Ulf Samuelsson
Swedish Translator/Swedish editor


CAREER SUMMARY

Experienced translator specializing in English into Swedish, working with well-established companies and translation services. Also translating from Norwegian and Spanish into Swedish. Native speaker of Swedish with an educational background in engineering, business administration and computer programming. Experience in translations of technical texts, advertising/marketing texts, subtitling of films and translations of various software applications.


PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Freelance Translator, Salina Cruz, Mexico, Billerica, USA or Gothenburg, Sweden
January 1998-present

Working with several translations agencies and companies, mainly located in Sweden but also in various other countries, including USA, UK, Belgium, Germany, Austria, Italy and Taiwan. The types of texts that I have translated range from translation of software and the corresponding manuals, corporate web sites, corporate educational materials, retail advertising materials, technical manuals, film subtitles and various reports from the European Parliament.

Swedish Translator at Eastman Software, Billerica, MA
November 1999-August 2000 

Worked with the translation, UI editing and testing of the Eastman Software range of business software. This was a contract job for a limited time. 

Swedish Translator at Translations Unit International, Los Angeles
July 1992-Nov 1997

Worked on translation, editing and/or proofreading of the Swedish projects. I also did subtitle timing of the English text for all languages and did the translation for the Swedish films.


EQUIPMENT

Hardware
Dell Vostro 1700 notebook: 2.2 GHz / 2 GB RAM / 160.0 GB HD
Dell Inspiron 2200 notebook: 1.6 GHz / 512 MB RAM / 40.0 GB HD
Lexmark X2530 printer/scanner

Software
Windows Vista Business (Swedish version)
Windows XP Home (Swedish version)
Office 2003 (Swedish version)
Office 2000 Premium (Swedish version)
SDL Trados 2006 Freelance
Wordfast 5.53
Adobe InDesign CS 3.0 (Swedish version)
CorelDraw 8.0 (Swedish version)

As well as an extensive collection of general and technical reference materials in Swedish or English, including Nationalencyklopedin, Focus 99, Termdok, and Webster's Third New International Dictionary in digital format.


EDUCATION / TRAINING

Translations Unit International in Los Angeles 1992-1994
Translations course - Meaning-Based Translation
(by Mildred L. Larsen)
Translations course - Translate to Communicate
(by Mary Massoud)

International Training Organization, Los Angeles March 1991-April 1992
Business administration, level 2 (promotion and marketing)
Business administration, level 1 (personnel administration)
Business administration, level 0 (basic)
Advanced course in English grammar

Chalmers Technical University Göteborg, Sweden August 1988-June 1990
Technical subjects, Pascal programming, Mathematics, Business administration and English.

Kongahällagymnasiet (Technical High School) in Kungälv, Sweden August 1985 - June 1988
Major subjects: Engineering, Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry.


CONTACT INFORMATION

Address:
Belisario Dominguez 272 Col. Centro
San Andrés Tuxtla, Veracruz
C.P. 95700 MEXICO

Phone: +52-294-9448275
E-mail: smesotext@gmail.com or smesotext@yahoo.se

References:
Annika Olsson: annikanbpt@cs.com
Anita Kennedal: anita.kennedal@bredband.net 
Grace Azadvar at Linguamax: grace@linguamax.co.uk


Fee:
My basic fee is 12 cents/word for translation, $35.00/hour for editing and proofreading.


I hope that this information is sufficient. Feel free to send me a message if you have any specific questions.

Regards,

Ulf Samuelsson
Swedish Translator/Editor