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Gavin Fryer

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Director and Translator
Legal and Technical Translator Professional Japanese to English translator specializing in legal, financial, and other technical documents, successfully working as a freelance translator and running a translation company for almost 15 years. Detail-oriented and takes pride in producing translations that are accurate, clear, and easy to read. Experience working with documents from a wide variety of fields and eagerness and ability to quickly grasp new fields.
Keys Translations
Temple University Japan
Ålsgårde, Denmark
Dinamarca

Professional Background

  • Situación actual
  • Profession
    Other
  • Fields
    Derecho
  • Experiencia laboral
    Más de 15 años (Más de 15 años relevante)
  • Management
    I've had experience in managing 5-10 people
  • Skills
    Client Relationships
    Eagerness
    Planning
    Machine Translation
    Technical Documents
    Legal Translation
    WordPerfect
    Technical Writing
    Editing
  • Languages
    English
    Nativo o bilingüe
    Japanese
    Profesional
    Danish
    Fluido
  • Highest level of education

Job search preferences

  • Desired job type
    A tiempo completo
    Interesado en trabajar a distancia
  • Desired positions
    Director and Translator
  • Lugares de trabajo deseados
  • Freelance
    No freelance

Work Experience

Director and Translator

abr 2013 - Presente
- Established and successfully operated Keys Translations, a translation company specializing in Japanese-English legal and technical translations, for almost ten years. - Responsible for both running the business, building and maintaining client relationships, and producing high-quality translations. - Managed large projects by organizing ad hoc teams of translators and coordinating with other translators based around the globe. - Managed translation memories and terminology using translation tools such as WordPerfect and Memsource. - Leveraged machine translation technology to improve translation efficiency and accuracy. - Clients include major international law firms, manufacturing companies, pharmaceutical companies, banks and other financial institutions, and media companies.

Casual Tutor

jul 2015 - mar 2019
3 yrs 9 mos
Cultures, Brisbane, Australia Taught a post-graduate level course on Japanese to English legal translation. The course covered a wide range of legal translations

Education

Certificate of International Law
2004 - 2005
Master of Arts (MA)
Japanese Interpreting and Translation
2000 - 2001
Translation, Japan ese Language
1998 - 1999
Bachelor of Arts Japan ese Language
1995 - 1998
Diploma of Arts
1993 - 1994