R A N D I S T E N S T R O P Telephone: Hvidovrevej 304, DK-2650 Hvidovre

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1 R A N D I S T E N S T R O P Telephne: Hvidvrevej 304, DK-2650 Hvidvre inf@bedre-sprg.dk F R E E L A N C E T R A N S L A T O R & L A N G U A G E C O N S U L T A N T s i n c e LANGUAGE COMBINATIONS I ffer translatin frm English, German, Nrwegian and Swedish int Danish and, in sme fields, frm Danish, German, Nrwegian and Swedish int English. LANGUAGE SKILLS READING WRITING SPEAKING DANISH mther tngue mther tngue mther tngue ENGLISH excellent excellent excellent GERMAN excellent very gd riginally very gd, nw rather rusty SWEDISH very gd If abslutely necessary If abslutely necessary NORWEGIAN very gd nn-existent nn-existent FRENCH fair a little very little SPANISH fair a little very little ITALIAN a little nn-existent nn-existent LATIN fair n/a n/a FIELDS Business, financial, HR develpment, legal, marketing, medical, scientific and technical material. Fr further specificatin, please refer t page 2. CAT TOOLS SDL Trads Studi 2011/14 Able t wrk in memq (n licence) EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND 1965: Quadrilingual crrespndent Cpenhagen Business Schl Danish, English, German, Spanish 1980: MA (Danish equivalent) University f Cpenhagen Principal subject: English Language & Literature Subsidiary subject: German Language & Literature Shrter curses Cmmercial French Legal English Legal and Financial English English Punctuatin Danish punctuatin Crprate Language Plicies - Caching Writers FREELANCE WORK PAGE 2 PRE-FREELANCE..... PAGE 4 REPRESENTATIVE MEDICAL TRANSLATION WORK... PAGE 5 HUMAN RESOURCE AND MANAGEMENT WORK..... PAGE 6 STYLE... PAGE 7

2 Page 2 f 7 FREELANCE WORK Translating frm Danish int English and frm English, German and Swedish int Danish (in alphabetical rder) dealing with animals animal husbandry, prfessinal articles and advertising material; agriculture agricultural machinery; autmtive cmplete descriptins f car mdels, including electric vehicles, brchures fr prestigius cars and technical manuals fr buses, lrries and frklift trucks; building/cnstructin mst aspects; business varius types f dcuments, including annual reprts as well as cntracts and ther legal material, cmpany prfiles, cmpany magazines, press releases; clthing; csmetics; dentistry; e-cmmerce; e-learning;envirnment - such as envirnmental reprts and descriptins f envirnmental remediatin and prtectin techniques; fashin; flrs slid wd and laminates; fd fd prductin, abattirs and dairies, fd and drink; frestry; furniture; heating, ventilatin, and air-cnditining systems; husehld appliances including swing machines; HRD - please refer t page 6; insulatin and insulatin materials; IT - prduct descriptins, training material, sales material; market research - questinnaires; material safety data sheets; mechanical engineering; medical subjects please refer t page 5; ffice equipment; printers and similar/related tls; persnal prtectin equipment - clthing and devices; pwer generatin; printing equipment; sanitary systems; surface treatment varius materials, cating, finishing; Surveys ranging frm questinnaires t inspectin by surveyr; technical subjects generally manuals fr electrnic, electrical and mechanical equipment ranging frm cnstructin site machinery, including varius types f laders with attachments, varius types f frklift trucks, lrries and buses, prductin and packaging plant, agricultural machinery and traffic signals t medical devices such as patient mnitring systems, X-ray systems, cardigraphs, pacemakers and surgical instruments;telecmmunicatins;training material varius target grups; turism; waste management; water treatment plants; wind energy systems.

3 Page 3 f 7 I have als advised n, revised and translated int English reprts and ther material and translating int English large parts f an evaluatin handbk published in cnnectin with SEQUaLs a three-year EU prject dealing with the evaluatin f the wrk f schls. taught technical translatin a curse f 60 lessns during the perid 25 February 13 March The curse was arranged by Dansk Systempartner a Danish IT Cmpany (later taken ver by Hands).

