Independent certified translator & interpreter · Beauchamp Traduction
2016 — present
Montréal, QC
Direct practice serving law firms, hospital research units and federal agencies.
- Roughly 480,000 words a year of legal, medical and technical translation, FR ⇄ EN.
- Standing translator for two Montréal litigation boutiques and a CRO running bilingual trials.
- Around 40 conference days a year in the booth, including three annual medical congresses.
- Build and maintain client-specific termbases in memoQ; deliver bilingual TMX on request.
Staff translator, then senior translator · Translation Bureau, Government of Canada
2012 — 2016
Gatineau, QC
Parliamentary and departmental translation under statutory deadlines.
- Translated committee evidence and departmental reports to same-day turnaround.
- Revised the work of four junior translators and ran the unit’s terminology reviews.
Interpreter, refugee protection hearings · Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
2014 — present
Montréal, QC
Consecutive interpreting in protection and appeal hearings, FR/EN/ES.
- Over 600 hearings interpreted; accredited at the Board’s highest reliability tier.
- Regularly briefed counsel on register and cultural-context issues before hearings.