Self-employed, full-time freelance Mandarin interpreter and Chinese translator (11/94 - present)
- Provided professional linguistic services such as interpretation (simultaneous, consecutive, court, and escort)
- Provided simultaneous interpretation services for conferences, workshops, webcasts, speeches, and court proceedings in US, England, Italy, Australia, China, and Switzerland.
- Provided consecutive interpretation services for prep meetings, depositions, and court hearings in US, Taiwan, Korea, Hong Kong, and Malaysia.
- Specialized in technical projects involving patents, manuals, software user-interfaces, video scripts and subtitles, advertisements, datasheets, and MSDS's etc.
- Covered subjects such as marketing, financial services, law, electronics, telecommunications, computer science, mechanical engineering, medicine, chemistry, chemical engineering, physics, petroleum industry, pulp and paper industry, automotive industry, and textile industry etc.
- Localized extensive websites and large software programs.
- Served as the Language Chair and as a grader for the from-English-into-Chinese Certification Examination of the American Translators Association (ATA) (11/2000 – 11/2017)
Asia Director, Fotoforms Systems, Inc. (11/93 - 10/94)
- Studied, designed, prepared, and launched a Chinese-US joint venture, the Beijing John's Photography, Ltd., successfully and almost single-handedly from scratch.
Research associate, Department of Physics, Emory University (10/89 - 10/93)
- Did extensive computational work on theoretical physics subjects such as crack propagation modeling and simulation and studies of optical properties of semiconductor materials
- Put in enormous efforts in using extremely powerful supercomputers, such as Cray's and IBM mainframes, to simulate physical materials of real world
