For your French to English language needs

Some examples of texts I have translated

Humanitarian, Human Rights

- Interviews of people of all different nationalities for a major project to promote world peace

- NGO reports on economic and social development in Third World countries (sustainable tourism, combating poverty, health systems, infrastructures, access to education, natural resources, environment, child protection, combating child trafficking, prostitution and sex tourism, homeless children, gender inequality, domestic violence, drug addiction and the socialization of crime, child labour...)

- Several chapters of a book on eradicating extreme poverty, including an introduction by a prominent French sociologist


Training

- Management and sales training courses for the European leader in vocational training 

- The script for the warranty management training module of a manufacturer of spare parts for helicopters and aeroplanes

- A training guide to using a database for materials, composites, fasteners and joints

Environment and Climate, Sustainable Development, Land Use Planning and Conservation

- A 70-page report by the French National Centre for Space Studies (CNES) for the UN, covering the impacts of climate change on the Mediterranean Basin during the 21st century. This included meteorological impacts, impacts on sea levels, and environmental and socioeconomic impacts (biodiversity, the hydrological cycle, marine and terrestrial ecosystems, agriculture, impacts on coastal and low-lying areas and related infrastructures and transport, energy transportation, public health, and more), policy, etc.

- A presentation of a coastal land conservation project in the Languedoc Roussillon region

Tourism and Leisure

- An educational guide for a feline park

- Websites, guidebooks, brochures, and press releases for major budget and luxury hotel chains and luxury spas

- Regional guides

- The Rennes summer festival guide

- Parts of the website of Europe's biggest amusement park

- Anniversary publication with recipes from the famous chefs of a chain of luxury Parisian hotels

- A guide to the chateaux in the southwest of France

Cosmetics

- Skin, beauty, and hair care brochures, press releases, packaging, websites


Art, Fashion & Textiles, Swimwear and Lingerie

- Special reports on the lingerie markets in Russia and China

- Special report on the swimwear industry in Brazil

- Anniversary publications for 4 leading French luxury lingerie labels

- Anniversary publication for a leading luxury and technical textile manufacturer

- Numerous articles and press releases on fashion boutiques, fashion trends, market trends, trade shows

- A coffee table book on the best lingerie stores spotted around the world

- A special report on the history of the stocking

- Newsletters on the connections between art and fashion for the world leader in cosmetics

- Newsletters and speeches for a major regional textile association


Logistics, Supply Chain, Transportation and Networks, Information Systems, Warehousing

- Worked in-house for a logistics consulting firm and translated all reports, marketing material, trade press articles, case studies etc. Translation from French and Canadian French
 

Quality Management

- The Météo-France quality manual

- A training course on the QMS of the world leader in ophthalmics

- Quality control reports


Optical

- Translation of technical e-learning modules for the world leader in ophthalmics and voice-over for the audio format. These courses are designed to train technicians all over the world and cover such topics as: AR coatings, hard coating, crazing, quality management, substrates, lens tinting, prescription lens finishing, metrology, lens manufacturing, and much more


IT, New Technologies, Games

- Numerous press releases, websites, sales brochures

- The installation and user guides for ocean floor mapping software

- The rules and instructions for a "pétanque" video game

- Product guides

- An article on the success of smart cards


Literary

- Two short stories in the religious sci-fi genre

Medical

- An article on randomised clinical trials and the placebo effect


Interpreting

- Liaison interpretation during a witness interview in a Rwandan extradition case involving charges of genocide and crimes against humanity