Specialization
:Adi Hatim Al-Ka'bi,
Mobile +971-50-6332149 (Always on)
Telefax +971-4-2240497
email: translate_it_at@hotmail.com
Personal pair of languages are Arabic/English. The other languages are via working in pairs with other German native and Russian native translators. They each translate between their native languages and English and can be contacted by contacting me. Being natives in 3 languages, we use English as a transition language to translate between Arabic, German and Russian.
Having only registered very recently on ProZ (May, 2001), this profile is slowly being built up.
FOR ARABIC SEE BELOW
للعربي انظر في أسفل الموقع
Background
:To quickly fill up this area on this profile, below is a short condensed list of my clients in the UAE as copy pasted from my normal business letter bottom margin (normally in small print):-
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LIST OF CLIENTS - Mostly in United Arab Emirates (Emirates of Dubai & Sharjah) (Also overseas/see below)
Five star hotels and their guests - World renowned 7 Star Hotel - Burj Al-Arab ***** ++, Emirates Towers Hotel, Royal Mirage, Crowne Plaza, Rotana Group {Al-Bustan Rotana Hotel, Jumeira Rotana, Rimal Rotana Suites, Rihab Rotana Suites}, Hotel Holiday International {Sharjah}, Dutco Group {Jebel Ali Hotel And Golf Resort, Hatta Fort Hotel}, Le Meridien Hotel etc.
Eminent law and legal firms
Management consultants, banks, auditors, investment companies (Banking and Accountancy)
Pharmaceutical companies, hospitals, clinics and health, beauty and sports clubs and salons (Dumex, American Hospital etc. - Medicament inserts, pamphlets, brochures, instructions etc.)
Restaurants (Menu Translation, e.g. Dubai World Trade Center restaurants, hotel restaurants etc.)
Advertising firms, web-site organisers, exhibition organisers (Fineline, Publilink, Potential, Xpressions etc.; Al-Dallal.Net etc.; Dubai World Trade Center; i.e.c. - International Expo Consults)
Engineering consultant bureaus (Technical)
Magazines, publishers (Technical, Political, Economical and Otherwise Articles)
Teaching and training institutes (Lectures and Manuals)
Other translation agencies
Manufacturers (Manuals and Instructions)
Trading firms, shipping firms, tourist and travelling establishments and agents (Documents, letters, transactions etc.)
Leisure & Tourist Companies (Al-Boom Marine, Sunway etc.)
Rent-A-Car Companies (Fast Rent-A-Car)
Similar overseas establishments (FRANCE, ENGLAND, DENMARK etc. - brochures etc. directed to the Arabian and other countries)
Not forgetting public offices (e.g. Municipality, Police Headquarters etc.) and individuals for translation of contracts, letters, degree, training and school certificates, curriculum vitae, medical reports, marriage certificates, translated official transactions and petitions, labour agreements etc.
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Having been requested a number of times for my CV/resume over ProZ, below are extracts from my CV prior to undertaking freelance translation as a full time occupation. It has not been updated since discontinuing to seek employment as an Electrical Engineer. It may be somewhat deformed from copy pasting it from original Word document into the entry box on ProZ, but will be attended to as opportunity allows for modifications.
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CV PROFILE (Condensed)
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PROFICIENCIES
Management/Elect. Eng./Mktg. & Sales/Medical Equipment/Pharmaceuticals & Cosmetics/ FMCG/PC/Automobile Repair/Arabic/English Translation, Transcription, Business Correspondence.
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LANGUAGE PROFICIENCIES
Excellent fluency in Arabic & English. German (Ein Bischen Duetsch- 2000 Worter)
British Council Davies Test (TOEFL Equivalent) in English {First in Asia (1977), الأول في آسيا}
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EMPLOYMENT RECORD
Freelance 1998 - Freelance Arabic/English translation/transcription. (Dubai, U.A.E.)
Employed 1998 - 1999 Administrative Manager: G.C. Trading (Dubai, U.A.E.)
OWNER / SELF EMPLOYED. (Concurrent with employments further below.) - In below businesses responsible for full range of activities associated with management and organisation of private business.
1989 - 1998 Owner & Managing Director of Drug Store (Wholesale/retail business). Wholesale of Drugs (Pharmaceuticals/Medicines), Cosmetics and General Items.
1983 - 1998 Electrical Contractor
1975 - 1998 Electromedical Equipment Installation, Maintenance and Service Engineer.
1975 - 1978 Automobile repair shop owner (and Chief Mechanic).
EMPLOYED 1977 - 1979
Assistant Director of WHO (World Health Organisation - UN) Regional Training Center, (Middle East Area). Teaching & Training Instructor for electronics, basics of digital electronics, maintenance and service of X-Ray Machines, switchgear and electrical wiring of buildings. Organising Syllabuses. Ordering of books for library and laboratory equipment. Administration & Organising of student enrollments, tours; foreign and local correspondence for invitation of specialists to hold technical training seminars at Center.
