Experience Freelance Chinese Translator and Interpreter (11/94 - present) ?Provided professional linguistic services such as interpretation (simultaneous, consecutive, court, and escort), translation, and software localization on full-time basis ?Provided simultaneous interpretation services for conferences, workshops, webcasts, speeches, and court proceedings in US, England, Italy, Australia, and Switzerland. ?Specialized in technical projects involving patents, manuals, advertisements, datasheets, and MSDS's etc. ?Covered subjects such as marketing, financial services, law, electronics, telecommunications, computer science, mechanical engineering, chemistry, chemical engineering, physics, petroleum industry, pulp and paper industry, automotive industry, and textile industry etc. ?Localized several major websites. ?Served as the from-English-into-Chinese Language Chair of the Certification Examination of the American Translators Association (ATA) from May, 2001 to May 2004 ?Serving as a grader of the ATA from-English-into-Chinese Certification Exam Asia Director, Fotoforms Systems, Inc. (11/93 - 10/94) ?Studied, designed, prepared, and launched a Chinese-US joint venture, the Beijing John's Photography, Ltd., successfully and almost single-handedly from scratch. Research associate, Department of Physics, Emory University (10/89 - 10/93) ?Did extensive computational work on theoretical physics subjects such as crack propagation modeling and simulation and studies of optical properties of semiconductor materials ?Put in enormous efforts in using extremely powerful supercomputers, such as Cray's and IBM mainframes, to simulate physical materials of real world Education ?Doctor of Philosophy in physics - September, 1985 to September, 1989; Department of Physics, the University of Michigan; Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109 ?Master of Science in physics - September, 1983 to May, 1985; Department of Physics & Astronomy, the University of Pittsburgh; Pittsburgh, PA 15260 ?Bachelor of Science in physics - September, 1978 to July, 1982; Department of Modern Physics, the University of Science & Technology of China; Hefei, Anhui Province, China Awards, Certificates, and Other Honors ?State of Georgia Certified Court Interpreter, 6/2008 ?US Department of State approved translator with a Public Trust certificate issued by the agency, 2/2007 ?American Translators Association (ATA) certified from-English-into-Chinese translator, 12/1998 ?1997 Outstanding Subcontractor of the Year, named by M-Squared Ltd., a prominent translation agency in Washington, DC area ?Berlitz certified Mandarin interpreter of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) court, 7/1995

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