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Personal Information
Surname / First name	Dipl. Eng. Rachev Hristo
Address	Pliska 16, A, apt. 4, Montana 3400, Bulgaria.
Telephone	Home: + 359 96 310204	Mobile	+ 359 896 507810
Fax	+ 359 96 310204
E-mail	chratchev@abv.bg
Skype Nationality	chratchev Bulgarian.
Date of birth	August 8^th, 1951.
Gender	Male.
Work Experience
At present	Freelance Translator.
Dates	January 2000 – August 2009.
Occupation or position held	Full-time Translator & Interpreter.
Main activities and responsibilities	Translation of: technical specifications, service & operation manuals, drawings, international ISO & EN standards, business correspondence.
Name and address of employer	MONBAT Ltd, 76. Industrialna Str., Montana 3400, Bulgaria, www.monbat.com
Type of business or sector	Manufacture of starter & stationary batteries.
Dates	September 1977 – December 1999.
Occupation or position held	Progressively Designer, Technologist, Head of Tooling Department, Technical Manager, Production Manager, Marketing & Sales Manager with various Bulgarian Companies.
Overseas Experience
Dates	July 1996 – April 1996.
Occupation or position held	Head of Commissioning Team as per private Contract.
Main activities and responsibilities	Mechanical plant project implementation.
Name and address of employer	M.I.C., P.O.Box 25, Khartoum, Sudan, North Africa.
Type of business or sector	Machine building.
Dates	July 1995 - August 1993.
Occupation or position held	Maintenance Engineer, Project Manager as per private Contract.
Main activities and responsibilities	Design & Machining of precise cast iron & steel castings.
Name and address of employer	NIGERIAN FOUNDRIES LTD, P.O.Box 3574, Marina, Lagos, Nigeria, West Africa.
Type of business or sector	Manufacture of cast iron & steel castings.
Education & Training
Dates	September 1972 – July 1977.
Title of qualification awarded	Mechanical Engineer.
Principal subjects/occupational skills covered	Mechanical Engineering.
Name and type of organisation providing education and training	Mechanical & Electrical Engineering Institute, Varna.
Level in national or international classification	MA in Mechanical Engineering.
English Language Enhancement
Dates	October 1996 – April 1997.
Title of qualification awarded	Manager.
Principal subjects/occupational skills covered	English Language & Basic Management.
Name and type of organisation providing education and training	American & Bulgarian Management Centre IKOM INTELLECT, Sofia.
Dates	October 2006 – July 2007.
Principal subjects/occupational skills covered	Professional English.
Title of qualification awarded	Certificate No. 089-E-089 / 10.10.2007.
Name and type of organisation providing education and training	Ministry of Science & Education, Sofia, Bulgaria.
Language Combination	English > Bulgarian.
Fields of Expertise	Mechanical & Electrical Engineering, Electronics, Radio & TV, Audiovisuals, Telecommunications, Pneumatics, Robotics, Automation, Hardware & Software, Software localization, CAD, DTP.
Daily output	Up to 4,000 – 5,000 words per day.
Computer skills and competences	CAT & Localization: SDL Trados Studio 2011 Pro SP2, SDL Passolo 2011, SDL Trados Studio 2009 Pro SP3, SDL Passolo 2009, Trados 2007 FL SP3 (build 863), SDLX 2007 SP3 (build 7044), Across 5.0, MemoQ 6.2, T-Stream Editor 4.2, Idiom WorldServer 9.0.1.49, GlobalLink TransStudio 2.4.0.1, Transit NXT, Fortis 3, Fortis Revolution 4.0.5366, Déjà Vu X2 8.0.505, MS LocStudio 6.11, Hellium 6.0, Wordfast Professional 2.3.0, QA Distiller 6.2.6 (build 243), ErrorSpy 5.0, ELF Translator 2.21, CafeTran, Ttw 1.0 for Widows. Familiarity with Microsoft Glossary. Familiarity with Microsoft Glossary. DTP: Adobe Frame Maker 7.1, Adobe Acrobat X 10.0, Adobe Page Maker 6.5, Adobe Indesign CS3, QuarkXpress 7.5. Word Count & Invoicing: Projetech 8, Practicount, Translation Office 3000. CAD: AutoCAD 2011, Solid Works 2003, Translate CAD1.0.
Resources	Software: Windows XP, MS Office 2010 Professional, incl. Word 2010, Excel 2010, Access 2010, Power Point 2010. Hardware: PC, Intel Celeron E3200, 2,4 GHz, 2 GB RAM, Laser Scanner & Printer Samsung SCX 3200.
Preferable rates	EUR 0.04 (USD 0.05) per source word for translation; EUR 0.015 (USD 0.02) for proofreading.
Hourly Rate	EUR 20.00 (USD 23.00).
Additional information	Translated 12,430,900 words over the past twelve years.
References	Only available upon request.
Vendors translated (In alphabetical order)	ATLAS COPCO, Sweden; BENQ, Taiwan; BLACK & DECKER, Germany; BRUNSWICK, USA, BOBCAT, USA; BROTHER, USA; CANON, Japan; CATERPILLAR, USA; DANTHERM FILTRATION, Denmark; EAGLE OXIDE, USA; FUJI, Japan; FUNAI, Japan; GENIE, USA; GREENSTAR, USA; HEWLETT PACKARD, USA; HONDA, Japan; HUAWEI, China; INGERSOLL RAND, USA; JOHN DEER, USA; KAWASAKI, Japan; LG, Taiwan; LINX, United Kingdom; MIO, Taiwan; MINDWARE, Japan; MITSUBISHI ELECTRONICS, Japan; NOKIA, Finland; OMRON, Japan; PANASONIC, Japan; PHILIPS, Holland; REVO TECHNIK, USA; SAGEM, France; SIEMENS, Germany; SKF, Denmark; SONY, Japan, SOVEMA, Italy; SWEEX, Taiwan; TECHCOMINCO, Canada; VOLKSWAGEN, Germany; VOLVO, Sweden; WIRTZ, USA, WÜRTH, Germany, and many more…

Last updated: April 16^th, 2013