CCURRICULUMVITAE

Name: Lawrence

Surname: ORLOH ENONGENE

Tel: +237 33-42-3817 Extension 1144; +237 99-99-7507

E-mails: ;

Skype name: Lawrence.orloh.enongene

Language Combination:FrenchEnglish

OBJECTIVE

A confident communicator, self-motivated and a good team player, I aspire to consistently provide quality, reliable and cost effective language services thatcontribute in furthering my clients’ objectives and aspirations.

DOMAINS OF COMPETENCE/KEY SKILLS

  • Certified translator
  • Editor/Proof-reader
  • Teacher of English as a Second/Foreign Language
  • Trainer (TOEFL)

ACADEMIC BACKGROUND & PROFESSIONAL TRAINING

2009: Master of Arts in Translation: Advanced School of Translators and

Interpreters (ASTI), University of Buea

1994: Post-graduate Teachers’ Certificate:Higher Teacher-training College (ENS)

Yaounde

1992:Bachelor of Arts (English):Faculty of Arts, Letters and Social sciences,

University of Yaounde

1986 - 1988: General Certificate of Education, Ordinary and Advanced Levels.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE & SHORT LIST OF RECENT TRANSLATION TASKS

2007: Academic Internship at the Ministry of Secondary Education, Cameroon.

2008: Participated in the Seminar on New Trends in Professional Translation;

University of Buea, Cameroon.

Translated

-Projet cahier de charge de la convention de visite et de soins avec AES Sonel (1814 words)

-Published novel - J’aile sida by Blasius NGOME(22129 words)

-Proposal for the Organisation of an EMPLOYMENT FORUM - University of Buea (1267 words)

-Annual Report, MINSANTE, Cameroon (More than 6000 words)

-Sundry documents including Cadre juridique for SETAPRA Sarl

Edited

-New Frontiers in English for Secondary Schools in Cameroon, 2009, Cameroon Publishing Company Ltd.

Proof read

-Modernisation de la raffinerie de Limbe (More than 4500 words)

-Secondary Physics; Secondary Mathematics; Secondary Physics – Macmillan Cameroon Plc

LANGUAGE SKILLS

-English Language: (native): written, spoken, Excellent skills

-French: written, spoken, very good skills

COMPUTER SKILLS

Windows 2007

-Microsoft Office

  • Word
  • Excel
  • Publisher
  • PowerPoint

-Adobe

  • Illustrator
  • Reader
  • Acrobat Pro
  • PageMaker
  • Photoshop

-Pdf files

-Internet access 24/7

CAT TOOLS

-SDL Trados Studio 2009

-SDL Passolo 2009

-Trados 2007

-Wordfast Pro (6)

OTHER KNOWLEDGE

-Teacher of English as a Foreign Language

-Teacher of English as a Second Language

-Teacher of Literature in English

-Teacher of French for Professional Purposes

-Examiner: Office du baccalauréat

-Examiner: The Cameroon General Certificate of Education Board

-Certified Trainer, Junior Chamber International (JCI)

EXTRA-PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

-Columnist (Pep up Your English) SONARA News

-Former Secretary General of the Parents’ / Teachers’ Association (Board of Trustees) of the Parents’ National Education Union (PNEU, Limbe)

-Immediate Past President of the “Amicale des Cadres de la SONARA”, a non-political social group of senior staff of the National Oil Refining Company Ltd.

RESEARCH

-Teaching Translation: Evaluation at ASTI, UB

A thesis submitted to the Advanced School of Translators and Interpreters (ASTI) of the University of Buea, in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the award of the Master of Arts (M.A.) in Translation, Supervised by Professor Emmanuel N. Chia. (Buea, July 2009)

-The Influence of Oral Tradition on Contemporary African Fiction: Focus on Ngugi Wa Thiongo’s The River Between and Devil on the Cross

Adissertation submitted to the Higher Teacher Training College (E.N.S.) Yaounde of the University of Yaounde, in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the award of the Post-graduate Teachers’ Diploma (DIPES II) Supervised by Professor S.A. Ambanasom. (Yaounde, August 1994)

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REFERENCES

  1. Professor Emmanuel N CHIA, Professor of Linguistics, Former Director of the Advanced School of Translators and Interpreters (ASTI), University of Buea; Tel: (237) 77756071 E-mail:
  2. Mr Charles Tiayon, Senior Translator, Deputy Director, ASTI, University of Buea; Tel: (237) 99840873; E-mail:
  3. Mr Blasius NGOME,(Author) Director of Public Relations and Communication, National Oil Refining Company Ltd, P.O. Box 365, Limbe;

HOBBIES

Reading, movies, organising weddings, cooking, swimming, tennis