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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