Sten Thaning Luthagsesplanaden 12B 75 225 Uppsala Sverige Tel: +46(18)550332, +46(733)648561 E-mail: thaning@bahnhof.se Education: 2001: Obtained a Master's degree in Computational Linguistics (language engineering) from Uppsala University, Sweden. Masters thesis: "Verb Valency in a technical corpus: a case study". 1998-1999: Seven months of courses at Sheffield University, as an exchange student. 1994: Exchange student for one year at Bendigo Senior Secondary College, Bendigo, Australia Professional experience: LocalEyes Sverige, Stockholm, Sweden Software localiser/translator Localising and testing computer software and operating systems. Translating help files, documentation, press releases, web pages etc. Among the clients were Apple, IBM, PrintEurope and Telenordia Jun 1999-Aug 2000 SimulTrans, Dublin, Ireland Software tester/translator Linguistic and functional testing of localized software. Also proofreading and translating on a freelance basis. April- July 2003 Loquendo S.p.A, Turin, Italy. Computational linguist, foreign language consultant in a project for speech synthesis. Feb 2002-Feb 2003 Dep. of Linguistics, Uppsala University, Sweden Within a project for machine translation, managing and correcting a lexical database, language revision, grammar coding, etc. Sep 2001-Jan 2002 Scania, Sweden Enhancing a lexical database for technical texts. 2001 Department of Classical Languages, Uppsala University, Uppsala. Computer consultant, i.e. helping the personnel with computer troubles at need (Windows computers) January-April 1999 Programming skills: Prolog and Perl. Computer skills: Good knowledge of Unix, Windows and Macintosh operating systems. Language skills: Swedish (native speaker), English (fluent), Spanish and Italian (good knowledge) Equipment: PC with Windows XP, Office 2000, Adobe Acrobat Reader 4.0, Norstedts English-Swedish dictonary, Lo Zingarelli 2002, Deja Vu 3. Broadband connection, 2 separate Internet Providers.