Danish Translator – Ciarán Rooney
Ciarán Rooney
TRANSLATOR & PROOFREADER
Services: Translation, Proof-reading and Editing
Languages: Danish/Swedish/Norwegian > English
Rates: – Vary depending on difficulty and urgency of translation
– Prices are generally based on a word count of the source text
Experience: Professional, full-time, freelance translator since 2008 for a number of translation agencies in US, UK and Europe as well as private clients in the fields of research, business, IT, various user-manuals etc.
Part-time since 2006
Proof-reader of safety and technical manuals for international petrochemical companies, CV’s and various government documents.
English teacher Spanish students (1991-1993).
Private language instructor (English).
Areas of Specialisation:
– Medical Documents
– Financial accounts/records
– Legal documents/contract/patents
– IT – Hardware/software/manuals etc.
– Technical (including Automotive, user-manuals etc.)
– Business and Finance
– Marketing and Advertising
– Travel and Tourism
Recent assignments (2008/09/10) include:
Danish to English
· Legal contracts
- · Government tenders
- · Financial accounts & year end records/reports
- · Medical test documents
- · Shipping and transport
- · Market surveys
- · Marketing material for wind-power/automotive
- · Macro Economics text book
· University CVs
· Website translation and localisation
Norwegian to English
- · Annual accounts and annual reports
- · Government tenders
- · Legal contracts
- · Company reports
- · Menus/Tourist brochure
· Software manuals
· Financial statements
Swedish to English
· Company statutes
· Multinational petrochemical safety manual
· Timber and felling documents
· Electrical training manuals
· Business contracts
- Translation of user manual
- Business correspondence
- Legal documents + EU legislation
- Financial statements
- Business correspondence
- Technical and safety manuals
- See above
Proof reading
Education: – HF, Nørrevoldgade Gymnasium, Denmark
– Diploma in Business Studies, Dublin
– Accounting Technician, Dundalk
Background: – Born and educated in Ireland, I lived in Denmark 1986-2001.
– HF, Nørrevoldgade Gymnasium, Denmark
– I have managed Scandinavian customer care teams for Xerox and Lexmark. Managing teams of Danish, Norwegian and Swedish agents answering customer’s queries by phone, email and letter. 2001 – 2008.
Memberships &
Affiliations: – ProZ Translation Service, Translatorscafé, etc.
Technical equipment: – PC, laptop, printer, Windows Vista Small Business, MS Office 2003, Norton anti-virus, SDL Trados 2007 Freelance, broadband, wireless modem.
Additional information: My average daily output is 3,000 – 4,000 words, depending on the nature of the material.