TEGUH TRANSLATION SERVICES

ENGLISH - INDONESIAN TRANSLATION, EDITING, & PROOFREADING

Dependable, Professional, Expert - and Certified for Technical - Translations


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Summary of Professional Qualifications

  • Approximately 9 years of extensive translating experience (since 1993) as a part-time translator, in-house translator working in a multi-lingual and multi-cultural environment and with translation end-users, and as a freelance translator, working for international clients. That counts for millions of words translated.

  • Bachelor Degree in English Literature (cum laude, GPA 3.64 out of 4) from Gadjah Mada University, the oldest and, arguably, the best university in Indonesia.

  • Diploma in Translator Training, nationally-acknowledged in Australia, from PT Newmont Nusa Tenggara, a subsidiary of Newmont Mining Corporation. It is authorized by the Training Accreditation Council in Western Australia, an agent for the Australian National Training Authority.

  • Naturally talented with long history of outstanding English proficiency back to the secondary school (last TOEFL score: 627). Driven by a real passion for languages, highly skilled in writing in Indonesian language, the mother tongue, within various registers and genres, using the most up-to-date terminology and styles.

  • Highly resourceful for translation work: support of a worldwide Network of professionals and experts in their own fields, excellent research skills necessary for achieving the best translations, high-speed touch-typing (60 average wpm), excellent computer mastery, creative and inquisitive.

  • Proven dependability for extremely urgent works with a turnaround of over 3500 words per day and approximately 850,000 words per year; ALWAYS comply with agreed deadlines and very frequently submit translations earlier than deadlines.

  • Excellent track records with international translation agencies and end-clients.

  • Proven excellence as an all-around worker, as well as team player. 

Work Experiences

  • November 2000 – Present: Full-Time Freelance Translator

  • May 1999 – October 2000: Senior Translator & Interpreter – PT. Newmont Nusa Tenggara, Mataram & Sumbawa, Indonesia (Contract)

  • July 1998 – April 1999: Full-Time Translator – PeMad Project Management, Yogyakarta, Indonesia

  • September 1993 – February 1998: Freelance Translator – Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia (Concurrent with Education)

Translation Seminars Attended

  • Menggunakan Bahasa Indonesia dengan Baik dan Benar dalam Penerjemahan bersama J.S. Badudu, (Using Indonesian Properly and Correctly in Translation) Translation Unit PTNNT, 1999

  • Teknik dan Seni Menerjemahkan Ditinjau dari Berbagai Perspektif  (The Techniques and Arts of Translation as Reviewed From Various Perspective) English Department Student Association, Gadjah Mada University, 1996

Skills & Equipment

  • Standard office equipment: IBM-compatible PCs (3 Athlon XP 2800+ processors), fax machine, printer, ISO UPSes, modem.

  • OS: Microsoft Windows 2000, XP Professional.

  • Office Applications: Office 2003 (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, FrontPage), WordPerfect, Adobe Acrobat 6.0 & 7.0

  • CAT Software: STAR Transit, Champollion Wordfast, Trados 5.5, Trados 6.5

  • DTP:  Adobe PageMaker, QuarkXPress 

  • Touch typing at 60 words per minute.

  • Complete sets dictionaries and glossaries: Longman's Dictionary of Contemporary English, Chamber's Essential English Dictionary, Peter Salim's The Contemporary English-Indonesian Dictionary, Hasan Sadily & Echol's set of English to Indonesian and Indonesian to English Dictionaries,  ELT's Dictionary of Idioms and Idiomatic Expressions (English-Indonesian), Ms Bookshelf 2000, Babylon Online Glossary of Terms, Encyclopedia Britannica, English-Indonesian Acronyms, Professional English-Indonesian Word List, and General English-Indonesian glossary, and many other specialized dictionaries and glossaries. 

Should you need a detailed resume to keep in your file, please download my most current resume in Adobe pdf format here (or right-click and choose Save Target As). 


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