Fouad Hassaan

English / Arabic Translator +15 Y Experience

CONTACT
Country	Egypt
Address	10 Saleh Harb St., ElTairan st, 7th District, Nasr City, Appt.# 19, Cairo – Egypt. 11351 cairo
E-mail	CONTACT
Home page	www.freearabo.com
LANGUAGES	English - Arabic (native) Arabic - English (native)
EDUCATION	*B.A. degree in European languages and cultures 1993- Ain Shams University- Faculty of Arts *Associate member of the American Translators Association
SPECIALIZATION	Automotive, Medical, Oil&Petroleum, Banking, Software, Hardware, Cell Phones, Printers, etc
EXPERIENCE	As a freelancer, I have translated the following projects and worked in this field since 1996:‎ *Main Editor & Proofreader for All Land Rove, Jaguar and Aston Martin Owners Handbooks‎ *Kodak EasyShare (Various QSGs & UGs)‎ *LG Mobiles UG‎ *Panasonic (Various QSGs & UGs)‎ *JVC (Various QSGs & UGs)‎ *VOVLO Construction Equipments *Rexton car; Automotive User's Manuals.‎ *Rolls-Royce 100EX press kit ‎ *Owner’s Guide-FordFocus‎ *CAC, INC. Potable Water Trailer_ELJ-410G OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE Book‎ *Gallup University’s “Great Managers Program” Guidebook for The Abdul Latif Jameel Center For Continuous Learning‎ *KIA Motors; User's manuals ‎ *Skoda Owner’s Manual.‎ *Toyota Corona Handbook. *Nokia Mobiles UGs. *Xerox DocuColor 2240/1632 Printer/Copier User Guide.‎ *ATI HydraVision. *AME BE International Leisure Sheet.‎ *Toshiba air conditioner Get Start (technical manual). *York air conditioner user manual.‎ *COX189 “Arthritis research” Information & Consent Form.‎ *LG User Manuals for varying Products.‎ *GE Energy Products-Europe- RISK AWARENESS SHEET (Alcatel) And many other projects. --------------------------------------------------------------------- **1st January 2002 till the moment General Manger - Transnative (www.transnative.net) localization & translation companyAll management responsibilities for projects with variety of language pairs. --------------------------------------------------------------------- **1st June 2000 – 31 December 20001 SoftTrans For Translation and Localization CairoSenior Translator, Proofreader, QA Manager · Translating Software manuals, User's Guides, etc. Proofreading and reviewing all translated materials --------------------------------------------------------------------- **1st, September 1998 – 1st July 2000 Compuscience for Translation & CAD Technologies CairoPart-time Translator· Translating Software manuals, User's Guides, Online Help, Software and HTML translation. Specializing in translating technical, software, and hardware. --------------------------------------------------------------------- **1ts May.1996 –1st August 1998 Belady Newspaper Cairo English TranslatorTranslating political, economical and military news making news reports. Translating many articles regarding the Middle East published in foreign newspapers and magazines. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- **1ts Jan.1994 –1st October 1995 El-Mokhtar Private School Cairo English TeacherTeaching English syllabus, language and grammer for students of El-Mokhtar Private Prep school.
EQUIPMENT	Software Win 98, Word 97, Office 97, 2000, Office XP 2002, Norton Commander, Adobe Page Maker 5.5 ME, Adobe Illustrator 10.0, Adobe Illustrator CS, Internet, Windows 2000, Windows ME, Mac OS, Quarck 4.01, Adobe Acrobat 6.0, Corel Draw 9, SDLX 2004, Trados LSP 6.5, Quick Ship Corel Catalyst, MS Visual Studio, HTML Workshop, SDLInsight, Helium 3, etcAlso able to handle and deal with any new tools or software.