Sylvie O. Barnet

Description

French native speaker and US resident, with over 25 years of experience as a translator specialized in business, law, global health and international development. Formerly, 5 years’ experience as a French teacher in Japan.

EXPERIENCE
Legal and Business
-Adoption, copyrights, divorce decrees, immigration documentation, license agreements, patent infringements, wills, and various other court documents
-Anti-corruption training, codes of ethics and business conduct, corporate newsletters, customer surveys, training manuals, press releases, sales presentations, etc.
International Development
-Translated a 100,000+ word guide on Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs), a 50,000 word guide on PPPs in power transmission in Africa and several other documents related to performance-based contracts for non-revenue water management, in collaboration with World Bank staff
Global Health
-Translate on a regular basis various documents for several NGOs working to control neglected tropical diseases in sub-Saharan Africa, in collaboration with the staff based in Senegal
-Ongoing work (translation of training manuals, presentations, research protocols, surveys, etc.) with a government funded initiative aiming to improve HIV care provided by nurses and midwives in West Africa

EDUCATION AND CERTIFICATIONS
MBA (major in Marketing) from Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, GA, USA
ATA Certification for translation from English into French
Licence de japonais (BA in Japanese) with a major in Translation and Interpretation from the INALCO ("Langues O."), Paris, France
Former scholar of the Japanese government, Osaka Gaidai (Osaka University of Foreign Studies), Osaka, Japan