Olivier Noir

skills • Translation Project Management • Translation tools • Customer and supplier relations • Document management and editing • Microsoft office • InDesign, Photoshop Olivier Noir contact details: „ +33 - „-„ 9 rue du château, 70190 Trésilley, France • General IT expertise • English: fluent spoken and written • Proficiency in written French and English. professional experience October 2003 to the present: Operations Manager Lyrco, Brussels, Belgium • Project management at client level • Management of project teams • Pre- and post-translation technical and graphic design work • Client follow-up and retention • Setting up a business strategy in a competitive environment July 2002 to October 2003: Translation Engineer and Project Manager Eurologos, Brussels, Belgium • Setting up and managing a division for translating websites, software and brochures October 2000 to May 2002: Software Translation Engineer Jonckers, Brussels, Belgium • Pre- and post-translation technical work (primarily Windows XP) July 2000 to September 2000: Linguistics engineer personal strengths: • Service-oriented, plugged into customers’ needs in order to provide the best possible service • Communication, experience in communicating with customers and suppliers • Self-starter, with a track record of indentifying solutions to various technical IT problems • Quick mastery of new IT tools education 1997 Master’s in Computer Science and Linguistics Systran, Montmorency, France • Writing Perl scripts for the analysis of electronic dictionaries • Test procedures for electronic dictionaries Franche Comté University April 1998 to June 2000: Translation Engineer 1992 Master’s degree in English Microsoft, Dublin, Ireland • Translation of Windows 2000 software into French • Technical work on the translated version (testing, bug fixes, etc.) • Thesis subject: Development in Prolog of an English-French translation system for use online Franche Comté University • Thesis subject: The use of IT in teaching English in primary schools September 1993 to June 1994: Taught French 1991 Degree in English State University of New York, New Paltz, NY, USA • French teacher for a class of students as part of an exchange programme University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA • English degree earned as part of a student exchange programme January 1992 to June 1992: Taught English Marchaux, France • English teacher for a class of adults and a class of children March 1995 to October 1997: Sales Decathlon, Besançon, France • Sales assistant in bicycle department training- C++ Besançon University • Completion of Bachelor’s degree curriculum in programming.