Christine Biloré                                                                                            Golfe-Juan / France

Areas of expertise: Economics/finance, (accounting, banking, annual reports, articles of association, financial statements, merger agreements), legal, technical documents (manuals, mechanics, tools…)

* For the Italian language; only economics, law and finance related documents.

2003: PhD in Applied Linguistics, University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis, (Phraseological analysis of economical and financial Russian documents for the creation of translation tools);

2000: Postgraduate diploma in Applied Linguistics, University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis;

1999: Bachelor’s & Master’s degrees in Applied Linguistics, University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis,(Research dissertation on French-Spanish code switching);

1997: Bachelor’s degree in Russian (+80 % of Master’s degree), University of Toulouse;

1997: Master’s degree in Applied Foreign Languages, Business & Law, English/Spanish, University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis;

1996: Bachelor’s degree in Applied Foreign Languages, Business & Law, English/Spanish, University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis.

Creation and management of terminological and lexicographical databases (French, English, Spanish, Russian) in the following fields: economics (press, International Monetary Fund’s documents), banking (annual reports) and medicine (asthma & cancer);

Development of a dictionary of economical and financial collocations in four languages (1400 collocations);

Publication of an article titled "Анализ русских фразеологических единиц (ФЕ) в сфере экономики (исследования в рамках докторской диссертации)" for the Slovakian journal "Russian in Central Europe", n° 6;

Language lead for Lionbridge Technologies (standing in for someone for a week);

Linguistic testing: testing of the Russian interface of a videoconferencing software (Lionbridge: more than 160 screens tested three times);

Translations on a voluntary basis: Freelang.com, volunteeronline.org, UNCDF, http://www.cfww.org/, http://www.vonumu.com, http://www.millionartists.com, WWF France.

Equipment: Two PCs (Laptop, desktop), printer, scanner, DSL Internet connection

Operating system: Windows Vista (laptop) + Windows XP (desktop)

Software:

-  Microsoft Word, Excel, Power Point, Access

-  Publisher, Adobe Acrobat Pro 6, Quark Xpress 5.0 & 6.0, FrameMaker 7.0, PageMaker 7.0, Indesign 2.0 + CS,

    Photoshop 7, Micrographx picture publisher

-  Autocad, Microstation 7, Abby Fine reader 7