RESUME
Gang Li
English <> Chinese (Mandarin) Translator and Interpreter
Revised: August 30, 2010
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
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
State of Georgia certified Mandarin court interpreter, 6/2008
American Translators Association (ATA) certified from-English-into-Chinese
translator, 12/1998
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