4 Page 4 f 7 PRE-FREELANCE : Carl Br Grup (Grntmij Carl Br A/S since 2006) Financial, legal, management and technical translatin. Als translated press releases and cmpany magazine and tested applicants. (The cmpany ffers cnsulting services within building, transprtatin, water, energy, envirnment, management, industrial technlgy, infrmatin technlgy, naval architecture and agriculture.) : Realkredit Danmark (mrtgage credit institutin) Legal Department: Legal and financial translatin. Wrked at the institutin s Lndn ffice fr three mnths and upn my return transferred t its Internatinal Department : Knud E. Hansen A/S (naval architects) English and German crrespndence. Translatin int English f specificatins fr varius types f vessels. 1983: Hechst Danmark A/S (pharmaceuticals) An intensive three mnths f medical/pharmaceutical translatin brchures and yung dctrs lectures held at medical cnferences (clinical trials divisin) : Nv Nrdisk (pharmaceuticals and health care) Mainly medical/pharmaceutical translatin research reprts, articles fr magazines and training material. Als a gd deal f financial translatin : The. Kch & C (average adjusters) Survey reprts and material fr lawsuits : Wrked as a temp frm several agencies t finance studies Danish, English and German crrespndence. Translatin between the three languages. Often sent t wrk fr lawyers. Als n call fr assistance t A/S Regnecentralen (see belw) : A/S Regnecentralen (IT cmpany) Danish and English crrespndence. Als translated training material and manuals. 1965: Ryal Danish Library Secretary t the administrative manager f the Library. Translated speeches etc. fr the Natinal Librarian.

5 Page 5 f 7 REPRESENTATIVE MEDICAL TRANSLATION WORK Cancer Medicine arund 60,000 wrds Cleaning equipment fr medical instruments arund 30,000 wrds Clinical testing system manuals arund 70,000 wrds Clinical Trials arund 25,000 wrds Cmplete patient mnitring system arund 25,000 wrds Dentistry arund 10,000 wrds Electr-cardigraph manual arund 40,000 wrds Heated blankets arund 10,000 wrds In vitr diagnstics arund 15,000 wrds Orthtics arund 5,000 wrds Ostmy prduct manuals/ifus arund 30,000 wrds Package labels and inserts arund 15,000 wrds Patient infrmatin fr vascular access systems arund 15,000 wrds Pharmaceutical patent applicatins arund 40,000 wrds Prtcls and ther material fr clinical trials (cancer, allergy, diabetes) arund 200,000 wrds Questinnaires arund 30,000 wrds Sample prcessing systems arund 200,000 wrds Scanning- and X-ray-based diagnses arund 250,000 wrds Spirmeter manuals arund 30,000 wrds Surgical instrument manuals/ifus arund 200,000 wrds Trachestmy prduct manuals arund 20,000 wrds Ventilatr manuals arund 55,000 wrds Wund healing therapy equipment arund 12,000 wrds X-ray system manuals arund 35,000 wrds

6 Page 6 f 7 HUMAN RESOURCE AND MANAGEMENT WORK While an emplyee f Carl Br Grup (please refer t page 3) I was assigned t the Cmpany University fr a year, during which I translated all HR material. This included HR-related plicies fr the cmpany handbk emplyment cntracts secndment-related material material relating t expatriate wrk material fr the annual emplyee assessment interviews emplyee material as well as guidelines fr the line managers wh cnducted the interviews. As a freelancer I have translated Psychmetric questinnaires and tests Definitins f different persnality types tw different systems Guidelines fr the evaluatin f psychmetric tests

7 Page 7 f 7 STYLE The reviewer s cmment n my translatin f a 26,000-wrd prspectus fr an internatinal barding schl: The translatin was very well dne in terms f creating and staying within the limits f a certain feeling, a certain writing style and a certain use f the language t appeal t the type f peple wh are likely t read the brchure and be caught by it. Randy is very gd at chsing wrds and varying the language t.