EDUCATION

• Bordeaux University (FRANCE) : Chinese/German D.U.E.L. (1974)
• Bordeaux University (FRANCE) : japanese/chinese license (1976)
• Bordeaux University (FRANCE) : japanese/chinese master (1977)
• Over 18 years On the Job Training with USINOR group engineers and research engineers : iron & steel making processes, environment, energy, automotive industry, chemistry (coatings), household appliances, etc.
• Japanese databases : JOIS, PATOLIS (training in the Japan Information Center for Science and Technology of Tokyo)
• Industrial Property : japanese and chinese patents, contracts
• Computer : Word (japanese and chinese), multilingual databases, Internet, multimedias

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

 April 2000 - April 2002 : Industrial Property Management, USINOR group
Japanese and chinese patents translator
USINOR group Industrial Property patent information manager
• Patents translation-consulting from japanese and chinese into french and english
• Collections and synthesis publications from japanese and chinese patents informations
• Patents technical and competition watch

 1989 - March 2000 : Japanese section - USINOR group
Japanese and chinese translator - Asia technical watch
(unique western member of the japanese staff)
• Japanese and chinese patents translations and occasionaly technical and economical documents into french and english.
• Writing of the " Japanese Technical Press release " from japanese industrial technical daily papers.
• Private japanese database management
• Researches in japanese databases : JOIS (technology), PATOLIS (patents), JAPIO.
• Management of the whole staff's french publications

 1984 - 1989 : Iron & Steel information center - USINOR group
Japanese/chinese/english/german/russian translator
• Japanese, chinese, english, german and russian translations, analysis and synthesis
• Technical and competition watch
• Staff management

 1977 - 1984 : Bordeaux
Translator/interpreter
• Bordeaux "Chambre de Commerce et d'Industrie"
• Bordeaux "Office du Tourisme"
• Japanese/chinese translator for Bordeaux court of law

HOBBIES

• Far east Philosophy : translation and publication of japanese and chinese classical philosophy related articles.
• Japanese culture : haiku, shintoism
• Researches on buddhism
• Researches on internal chinese arts (martial and health traditional chinese arts, chinese medecine) : Yiquan (health internal art) and Shuaijiao (chinese wrestling) synthesis and popular articles translations and publications from japanese and chinese original documents. Interpreter for meetings involving chinese masters.
• Yiquan (chinese internal art)
• Quilting
• Researches on herbal medicines