Christian ROY, Ph. D

Christian ROY, Ph. D.

CURRICULUM VITAE

Date and Place of Birth: 29 January 1963, Quebec City

Nationality: Canadian

Address: 940 rue Duhamel, Longueuil QC J4L 2Y4 CANADA

tel.: 1 (514) 578-4932 FAX: 1 (450) 670-2046

E-mail:

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Hardware: Dell Dimension 1100 with Celeron D processor, Intel® 537EP V9x DF PCI Modem Software: Windows XP Home Edition, Office 2000, pcAnywhere, Norton Internet Security

College Degrees:

-D.E.C., Social Sciences, Collège de L'Assomption QC 1982.

-B.A. Joint Honours, History/German, McGill University, Montreal QC 1982-1985.

-M.A., with great distinction, History, McGill University, Montreal QC 1985-1986.

-Ph.D., Dean's Honour List, History, McGill University, Montreal QC 1987-1993:

Comprehensive Oral Exams,

Major Field: Contemporary European Intellectual History, 85% A;

1st Minor Field: German History from 1848 to 1945, 82% A-;

2nd Minor Field: Canadian History from 1867 to the Present, 82% A-.

-Part-time Master’s student in Orthodox Theology, Université de Sherbrooke, 2003-

Languages: native: French

spoken: fluently: English

adequately: German, Dutch, Portuguese, Italian

a little: Danish, Spanish

written: fluently: English

read fluently, written if need be:

German, Dutch, Portuguese, Italian, Danish

read only:

Spanish, Catalan, Occitan, Afrikaans, Swedish, Finnish, Hungarian, Russian

EMPLOYMENT
Organization, Location, Dates, Job Title, Supervisor, Duties

1. Université Laval, Quebec City, G1K 7P4 CANADA, 2002-, Researcher/Translator (Theology, Philosophy), Jean Richard/Thomas De Koninck, German to French Translation/Research
2. Centre international de formation européenne, Nice, 1998-99, Researcher (French History), Frédéric Lépine, Research/Editing/Proofreading
3. Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium), 1996-97, Hoover Fellow in Applied Ethics, Luk Bouckaert (Economics), Research
4. Concordia University, Montreal, 1993-94, Researcher (French History), Norman Ingram, Research/Data Processing
5. McGill University, Montreal, 1984, Cataloguer of Slavic Books, Hans Moeller, Data Processing

TRANSLATION EXPERIENCE
Since 1996, full-time freelance since 1999
Types of documents and subjects:
historical texts, literary texts, religious texts, philosophical texts (engineering ethics, historical anthropology, philosophy of science, etc.), tourist brochures, government agency newsletters and internal documents, NGO by-laws and conference packages, EU press releases, US official documents (e.g. tax forms), personal identification (e.g. birth & marriage certificates), jurisprudence, math textbooks, chemical industry employee surveys and labels, pharmaceutical and IE customer satisfaction surveys, promotional pharmaceutical texts, classical music CD booklets, phrasebooks (Hungarian, Turkish), video game scripts

LANGUAGE COMBINATIONS:
English-French (principal)
French-English (principal)
German-French (principal)
German-English (principal)
Dutch-French (principal)
Dutch-English (principal)

Portuguese-French (principal)
Portuguese-English (principal)
Spanish-French (secondary)
Spanish-English (secondary)
Italian-French (secondary)
Italian-English (secondary)
Swedish-French (secondary)

Swedish-English (secondary)
Danish-French (secondary)

Danish-English (secondary)

Afrikaans-French (secondary)
Catalan-French (secondary)

Averages rates:

Translation: CAN $ 0.10/target word or EURO 0.06/target word

Proofreading: EURO 0.02/target word

Membership:

-Member of Association des interprètes et traducteurs multilingues du Québec

-Accreditation in process from the Ordre des traducteurs et interprètes du Québec, as a certified translator from Dutch and German to French and English

Main translations:

French, German, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Swedish, Spanish, Finnish to English:

-Dow Chemical annual world-wide employee survey 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 for Services d'édition Guy Connolly, 24 avenue Mont-Royal # 1000, Montréal, Québec H2T 2S2 CANADA ().

