Yi Lu 3k+

Current

Linguistic consultant, partner at Handsome Translation Services

Past

Freelance translator at McKinsey & Company
Freelance translator at The Economist
Finance-focused compliance and regulatory translator at HSBC Bank (China) Ltd.

China Compliance and Legal translator at HSBC
Legal translator at PanAsia Lawyers
Senior financial translator at KPMG
Translator at Dow Jones Telerate

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Education

College of International Business
Shanghai University

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Connections

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Industry

Translation and Localization

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Yi Lu 3k+’s Summary

I hope to help foster links and understanding between China and the rest of the world. This would start with providing foreign language services in which I have hands-on experience.

My experience features a good blend of full-time and freelance exposure to translation work in business and commerce, finance, accounting, audit, banking, insurance, trade, contracts, bid & tender, advertising, marketing, patent and law, web content, news and current affairs, medical and pharmaceuticals, technologies, etc. Professional insights in styles and substances of the texts in subject areas covered.

I am a veteran part-time translator for leading consultancies and publishers such as McKinsey Quarterly, a quarterly collection of management/strategic business reviews of McKinsey & Co., and CFO Asia, a monthly magazine of the Economist group.

Yi Lu 3k+’s Specialties:

Translation, interpretation (consecutive and simultaneous), localization, foreign language service project management

Strength: enriched industry exposure; good sense and learning skills to keep abreast of today’s industry terminology and mainstream usage of the source and target languages; resourceful, responsive and accessible

Yi Lu 3k+’s Experience

Linguistic consultant, partner

Handsome Translation Services

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Translation and Localization industry)

June 2007 — Present (2 years 7 months)

Translation, interpretation, editing, proofreading, ghostwriting, copywriting, localization, subtitling, language training, project management
Freelance translator

McKinsey & Company

(Partnership; 5001-10,000 employees; McK; Management Consulting industry)

June 2001 — May 2008 (7 years )

Translation of McKinsey Quarterly of management and strategic business reviews, covering a whole spectrum of sectors
Freelance translator

The Economist

(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Publishing industry)

February 2004 — March 2008 (4 years 2 months)

Translation of articles in CFO China, the local issue of the Economist's CFO family of magazines
Finance-focused compliance and regulatory translator

HSBC Bank (China) Ltd.

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Banking industry)

March 2007 — June 2007 (4 months)

Translation of finance (banking) related compliance and regulatory documents concerning the bank's new services and products in China
China Compliance and Legal translator

HSBC

(Translation and Localization industry)

2007 — 2007 (less than a year)
Legal translator

PanAsia Lawyers

(Partnership; Legal Services industry)

July 2003 — October 2005 (2 years 4 months)

Translate and proofread, between English and Chinese, laws, regulations, contracts, agreements and other legal documents concerning media, labor and telecommunications, the firm’s major fields of practice
Senior financial translator

KPMG

(Partnership; 10,001 or more employees; KPMG; Accounting industry)

January 2001 — July 2003 (2 years 7 months)

Edit, translate and draft speeches, presentations, formal correspondence, audit service proposals and sales pitches, tender/stock listing documents, management consulting and financial audit reports, contracts and state laws and regulations
Translator

Dow Jones Telerate

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; DJ; Financial Services industry)

July 1993 — December 2000 (7 years 6 months)

(Telerate is a gloabal financial market and economic information provider. Now a subsidiary of Thomson Reuters)

Responsibility: source, edit and translate real-time global economic, financial and business news for a paying corporate audience, mostly multinationals with operations in China and entities that trade in international financial markets

Yi Lu 3k+’s Education

College of International Business

Bachelor , Business management , September 1989 — July 1993
Shanghai University

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Yi Lu 3k+’s Interests:

internet, networking, entrepreneurship, tourism, reading, cultures and languages Please feel free to add me as a connection and contact me at handsomeservices@gmail.com