Jonathan Cobb s1

Flat 6, 165 Gloucester Terrace, London W2 6DX Mobile: 07742 934 451 E-mail: [email protected] or [email protected]

J O N A T H A N C O B B

PERSONAL Nationality: British, born on 29 November 1967

KEY SKILLS Skilled general, engineering, IT and medical translator with 15 years’ experience in business and professional communications Excellent copywriting / sub-editing / layout / editing skills Proven linguist with superb communication & language skills in Asia in international, multi-cultural environments

LANGUAGES English (mother tongue), Chinese, French, Spanish, German

EDUCATION 1986 - 1991, School of Oriental & African Studies, University of London, UK B.A. Honours in Chinese & Politics including 1 year at Beijing Normal University, China

WORK EXPERIENCE 2004 (Dec) to 2006 (Aug), Asian Absolute Ltd., UK

Account Manager – Strategic client liaison for translation, interpretation and localisation agency  Liaise with clients and translation / editing / DTP teams. Clients include the UK Ministry of Defence, Caterpillar Logistics, Pfizer and a range of translation agencies worldwide  Set up and manage China-based English-Chinese translation team for Financial Times’FT.com Chinese website  Final editing and proofing of medical, legal, IT translation documents

2003 (Sep) to 2004 (Dec), Contract Work, UK

Contract work including:  Asian Absolute Ltd: Chinese-English technical translation and editing  Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC: Deputy Editor for Corporate location magazine and website  United Nations Conference on Trade & Dev’t Global Investment Trends Survey ‘03-04, research & copy-editing  Rajah & Tann advocates and solicitors, Singapore: Copy-editing  Delegate of German Industry & Commerce in Singapore: Bespoke software support & development

2001 (April) to 2003 (Aug), Delegate of German Industry & Commerce (DIHK), Singapore

THEMES: a) 2001 (Dec) to 2003 (Aug), Deputy Trade Delegate – Operations/Project Manager Trade Promotion, Second-in-command in Federal German Government bilateral trade office of 15 staff. Software Project  Coordinated office trade promotion, business networking activities contacts with senior German & Singaporean government & business, including E.U. and other development aid projects as well as office admin/staff Management, functions. Office / Business  Internal auditing for ISO-standard quality management functions. Management, Business Development b) 2001 (April) to 2001 (Dec), Multimedia Manager Project manager for AIMS software package, consulting on other projects as required.  Oversaw integration and rollout of Client Relationship, ISO Quality Management and Staff Performance modules for Association Integrated Management System (AIMS) bespoke software for Trade Associations.  Designed end-user training course for Lotus Notes / AIMS, performed Lotus Notes server and client installations, end-user training for AIMS in 12 German chambers of commerce abroad and Latvian Chamber of Commerce & Industry. Provided first-line technical/end-user support for AIMS users.

THEMES: 1999 (Nov) to 2001 (April), Private Business Consultant, Singapore Industry Research, Project Operated own business providing industry research, copy-writing, writing, sub-editing, web design and Management translation services to corporate clients including: DIHK, Deutsche Bank, Dresdner Bank, Arthur Andersen Technology Services, Rajah & Tann advocates and solicitors, Editions Didier Millet. Editorial projects for Editions Didier Millet during this time included: Fables magazine (Raffles International), Sojourn Online magazine (Southern Bank Bhd), Oriental Cookbook (Oriental Hotel, Bangkok), London Sketchbook by Graham Byfield, Egypt From The Air (Thames & Hudson).

1998 (Aug) to 1999 (Oct), Deutsche Bank AG, Singapore

THEMES: Communications Associate – Day-to-day handling of internal communications to 1,700 staff in 18 Asia Pacific regional locations. Communications,  Supervised Lotus Domino-based design work for all Asia Pacific staff intranet communications tools Content Production / including db@work news service. Management  Wrote and sub-edited all Asia Pacific content for International Forum internal magazine and db@work, including business-crucial EMU, Y2K and Bankers Trust merger information.

1996 (June) to 1998 (July), Financial Times Information

THEMES: a) 1997 (Nov) to 1998 (July), Country Manager, Manila, Philippines  Responsible for Singapore-Manila migration of content processing unit for FTI’s US$ 500,000 / year New Media Project turnover Asia Intelligence Wire (AIW) and Middle East Intelligence Wire (MEIW) electronic news Management, services. Office / Business  Set up all IT and data transfer systems, recruiting and training 10 personnel to process 4,000 articles of Management content daily from 150 Asia Pacific business publications, ensuring uninterrupted information content through-put for FTI as well as Lexis-Nexis, Reuters, Dow Jones and others.  Introduced Total Quality Management to improve business information throughput.

b) 1996 (June) to 1997 (Nov), Content Manager, Singapore Following Financial Times Information’s £ 4 million buyout of AIW and MEIW:  Oversaw merger & integration and expanded Singapore-based content processing from 80+ publications to 125, hiring, training and overseeing 6 staff.  Drew up operational design work for Nanjing, China-based content production unit for China Intelligence Wire (Chinese-language news article/summary translations).

1991 (Sept) to 1996 (June), Chamber World Network

a) 1996 (Jan) to 1996 (June), Content Manager, Singapore Established Singapore AIW & MEIW content processing team. Hired, trained and oversaw 2 staff. Increased throughput from 50 to 80+ publications. Coordinated development of AIW/MEIW Windows end-user interface.

b) 1995 (Jan) to 1996 (Jan), Content Specialist, New York, USA Seconded to New York to assist in content-processing activities for 50 business publications. Initiated in-house content-processing software development, allowing incremental improvement in productivity and creating success formula for future product growth.

THEMES: c) 1994 (July) to 1995 (Jan), Publications Manager, Singapore Project Management, Set up Singapore publishing operations for CWN’s range of Asian-focused business guides and newsletters. Coordinated internal and external liaison with editors, copywriters and printing services for Russia 1994, Germany Editorial / Sub-editorial Restructures and India Awakens business guides. Duties d) 1991 (Sept) to 1994 (June), Editor, Taipei, Taiwan General writing, editing, speech writing and other office duties. Edited content of SE Asia electronic business database. Assisted in development of e-mail software and CeBIT award-winning portable workstation. Design & layout of Russia 1993 business guide and marketing brochures.

COMPUTER Extensive knowledge of PC and Macintosh platforms: SKILLS Translation: TRADOS; Interface Design: Lotus Notes / Domino; Video Editing: Adobe Premiere; DTP: Adobe Illustrator, InDesign & Quark Xpress, Adobe Acrobat, Paintshop Pro; MS Office, Goldmine, advanced MS-DOS / Windows operating systems knowledge