1970 - 1975 Installation, Maintenance and Service Engineer (1000 bed, Middle East Teaching Hospital, Responsible for installing/maintaining/servicing of electronic/electrical eqpt. X-Ray Machines and full range of accessories (Cut Film Changer, Angiography & Catheterisation measurement equipment), building wiring and control eqpt. (emergency generators, air handling equipment)
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EDUCATION & QUALIFICATIONS (U.S.A., U.K., Europe, Arabian)
University Qualification : B.Sc. Electrical Engineering, (1970)
Schooling and other Higher Education : Arabic, American and British Schools and Colleges up to ‘O’ & ‘A’ levels, H.N.D. (I & II in Elect. Eng.) & B. Sc. in Electrical Engineering.
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TRAINING (Technical):
United Kingdom - DHSS, Penlon, Hewlett Packard, British Oxygen, GEC, Bristol Polytechnic.
Germany - Siemens A.G.
Holland-Philips
France-Thomson Medical Telco.
Italy-Generay, Honeywell.
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METHODS OF COMMUNICATIONS AND CONTACT PARTICULARS:-
Telephone: ++971 50 633 2149 (mobile)
Telefax : ++971 4 224 0497
Email : translate_it_at@hotmail.com (other email addresses for large attachments are also available)
Address : P.O. Box 80133, Dubai, U.A.E.
PC to PC verbal conversation via MSN Messenger.
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METHOD OF PAYMENT
For overseas payments they are to be made direct to “Auday Hatim Abdul Sahib” (name as spelt in passport), Current Account Number, 0697445573, Riqqa Branch, Mashreq Bank, Dubai, United Arab Emirates. An alternative payee name and/or account particulars may be named.
All transfer fees, charges, commissions, fax (where needed) charges, courier (for floppy, CD, printout etc.) and any non translation extras, to be born by the client requiring the translation service. Depending on the size of the translation payments may be required in installments as the work gets emailed (within two days from being submitted by email). Small jobs of less than 4000 words must be paid within two days from being submitted by email. Fax charges, where necessary and unless alternatively agreed on, to be borne by the client (see CONDITIONS below).
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CONDITIONS
Unless separately or alternatively agreed on:
Translations will be done and submitted in Microsoft Word 97 or earlier formats of Microsoft Word or "text only" formats or those supported by Word 97.
The client must have the software to read the emailed translated documents.
If the job is to be faxed the estimated fax charges will be accepted and paid by the client.
The estimated charges for sending any floppy disc or CD output or printout to be courier sent, will be borne by the client.
Once emailed, faxed or/and courier sent the client agrees to pay within 2 days from being emailed with his/her translation request regardless of having the software to read it or not (faxing or sending floppy etc. will be refused until fees are transferred and affected to the translator's account or the account instructed). Client accepts that once a translation is commissioned and emailed back as "done", no excuses will be accepted or considered valid to cover up any failure or delay to pay in full. Slight variations or amendments (the definition of "slight" left to our discretion) may be done freely once payment is made in full.
PAYMENTS MADE DURING OR PRIOR TO DOING THE TRANSLATION BASED ON GENTLEMAN'S AGREEMENT/S ARE WELCOMED AND WILL BE RESPECTIVELY HONOURED, AS THEY EQUIVALENTLY DESERVE.
Some, none of my clients yet, have been spotted smearing the reputation of a translator on the ProZ site and elsewhere occasionally as one amongst many for excuses for not paying. One claimed that they had lost a client because of a poor translation. Why don't they say that they had lost the client because the client found someone better than them (if at nothing then at least in being better in knowing how to choose a better translator). Regardless of the excuse/s, it was the person/firm who chose that translator in the first place, hence initially his fault for using the wrong procedures in not checking and choosing one to the standards of his/her requirements (for guidelines on choosing properly see further below). Upon noting that some clients regretfully go to the extents of slandering translators and worse with messages on websites, when it was their, the clients', fault in the first place for choosing from a free market site, any client in accepting a translation from us, is notified of this site and therefore regardless of having read it or not, is considered to agree to relinquishing his right to demand for libel of any form in what he/she/they instigate to secure payment after 30 days delay, even if it means advertising their conduct in whatever way on websites or whatever other way. In agreeing to choose us, a client understands that he wavers his/her/their right to demand libel for any undertaking that we revert to, to ensure payment.