French to English:

-" Resfab Manufacturier de Ressort Inc. vs Archambault ", from Revue de droit judiciaire (1986), 1997, and Quebec Superior Court judgments on appeals to damage suits, 2002, for Agence Le Monde, 302 Saint Antoine Est
Montréal QC, H2Y 1A3 Canada, www.alemonde.com, ;

-Articles on applied ethics for the European Ethics Network, based at the Faculty of Theology of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Deberiotstraat 26, B-3000 LEUVEN, Belgium, 1999-2000, some of which were published in Philippe Goujon & Bertrand Hériard Dubreuil, éds. Technology and Ethics. A European Quest for Responsible Engineering. Leuven, Peeters, 2001;

-Articles for Eco-Watch, the English version of the newsletter of the Réseau d’observation active of the Biosphère, as well as presentations, videos and internal documents of this museum on the ecology of water operated by the Canadian Ministry of the Environment, 160 Chemin Tour-de-l’Isle, Île Sainte-Hélène, Montréal, Québec, H3C 4G8 CANADA, 2000-2002;

-Text for an art book on Pierre Alechinsky, for ad Astra Translators, Købmagergade 26 C, DK 1150 Copenhagen K, Tel.: +45 33 12 13 18 fax: +45 33 12 13 58, e-mail: www.ad-astra.dk, 2006;

-Private investigation report, Congo cell phone network maintenance contract, Manifesto of the Bassa People of Cameroon for the United Nations Working Group on Indigenous Populations meeting in Geneva, July 31 to August 4, 2006, for Studio Melchior Srl, Via Gramsci, 10, I-10123 Torino, Italy, Tel. +39-011-5176230 fax 011-5176472 e-mail: , www.melchior.com, 2006.

-Management literature, website of Enfandise Foundation (collecting and publishing children’s sayings), for Les Mots bleus, 15, rue Etienne Dolet, Paris,F-75020, France, tel.: +33(0)688484657, , 2006.

German to English:

-"Spiritual Materialism – Individualized Mysticism: Constructions of West-East Identities by Catherine Clément and Peter Sloterdijk", paper given by Thomas Keller (Université des Sciences Humaines de Strasbourg) before an international conference in Sydney, Australia, July 1998;

-Code of Ethics and Social Responsibility of the Swiss Post, automotive industry contracts, insurance contracts and school certificates for Studio Melchior Srl, Via Gramsci, 10, 10123 Torino, Italy, Tel. +39-011-5176230 fax 011-5176472 e-mail: , www.melchior.com, 2006;

-Employment and school certificates, casting scripts, automotive industry contracts, Euro-Region concept study for A.A.C. Eildienst für Übersetzungen in alle Sprachen e.K., Lietzenburger Str. 65, 10719 Berlin, Germany, Tel.: +49-30-88 70 78 14 fax: +49-30-88 70 78 15 e-mail: www.aac-eildienst.de, 2006.

Dutch to English:

-Press releases for the website of the Dutch Presidency of the European Union, for eTeams Ltd. [formerly E-Training International], Bridge House, Scariff, Co. Clare, IRELAND (), Tel. 00353 - [0]61 - 921 121, Fax: 00353 - [0]61 - 921 693, 2004.

-Press release of the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs for ABGlobal Translations
14321 Notley Road, Silver Spring, MD 20904, U.S.A., Tel.: 301-320-3526, e-mail: , www.abglobal.net, 2006.

Flemish to English:

-Jozef De Vocht, C. SS. R., Eternal Memory! Father Achiel Delaere (1868-1939), The First Eastern Rite Redemptorist and Canada's Ukrainian Catholic Church. (Pater Achiel Delaere: Eerste Redemptorist van de Griekse Ritus. Een Bijdrage tot de Geschiedenis van de Grieks-Katholieke Kerk der Oekrainers in Canada. Jette, Belgium: Missieactie der Paters Redemptoristen, 1954), published by Laverdure & Associates, 194 Second Avenue North, Yorkton, SK, S3N 1G7 CANADA (), Gravelbooks in cooperation with Redeemer’s Voice Press, 2005;

Italian to English:

-Scholarly articles for the private historical research firm Paul Laverdure & Associates, 194 Second Avenue North, Yorkton, SK, S3N 1G7 CANADA (), 1996.

Portuguese to English:

-Contract for the building of the new Funchal aquarium in Madeira for Studio Melchior Srl, Via Gramsci, 10, I-10123 Torino, Italy, Tel. +39-011-5176230 fax 011-5176472 e-mail: , www.melchior.com, 2006.

Danish, Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch, Italian, German, French to English:

-Spend Data business records, for E Facilities Management and Solutions, 225/4, Mani Bhavan, Road No. 11, Chembur, Mumbai, 400071, India, phone: 25286828, fax: 25295162, http://www.efmands.com, , 2006.

