Curriculum vitae john P. Coakley, Ph. D, P. Eng. (Ontario) Nor-Word Text Services



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CURRICULUM VITAE

 

John P. Coakley, Ph.D, P.Eng. (Ontario)



Nor-Word Text Services

23 Lower Horning Road, Hamilton, Ontario, L8S 3E9 Canada

(866) 891-8519 (Bus); (905) 730-5219 (cell); (905) 527-9852 (Fax)

E-mail: info@nor-word.com; Company web-site: www.nor-word.com

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SPECIALTY: Translation of technical, scientific, and medical documents from , French, Spanish, Norwegian, Swedish, and Danish into English; proofreading, general text editing and enhancement.
PERSONAL DATA: Canadian citizen

 

EDUCATION

Ph.D. (Quaternary Geology / Sedimentology) - University of Waterloo

M.Sc. (Sedimentary Geology) - University of Ottawa

B.Sc. (Petroleum Geology) - St. Francis Xavier University, Nova Scotia

 

PROFESSIONAL DATA:



Past employment:

Research Environmental Geologist, NRCan / Environment Canada, Burlington, Canada (1967 – 2001)



Emeritus Research Scientist, Environment Canada (2001 – 2005)
Present employment:

  • Proprietor and principal on-staff translator, Nor-Word Text Services


ACCREDITATION:

    • Member, Association of Translators and Interpreters of Ontario (Certified for Norwegian > English translation)

    • Candidate for certification in translation (French > English);

    • Member, Swedish Association of Professional Translators (SFÖ)

    • Professional Engineer (Ontario, Canada)


TRANSLATION EXPERIENCE:

  • More than 30 years experience as a freelance translator working in the above languages, specializing in technical and scientific texts.

  • As a research scientist, I acquired extensive experience in shoreline and sediment research in the Great Lakes / St. Lawrence system, technical and scientific writing, editing and proofreading scientific texts; I served as editor and manuscript reviewer for professional journals and conference proceedings.

  • Translated hundreds of texts on a wide variety of complex subjects, including medicine, environmental issues, engineering and construction, geology, nuclear technology, biochemistry, plant diseases, forestry, fisheries research, and others.


REPRESENTATIVE LIST OF CLIENTS (see also www.nor-word.com): 

Canada:

Canada Secretary of State (Translation Bureau)

Public Works Canada

Radio Canada

University of Montreal

Atlantic Lottery Corporation

Northern Properties REIT

McMaster University / Hamilton Health Sciences Corp.

Able Translations

Verovar Translation Services

Venmar Ventilation
Overseas:

DEME (Dredging, Environmental, & Marine Eng.) Belgium

Helena Translations Amsterdam, NL

TransPerfect Translations SPRL Brussels and London

Holland Translating Service Bussum, NL

Thebigword Translation Services Leeds, UK

Originalar’n – Translations and DTP

COMPUTER AND SOFTWARE AIDS:

  • Windows XP with high-speed Internet access; WORD 2003

  • Adobe Acrobat; COREL Perfectscript; PowerPoint; & others

  • WordFast




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