| Agency or freelancer: |
Freelancer |
| Address: |
89, Uverturii Blvd.
Bl. P16, Sc. 3, Apt. 84
Sect. 6, Zip 060936
Bucharest, Romania |
| Telephone: |
+40-21-4349518 |
| Fax: |
+40-21-4349518 |
| Email: |
d_voin@yahoo.com |
| Source languages: |
English, French |
| Target languages: |
Romanian |
| Fields: |
Financial, Hardware, Software localization |
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PERSONAL INFORMATION:
Name: VOIN Doru-Sorin
Date of birth: April 13th, 1972
Address: 89, Uverturii Blvd.
Bl. P16, Sc. 3, Apt. 84
Sect. 6, Zip 060936
Bucharest, Romania
Phone: +40-21-4349518
Mobile: +40-723-381892
E-mail 1: d_voin@yahoo.com
E-mail 2: doru@vtt.ro
URL: http://www.vtt.ro
Marital status: Married, one child
EDUCATION:
University of Bucharest - Foreign Languages Faculty (BA, 1994)
Major in English, French
PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND:
From July 1, 2003
Project Manager
Founder and owner of Voin Technical Translations (VTT), a translation company headquartered in Bucharest, Romania.
Voin Technical Translations (VTT) supplies upon request the following integrated services:
· Translations (different documents in electronic or printed format),
· Software & Website localization,
· Technical writing.
You can find more info by visiting our website http://www.vtt.ro.
May 1, 2002 - June 30, 2003
GeCAD Software – Technical Writer
Main tasks: Writing technical documentation (user’s guides, administration manuals, etc.) for the company’s products
(anti-virus industry).
You can see samples of my work on http://www.ravantivirus.com/support/documentation.php.
Several technical articles published on specialized websites and/or magazines.
· Fighting spam - available in English on the following web sites:
· Web Design Knowledge Base
· Security Knowledge Base
· RAV AntiVirus
· Far too many viruses in January 2003 - available in English on the following web sites:
· Security Knowledge Base
· RAV AntiVirus
April 2, 2001 - August 17th, 2001
TeleInvest SA - Technical Writer
TeleInvest SA is a Swiss-Romanian software producer. Main duties:
- Editing the technical documentation (User Guides, Administration manuals, Online Help) for the main products specified
above, in English or French, depending on the customer''s profile.
- Customer support
- Bug reporting & patching
- Technical support for the servers deployed at company's headquarters (running the following OSs: Windows NT, OS2/Warp and
Unix).
- Set up and management of the network (including a 20 computers LAN, remote connection - RAS servers, Cisco routers)
- Hardware/software assistance
- Training for end-users.
This job was carried out in St. Sulpice, Vaud county, Switzerland.
May 2000 - April 2001
LOMAC-ELiTE
Translator / Translation Manager / Project Manager
Lomac-Elite is a Polish-Romanian translation company acting in the software localization field. I was a member of the team
localizing an accounting platform for Oracle. My work was focused on the following software modules: OE (Order Entry), WSH
(Transport), OA (Oracle Assets), FI (Financial) and INV (Inventory). The total word count for software: around 250,000 words.
I was also involved in the translation of the HTML files for the same platform. Total word count for HTML files: around
1,000,000 words. During this period I've benefited from extended professional training, including training courses like
"Localizing Oracle - a practical guide on localizing Oracle R11i products".
Jan. 1997 - May 2000
The Body of Expert and Licensed Accountants of Romania (CECCAR) - Intl. Affairs Dept.
Counsellor
Main duties: Developing the contacts with other professional accounting bodies; writing official documents and
correspondence; organization of professional events (conferences, seminars); translation of official documents (ISAs, IASs).
This position also implied acquiring of accounting, banking and financial knowledge (specialized training courses) and
interpreting several specialized trainings set up by CECCAR with foreign speakers (English, French) for Romanian accountants
and auditors.
Oct. 1994 - Jan. 1997
Romanian National Press Agency
International News Dept.
Editor
Main duties: Editing news, headlines, articles on the international developments; official statements; other mass-media
related businesses.
RATES, AVAILABILITY & THROUGHPUT:
Rates: from EUR 60 / 1,000 words (source text); hourly rate (editing, proofing): EUR 25
Terms of payment: Net, 30 days
Usually available seven days a week, 10 hours/day
Throughput: from 2,000 words/day (typical) up to 4,500 words/day
HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE USED
3 PCs: Athlon XP 1800+, DDR 512 MB PC 2100, HDD 80 GB
Cable modem Internet always on connection
Trados 6.5 freelance edition
Transit 3.0 Satellite PE
WordFast 4.21
IBM Translation Manager
CatsCradle 2.8
All Adobe products
All Macromedia products
FrameMaker, Pagemaker, Quark Express 5.0
Complete MS Office XP suite
LANGUAGES:
English, French, German, Romanian - in all possible combinations
TRANSLATIONS:
Recent projects
For Thinkz (Spain):
Mustek – Power Must (UPS) documentation: User Manual, Cover Page, Technical specifications (EN>RO)
For other translation agencies (unable to disclose more info)
- Dell broadband router User Guide (EN>FR)
- software localization IBM WebSphere (EN>FR)
- ABB Crane manuals (EN>FR)
- different translation projects in automation and automotive fields
- different industrial manuals (EN>RO, EN>FR, EN<>DE)
- software localization office-like products (EN>RO)
- reviewing projects for Microsoft software products, different hardware manufacturers (Lexmark, Benq, Mustek) : EN>RO
Older projects
For CECCAR
- Different International Accounting Standard (IASs), International Audit Standards (ISAs),
European Accounting Directives and US General Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAPs)
For different publishing houses (excerpt):
- Joe Habraken - Absolute Beginner's Guide to Networking, 3rd edition
- Ron White - How computers work, 6th edition
- Paul McFedries - Creating a HTML page
- Clayton Walnum - Visual Basic .NET
- Jamsa - Visual Basic .NET Tips & techniques
- Neil Rackham - SPIN selling
- Peter F. Drucker - Innovation and Entrepreneurship : Practice and Principles
- Dictionary of management and finance
- Richard Poe - The Wave3 Way To Building Your Downline (Amaltea, 2001)
- David Robinson - Business Etiquette (Rentrop & Straton, 1999)
Over 10 printed books translated. Please visit http://www.vtt.ro for more information and references.
HOBBIES:
Chess, bridge
Travel
REFERENCES:
Upon request only |
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