TRANSLATION RESUME: Sept 2018
Mr. Lynn Rowe
4261 E. Waterford Ln.
Eagle Mountain, UT 84005
Cell: 801-577-0453
E-mail: lynnrowe60@gmail.com
Portuguese to English...Read moreTRANSLATION RESUME: Sept 2018
Mr. Lynn Rowe
4261 E. Waterford Ln.
Eagle Mountain, UT 84005
Cell: 801-577-0453
E-mail: lynnrowe60@gmail.com
Portuguese to English (primarily); English to Portuguese
Experience - U. S.-born citizen. Lived in Brazil for two years, returning to U.S. in 1968. Made return visits as tourist / businessman. Spent 1 week in Lisbon, Portugal in 1991. Visited Portugal in summer of 2009. Returned in Sept. 2016 after serving 15 months in Brasilia in an office environment as financial secretary.
Spring of 2007 - Began translation work with Verbatim Solutions, Salt Lake City, doing product specification sheets, legal documents, etc. About 120,000 words.
2008 to 2014, 2016 – present. - Working freelance for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, translating confidential documents of private meetings; also magazine articles. Nearly 1,500 pages.
Fall of 2014, did 30 pages of English to Portuguese work for LANDesk for an advertising campaign in Brazil.
Did six single-page documents for U S Translation, viz., school transcripts, birth certificates, etc.
April 2017 to present - Three documents for Alliance for African Assistance – San Diego, CA.
During 2004 to 2008, experience doing medical interpretation in clinics and hospitals for Portuguese-speaking patients. (on-call basis).
Taught one semester of Portuguese language in an adult education class at a local high school, about 2004.
Education: BA in advertising and public relations, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah.
MBA, Golden Gate University, San Francisco, Calif.
Other work experience: Spent 3 years in U.S. Air Force in public relations, then 30 years in private business, 20 of them in public relations and marketing communications. The other years have been in general business management. Ran my own business promoting and selling insecticide. Did some international business.
In 2008 began teaching at Copper Hills High School, West Jordan, Utah. Classes included marketing, entrepreneurship, advertising, business management, computer technology, sports marketing and fashion merchandising. Also taught college-credit communications and marketing classes. Retired in spring of 2014.
Rates -- Portuguese to English
$ .10 per word of source document (English to Port. $ .12 per source word)
$ .05 per word for revision work
$ 40 per hour