LANGUAGES
Simplified & Traditional Chinese (Mandarin, native); Cantonese (native);
English (native)

WORK EXPERIENCE
1998 – present Freelance translator, proofreader & interpreter
2010 – present Instructor of Mandarin & Cantonese, Hamilton District School Board (Ontario, Canada)
2009 – 2010 Assistant Professor of Chinese, Austin College (Texas, USA)
2008 – 2009 Lecturer of Chinese, Kennesaw State University (Georgia, USA)
2003 – 2004 Assistant Professor of English, Zhongkai University (Guangzhou,China)
1999 – 2001 Customer Manager, Guangdong Nexus Group (Guangzhou,China)

EDUCATION
Ph.D. 2009, TESOL, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, USA.
Dissertation: “In Investigation of the Relationship between Students' Autonomous Learning
Capacity and Motivation in Using Computer-Assisted Language Learning in China”
Minor: Psychology and Research of Education
M.A. 2003, British &American Literature, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Guangzhou, China.
Minor: Translation Studies
B.A. 1999, English Language and Culture, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Guangzhou, China.
Minor: Economics

AREAS OF EXPERTISE
? General: Fashion, Games, Music, Tourism, Sports, Multimedia, Government, Cinematography
? Business: Advertising, Finance, Accounting, Banking, Economics, Marketing, Insurance, Forex
? Legal: Certification, Legalization, Contract, Tender ? Social Sciences: Education, Literature, Arts, Journalism, Linguistics,
Religion, History, Philosophy
? Technical: IT, Medical, Health Care, Architecture, Engineering, Biology, Automotive

COMPUTER SKILLS & CAT SOFTWARE
? Operating Systems: Windows, Mac OS X, Linux
? Applications: SDL Trados 2009, Passolo 2009, Idiom, Omega T+, Google Translator Toolkit, XTM, Acrobat, Dreamweaver, Photoshop, InDesign
? Programming Languages: C, C++, Actionscript 3 / Flash, HTML

MAJOR CLIENTS
? Consumer Products: P&G, L’Oreal, Paterson Global Foods
? Engineering: Henkel, RIGID
? Mining: Eyre Iron PTY Ltd.
? Financial Services: RBC, Bank of Montreal, Citibank
? Gas: Southern California Gas Co.
? Games: MindSnacks
? Medicine: IVF Online, Johnson & Johnson, Kaiser Permanente
? Legal Services: Pillette Law Office, Klein Law
? Fashion:Vogue magazine
? Insurance: State Farm
? IT: Acer, IBM, Dell
? Media: Guangdong TV Station, BBC
? Real Estate: China Construction Design International, China State Construction Engineering Corp
? Telecoms: China Telecom, ZTE Corporation
? Travel and Tourism: New Zealand Tourist Bureau, Dubai Alpha Travel
? Public Sector: Hamilton City Hall, Taiwan Ministry of Defence, University of Kansas, KSU

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
? Translation Agencies in the EU
? Translation by Design: budget and documents, litigation, labour relations
? Language Connect: legal translation, banking, IT material
? Universal Translations: legal & financial documents, arts
? Bel Translations: press report, insurance, architectural drawing
? Cactus Consulting Ltd: legal translations, technical materials
? Lingo24: human resources software, engineering, forex
? Wordbank: legal documents, real estate engineering data
? Translation Agencies in North America
The US:
? Rebuild Babel: pipe equipment manuals, legal documents, insurance, consumer products
? Trusted Translations: contracts, newspaper articles, disclosure statements, school diplomas
? Linguistic Systems, Inc.: stock option plans & agreements; human resources
? New Global: websites, contracts, instructions for medicine
? Agnew Tech: patient’s brochures, health care, websites, marketing material, gas
? Elite TransLingo: legal documents, mining website
? Translate Plus: wine factory marketing material, mass media
? Language Services: Business Ethics Program, Prudential newsletters
? Compass Languages: legal documents
? Foreign College Credits Evaluators and Translators: training materials
? International Language Bank: contracts, personal documents, certificates of employment
? American Translation Partners: collective bargaining agreement, medicine
Canada:
? Deep Trans: legal documents, software
? Express International Translations Inc.: company profile
? R&R International Translation Specialists Inc.: tender, website
? Translation Agencies in Asia
? Asia Lingo: marketing material, fashion, magazine articles
? Language Consultancy: software localization; financial documents
? Shakti Enterprise: bank training material