English to French:

-John Gradwell & Malcolm Welch, «Initiation to Technology» High School textbook, McGill University, Montreal, 1983;

-By-laws of the Association for the Advancement of Scandinavian Studies in Canada (AASSC), 1992;

-Stephen Bigham, "Un regard pas si pénétrant que ça", in this author's Études iconographiques, Grez-Doiceau (Belgium), Éditions Axios, 1993, pp. 45-60, reissued as Iconologie: Neuf études, Rollisford NH, Orthodox Research Institute, 2005, pp. 5-14;

-Deborah Hughes-Hallett, Andrew W. Gleason et al., Calculus –Single Variable, Second Edition (Projet Harvard), math textbook (Calcul intégral) for the Province of Quebec’s French-language school system, with answers and teacher’s handbook, for Éditions de la Chenelière/McGraw-Hill, 7001, boul. St-Laurent, Montréal QC H2S 3E3 CANADA, 2000;

-Wayne Erdman, George Fawcett et al., Mathematics –Applying the Concepts (Toronto, McGraw-Hill/Ryerson, 2000), math textbook (Omnimaths) for the Province of Ontario’s French-language school system, for Éditions de la Chenelière/McGraw-Hill, 7001, boul. St-Laurent, Montréal QC H2S 3E3 CANADA, 2001;

-National Parks Service and Internal Revenue Service materials for AlphaOmega Translations, 9707 Rustburg Place, Fairfax, VA 22032, U.S.A., 2001-2;

-Jurisprudence, commercial catalogues and advertising for Choice Translating & Interpreting, Inc., 8701 Mallard Creek Road, Charlotte, N.C. 28262 U.S.A., 2002;

-HMV music store ads for Quebec, K International plc, Carina Building East, Sunrise Parkway, Linford Wood, Milton Keynes MK14 6PW, United Kingdom (www.k-international.com), 2003;

-Customer surveys (Bristol-Myers-Squibb, Nortel, IBM), franchise directives (Subway) and telemarketing scripts for Cetra Inc., 7304 Montgomery Avenue, Suite 8, Elkins Park, PA 19027 USA, 2003-;

-Telemarketing scripts for Xavier Lecomte, Canadian Translator & Associates, www.translatorassociates.com, 2004-.

-Press releases for the website of the Dutch Presidency of the European Union, for E-Teams, Bridge House, Scariff, Co. Clare, IRELAND, Tel. 00353 - [0]61 - 921 121, Fax: 00353 - [0]61 - 921 693, 2004.

-Videogame script for Esprit Translations (), 2005

-Heartburn medicine market research questionnaire for Miros Translations Int'l Ltd, 7626 New Second Street, Elkins Park, PA 19027 USA, , 2006.

-Bombardier Aircraft ad and announcements, steamer instructions, health supplement and cosmetics labels, By-Laws and Annual Meeting materials for the Native Women’s Association of Canada, for Aberdeen Languages Services Ltd. (), 68 Rosemount Avenue, Thornhill, Ontario L3T 6R9, Canada, Tel : 905-881-9318, Fax : 905-762-9963, 2006.

-Medical Equipment trade fair ad, for E Facilities Management and Solutions, 225/4, Mani Bhavan, Road No. 11, Chembur, Mumbai, 400071, India, phone: 25286828, fax: 25295162, http://www.efmands.com, , 2006.

-Rosenborg cheese labels, Pelikan luxury pen catalogue for LanguageWire, Ny Vestergade 7B, 1471 Copenhagen K Denmark, Tel.: +45 7023 0044, Fax: +45 7023 0054, e-mail: , 2006.

-Company newsletters for Mind Your Language, 11B Queen's Centre, Queen's Road East, Wanchai, Hong Kong, , 2006.

-David Orchard, «Se tenir debout pour le Canada?»(«Standing up for Canada»?), op-ed article on the Lebanese crisis for the on-line versions of the Montreal daily newspaper La Presse, Thursday, July 27, 2006, and of the Quebec City daily newspaper Le Soleil, Friday, July 28, 2006.

-David Orchard, «Pas en notre nom» («Not in our name»), press conference statement on the Lebanese crisis in Toronto, Friday, August 11, 2006.

-Corporate articles of association for Studio Melchior Srl, Via Gramsci, 10, I-10123 Torino, Italy, Tel. +39-011-5176230 fax 011-5176472 e-mail: , www.melchior.com, 2006.

-Tender for hyperbolic cooling tower re-pack for power station, for ISA Vertaal, 7 Januaristraat 51, NL-6227 BB Maastricht, Netherlands, tel. : (+31) (0)6 28737832, , www.isavertaal.nl, 2006.

German to French:

-Carl Schmitt, "Le nouveau 'nomos' de la Terre", in Krisis (Paris), no. 11: "Stratégies?", 1992, pp. 165-169;

-XIXth century Austrian hagiographic texts for the private historical research firm Paul Laverdure & Associates, 194 Second Avenue North, Yorkton, SK, S3N 1G7 CANADA (), 1996.

