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Translation Volume: 12000 words Duration: Dec 2007 to Jan 2008 Languages: English to French
Ongoing collaboration: Intranet / Press releases / Announcements / etc.
Construction / Civil Engineering
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Sample translations submitted: 3
English to French: White Paper: "Leveraging Used IT Equipment" Detailed field: Computers: Hardware
Source text - English XXX believes used equipment can serve a valuable role within IT strategies, as corporations are increasingly pressed to meet new business application demands with limited available funding and skill sets. Many companies already take advantage of used equipment in cases where budgets require creative funding, however, RFG finds that there are numerous other business-related usage scenarios that are an appropriate venue for used equipment. Enterprises that necessitate immediate access to hardware, need additional computing power but wish to maintain infrastructure consistency, and/or require identical systems for testing and/or disaster recovery/business continuity strategies are also good used equipment candidates. Vendors perform rigorous testing and refurbishment to ensure that products are fully hardware and software restored before offering systems for resale. After hardware is tested and sufficiently data cleansed, vendors – particularly those associated with original equipment manufacturer (OEM) hardware providers – are able to offer low-rate financing and full warranty support options. IT executives should look beyond the tactical cost savings potential of used equipment, and maximize their spending capabilities by expanding hardware acquisition techniques to leverage used equipment as a means of solving strategic business requirements.
Translation - French Aujourd’hui, les entreprises sont de plus en plus contraintes de se plier à de nouvelles exigences en matière d’applications professionnelles, sans pour autant posséder les fonds et les compétences pour les mettre en œuvre. Voilà pourquoi XXX croit au bénéfice que les départements informatiques peuvent tirer des « anciens » équipements. De nombreuses entreprises, poussées à faire preuve de créativité dans leur financement à cause de budgets limités, en tirent déjà avantage mais des études menées par le groupe RFG montrent que les scénarios propices à la réutilisation de matériel informatique par les entreprises sont bien plus nombreux. Par exemple, les entreprises ayant besoin d’un accès immédiat à du matériel, de capacités informatiques plus importantes tout en respectant la cohérence de leur infrastructure, d’environnements de test identiques, de solutions de récupération de données et de continuité des opérations représentent également de bons candidats. Les fournisseurs effectuent des tests stricts et des remises à neuf pour s’assurer que leurs produits sont totalement à jour d’un point de vue logiciel et matériel avant de les proposer à la revente. Une fois le matériel testé et les données proprement nettoyées, les fournisseurs – ceux associés aux fabricants OEM (fabricants d'équipement informatique d'origine) notamment – sont à même de proposer des solutions de financement à bas coût et des options d'assistance assorties de garanties complètes. Les responsables informatiques devraient considérer le potentiel d’économies stratégiques que représente la réutilisation d’équipement informatique, et optimiser leurs dépenses en adoptant des techniques d’acquisition de matériel qui permettent de tirer avantage des anciens équipements afin de résoudre des problématiques stratégiques d’entreprise.
English to French: Commercial Leaflet: TrolleyBus Detailed field: Transport / Transportation / Shipping
Source text - English Trolleybus
For a better quality of life in our cities
These days, there are two main strategic visions to save the future of urban life:
Sustainable urban development and preservation of quality of life. Mobility is a
crucial element of quality of life. Smart modern public transport systems are
predestined to ensure the fundamental right to mobility as well as to minimize the
negative environmental effects like pollutants, noise or waste of urban area. A proven technology to reach these targets is the electric Trolleybus System. It provides the same urban-friendly advantages as a Light Rail System, can be introduced in much shorter timescales and requires only 10 to 15% of the investment costs.
Worldwide success
Trolleybus Systems are well known all over the world. 40 000 vehicles are being
operated in around 370 cities, in 47 countries as different as Russia, Canada,
Ecuador, Mexico, New Zealand, China, Greece or countries of Eastern Europe. This success story dates back to 1882, when the first trolleybus was built by the German engineer Werner von Siemens. Around 1930 the age of the modern Trolleybus System began when reliable overhead contact systems were introduced. Since then this principle has constantly been improved
and developed further. Some cities, for example Rome, are reintroducing the
Trolleybus System after it had been replaced by diesel buses decades ago.
