Ahmed Alrouby

Mokkattam, the 3rd Neighborhood, Konouz El Mokkattam Mini Compound, 1st floor, apartment 01. +2 - +2 -- Ahmed Mohammed Al-Rouby Objective To Enrich the status of Arabic all over the world and help spread our culture by building dictionaries, localizing websites, arabizing foreign culture (novels, short stories, plays, etc.), and translating our culture into as much languages as possible- Future Group Full-time Software Localizer Experience Cairo, Egypt Accomplishments  Translation of Lotus Notes (Using Trados Workbench).  Translation of tracks of Oracle Database (Using Trados Workbench).  Building the English-Arabic Computer Dictionary.  Working on MS Visual Source Safe.  Translation of MS Office Suite 2000.  Working in DTP using MS PageMaker- Middle East Office Cairo, Egypt (An Agent of Jarir Bookstore) Full-time Senior Translator Accomplishments  Translation of many books on networks and internet protocols.  Translation of many books on anger management, self-help, pharmaceuticals, Western and Eastern medicine, and fiction (Ex. "Conversational Power", "How to Double Your Sales in 30 Days", "Lose Weight and Stay Slim", "Never Be Late Again", "Office2007", "Outlook2007", "Stress Proof Your Life", "Talk Your Way to the Top", "The Book Of Happiness", "The Building Block", "Today Matters", "Transform Your Life", "What You Feel, You Can Heal", "Windows Vista", "Worry Cure", "The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari", "8 Weeks to Optimum Health", "A Good Night's Sleep", "The Art of the Start", "You Can Win", "The Story of You", and "Upgrade Your Brain")  Proofread books for many translators after getting promoted. - Sakhr Software Company Cairo, Egypt Full-time Translation and Linguistics Group Manager Accomplishments  Building up the Sakhr basic online dictionaries from scratch.  Building up the huge database of Sakhr's online machine translation engine.  Initiation of online translation of world news sites (CNN/BBC/Middle East).  Supervision and revision of the work of my group.  Writing monthly reports on the Machine Translation Engine as compared to other machine translation engines worldwide (e.g. the Google Machine Translation Engine- Arab Radio and Television (ART) Cairo, Egypt Part-time Subtitler Accomplishments  Subtitling many American/British English movies (without scripts)- Eltorjoman International Cairo, Egypt Full-time Arabic-English Translator & Reviser Accomplishments  Translation and revision of Al-Masry Al-Youm and AlHayat online newspapers into English- Magnificent Life Magazine Cairo, Egypt Freelance English Writer Accomplishments  Writing freelance English articles for "Magnificent Life" magazine- Atlas Publishing House Cairo, Egypt English Department Manager Accomplishments  Leading the team responsible for Atlas Electronic Dictionaries and building the first color electronic Atlas dictionary- SHUAA' Cairo, Egypt Senior English Translator and Editor Accomplishments  Translating and editing economic and business articles.  Writing abstracts of business books- Smart Translation Company Riyadh, KSA Company Manager Accomplishments  Managing translators, clients, and projects  Marketing the services of the company inside KSA and abroad - MediaWatch Social Media Analyst Cairo, Egypt Achievements:  Responsible for researching social media content  Responsible for analyzing social media content 2013-To Date MediaWatch Quality Assurance Manager Cairo, Egypt Achievements:  Responsible for assuring the quality of social and traditional media reports  Occasionally responsible for analyzing social media content- Faculty of Alsun (Ain Shams Uni.) Cairo, Egypt Education  B.A., English Language and Literature. -  Attended VB courses and finished 1st course with honors.  Attended Japanese Language courses and finished 5 levels.  Finished 2 qualifying Japanese tests (equal to the English Extracurricular TOEFL). Experience  Received training and excelled in CAT (Computer Assisted Translation) tools (TradosSDL 2007, WordFast, SDLX).  Built a two-way dictionary of colloquial expressions.  Developing the "English-Arabic Collocations Dictionary". Translated the following books into Arabic: Publications Software Knowledge Fields of Spec. Hobbies References -- Post-colonial Studies: The Key Concepts (co-translator) Weird Tales from Northern Seas The Oxford Dictionary of Allusions Descartes: A Very Short Introduction Habermas: A Very Short Introduction Augustine: A Very Short Introduction Rousseau: A Very Short Introduction A collection of stories by Canadian Nobel-prize winner Alice Munro 9- 30 Great Myths about Shakespeare Office Suite 2013 – SDL Trados Studio 2016 – SDLX – WordFast High Tech – Medicine – Politics – Education – Science – Military – Linguistics – Religions Reading, writing articles and critical reviews. Furnished upon request.