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Mark Oliver

SERVICES

 

Freelance translations of Indonesian and Javanese source texts into US English.

QUALIFICATIONS

 

I am an academically trained translator of Indonesian into English with years of business experience. My graduate degree in Indonesian language and literature allows me not only a greater depth of understanding of Indonesian and Javanese language materials, but allows me some insight on their cultural contexts and subtexts. Documents are not produced in a cultural vacuum, and it is this understanding that positions me as the best in my field.

My recent projects have included the development of specialized glossaries for the fields of petroleum/natural gas extraction, and international finance. Please feel free to contact me regarding the licensed use of these products.

EMPLOYMENT

 

Books to Java Academic Book Donation Project, Project Manager (05.2001 --07.2004.

Manage and coordinate all aspects of a non-profit project providing textbooks for academic libraries in Indonesia, including purchasing, shipping, and planning.

 

Freelance Translator, (05.2000 present)

Provide for the Indonesian translation needs for a variety of corporate clients. Completed jobs in 2005 have included surveys of Indonesian-speaking employees at petroleum service companies, statutory regulations for telecommunications firms/satellite providers, transcription and translation of video and audio recorded interviews in criminal cases, transcription and translation of video interviews for an anthropological filmmaker, and many more services.

 

University of Michigan , Lecturer, in Indonesian, (Spring 2003)

Taught all levels of Indonesian language and literature courses (from first-year through graduate literature seminar).

EDUCATION

 

MA, Indonesian/Javanese University of Michigan (08.2000 -- 04.2003)

Two years of residence in Central Java, Indonesia.

Medical Interpreter Certification,University of Massachusetts Amherst, Indonesian Consecutive Interpreting and Sight Translation. (05.2003)

Two years of intensive Indonesian Language Study, SEASSI (Southeast Asian Studies Summer Institute) at University of Oregon. (1998--1999)

BA, English/French Language and Literature, Metropolitan State College of Denver (08.1991 06.1995)

SOFTWARE/

HARDWARE TOOLS

 

Mine is a Macintosh OS X and Windows XP office, with MS Office XP suite. My TM software of choice is Wordfast, and I am using version 5.1, which can export memories as text, TMX (and is thus fully compatible with Trados or SDLX). I use Macromedia Dreamweaver MX for .html editing, and Macromedia Fireworks MX and Freehand MX for page layout and image manipulation. I also use Adobe Acrobat 6.0for .pdf portable document generation, and an Epson Scanner, along with ReadIris 9.0 for OCR functions.

 

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