Speakers
Ruth Simpson |
Ruth is a French to English translator specializing in beauty, wine and personal development. She also loves singing with her jazz octet, playing the ukulele and violin, and exploring the ocean with a SCUBA pack on her back. Her session is:
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Yves Champollion |
Yves Champollion is CEO of Wordfast. He developed Wordfast and PlusTools suite of CAT (Computer-Assisted Translation) tools. He used to work as a freelance translator, and a project manager and consultant for large translation projects in world-class translation agencies. His sessions are:
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Philippe Locquet |
Meet Philippe Locquet, the dynamic Academic Program Manager at Wordfast. With over a decade of experience in translation and editing, he’s a master at leveraging linguistic resources. His YouTube channel, "Translators Tech Corner” is a great resource for translators looking to up their game and “spell” “success”. A plurilingual translator himself, Philippe’s expertise extends to creating quality alignments, maintaining translation memories (TMs) and glossaries. Philippe is always happy to lend a helping hand and share his knowledge, striving to make complex concepts accessible. His session is:
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Justine Sherwood |
Justine Sherwood is a freelance translator working mainly from Dutch into English in the medical and legal industries. A year ago she would probably have said a very definitive no to the idea of ever presenting anything at a conference. But that was before she discovered the joys of improv. After following a 6 week improv course on public speaking, she realized that anyone can sell themself and present in an engaging and fun manner, no matter how shy and retiring they might be in private life. Her session is:
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Stefan Stefanov |
Dr Stefan Stefanov is a member of the Wordfast hotline team and an occasional helper in our Facebook group. He is a university lecturer teaching various specialised translation courses and – you guessed it – CAT tools and more specifically Wordfast Pro, at Bulgaria’s leading linguistics university of St Cyril and St Methodius. He also does some web-related programming where regular expressions are also commonly used. In his free time, he likes to deejay and throw dance parties, while sipping a pint of nice craft ale. His sessions are:
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Jamie Lucero |
Jamie Lucero has been a French to English translator and translation tools expert for more than 20 years. After receiving his M.A. in Translation from the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey in 2001 and working as an in-house translator and translation tools administrator, he served as a Program Manager of the Bellevue College Translation & Interpretation Professional Certificate Program outside Seattle and as a board member for the NOTIS chapter of the American Translators Association. Jamie currently focuses on translation tools consulting and training at his company, Morning Star Translations. His sessions are:
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Reginaldo Francisco |
Reginaldo Francisco is an English-, Italian- and French-to-Portuguese translator working with literary and technical texts. He has translated several works, including Jules Verne's Around the World in 80 Days, and Italian writer Vamba's classic children's book, Il Giornalino di Gian Burrasca. He has a bachelor’s degree in translation from the São Paulo State University (UNESP) and a master’s in translation studies from the Federal University at Santa Catarina (UFSC), in Brazil. Reginaldo is also a Wordfast hotliner and trainer and has been providing on-site and on-line training for translators since 2009. His session is:
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John Di Rico |
John Di Rico began translating in 2005 and specializes in legal, financial, and IT translation from French to English. He currently works as the Sales and Marketing Manager for Wordfast and runs a small translation business—ApexTra—in France. He is a court-appointed translator in France, a member of the French translation professional association (Société Française des Traducteurs), and has an M.A. in Translation and Localization Management from the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey (MIIS). John also teaches project management for the online Master in Technical Communication and Localization (TCLoc) and Master in Multilingual Web Communication (CAWEB) programs at the University of Strasbourg. His sessions are:
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Dani Lopez |
Late in his degree, Dani started to work as a web application developer which became his profession after he got his Bachelor’s degree in Physical Sciences. For more than 15 years, he has been working in different areas from Catalonia Government apps to one of the most used ticketing companies. His first contact with the translation industry was nearly 11 years ago when he started working on Wordfast Anywhere. From that day, he has been helping Remi André to manage and improve Wordfast Anywhere. His sessions are:
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John Daniel Singaram
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John Daniel started working as a Quality Assurance Engineer for Wordfast products 10 years ago and has been working as Product Manager for Wordfast for the last 5 years. He is involved in helping Wordfast users in bringing their queries and issues to the development team as well as managing the product life cycle. His sessions are:
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Sandor Marazza |
I was born and raised in the Italian speaking part of Switzerland, but I have lived, studied and worked in several different places. I have been a translator for over a decade, most of it as a freelancer with direct customers. My main language combinations are German-Italian and French-Italian. I mostly translate editorial and communicative contents in a variety of fields such as marketing, health, advocacy, urban planning and cultural heritage, and also some literature. His session is:
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