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RESUME
Gang Li
Revised: May 30, 2009
Experience
Freelance Mandarin interpreter and Chinese translator
(11/94 - present)
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Provided professional linguistic services such
as interpretation (simultaneous, consecutive, court, and escort),
translation, and software localization on full-time basis
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Provided simultaneous interpretation services for
conferences, workshops, webcasts, speeches, and court proceedings in US,
England, Italy, Australia, and Switzerland.
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Specialized in technical projects involving patents,
manuals, software user-interfaces, video scripts and subtitles,
advertisements, datasheets, and MSDS's etc.
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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.
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Localized extensive websites.
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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
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Serving currently as a grader of the ATA
from-English-into-Chinese Certification Exam
Asia Director, Fotoforms Systems, Inc. (11/93 - 10/94)
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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)
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Did extensive computational work on theoretical physics
subjects such as crack propagation modeling and simulation and studies of
optical properties of semiconductor materials
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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
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State of Georgia Certified Court Interpreter, 6/2008
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American Translators Association (ATA) certified
from-English-into-Chinese translator, 12/1998
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DOD interim Secret clearance, 2/2009
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US Department of State approved translator with a
Public Trust certificate issued by the agency, 2/2007
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Berlitz certified Mandarin interpreter for U.S.
Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) courts, 7/1995
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