Sunshine Wang

14252 Culver Drive, #A-444

Irvine, CA 92604

Tel. 949 551-8811

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Objective

To obtain contracts as a freelance interpreter (fluent in English and major Chinese dialects)

Education

M.B.A. May 1985

School of Business and Economics, Chapman University Orange, CA

B.A. Shanghai, China

English major, Shanghai University of Foreign Languages

Experience

Freelance Translator/Interpreter/Writer More than 25 Years

Sunshine Translation and Interpretation Services Fulltime Since October 2001

  • Freelance interpreting consecutively and simultaneously for schools and local business communities at numerous events of business conferences, meetings, legal counseling, medical surveys, marketing researches and social services’ interviews, telephone conversations and movie/video’s voice-over, dubbing, and recording, etc.
  • Freelance writing and/or translating websites, movie scripts, legal documents, proposals, presentations, catalogs, sales literature, news stories and special reports, medical and technical materials, etc.
  • Wrote two essays/critics for “Dictionary of the 20th Century Chinese New-styled Poems”(1997)
  • Translated famous works from English into Chinese, all published and some were republished again and again in China, such as:

“The Recluse” by 1978 Nobel Prize Winner, Issac Bashevis Singer (1980)

“Up Michigan” by Ernest Hemingway (1981)

“War and Remembrance” ( the first part) by Herman Wouk (1988)

Senior Linguist/Production Manager August 2000 to October 2001

TheOne Technology Group Irvine, CA

  • Managing linguistic production/workflow;
  • Coordinating and implementing marketing plans and post machine translation project assignments;
  • Post machine translating, editing, and proofreading documents both online and off-line in Word, PowerPoint, Excel, HTML, pdf, JPG or other file formats.
  • Organizing resources for linguistic production of demo, web page/text, presentations, proposals and graphics for diversified clients, such as Cisco, Oracle, Hewlett Packard, FreeDrive, Asia Infinite, Ogilvy, Alive in Singapore, Diamond Capital, Biz Currency, Accu Weather, Country Watch, GoldQuest, Gamer, Acterna, Pacific Venture Group, Morgan Stanley and Dean Witter, TheOne Technology Group, Language Doctors, etc.
  • Responsible for QA and signing off the completed projects;
  • Helped testing, designing, executing and testing software applications;
  • Building relationships and coordination with corporate customers;
  • Compiling and editing user’s dictionary;
  • Modifying the rules of Lexicon;
  • Writing instructions, reports and correspondences, etc.

Authorized Representative (Insurance and Investment) May 1990 to August 2000

Prudential Santa Fe Springs

  • Hands-on marketing, prospecting, promoting, and underwriting personal lines and business insurance of property and casualty, life, health, long term care insurance and mutual fund investments;
  • Problem solving and coordinating;
  • Being responsible for maintaining investors/clients relationships;
  • Planned, scheduled, budgeted, organizes and gave seminars on financial planning, insurance and investment in English and/or Chinese;
  • Helped write and design the company’s sales brochures and some other materials in English and/or in Chinese.

Assistant Manager January 1981 to June 1985

Chao’s Inc. Anaheim, CA

  • Supervised co-workers;
  • Trained new employees;
  • In charge of daily operation;
  • Checked and reported sales;
  • Bookkeeping;
  • Wrote correspondences and training materials, etc.

Graduate Assistant September 1982 to May 1984

Chapman University Orange, CA

  • Assisted undergraduate students with Finance course’s study;
  • Checked exam papers and homework;
  • Wrote correspondences and reports for my school appointed professor;
  • Provided students counseling, etc.

Educational Inspector of High School English September 1978 to September 1980

Jinhua County Educational Bureau Jinhua, China

  • Responsible for the whole county’s high school English education related matters;
  • Wrote and compile the text books and studying materials;
  • In charge of hiring and training teachers of English;
  • Organized and gave seminars/summer school classes for the teachers and TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language) classes for the high school graduates;
  • Provided sample exams and getting the high school graduates ready for the unified college entrance examination;
  • Read and recorded high school text books for teachers;
  • Controlled the standards of English teaching and learning in the schools of the entire county;
  • Budgeted for the items related to high school English education;
  • Wrote reports and correspondences, etc.

Teacher of High School English September 1970 to August 1978

De-Jiang High School Gui-Zhou, China

  • Taught English and helped other teachers improve teaching skills;
  • Checked homework and exams and provided student counseling, etc.

Membership and Affiliations

  • Active member of ALTA (American Literary Association);
  • Accredited member of ATA (American Translators Assosiation): Active member of CLD (Chinese Language Division), ID (Interpreters Division), and LD (Literary Division);
  • Member of NASD (National Association of Security Dealers), 1992-2000;
  • Member of NAIFA (National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors), 1992-2000;
  • Member of LUTCF (Life Underwriter Training Council), 1994-2000;
  • Elected Chairman of Bilingual Parent Advisory Committee, Irvine School District, 1998; Committee member, 1990-2000;
  • Alumni Association Committee member, Chapman University, 1985-present;
  • Advisor council member of Estate and Trust Planning Committee, Chapman University, 1993-Present;
  • Council member of Corporate Membership Development, Chapman University, 1994, 1996 and 1999.
  • Active member of TAC (Translators’ Association of China), Shanghai, China.

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