Caroline VALLVÉ CHENG

- Freelance Conference Interpreter and Translator -

- Based in Paris and Lyon -

► Specialist fields:

· International organizations (UN, EU)

· Politics & geopolitics

· Journalism & communication

· Literature

· Tourism, the Arts, History

· Marketing

· Business & Finance (general)

· Medical & Pharmaceutical

                                                                                                                          

► Member of the Société Française des Traducteurs (SFT)

► Interpreters and Press SFT focal point for the Rhône-Alpes region

► Associate member of the Institute of Translation and Interpreting (ITI, United Kingdom)

► Member of the Association des Traducteurs Littéraires de France (ATLF)

► French and Shanghai dialect: native

► Near-native English

►Translation, proofreading:

► Simultaneous, liaison and consecutive interpreting:                English > French

A: French                                                                                               Spanish > French

B: English                                                                                              Italian > French

C: Mandarin (from Dec 2007)                                                                Chinese (traditional and simplified) >

                                                                                                                   French (Non technical)

FREELANCE EXPERIENCE

INTERPRETATION

·Simultaneous, consecutive, liaison, whispered, tour guide system (“bidule”) and public service interpretation:

-         international conferences and seminars

-         high level political meetings

-         delegations of foreign government representatives (ministers, senators and deputies)

-         international and European works councils

-         humanitarian action

-         corporate and industrial training sessions

-         business and diplomatic meetings and negotiations

-         security (airports, anti-terrorism)

-         official visits of delegations and official dinners

-         cultural events

-         international fair trades

-         focus groups

-         plant visits

-         nuclear power plant inspections.

 

·                                                                                                                        I was trained in the UK and worked for 4 years in London as a conference interpreter

·                                                                                                                        I hold a UK Home Office Security Clearance for confidential and security related assignments

·                                                                                                                        List of recent interpreting assignments below

 

TRANSLATION, PROOFREADING, EDITING and TRANSCRIBING

·         Annual reports, financial and medical reports, training material, documents, texts and speeches for international organizations and NGOs, press kits and releases, magazine and newspaper articles, cultural and museum brochures and leaflets, subtitles, technical documents, marketing documents, websites.

·         Literature:

- Manuel de la peinture chinoise, Collectif (Solar)
- Mirbeau et Habermas, l'exemple du Calvaire, Sharif Gemie (Société Octave Mirbeau)

In project : - The Vikings in Wales, Mark Redknap (National Museum of Wales)

 

VOICEOVER (FRENCH)

CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

► Medical Translation and Interpretation Seminar (English <> French), yearly attended since 2002. Organized by the Société Française des Traducteurs and the Medical Faculties of Lyon (France)

► Languages for Tourism Workshop, ITI

► Editing and Proofreading Workshop, and St Jerome Seminar, ITI

► Training sessions by the CIU (Central Interpreters Unit) interpreters, provided by the UK Home Office Immigration and Nationality Directorate and the Institute of Linguists

EDUCATION & QUALIFICATIONS

2004              Certificate of Ability in Spanish Interpreting for the UK Home Office Immigration and Nationality Directorate - The Institute of Linguists and UK Home Office

2003              MA in English Language and British Mediaeval History (ABD) - Université Paris 7 (Paris). Thesis: Wales: a Land Forgotten by the Vikings?

2002              Postgraduate Diploma in English <> French Conference Interpreting and Translation

                             Postgraduate dissertation on the Shanghainese into English subtitling of the Chinese film Shanghai Flowers

                              - Heriot-Watt University (Edinburgh, UK)

1999              Postgraduate Diploma in Mandarin Chinese (Excellence) - Thames Valley University (London)

1996                            London Chamber of Commerce  and Industry Higher Certificate

                      Cambridge Certificate of English Proficiency - Passed in Glamorgan University (Pontypridd, Wales)

1994              BA in English Language and English-Speaking Cultures and Societies -  Université Paris 7

OTHER WORK EXPERIENCE

2007              Media Operation and Journalists Supervisor for the Rugby World Cup (St Etienne, France)

                      Teacher of English for tourism (Saint-Etienne)

2001              - Chinese Delegations Guide  

                      - Lecturer of English for tourism (Toulouse)

1999-2000         Apple Ltd Technical Support and Customer Relations (French - English -Spanish - Italian)

1996-98                 - GRETA Teacher of English as a Foreign Language for adults and teenagers

                      - Public Relations Assistant

1995-96         Lecturer of French as a Foreign Language (Glamorgan University, Wales)

1993              Loire Region Tour Guide

MISCELLANEOUS

- Member of the SFT committee organising the 6th Medical Translation and Interpretation Seminar in Lyon

- Member of the ITI French, Chinese, Medical and Interpreters Networks

- PC (VAIO Sony), Windows XP, Word, Excel, PowerPoint

- Travels: Great Britain (8 years), Ireland, Australia, China, Spain, Italy, Iceland, Denmark, Senegal.

- Personal interests: Celtic and Norse civilizations, mediaeval history and literature, polar explorations, sailing,    Breton dances, travels, oil painting and sculpture

Recent simultaneous, liaison, whispering and consecutive interpreting assignments:

-           Lausanne’s Olympic Museum

-           HM the King Constantine of Greece

-           The Alinghi sailing team

-           Same Deutz-Fahr, Belgrad, Croatia

-           The French Senate, Paris

-           The French National Assembly, Paris

-           Thomas Mayne, architect and head of the Phare Tower project in Paris, Conference on Ecobuilding, Paris

-                 Rexam EWC, Verona, Italy

-                 Wincanton Health and Safety Meetings, Paris, Birmingham, Rugby

-                 OMCT (World Organisation Against Torture), Geneva

-                 Association for the Prevention Against Torture, Geneva

-           GAVI (UNICEF), Meeting on Health Strengthening Systems, Geneva

-                 EuroMoney, with a speech by French Finance and Economy Minister Thierry Breton, Paris

-                 EWS-SNCF, sessions 1 and 2,  Vitry sur Seine

-                 Saint-Etienne Métropole, France

-                 Bayer European Central Comittee, Lyon

-                 Musée d’Art moderne, Saint-Etienne

-                 France Culture Radio

-                 TL7 Loire Region TV Channel (France) – TV interview of Professor Fumihiko Maki, architect of one of the three towers

            to be built on the WTC site in New York

-           Teaching Children in Hospitals, London

-           Forum international sur la désertification, Montpellier

-           Eurosai, State Auditors Meeting, Reykjavik, Iceland

-                 American Express European Works Council, Budapest and London

-                 Farnell InOne, EWC meetings, Paris and Cheshire, UK

-                 LISI Automotive Fora and General Assemblies, Belfort

-                 International Rubber Conference, Lyon

-                 CIVICUS World Assembly, Glasgow

-                 General Assemblies and Board Councils of the Association for the Prevention of Torture, Geneva

-                 Hasbro EWC Meetings, Barcelona, Nice and London

-                 Caterpillar EWC, London

-                 Chemtura EWC Meetings, Lucern, London, Nice and Rome

-                 Parenting and Education Convention, London

-                 French MP Jean-Claude Lefort

-                 The Deputy Secretary General of the UNCTAD, Geneva

-                 His Excellence the Ambassador of the Barbados, Geneva

-                 Immigration and Nationality Directorate, Central Interpreters Unit, Home Office, UK (since 2001)

-                 1st Franco-British Meeting on Urology and Oncology, London,

-                 Mentoring in Europe: Cooperation and Challenge, Liverpool

-                 CONGO (Conference of NGO's in Consultative Relationship with the United Nations), Geneva

-                 International Conference of the Celtic ARC, Glasgow

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