Translation - French Trolleybus
Pour une meilleure qualité de vie dans nos villes
Aujourd’hui, les deux visions stratégiques qui prévalent en matière de préservation de la vie urbaine sont le développement urbain durable et le maintien de la qualité de vie, dont la mobilité représente un élément primordial. Les moyens de transport publics intelligents modernes sont conçus pour garantir à chacun un accès au droit fondamental à la mobilité tout en réduisant au maximum tous types de pollution environnementale (atmosphérique, sonore ou résiduelle).
Basés sur une technologie qui a fait ses preuves, les trolleybus électriques représentent un moyen d’atteindre ces objectifs. Aussi avantageux que les tramways rapides, ils peuvent être mis en place plus rapidement, et pour des coûts d’investissement 10 à 15% inférieurs.
Un succès planétaire
Les trolleybus sont connus dans le monde entier. 40 000 véhicules roulent dans près de 370 villes réparties dans 47 pays, parmi lesquels la Russie, le Canada, l'Equateur, le Mexique, la Nouvelle Zélande, la Chine, la Grèce ou les pays de l’Est. Leur succès remonte à 1882, date à laquelle un ingénieur allemand, Werner von Siemens, construisit le premier modèle. L’ère des trolleybus modernes débuta vers 1930 avec l’introduction des lignes aériennes de contact, une technologie qui a bénéficié de nombreux développements depuis. Certaines villes – Rome par exemple – réintroduisent le trolleybus dans la ville après l’avoir remplacé par des bus fonctionnant au diesel il y a des années.
English to French: New Technology article: E-call Detailed field: Telecom(munications)
Source text - English Implementing an eCall solution
eCall is the pan-European in-vehicle emergency Call project. It is part of an initiative by the European Union to establish a Europe-wide location-enhanced emergency-response network in order to reduce the number of highway fatalities in the European Union. Based on the 112 number, which is accessible from virtually all wired and mobile phones in Europe, emergency calls arrive at a “Public Safety Answering Point” (PSAP) from which emergency response units are dispatched.
Response times of the emergency services are of vital importance in the event of road traffic accidents. The eCall system therefore proposes that location information should be gathered by an in-car device and transmitted with the emergency call.
It is expected that eCall may be mandatory by 2010 for all new cars sold in the EU. Over the longer term, the eCall project is expected to drive the introduction of GSM-enabled equipment in all cars, making possible a wide range of new services.
When considering how best to implement an eCall solution, there are several considerations to be taken into account.
Cost Reduction
The eCall IVS function is to:
• Collect data from the vehicle network and from vehicle sensors, and maintain an up-to-date GPS-fix of the vehicle’s location.
• Automatically detect a crash based on car-sensor information.
• Call a PSAP automatically when a crash is detected (or when the driver presses a dedicated eCall button) to establish voice contact between the car’s occupants and a PSAP operator, and to transmit data including the current GPS position.
Translation - French Mise en œuvre d’une solution eCall
eCall est la désignation du projet paneuropéen de système d’appel d’urgence (emergency Call) embarqué en véhicule. Il fait partie d’une initiative de l’Union Européenne visant à établir un réseau de réponse d’urgence par positionnement géographique à l’échelle européenne, dont le but est de réduire le nombre d’accidents mortels sur les routes de l’Union Européenne. Partant du numéro 112, joignable depuis pratiquement tous les téléphones fixes et mobiles en Europe, les appels d’urgence parviennent à un « Point public de réponse de sécurité » (PSAP, Public Safety Answering Point) qui gère les unités d’intervention d’urgence.
Dans le cas d’accidents de la route, les temps de réponse des services d’urgence sont d’une importance vitale. Le système eCall propose donc que les coordonnées de l’appelant soient recueillies directement dans le véhicule d’intervention et transmises avec l’appel d’urgence.
Le système eCall devrait devenir obligatoire d’ici 2010 sur tous les véhicules neufs vendus dans l’UE. Il pourrait à plus long terme entraîner l’introduction d’équipements GSM à bord de tous les véhicules, et ouvrir la voie au développement d’un large éventail de nouveaux services.
Les paragraphes suivants abordent les différents aspects à prendre en compte pour optimiser la mise en œuvre d’une solution eCall.
Réduction des coûts
La fonction du système eCall IVS consiste à :
• Collecter des données en provenance du réseau et des capteurs du véhicule et maintenir à jour la position GPS du véhicule.
• Détecter automatiquement un accident sur la base des informations générées par les capteurs embarqués.
• Appeler automatiquement un PSAP quand un accident est détecté (ou quand le conducteur appuie sur un bouton eCall dédié) afin d’établir un contact vocal entre les occupants du véhicule et une opératrice du PSAP et transmettre les données incluant la position GPS actuelle.
