Caroline HAMMER



Caroline HAMMER

Post address: 3 place du général Leclerc, 92700 COLOMBES FRANCE

Home phone number: +33-1-81-49-05-63

Mobile phone number: +33-6-76-34-92-47

Email address: caroline.hammer@hotmail.fr

TRANSLATOR FROM ENGLISH AND GERMAN TO FRENCH

Professional experience

January 2012-present day Freelance translator (Paris, Chevilly Larue, Colombes France)

and November 2009-June 2011 -Translation and proofreading of texts in various domains

-Legal texts (contracts, judgments and so on) and financial texts (press articles, brochures and so on) make up about 70% of daily work

-Many large projects undertaken in video games, including Guild Wars 2, Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns, Mirrors of Albion, Wildstar, Shadowrun Chronicles – Boston Lockdown and Yu-Gi-Oh! Legacy of the Duelist

-Many large projects undertaken in roleplaying games, including Vampire: The Dark Ages 20th anniversary edition, Vampire: The Masquerade fifth edition and several sourcebooks for that license, Mage: The Ascension 20th anniversary edition and several sourcebooks for that license, Exalted Second Edition and Enemies of the Empire for the roleplaying game setting Legend of the Five Rings

-Several projects undertaken for the collectible card game Magic: The Gathering

-Use and maintenance of glossaries

-Creation and maintenance of a portfolio of customers

July 2011-December 2011 In-house translator for Nintendo (through the temping agency ZIW Zeitarbeit, Frankfurt, Germany)

-Localization of The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords on Nintendo DSi and of Kid Icarus: Uprising on Nintendo 3DS

-Team work

-Use of term databases

May 2009-July 2009 Legal assistant internship in the lawyer firms ACG et associés and

and May 2008-June 2008 Guerin (Reims, France)

-Review of legal files

-Drafting of summaries and draft pleadings

June 2006-July 2006 Phone pollster for Le Terrain (Paris, France)

-Phone polling in German

Education

2009 Masters degree in French criminal law from the Faculty of Sceaux (Paris-sud XI)

2008 International Lawyer Diploma from the French Institut supérieur d’interprétation et de traduction (post-A-level Institute of Interpreting and Translation) for the language combination English and German to French

French maîtrise of private judiciary law from the Faculty of Sceaux (Paris-sud XI), grade: 2.1

Ranked second in bankruptcy law contest organized by the French firm Francis Lefebvre

2006-2007 Year spent in England as an Erasmus student at the Leicester Faculty of Law

Certificate in English Legal Studies with Distinction

2006 Diploma in Business English of the Franco-British Chamber of Commerce and Industry with Merit

Languages/Computer skills/Miscellaneous

French native speaker, bilingual in English and German

Proficiency in the use of CAT tools (particularly Trados) and the Microsoft Office suite

Participant to the written test session for the creation of the International Legal English Certificate, a diploma offered by the Cambridge English program

Hobbies: video games, roleplaying games, literature, CCG Magic: The Gathering

For use by companies with either video game or roleplaying game projects:

Video games experience

Have been playing video games since age 15. Examples of titles played include American McGee’s Alice, The Darkest Dungeon, Minecraft, Starbound, The Wolf Among Us, the Civilization series, the Heroes of Might and Magic series, the Final Fantasy series, the Fire Emblem series, the Mario series, the Monkey Island series, the Rayman series, the Pokemon series, the Zelda series and the Prince of Persia console trilogy.

Roleplaying games experience

Have been roleplaying since 2006, both as a player and as a game master, in French and in English. Gaming universes and systems experienced:

Mastered as a GM: Changeling: The Lost, Exalted, Fireborn, Promethean: The Created

Long campaigns as a player: Amber, Pathfinder, Shadowrun, Vampire: The Masquerade

Several sessions as a player: Call of Cthulhu, Dragonlance, Dungeons and Dragons, Legend of the Five Rings, Mage: The Ascension, several French roleplaying games, several amateur roleplaying games

General knowledge: every license of the Chronicles of Darkness, every license of the World of Darkness

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