Curriculum Vitae
Contact Information

Full Name:	Antoine Mainfroy	
Address:	19 route de Longève, 86380 Marigny-Brizay, France	
Email:	antoine.mainfroy@orange.fr	
Telephone:	Available upon request	

Personal Information

Native Language/Citizenship:	French	
Birth date:	18/10/1988	
Sex:	Male	

Professional Experiences as Translator/Reviewer

Working language pair:	EN > FR	

Subject areas:	
Movement & Control Technologies, Instrumentation, Human & Animal Nutrition, Travel, Hospitality, Laboratory, Analytics, Corporate, Training, Automobile, IT, Communication, Culture, Marketing, SAP, Airline, Games, Fragrance	

Type of material: 	
Websites, brochures, manuals, videos, press releases, training material, articles, white papers, release notes, advertisements, software	

List of client names and products translated:	
Clients: Welocalize, ADT International, Leginda
Accounts/products: Parker, Mettler-Toledo, Cargill, TripAdvisor, Honeywell, Schneider Electric, Jaguar/Land Rover, Fleetmatics, F-Secure, Dell, VMware, WizzAir, Anki, Scentsy and some articles translated and published on the French diplomacy’s social network

Employment History

December 2014 till date, self-employed Translator/Reviewer
Lead translator for Metter-Toledo, Fleetmatics, F-Secure, Jaguar/Land Rover, Wizz Air, Anki and Scentsy projects in coordination with Welocalize and other agencies
Main tasks:
•	Translation
•	Quality management
•	Language Sign Off
•	Proofreading (Language Quality Assessment, LQA)
•	Freelance test (onboarding of new resources - Welocalize)

November 2012-December 2014, Linguistic specialist – Lead translator in Welocalize (responsible for Cargill, Parker and Mettler-Toledo accounts)
Key responsibilities:
•	Perform on demand and planned translation, review, and quality control tasks related to the product dealing with jobs of a transactional and traditional nature
•	When additional resources are required to deal with larger volumes within deadlines, coordinate the activities of a small team of translators and take ownership of the overall quality output of the group
•	Centralize product expertise and knowledge according to customer expectations and act as key product point of contact in the French language within Welocalize (e.g. creation of style guides, glossaries and references)
•	Collect client feedback and updates and distribute material to all translators/vendors involved
•	Analyze client feedback and assist with remedial action plans
•	Monitor quality metrics, customer feedback and vendor performance
•	Communicate with client reviewers
•	Show initiative to solve quality and deadline issues in a timely manner
•	Manage product-related queries
•	Test and qualify new resources as required
•	Train and support new staff and vendors according to needs of the account
•	Advise on resource selection upon request, taking into account previous experience and short-term and long-term needs
•	Achieve the goals set by the French Language Delivery Manager and the global account team

Key achievements:
Decrease of the Client Review Implementations sent by Mettler-Toledo reviewers and optimization of the performance level achieved on this account, creation of a new approved global glossary and French style guide based on the client feedbacks

October 2010-September 2011, Translator/Project Leader in General Electric Healthcare (internship)

Key responsibilities: 
Project management, translation of medical/communication/technical documents, proofreading, terminology management, subtitling

Key achievements: 
Subtitling of the DR-F digital X-ray system video campaign: http://www.gehealthcare.com/euen/radiography/products/brivo_drf/ghana_private_clinic_FR.html

Translation of the new Microsoft Suite 2010 PowerPoint user guide (for internal use only)

May 2009-August 2009, Translator/Localizer in Evocati (internship)

Key responsibilities: 
Translation/localization of video games, proofreading, terminology management

Key achievements: 
Translation of highly successful videogames such as Tropico 3, Infamous and Blur

Education

2009-2011 	Master’s Degree, Distinction 
University of Évry-Val d’Essonne, France 
Foreign Languages/Economics and scientific translation

	
2006-2009 

2006 	Bachelor’s Degree, Credit 
University of Évry-Val d’Essonne, France 
Foreign Languages/Economics and scientific translation

French Higher School Certificate 
Lycée Saint-Pierre, France 
Economics and Social Sciences	

Computer Skills 
 
Comfortable with Microsoft Office 2010, Xbench, Change Tracker, Antidote, Trados Studio 2014, OmegaT, Alchemy Catalyst, Smarling
CAT Tools used

OmegaT, Trados Studio 2014, Alchemy Catalyst, Smarling
Other

Translation of the Indian NGO “College Street Project 16” Website: http://collegestreetprojectsixteen.org/french/home.html
Translation of an article on the Charlie Hebdo shooting in Paris, January 2015 published on the Indian social network of French diplomacy (available upon request)
Interests

Reading, travels, sport, languages, cross-culture, literature