-Official certificates and courtroom interpretation for Agence Le Monde, 302 rue Saint-Antoine Est, Montreal QC, H2Y 1A3 Canada, www.alemonde.com, ,, 1999.

-Nine entries of Christoph Wulf, ed., Vom Menschen —Beltz Handbuch, 1997— for its French version: Traité d’anthropologie historique -Philosophies histoires cultures, Paris, L’Harmattan, 2002, namely: ‘Action’, ‘Argent’, ‘Beauté’, ‘Corps’, ‘Fête’, ‘Identité’, ‘Individu’, ‘Machine’, ‘Religion’.

-Team member of the international Projet Tillich-Troeltsch based at Université Laval, Quebec City, preparing French editions of the complete works of these two German theologians, 2001-; responsible for the translation of Paul Tillich’s German philosophical writings (1919-1933) and updating the translation of his Dogmatik (1927-1927); reference: Jean Richard (), Professor Emeritus, Faculté de théologie et de sciences religieuses, Université Laval, Quebec City, G1K 7P4 CANADA.

-Classical music CD booklets for Sophie Liwszyc, 148 av. des Champs, B - 4100 Seraing, Belgium, 2002.

-Abbott blood glucose monitor literature for Мετάφραση S.L. (Barcelona), tel.: 34 93 4154828, fax: F. 34 93 2180163 (), 2005.

Italian to French:

-Giacomo Leopardi, "Discours sur l'état présent des moeurs des Italiens", in Vice Versa magazine (Montreal), no. 41, April-May 1993, pp. 38-41.

Flemish to French:

-Early XXth century Flemish hagiographic texts for the private historical research firm Paul Laverdure & Associates, 194 Second Avenue North, Yorkton, SK, S3N 1G7 CANADA (), 1996;

-Robert Houthaeve, De gekruisigde Kerk van de Oekraïne en het offer van de Vlaamse missionarissen (Moorslede, Belgium, 1990), partial translation of monograph for the private historical research firm Paul Laverdure & Associates, 1996-1998;

-Correspondence from the archives of the Redemptorist religious order in Rome, for the private historical research firm Paul Laverdure & Associates, 194 Second Avenue North, Yorkton, SK, S3N 1G7 CANADA (), 2006.

Dutch to French:

-Driver’s licence for Agence Le Monde, 302 rue Saint-Antoine Est,
Montreal QC, H2Y 1A3 Canada, www.alemonde.com, , 1999;

-Press releases for the website of the Dutch Presidency of the European Union, for eTeams Ltd. [formerly E-Training International], Bridge House, Scariff, Co. Clare, IRELAND (), Tel. 00353 - [0]61 - 921 121, Fax: 00353 - [0]61 - 921 693, 2004.

Swedish to French:

-Translation of report cards, course marks and a cover letter for Agence Le Monde, 302 rue Saint-Antoine Est, Montréal QC, H2Y 1A3 Canada, www.alemonde.com, , 2004.

Finnish to French:

-Birth and marriage certificates for l’Agence Le Monde, 302 rue Saint-Antoine Est
Montréal QC, H2Y 1A3 Canada, www.alemonde.com, ,1999.

French to Portuguese:

-Texts aimed at the Brazilian contacts of the Biosphere, a museum on the ecology of water operated by the Canadian Ministry of the Environment, 160 Chemin Tour-de-l’Isle, Île Sainte-Hélène, Montréal, Québec, H3C 4G8 CANADA, 2000.

English to Spanish and German:

-Labels for Magnus Chemicals Ltd., Boucherville, Quebec, Canada, 1999.

Editing:

Hungarian, Turkish to French:

-Phrasebooks for social services employees of the City of Montreal, for Services d'édition Guy Connolly, 24 avenue Mont-Royal # 1000, Montréal, Québec H2T 2S2 CANADA, 2002.

Danish to French:

-Text of an art book on the prints of Pierre Alechinsky: Troels Andersen. Peter og Pierre. Paris: Editions Atelier Clot/ Kastrupgaardsamlingen & Sønderjyllands Kunstmuseum, 2005, for Les Mots bleus, 15, rue Etienne Dolet, Paris,F-75020, France, tel.: +33(0)688484657, .

French, Danish to English:

-Texts for an art book on Pierre Alechinsky, for ad Astra Translators, Købmagergade 26 C, DK 1150 Copenhagen K, Tel.: +45 33 12 13 18 fax: +45 33 12 13 58, e-mail: www.ad-astra.dk, 2006.

French:

-French literature paper for Aberdeen Languages Services Ltd. (), 68 Rosemount Avenue, Thornhill, Ontario L3T 6R9, Canada, Tel : 905-881-9318, Fax : 905-762-9963, 2006.