobe Acrobat
• Adobe Photoshop
• OmegaT
• PASSOLO
• PowerPoint
• SDLX Translation Suite
• TRADOS
• Abbyy FineReader Professional 10
  Nitro PDF Converter Professional
  Microsoft Office 2010