Arline Lyons

I specialise in turning Japanese business documents into clear, engaging and effective English appropriate for your target audience. My background in project management and consultancy has given me extensive experience in writing a wide variety of business-to-business and customer-oriented communications including proposals, presentations, reports, press releases, speeches, case studies, magazine articles and marketing material.

External Japanese to English translator translating abstracts for the PCT division, receiving intensive feedback from the internal editors.

Contracted Japanese-English Translator, providing translation, editing and proofreading, UK English checks and support to other translators working from English.

Managed software and user documentation localisation for major Japanese clients, led teams of translators, desktop publishers and localisation engineers, completed localisation work on time and within budget.

Managed localisation and testing of software, documentation and web sites into multiple languages for a range of high profile clients.

Genetics, cell biology, molecular biology, ageing, analytical science, cancer, infectious diseases and public health, cardiovascular disease, microbiology, drug design, chemistry, nutrition, alternative energy (biofuels/fuel cells), nuclear energy, forensics

Japanese - English translation, writing in Japanese, patent translation, culture and identity, gender, media