Malcolm R. Mayfield
Tel: (512)
351-0234
Profile Quality-driven, bilingual (English and Mandarin) translator/editor
with 15 years of relevant professional experience, including 9 years as translator/editor
for a Big 4 firm in Taiwan. Now freelancing from Austin, Texas.
Experience Freelance
translator and translation editor
(Jan. 2012
to present)
Providing
professional translation, editing, proofreading and translation QR services on
a broad range of topics for clients in Europe, Asia and the US. Areas of
expertise include financial reporting, marketing and other corporate
communications; and business-related legislation and legal contracts (including
lease agreements).
Recruited
by TransPerfect for an intensive in-house translation project at the firm’s San
Francisco offices (Nov. 5, 2013 to Feb. 28, 2014).
Translator and English editor for PwC (Taiwan) (Oct.
2002 to Sep. 2011)
In-house
Chinese-English translation and English editing services for PricewaterhouseCoopers,
Taiwan’s leading professional services firm.
Developed
translation and writing expertise in accounting, finance, marketing, legal,
tax, quality and risk management, corporate social responsibility, M&A,
IPO, ADR, green technology, IPR, communications and IT fields.
Provided
overall English quality control for the Taiwan firm’s outward oriented business
communication, PR and website material.
English
consultant for the Board of Foreign Trade (Dec. 2000 to July 2002)
Editing,
proofreading and Chinese-English translation for N. America section of Taiwan’s
key agency for foreign relations and trade negotiations.
English teacher
at Kojen English Language Schools (Nov. 1997 to Nov. 2010)
Specialized
in teaching creative writing, reading and grammar in advanced children’s
classes.
Economic consultant for the World Bank (1992
to 1996)
Provided
economic analysis of agricultural policy and wrote economic analysis reports on
Laos and Tanzania.
Research fellow/assistant in the AREC Dept., U of
Maryland, (1989 to 1992)
Conducted
research in agricultural and resource economics.
Graduate
assistant at the
Conducted
field research on agricultural economics in
Education U of Maryland (1989-93: Graduate coursework and research in Ag. Economics
Software Experienced in using Across, MemoQ, Wordfast and Trados
translation software, as well as Microsoft Word, Excel and Powerpoint, Lotus
Notes, etc. Especially proficient at using online resources for Chinese
translation research.
Languages Mandarin: Oral fluency at native speaker level; native
speaker reading skills
French: Excellent reading ability
Japanese: Good working ability