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Translation education
Master's degree - Traductologie et traduction pour l'édition et le marché du livre - Bordeaux III
Experience
Years of experience: 21. Registered at ProZ.com: Aug 2007.
Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, DejaVu, Dreamweaver, FrameMaker, IBM CAT tool, Indesign, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Fast Help Translation Assistant, Pagemaker, Powerpoint, QuarkXPress, SDLX, Trados Studio, Wordfast
I have been working for 10 years now as a technical and literary translator as well as technical author. Prior to starting a freelance career, I worked for 3 years as an in-house translator, technical author and project manager for a major French multimedia and language solutions company (Paris- and Toulouse-based).
I have a double-facetted academic curriculum, since I graduated first from Paris VII University (Masters in Physics, Major in Satellite Imagery, Remote Sensing) in 1998 and then from Bordeaux III University (Masters in Translation for the Publishing Business) in 2005.
After a two-month vocational training as System (Unix), Network (TCP/IP) and Database (Oracle) administrator in a software and computing services company, I worked for 18 months as System & Network Engineer for one of the biggest French Telecommunication company (Bouygues telecom, Paris).
As a technical translator I now specialize in Aerospace, Engineering, Physics, Construction, IT and Computers, but I have had the opportunity to work in several other fields (marketing, automotive, medical, financial).
As a technical writer, I produced:
. in 2005: 2 user guides and 1 getting started (Word, English, software, approx. 200 pages) on M2M technology for an IT France-based company (Getting started with M2M Developer Suite);
. from 2005 to 2007: rework of after-sales documentation for a France-based hydraulic motor manufacturer (FrameMaker, French, repair procedures, know-how and value sheets, evolution of products, approx. 200 pages);
. from 2005 to 2007: part-time in-site technical writer for an American company developing barcode readers, then full time documentation manager of the R&D department in Toulouse (for 6 months); creation and update of integration guides and demo kits (FrameMaker, PageMaker and InDesign, English, barcode readers, approx. 500 pages);
. in 2007:
1. migration Word to FrameMaker of documentation for a French-based company developing safety-critical embedded softwares in Aerospace & Defense, Rail Transportation, Energy and Heavy Equipment Industries (450 pages);
2. update of a technical manual for the same company ; in-site 40-day contract (FrameMaker, English, safety-critical embedded software, approx. 400 pages);
. in 2008:
1. complete writing (template building, graphical creation, technical authoring) of a Getting Started and User Guide for a France-based start-up company developing a Smart Urban Navigator (Word and FrameMaker, French, GPS, urban navigator, approx. 150 pages): Guide d'utilisation du kapten
2. update of software documentation for an Aerospace company specialized in mechanical, electrical, thermal and optical tests (FrameMaker, French and English, Unix, Database system, 200 pages);
. in 2010:
1. Still for Convertigo, I worked on an automation process to automatically create a Reference Manual including all software objects, properties as well as examples of use of described objects. The process: developers generate an XML file including all necessary information, a Framescript script is run from FrameMaker and the document is created. As simple as that!
2. I have written two Getting Started Guides as well as two User Guides for a Machine-to-Machine service portal (AirVantage) developed by Sierra Wireless (click here for more detail): one batch for the generic portal, the other for a special offering called SMart Automation.
I also maintain the technical documentation in a Confluence Wiki.
Fond of Sports, from team sports (football, rugby, volley ball) to outdoor sports (rock climbing, hiking, biking, ski touring), not to mention others (tennis, roller...), I am part of the French UEFA team of translators. As such, I translate on a weekly basis sports articles, video transcripts, match reports, backgrounds, reviews, official press releases...anything related to European football competitions and the UEFA. I do also voice-overs (with my own professional material - Samson Podcast, Audacity, Sony Vegas - and voice).
I also contribute to magazine translations on a regular basis. This is the case for the bilingual L'Architecture d'Aujourd'hui, an architecture magazine, for which I translated a number of articles (especially for issue # 378).
I also combine passion and work through my activity as scout, reader and translator for the Editions Guérin, a France-based (Chamonix) mountain-oriented publishing company for which I search, read, assess the quality and relevance of and eventually select anglophone writings worth being translated into French.
Proactive, driven by passion and scientific rigor, I boast a constant personal commitment in providing clients with error-free, accurate translations...and good mood!
See you soon on Proz.com!
Mathieu.
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