Helene Olsen Richards [email protected]

http://www.proz.com/pro/46214

http://helenerichards.voice123.com

ATA Member NOTIS member 29111 Quincy St Castaic, CA 91384 U.S.A. Time zone: GMT – 8:00 PST Tel: 818-527-4141

Skype: Helene_74 [email protected]

Available 7 days a week. Efficient and friendly service, extensive experience. Versatile background.

Mother Tongue: Norwegian & English

English-Norwegian-English Danish-English Danish-Norwegian Swedish-English Swedish-Norwegian

Rates: (Note: I will always discuss my rates, especially on volume and regular work) General texts: USD 0.14 Technical/Medical/Legal: USD 0.15 Editing: 0.06 per word Rush rate: 0.18 Hourly/minimum, rate: USD 40 Samples and voice demo available upon request. Hourly rate for transcription: USD $ 70 Hourly rate for consecutive interpretation: $ 75 Voice over services depending on project. Demo available.

Specialties:

Medical Equine Industry Media Agriculture Voice Over Veterinary Science Commercials Animal Science Infomercials Forestry Photography Horticulture Fashion Technical Travel & Tourism Real Estate Hospitality Film Science Immigration Patents Chemistry Pharmaceutical Oil/gas/offshore Chromatography Psychology Engineering Voice over Construction Education:

BScAg, Skjetlein Agricultural College, - 90-93 Masters in Travel & Tourism Næringsakademiet, Norway- 93/94 Under–graduate Film Science, University of Trondheim, Norway 95/96 Cambridge Exam, Norway – 93

Expertise:

Norwegian/English native Versatile background 30 years in the Equine Industry 17 years + in the Fashion/Media Industry 4+ years in the Travel and Tourism Industry

Professional Experience:

1999-to present Full-time Freelance Translator

Subjects:

Travel Documents and Web Sites, Petroleum Finance, Oil/gas/offshore, Equestrian, Contracts, General texts, Personal documents, Chemistry, Software Manuals, Technical documents, Agriculture, Horticulture, Forestry, Procedure Handbooks, Mechanical/Automotive, Cosmetics, Fashion, Photography, Commercials, Voice-overs, Media, Literature, Medical documents/IFU’s/ Psychology Assessments/Reports/Surgical Instruments/Dental, Engineering, Social Security documents, Patents, Subtitles, Transcription, Localization,

Clients and Projects:

