Astrid K. Homan

Independent Translator

 

DUTCH – ENGLISH

 

PO Box 4242                                                     Phone: 970-264-3041  

Pagosa Springs, CO 81157-4242              Fax:      970-264-3043

                                                          Email:   astrid@frontier.net

                                          

Translator and Consultant Experience

 

·         Medical:  General Medical, Medical Records, Health care, Medical Software

·         Computer:  Software/hardware manuals, Documentation, Software installation manuals, broad medical software experience

·         Business: Marketing, Contracts, Proposals, Telecommunications

·         Legal: Contracts, Patents, Depositions, Affidavits

·         Consult on issues of inter-cultural sensitivity; i.e., marketing analysis for cultural appropriateness, business etiquette, and cross-cultural communication

·         Voice Recording of Dutch teleprompts

 

Expertise

 

·         Lived in The Netherlands for 14 years

·         U. S. Citizen

·         Fluent in Dutch and American English

·         Computer software expert

·         Broad medical experience

·         Extensive experience in editing, proofreading and software testing

·         Consultant for multi-national corporations doing business with The Netherlands

·         Teach Dutch to native English speakers

·         Well versed in business, computer applications, computer software documentation, telecommunications, industry and technology

·         Fully covered by Errors and Omissions liability insurance through Lloyd’s of London

 

Education

 

·         B. A.        University of Dallas, German and French.  Cum Laude.  1981

·         M. B. A.   University of Dallas, International Management, 1982

 

Experience

 

1997-present               Free-lance Translator, sole proprietor - Dutch Language Resources

1992 -1995                Software Support Specialist - Children’s Medical Center of Dallas

1986 -1992                Senior Installation Consultant - IDX Corporation, Vermont

1981 -1986                Medical Systems Analyst - Children’s Medical Center of Dallas

 

Affiliations

 

·         American Translators Association (ATA)

·         The Translators and Interpreters Guild (TTIG)

·         Colorado Translators Association (CTA)

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Equipment and Resources

 

·         Hardware:  Gateway Pentium III 733MHz with 256MB 100MHz SDRAM, Brother MFC 4550 laser printer, HP Deskjet 810C color printer, HP ScanJet 6200C, 56K PCI modem, 20X min/ 48X max CD ROM drive and Philips Recordable/ReWriteable 8x/4x/32x CD-ROM, IOMEGA 250MB Internal ZIP drive

·         Dedicated FAX           

·         Operating system: Windows 98 Second edition

·         Software: Microsoft Office 2000 Professional Suite, Office 2000 Proofing Tools for Foreign Languages, FrontPage 97, Adobe Pagemaker 6.5, Quick Books.  Able to read/print .pdf files.

·         Full Internet access

·         File transfer: by modem, ftp, e-mail, diskette, fax, hard copy, as preferred by client

·         Translation aids: Déjà Vu Interactive Version 2.2, Office 2000 Proofing Tools, on-line software dictionaries.  Coming soon… Trados!

·         Extensive collection of dictionaries in hard-copy and CD-ROM and other reference materials

 

References

 

References, rates and sample translations provided on request

 

Website

 

For further information, including comments from past customers, listings of available reference materials on-site, resume of in-house editor and more, please see:

 

www.dutchlanguageresources.com