Chunhong Cao

106 Guodao Street, Chengguan Town, Language Pair: English - Chinese (simplified) Huangchuan County, City, Email:[email protected] Province, 465150 Tel: 0086 15910848591

Career Objective

To deliver high-quality translation work in medicine, science and technology for the improvement of lives across cultures.

Summary of Qualifications

Professional experience. Completed more than 7 translation projects on different topics of Medicine, Scientific and Technology during Msc course, including different aspects of human health, pharmacy, dentistry, medical technology, environment, electronics, energy and innovations in industries. Well-versed in voice-over, dubbing and subtitling and working with relevant softwares such as Windows Movie Maker and WinCAPS. (Msc dissertation: Subtitling an animated film into Chinese.) Skilled in translation technology. Proficient in various CAT tools including SDL Trados, SDL Multiterm, MemoQ, Wordfast, OmegaT, Catalyst, etc. Trained in working with translation memory and termbase to maintain consistency, accuracy and efficiency in translation. Machine translation. Have experience with machine translation engines and online translation systems such as Systran, WFA and Google Translate. Possess good mastery of pre-editing and post-editing skills to improve translation productivity and efficiency. Possess good knowledge of machine translation rules i.e. statistic-based rule, example-based rule and corpus-based rule, which benefits investigating and improving MT. Web publishing and localisation. Designed an Environment Protection website with Dreamweaver and Adobe Photoshop for a module assessment and built an XML application. Have extensive understanding of software, game, and website localisation. Team player and independent. Worked both independently and in partnership with 500 student volunteers to organise and provide logistic support for players of – Marathon event in China during May 2009. Result-oriented and disciplined. Elaborate background research and excellent proofreading skills to deliver high quality translation with strict emphasis on content accuracy and datelines. Rigorously practice 5000-word-translation weekly to maintain and improve translation proficiency.

Skills and Hobbies

Volunteering. Current member of Taking Action for Development through United Nations Online Volunteering Service since 2013. Former member of Youth Volunteers Association in Zhengzhou University between 2008 and 2012. Past volunteering experience includes caring for elderly in nursing homes and teaching children ball games and English from underprivileged homes. Special interests in sports. Familiar with English-Chinese rules of various sports including basketball, football, tennis, table tennis and sepak takraw. These activities promote health and cultivate both teamwork and communicative skills towards sports translation and voiceover for sport events. Fond of science, movies, documentaries and reading, which greatly broadens my perspective of current affairs in the world and propagate my enthusiasm for audiovisual translation.

Work Experience

August 2013 – Present Provided online voluntary translation service for United Nations Volunteering (UNV). Currently undertaking 1 translation project concerning undergraduate online course content. 2012 – 2013 Worked as an ad-hoc translator. Completed 4 translation projects associated with technical product manual and committee report translation. 2010 – 2011 Worked as customer service support at Henan Xiaoxintong educational firm. The jobscope includes providing consultations, handling inquires from clients and implementing follow up actions on clients’ requests.

Education

MSc Scientific, Technical and Medical Translation with Translation Technology, Imperial College London, United Kingdom, 2012-2013. Specialising in medical, scientific & technical translation, translation technology, voiceover, dubbing & subtitling, machine translation and publishing skills.

Bachelor of English, Zhengzhou University, China, 2008-2012. Specialising in sports english and foreign affairs english.

Honours

Awarded scholarship 3 times by Physical Education College of Zhengzhou Universtiy for being top 10% of undergraduate cohort, 2008-2009, 2010-2011 and 2011-2012. Granted “Merit Student” title 4 times in recognition of exceptional academic achievements during undergraduate studies in Zhengzhou University, 2008-2009, 2009- 2010, 2010- 2011 and 2011-2012. Granted “Outstanding Youth Volunteer” title in 2010 by the Youth Association in Zhengzhou University for outstanding community service.

References

Mark Shuttleworth, MScTrans Course Leader & Coordinator, Imperial College London, United Kingdom Tel: +44 02075948774 [email protected]

Feilong Li, English Teaching Affairs Administrator, Zhengzhou University, China Tel: +86 15739884577 [email protected]