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“The Peripatetic Polyglot”
Past Projects
- Interviewed hundreds of international candidates for administrative, translation and forestry positions.
- Led group trips and undertook solo business trips to Asia, the Middle East, Central America, North America, South America, Europe and Africa, to meet and negotiate with suppliers and customers of raw and semi-finished material and manufacturers of processing machinery.
- Managed West African business for an Asian company for eight years.
- Set up subsidiary companies in West Africa.
- Negotiated hundreds of international raw material purchasing contracts in Asia, North and South America, Europe and Africa.
- Negotiated sales of newly engineered products from Asia to North and South America, Europe and Australasia.
- Negotiated the lease of forestry concessions with top government officials in West Africa.
- Negotiated with suppliers of semi-finished material and manufacturers of processing machinery in Asia, North and South America, Europe and Africa.
- Negotiated stevedoring fees with shipowners in Asia and Africa.
- Expanded a large Asian manufacturer's supplier and customer bases in Europe, West Africa, South America, North America and other parts of Asia.
- Marketed and sold finished and semi-finished products from mills in China and the Philippines to clients in Asia, Australasia, North and South America and Europe.
- Marketed and promoted tours in Ethiopia.
- Purchased raw and processed materials from West Africa, South America, North America and Europe.
- Sourced national and international monographs by legal practitioners and academics in sixty different countries for twelve different types of law.
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- Conducted bilingual tours of Vancouver and Victoria, BC, Canada in German and English.
- Hosted entertainment for Spanish speakers on cruise ships.
- Interpreted for top business leaders on business trips to China, the Philippines, North America, Europe and West Africa.
- Interpreted for various immigrants and refugees visiting medical and lawyers' offices.
- Interpreted in high-level business meetings between Asian and African, Asian and North American, Asian and South American, Asian and European, African and North American business leaders and governmental officials.
- Interpreted in the Vancouver court system for Spanish- and French-speaking clients.
- Liaised with governmental and academic VIPs.
- Organised meetings for 48-nation advisory board in Bari, Italy and Athens, Greece.
- Prepared daily activity programmes in six languages for cruise ship passengers.
- Provided group information sessions to international tourists in various languages.
- Provided information over public address system in six languages.
- Provided customer service to tourists in English, French, German, Spanish, Italian and Dutch and solved their problems.
- Recorded voice-overs for computer-based surveys.
- Represented an international conglomerate in the timber sector in meetings and exhibitions in Asia, Europe, North America, the Middle East and South America.
- Supervised a team of seven translators for legal and forestry documents as well as daily in-coming and out-going office correspondence.
- Transcribed a French-language television series for a national network station.
- Translated from English into French and proofread Privacy and Human Resources documents for an international tourism operation.
- Translated from French and Spanish into English 200-page monographs on Labour Law and Industrial Relations.
- Translated website and marketing material into French for a Canadian distributor of European motorbikes.
- Translated marketing materials from Italian to English for Italian/Chinese joint-venture timber marketing group.
- Translated website from English to French for an East African tourism operator.
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- Taught university-level French conversation and grammar to classes of adults; also tutored private students.
- Delivered informal Spanish lessons to adults in a classroom setting and tutored one-on-one.
- Wrote in-depth illustrated reports as a follow up to business fact-finding trips for direct submission to business leaders.
- Wrote weekly reports, proofread weekly newsletters, reviewed and ensured accuracy of written materials for an American cruise ship company.
- Wrote websites and/or website texts for timber products manufacturer, tour operator, musician, fundraising organization and components manufacturer.
- Wrote personal articles such as poetry, interviews, observations, business do's and don'ts, etc.
- Checked and revised legal encyclopaedia monographs for a publisher in the Netherlands.
- Compiled a specialized agricultural glossary in eight languages.
- Edited business books and articles, novels and short stories for a Canadian business woman.
- Edited encyclopaedia monograph manuscripts, quarterly Bulletin of Comparative Labour Law; yearly edition of law text books Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations; Labour Law and Industrial Relations of the European Community; updates of encyclopaedia monographs, legislation, case law and codex of the International Encyclopaedia for Labour Law and Industrial Relations.
- Edited marketing and other business material for Canadian-Chinese trading company.
- Edited, proofread and prepared agricultural accountancy texts for publication in English, French, German, Spanish and Italian.
- Edited and proofread English-language websites and marketing material for East African tour operators.
- Edited and proofread English-language promotional and marketing brochures for Chinese timber manufacturer.
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This page was last modified on 2 January 2010.
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