Experience

Freelance Mandarin interpreter and Chinese translator (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, software user-interfaces, video scripts and subtitles, advertisements, datasheets, and MSDS's etc.
Covered subjects such as marketing, financial services, law, electronics, telecommunications, computer science, mechanical engineering, medicine, chemistry, chemical engineering, physics, petroleum industry, pulp and paper industry, automotive industry, and textile industry etc.
Localized extensive 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 currently 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

Certificates, Test results, and Clearance

State of Georgia Certified Court Interpreter, 6/2008
American Translators Association (ATA) certified from-English-into-Chinese translator, 12/1998
DOD interim Secret clearance, 2/2009
US Department of State approved translator with a Public Trust certificate issued by the agency, 2/2007
Berlitz certified Mandarin interpreter for U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) courts, 7/1995

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