EDIT, , - Travel web sites Bochert Translations, - Technical manuals Morningside Evaluations, NY- Personal documents, articles, legal docs Dr. Kim Bartholomew, Idaho- Personal/equestrian documents PTSGI, - Technical documents, procedure handbook, medical handbooks, Construction manuals PFC Energy, Paris- Petroleum Finance documents, retainer fee basis Language Services, NY- Legal documents Language Service Associates, Pennsylvania-Personal documents Microsoft Corporation, USA- Tablet PC Project-Norwegian (20.000 + words) Snelvertaler, Holland- Web site information, automotive manuals, medical, book LLE, Inc, Washington D.C- Personal documents, legal docs Online Translations, - Environmental documents Schreiber Translations, Maryland- legal agreements, military documents, medical journals, chemistry patents, transcription of FBI tapes, - regular work for SSA Norsk Språkservice, Norway – Compost documents Word Link, - Marine documents British Centro di Lingua, Italy- Mag-Lite user manual 3D Word, USA- Technical/medical/chemistry manuals Mtiglobal, Taiwan- Software manual Tizoc Translations, Dallas- Personal docs, Saab automotive documents, Lexi-Tech, Canada- Manuals for gaming laws in Norway Liberty Consulting, France- Veterinary/chemistry docs Ai-Ti, - User manual (automotive), travel related brochures, Language Power International, Norway- Norwegian Energy documents, Textile docs A Thousand Tongues Translations, Indiana- Website, Kraft food, Red Cross- Medical information for Iraqi shipments Alfatext, - Misc. product information Apex Translations, USA- medical manuals Conversa- USA- medical, transcripts Set Systems, Turkey- technical manual Prologos, Germany- software House of Translation, Holland- Microsoft promotional material, tourism docs Translation Dynamo, USA- medical Kavankamp Translations, England- medical, questionnaires, Research Translations, UK- Questionnaire docs iLanguage, Dom. Republic- Business/HTML docs Bilingualservice, Spain – Subtitles ASAP Translations, Taiwan- User manuals Tramont Translation Management, London- Insurance document Translation ABC, VA- Certificate East-West Concepts, Inc, Hawaii- Custom’s papers, business correspondence, Media-Movers, Commercial script (subtitles) Alacarte Languages, FL- Personal docs Translations.com, NY- Travel & Tourism doc Iexpress, - user manuals Artsandletters- oil/gas/well drilling/chemistry patents, medical documents (excess of 300.000 words) Metafrasi, Madrid- User manuals TransPerfect- Voice over for medical trials, legal documents, medical/technical docs, CAT Tafamatrix- Technical specs for Energyst (mechanical), CAT manuals, AA Global Language Services Ltd, England- Technical docs Languageworks, NY- Business docs, Cosmetics, chemical patent for NovoNordisk Spokane International Translation, Spokane, USA- Business proposals Dreamwrite, France- Translation of Boonty gaming web site (strategy games, board games etc) FLE, Hong Kong- user manuals, construction/roofing Geneva Worldwide, Canada- Medical documents (journals) Elotec, Norway- Burglar alarm systems (Excess of 30.000 words) AlphaTranslations, Canada- Promotional material Linguatheque, USA- Business/legal correspondence for Warner Brothers Language Resources, NC- Transcript Kern Translations, NY- questionnaire, business related, legal docs GoWordWorks, Spain- Agricultural manual Merrill Brink- pharmaceutical patent MJ Language Solutions, England- environmental document Universe Technical Translation, Texas- business correspondence Languageconnections- medical-PAREXEL A2zglobal- contract work with Reuters News/Diabetic News Zappmedia, Germany- flooring documents Ace Language Services, England- Personal documents Translation One, USA- Edit of MLM document Adverbage, England- business letters Bay Area Translations- Children’s book Daniel Hengy, Norway- Program directive for new hospital,-on-going project Wortwechsel, Germany- Various technical documents Lingtech A/S, Denmark- Editing of general doc Lingua-vitae- Edit of medical doc Wordexpress, CA- translation of Pokerstars.com (Excess of 10.000 words) Park Translations, Pharmaceutical test reports for Novo Nordisk (excess of 100.000+ words) Mølgaard & Nielsen, Denmark- Technical user manual for LG Notebook Warpwise, Hong Kong- Numerous User Manuals; construction Multiling Corporation, Utah- Manuals for Dell, press releases/recall information for Dell, ATI Crimson Life Sciences- ATRION, Concentric medical devices Dildizayn- Turkey- Castrol & Bugatti translation, racing reports Surrey Language, England- Royal Caribbean Cruise ship correspondence, legal documents, Ford Motor Company business and ethics handbook, Applied Language, England- Carlson Wagonlit Web site (travel related-41 000 words) Tiservicesuk, England- Study/Life Science related documents MasterWord- Correspondence, medical journals, business ethics manual Translogic, Norway- Technical user manual Academy XL, - Info for Amcor Tolketjenesten, Norway- blood purification device Sajan, Inc, USA- User manuals for technical devices medical/dental/marketing/business, on- going work SDI Media, Los Angeles- subtitling of TV shows Westman Associates- Cosmetic Translations (Freeze 24/7) CDS & Associates- Printing Press Manuals Elanex Translations- Lease agreements Cogen, - On-going translations of medical documents (pacemaker manuals) Language Marketplace- Web site translation GEM Translations- Poultry Breeding Manual TripleInk- Medical documents Uniquode- Translation of Apple product TEK Translations- Medical documents Translation Ztudio, User manual for offshore/gas industry Euro-Com- Railroad translation (Excess of 19.000 words) Imatrad- Mobile x-ray unit translation (Excess of 20.000 words) Datawords - Kanebo skin-care translation Linguamax- Information for medical trials Estilos- Technical documents (In excess of 35.000 words)

Software utilized:

PC/Fax/Microsoft Word 2003/Adobe Acrobat Reader 8.0/Adobe Acrobat 7.0/WinZip/Excel/ PowerPoint/Access/Microsoft Proofing Tools 2003/Microsoft Publisher/Frontpage 2003/ Norton 360/poEDIT/AnyCount/ Stedman’s Medical/Pharmaceutical Spellchecker Plus/ Stedman’s Medical & Surgical Equipment Words/WS_FTP/SDLX Lite/WordFast 5.5/ TRADOS 6.5l/STAR Transit (Fortis)/Alchemy CATALYST Lite Edition/Skype/DSL Connection/Wordfinder 9 Professional/Photoshop 7/Adobe Audition/Heartsome XLIFF Editor Professional 6/Déjà vu X/PASSOLO/MemoQ/External hard drive utilized/

References: References and samples available upon request.