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Kartvya vaghela

Versatile Linguist

5320,Vagheshvari park,nr pethapur cross road,pethapur,Gandhinagar,Gujarat

Pin : 382610

Mob. : 91-9574293095

E Mail : [email protected]

SUMMARY :

Translator with experience in translation, technical and engineering documentation, art, tourism, technical manuals information brochures, degree certificates versatile in different subjects e.g. Technical, academics, computing and software, legal, arts and literature.

Expert user of Word XP, Microsoft Office 2007, Adobe Pagemaker 7, Adobe Photoshop, Corel Draw, Visio, Paint, Power Point, Front Page, Adobe Reader Professional, Microsoft Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7, Internet.

LANGUAGES :

§ Gujarati (native language)

§ English

" Any Indian language " (Hindi,Tamil,Telugu,Oriya,Punjabi, KANNADA,, MARATHI .Assamese

SPECIALIZATION:

· Qualified to translate and edit at professional level for my above mentioned language combinations.

· Familiarity with a wide range of language registers and styles as a result of extensive academic and professional studies;

· 8 years professional freelance experience of translating texts from diverse Gujarati sources into English and vice versa.

· Arts and Humanities (biography, film, fine arts, literary extracts, literary criticism, art criticism, academic essays, contemporary letters), Business (general, financial, corporate literature, employee communications, invoices, e-mails, contracts), Tourism and Leisure, Web-page Translation / Editing, Marketing Official Documents (birth certificates, life certificates, university degrees / diplomas, equivalences), CVs / Resumes, Journalism (specialized, semi-specialized, general)

* Translation and/or editing work of a more general, multidisciplinary, or semi-specialized nature is also undertaken: Web-page Translation/Editing; Semi-technical and/or Scientific material (pharmaceutical, agroindustrial, journalistic)

PAST EXPERIENCE:

Feb 2002 –Present : 13 years professional freelance experience of translating texts from diverse lingual sources into the target language.

· Translation of various C.V.s/Resumes

· Translation of book-project research material for biographer (fields: History of Art, Literature, Literary and Art Criticism, Biography)

· Translated several websites such as www.gujarattourism.com, www.spahmeabd.gujarat.gov.in , www.spsurat.gujarat.gov.in from Gujarati into English

· Translation of a company brochure such as hotels, chemicals, real estate etc.

· Translation of business texts (correspondence concerning cooperation between companies and employee communications pertaining to company takeover, Memorandum of Understandings);

· Translation of tourist brochures.

COMPUTER skills:

Word XP, Microsoft Office Excel, Visio, Paint, Power Point, Front Page, Adobe Reader, Adobe Reader Professional, Microsoft Office Outlook, Internet, Systrans Translator Pro, Trados, Wordfast, Transit and other CAT tools, Shreelipi, Akruti, Bhasha Bharati.

PERSONAL QUALITIES:

Hard-working, responsible, punctual, friendly, workaholic.

OTHERS:

Hobbies: Reading and Quizzing.

My Rate for Translation For English <> Gujarati is 80 paise per word

Kartvya Vaghela
+91 95742 93095