RECENT TRANSlATION PROJECTS
? Website localization for Southern California Gas Co. (60,000 words, EN-CH)
? Human Resources Software for Paterson Global Foods (5,000 words, ENCH)
? Insurance material for State Farm (25,000 words, CH-EN)
? Technical manual for Acer (5,000 words, EN-CH)
? Legal agreement for Pillette Law Office (2,500 words, EN-CH)
? Pharmacy description for LifeGlobal (27,000 words, EN-CH)
? Procurement Contract for Taiwan Ministry of Defence (13,000 words, CHEN)
? Brochure for New Zealand Tourist Bureau (4,800 words, EN-CH)
? Marketing material for Johnson & Johnson (12,000 words, CH-EN)
? User Manual for Henkel (5,500 words, CH-EN)
? Fashion articles for Vogue magazine (35,000 words, EN-CH)

RECENT INTERPRETING EXPERIENCE
? Home Depot (August 2011)
interpreting for a business conference between Home Depot officials and mayor of Tianjin, China
? FinTronics (July 2011)
interpreting for a business meeting between FinTronics and Citibank
? McMaster University Hospital (May 2011 -- present)
interpreting for Chinese patients
? China Confucius Headquarters (March 2011)
interpreting for the “Chinese Bridge” contest
? Hamilton District School Board (January 2011)
consecutive interpreting for a delegation from Northeastern University
? Global Sources (August 2010)
interpreting for International Kitchen and Bath Show '10
? Audi (June 2010)
escort interpreting for a business tour of Audi Purchasing Manager
? Kennesaw State University (October 2009)
consecutive interpreting for a delegation of government officials from China
? University of Kansas (July 2009)
interpreting for an education delegation from Beijing District School Board

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Translation: Rory B. (2011). Moon living abroad in Hong Kong, Emeryville:
Avalon Travel Publishing.
Pu, M. (2011). Standards on word choice. East Journal of Translation, 11(6),
17-22.
Pu, M. (2010). Idiom translation from a cultural perspective. China
Translation, 98(4), 23-27.
Pu, M. (2009). Some hints on marketing translation. Language and
Translation, 102(1), 31-35.
Pu, M. (2004). Dreams. Foshan Literature, 79 (2), 56-57.
Pu, M. (2003, November 24). A night trip. Guangzhou Daily, p. B3.
Pu, M. (2003, June). The stream of consciousness technique in Hemingway's
novels. China Excellent
MA and PhD Dissertations Data Base (ISSN 1671-6779).
Pu, M. (2002). Psychoanalysis of Miss Emily. An International Conference on
American Literary and
Cultural Studies. Guangzhou, China.
Pu, M. (2002). A solitary soul – reading of Tan Yangzong's three poems.
Literature Review, (2), 53-55.
Pu, M. (2002, 15 August). Summer melody. University Daily of GDUFS, p. 3.
Pu, M. (2001). My understanding of Titanic. Quartet, 2(4), 16-17.
Pu, M. (2001, November 13). Walking. Yangchen Evening News, p. D5.
Pu, M. (2001, April 2). Diary of a young lady. Guangzhou Daily, p. B4.

RATES AND OUTPUT
? Rates: 0.09 - 0.14 CAD / 0.07- 0.10 EUR per source word for English-
Chinese translation;
0.08 - 0.12 CAD / 0.06 - 0.09 EUR per source character for Chinese-English
translation;
0.04 - 0.06 CAD / 0.03 - 0.05 EUR per source word / 35 - 45 CAD per hour for
proofreading;
? Minimum Charge: 10 CAD
? I accept CAD, USD, GBP or EUR via PayPal or bank transfer
? Daily output: up to 3000 words per day / 15000 words per week for general
translation

References available upon request.