Setting high rates may mean an excellent translator or a poor level one hiding behind such a method (namely overpricing). Setting low rates may mean a beginner or maybe an excellent translator needing work. Good or bad, new or old, experienced, semi experienced or not experienced, we don't advertise on a fixed public site to get defamed by clients that have the habit of getting things free where they can get away with it or claim dissatisfaction even if truly rightful. Note also that submitting poorly edited text leads to a poor translation and in my experience 50% of original texts are poorly edited. ProZ is a site where beginners, new translators, reputable translators and agencies all meet as each finds the site. It is your business to properly choose whom you think meets your requirements. In any profession there is always someone better than others are. To find that "someone" may prove futile, for he/she may have moved out of doing translation or never taken it up. The best translators like most who meet with success, eventually get rich and leave the business that they are in (like you would do). I might not leave translation (never become rich enough to leave it), but I appreciate that most if not all try to do their best. Their best might not be good enough for you, but it is their best. Before you revert to such discouraging procedures, remember how no one broke you down when you were a starter or how it felt when some tried or even did. Abilities vary and those who aren't perfect are not necessarily fiddlers. In fact fiddlers are rarely drawn into translation and if you land with one you can only blame yourself for how that happened. Translation isn't the perfect place to try to fiddle others by. Nor is it a pre-occupation that attracts fiddlers. When you advertise a job for bids you are inherently asking for the cheapest price. The shorter and more ambiguous your job description the more chance that you'll end up dissatisfied. A wise man once said "If there was one sane person between two arguing, there wouldn't be a quarrel", and if any take the opportunity to draw us into a quarrel, we won't hesitate to take advantage of the opportunity to enjoy making them madder, especially when they have taken the fee for it. Finding the best translator for your purposes is a trial and error procedure, but once you do find one who best meets your purposes stick to him or ask him for reference to others if he knows. AS A ROUGH GUIDE FOR CHOOSING YOUR TRANSLATOR GO TO ONE OF THE FOLLOWING (For downloading, you'll need an Adobe Acrobat Viewer to read this):
http://www.iti.org.uk/pdfs/Translation_-_getting_it_right.pdf
or go to:
http://www.iti.org.uk/documents/advice_for_businesses.html
or
http://www.iti.org.uk/pages/news.cgi?requested_id=4
The latter are sites by an independent organisation and the latter two will lead you to downloading the first site if not immediately downloadable. It will provide you with the basic guidelines on the matter of choosing the translator for your requirements.
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NOTE: Your submitted text may have taken you "x" days to formulate. A good translator may need the same number of days to effectively translate it. As an example, for those that take 10 days to formulate a 10 page text, it may need 2-4 days to translate to equivalent standard in another language. Most translators may be able to submit 10-15 pages a day, but certain terms, inaccuracies and ambiguities in original text etc. may lead to delay to clear them up even if facilitated by email or directly calling the client who may in his turn need time to properly reply and clear them up. A translator as any workman/contractor/labourer/etc. wishes to pocket his fees as quickly as possible; however a translator that cares for his reputation does not want this at the expense of the standard of his/her work. Hassling, requests for speeding up etc. only lead to adverse effects on the translation output. My personal particulars (phone, fax, email etc) have been supplied in full with the hope that the client also supplies his/her Particulars in full. To affect as near perfect a translation as possible occasional communication with the client, during the translation, may be required. Please supply your full particulars (your personal mobile number too, to ensure speed).
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PRICE
Like almost all commodities on a free market, prices are subject to quality, supply and demand and the seasonal variations between the latter two in addition to other reasons. The price set at any time depends on how hard a translator wants or needs a client at a specific time amongst other factors. Comparing with prices on websites, our quality is worth more than $ 0.25 per word for normal translation; but we give discounts that can bring this down to below $ 0.08 per word (for normal translation) for new clients who may be lucky to be contacted during recession periods and a number of other factors. When a committed translator has a commitment to see to, he wouldn't take a job from a non-regular client even if paying $ 100 per word. Tabulating for these factors is an impossible task.
Hence there is no set price, but presently we are working at discounted prices between $ 0.08 per word upwards at $ 50 minimum total for short text. Depending on a number of factors {language pair, season, topic, rush jobs and periods, slack jobs and periods, topic, purpose, usage of text (public, private etc.) etc.}, the minimum price and quotation may vary and will be noted here as these factors vary. If a price is quoted, it will stand for the duration of your tender or for one week only.
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The following below is in Arabic and may not reproduce on some monitors (depending on the operating system of your computer).
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السيرة الذاتية
(ملخصة إلى صفحة واحدة)
الإسم : عدي حاتم الكعبي
تلفون (خلوي) : 6332149-50(0)-971++
فاكس وتلفون : 2240497-4(0)-971++
اللغات : العربي والإنكليزي - جيد جدا نطقا وكتابة. الأول في آسيا في اللغة الإنكليزية منذ سنة 1977 بموجب إمتحان في المعهد البريطاني.
