BENOIT DEEG
21 Victoria Rd.
1st Floor Flat
Mobile +44 (0) 7898135037 Oldfield Park
Tel. +44 (0) 1225 353 165 Bath, BA2 3QY England
Language Pairs: French, German, Spanish to English
Mother-tongue English
Native fluency French and German
Fluent Spanish Date of Birth: 29th December 1980
Read/written Polish Nationalities: France / United States
TRANSLATION SECTOR EXPERIENCE AND HIGHER EDUCATION
Aug 2008-Sep 2009
Translator/Editor Language Connect – London, England
Broad experience translating, editing and performing QA checks on documents from French, German and Spanish into English in the areas of business and finance, law and contracts, certificates and licenses, medicine and science, travel and tourism, sales and marketing and many other areas. The work focussed on ensuring that the resulting translations were thorough, complete and effective while observing strict deadlines and maintaining professional relations with customers.
Sept. 2007 – Sept. 2008
M.A. (Distinction) Translation and Professional Language Skills University of Bath – Bath
Degree included coursework in translation from French and German, editing, revision, proofreading, interpreting, and practice with translation memory software and translation management. Work included general, marketing, medical, internet, tourist, administrative and government texts.
March 2008
Student Translator European Patent Office – Munich, Germany
Placement included extensive real-time translation and revision using Translator’s Workbench, database programmes and other research methods. Work included budget presentations, public relations releases, administrative reports and presentations.
Sept. 1998 – June 2003 University of Washington – Seattle, USA
B.A. International Studies
B.A. Political Science
Minor in German Literature
FURTHER LANGUAGE SECTOR WORK EXPERIENCE
Jul 2007 – Aug 2007
Senior Teacher Stafford House Study Holidays – Bath, England
Assisted in the management and administrative duties of a summer language programme while planning and teaching an English course and advising and assisting junior teachers in their duties.
Sep 2006 – Jun 2007
English Teacher Eurocenter Language School – Koper, Slovenia
Planned and taught corporate, financial, administrative and tourism-sector English language courses to professional clients and formal writing classes to language students.
Jul 2006 – Aug 2006
English Teacher Stafford House Study Holidays – Bath, England
Planned and taught an English course to foreign students.
Sep 2004 – Jun 2006
English and French Teacher Global Village Language School – Kielce, Poland
Planned and taught business, general language and formal writing courses in collaboration with Polish teachers.
July 2004 – August 2004
Travel United States and Europe
Jan 2004 to Jun 2004
English and French Teacher The English Planet – Vielha, Spain
Taught administrative and tourism-sector language courses to hotel staff as well as general language courses.
FURTHER INFORMATION
Technical competence
Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista, all Microsoft Office products (Word, Excel) and translation memory software. Thorough experience of various research methods.
Interests and sports
Travel, politics, international relations, cycling, literature, hiking, and film
REFERENCES
Ben Taylor Dr Christine Tipper
Managing Partner Director
Language Connect LLP Tacitis Ltd, European Language Services
London, England and
Lecturer and previous Course Director MA in TPLS
Dept. of ESML, University of Bath
Bath, England