Madame Tessa lefeubvre

Tessa WILKINSON - LEFEUBVRE

4, rue Lenée

35000 Rennes

Home : 02 99 54 05 08

Mobile : [phone]

Email : [e-mail]

PERSONAL PROFILE :

A motivated, rigorous and efficient translator / teacher with an excellent knowledge of French, gained through living and working in the country for sixteen years. A love of languages has lead me to the work that I now do where I use both English and French every day. My experience in different professional domains has proved to be extremely valuable in the fields that I now work in.

A good communicator and very proactive, I enjoy working under pressure.
KEY EXPERIENCE:

Translating (since January 2002)

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  Legal documents (contracts and leases)
  
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  Business documents : company brochures / feasibility studies
  
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  General documents
  
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  Psychology (criminal)
  
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  Personal documents for an association helping refugees and political asylum seekers (English to French)
  

Teaching

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  English teacher at three universities in Rennes since 2002 :
  

INSA (National Institute of Applied Sciences), LOUIS DE BROGLIE (Private school of engineering)

ENSAI (National school of statistics and information analysis)

Teach general English, Toeic and professional English.

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  Teacher and assistant head of the English department at ‘LA MAISON DES LANGUES’ (Rennes) since 1999 :
  

An adult education centre where I teach groups of between 3 to 12 people and help organise the structure and pedagogy of the courses.
CAREER HISTORY:

February 1999 to present day – see above.

June 1997 – February 1999 :

- Personal Assistant for the director of STUDIOS ARCHITECTURE, (Paris), an interior architecture firm. Classic secretarial work as well as technical translations, compiling and translation of marketing documents.

September 1994 – May 1997 :

- JONES DAY REAVIS & POGUE, American Law firm. (Paris). In charge of the reception, organised meetings, business trips, various secretarial tasks.
QUALIFICATIONS :

Design for communication media – B.A. hons. (2/1) – Manchester Polytechnic 1989

LANGUAGES :

English – mother tongue

French – bilingual
SOFTWARE :

Excel, Word, Pagemaker, Catscradle, Webcopier

INTERESTS :

Photography, music, sailing, horseriding, books