الألماني - مبتدئ بمعجم 2000 كلمة
العمل الحالي والأعمال السابقة (1975 - للآن عمل حر بأعمال متداخلة)
1978 - للآن : عمل حر في الترجمة (في دبي منذ 1998). هذا العمل كون لي علاقات مع أكثر من 3000 مصلحة من مصالح مختلفة في دبي.
1998 - 1999 : مدير إداري. شركة النيزك الذهبي, دبي.
1989 - 1998 : مالك ومدير لمستودع بيع الأدوية ومواد التجميل بالجملة إلى الصيدليات.
1983 - 1998 : مقاول تأسيسات (تمديدات) كهربائية للمباني .
1975 - 1998 : متعهد تركيب وصيانة وتصليح الأجهزة الطبية.
1975 - 1978 : مالك ومدير لورشة تصليح السيارات.
1977 - 1979 : معاون مدير المركز الإقليمي للتدريب على تركيب وصـــيانة وتصليح الأجهزة الطبية/منظمة الصحة العالمية.
1970 - 1975 : مهندس تركيب وصـيانة وتصليح الأجهزة الطبية في مستشفى تعليمي (بحجم 1000 سرير). المسئوليات: التمديدات الكهربائية/الأجهزة الكهربائية/أجهزة الأشعة السينية وملحقاتها/الأجهزة المختبرية/أجهزة السيطرة (مولدات طوارئ القطع الكهربائي/أجهزة التكييف).
المؤهلات الجامعية : بكالوريوس في الهندسة الكهربائية
المدارس والكليات : مدارس عربية وأمريكية و بريطانية.
دورات تدريبية : بريطانيا - إدارة الصحة والشؤون الإجتماعية/إنتداب للتدريب على أصول التدريس للكبار/شركة بنلون/شركة هيولت باكارد/شركة بريتيش أوكسجين/الكلية التقنية في بريستول.
ألمانيا - شركة سيمنس
هولندا - شركة فيليبس
فرنسا - شركة تومبسون ميديكال تلكو
إيطاليا - شركة جينيراي/شركة هونيويل
بعض الزبائن(غالبيى الزبائن في دبي في دولة الإمارات العربية المتحدة)- فنادق الدرجة الأولى وضيوفها (فندق برج العرب، فندق أبراج الإمارات، فندق رويال ميراج، فندق كراون بلازا، مجموعة فنادق روتانا (البستان روتانا، جميرا روتانا، رمال روتانا، رحاب روتانا)، فندق هوليداي إنترناشيونال (الشارقة)، مجموعة فنادق داتكو (فندق ومنتجع جبل علي للجولف، فندق حصن حتا)، فندق لا ميريديان إلخ. مكاتب حقوقية مرموقة (ترجمة قانونية) مكاتب إستشارية في الإدارة، مصارف، مكاتب محاسبة وتدقيق، شركات الإستثمار، شركات أدوية، مستشفيات، عيادات، نوادي صحية وصالات رياضية (شركة ديوميكس الدنمركية، المستشفى الأمريكي - تعليمات إستعمال الأدوية، كتيبات طبية)، المطاعم (قوائم الأطعمة لمركز دبي التجاري العالمي ومطاعم معظم الفنادق المذكورة آنفا)، شركات الدعاية، منظمو المواقع على شبكة الإنترنت العالمية، منظمي المعارض، (فاينلاين، بابليلنك، بوتنشيال، أكسبريشينـز إلخ الدلال.نت ، مركز دبي التجاري العالمي، آي إي سي، مكاتب إستشارية هندسية، مجلات، ناشرون (مقالات تقنية وإقتصادية وغيرها، معاهد تدريسية وتدريبية (محاضرات وكتالوجات، مكاتب ترجمة أخرى، شركات مصنعة (كتالوجات وكتيبات الإرشادات والتعليمات)، شركات تجارية وشركات شحن ومكاتب السياحة والسفر ومكاتب الوكلاء (وثائق، رسائل، معاملات إلخ. شركات السياحة والراحة والإستجمام والفعاليات (شركة "البوم" لمعدات اللعب المائية، شركة صانوي للسياحة والسفر). شركات تأجير السيارات (شركة فاست لتأجير السيارات). شركات مشابهة خارج دولة الإمارات العربية المتحدة (فرنسا، بريطانيا، الدانمارك - كتيبات موجهة للعالم العربي. كذلك طلبات فردية أو شخصية رسمية (دائرة البلدية، دوائر الشرطة والإقامة). طلبات ترجمة رسائل شخصية وشهادات وسيرة ذاتية وشهادات زواج وشهادات طبية ومعاملات دوائر العمل والعقود إلخ.
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