Ciarán O Faolain

I have over 20 years' experience as a technical writer and editor, and as a translator from Dutch to English and French to English. See my website, ·        

http://www.textabulous.com/, for details, and below for highlights.

On the technical-writing and -editing front, clients have included:

• HCL, for Novartis/Sandoz (one year, to January 2024): one of two Technical Writers/Editors on the last year of a multi-year programme that set up and launched the IT infrastructure for Sandoz as an independent spin-off of Novartis.
• ASML, the world's largest maker of the most advanced photolithography machines, which produce computer chips (one year, till December 2017)
• ITS Global at KPMG International (five contracts, straddling 2015 to 2021, for a total of just under three years): Technical Writer and Editor on a range of projects, including One Platform (OP) Security, Country Hosting, OP Continuous Delivery, and Platform-Wide Security and Guardrails. Among other things, I edited runbooks and other step-by-step procedures, produced from scratch a Quick Guide to Producing Clear, High-Quality Documentation, drafted and edited internal communications and messaging to member firms, and edited KPMGI’s adaptations of Office365 documentation on Teams, Skype, and Windows Virtual Desktop.
• The National Bank of Belgium (six months, to January 2023): sole Technical Writer on a major disaster-recovery programme subject to audit. I edited disaster-recovery plans, continuity plans, and tabletop-exercise plans, and updated and refined templates.
• Public Cloud Platforms, the largest IT department at ABN AMRO Bank (six months through June 2024): As the sole Technical Writer and Editor in the department, I advised teams the reorganisation, streamlining, and quality control of documentation.

I have significant experience as a translator from Dutch to English and from French to English.

In the first pair, I recently translated an Advisory Letter from the  Advisory Council on International Affairs (Adviesraad Internationale Vraagstukken), a semi-independent body within the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, to the Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs: https://www.adviesraadinternationalevraagstukken.nl/documenten/publicaties/2024/10/23/aiv-briefadvies-39-naar-een-nieuwe-koers-voor-nederland-in-het-israelisch-palestijnse-conflict.

As for the second pair: in March last year, Oxford University Press published _my translation of Les 3 Cours: La justice qui n'allait pas de soi by Laurence Burgorgue-Larsen. It's a major addition to the literature on the work of the three Regional Human Rights Courts, in the Americas, Europe, and Africa.

See my website for links to numerous academic, legal, and other translations I have done in both language pairs.