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Volkan
GUVENC
Founding Partner and General Coordinator
Sworn-in English Translator
Native Turkish |
Mr. Güvenç was born in Ankara in 1968. He graduated
from the Department of Economics, Marmara University
in 1991. He fulfilled his military service at Turkish General Staff
in Ankara as a second Lieutenant English Translator. Afterwards,
he worked for Vehbi Koc American Hospital as assistant
accountant under accounting department, WestLB AG as clerk under
Loan Admin and Turkish Association of Insurance and Reinsurance
Companies as specialist under Reporting
Department.
He entered into Turkish translation market as a professional
Turkish English sworn-in legal/finance translator and project
manager. In 2002, he set up Alafranga Translation Services Ltd.
with Mrs. Pınar Baskaya. He has had considerable contributions
to the building-up of a company where PMs, in-house editors,
freelancers, HR specialist, finance specialist and IT specialist are
working together in harmony to meet higher international
expectations.
Apart from translation, he is interested in computer and
internet, web design, history of Istanbul, theatre,
astronomy
and anthropology.
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Şule
GÖNÜLSÜZ
Partner and Project Manager
Sworn-in English and Ottoman Language
Translator,
Native Turkish |
Mrs.
Gönülsüz
was born in Bursa in 1970. She was
graduated
from
Department of
History, Middle East
Technical University
in
1995. She completed MA
degree
in History in Bogazici
University (1998). During her
education,
she temporarily
worked
for a number of
institutions such as Chamber of
Architects as secretary;
Tourism Journal of Turkey as
correspondent;
Bursa
Metropolitan Municipality as
translator) and in GrafikEvi
Advertisement Agency
as editor.
She became a professional
translator in 1995. After
permanently
moving
to Istanbul, she worked for
"Selanik/Interbank
Project"
carried out by History
Foundation
as researcher from 1998
to
1999; for Board
of Writers of
AnaBritannica of Ana
Publication House,
publisher of
Turkish edition of Encyclopedia Britannica as
researcher, translator and
proof-reader
from 1999 to 2001;
for Board of Publication
of Temel Britannica as
proof-reader
and writer
from 2001 to
2002;
for Istanbul Art Museum
Foundation as General
Manager from
2003 to 2004.
Apart from translation, she is interested in history,
cinema,
antique book collection, literature and aikido.
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Ilke
SATIROGLU
Project Manager
Turkish Russian English
Translator
Native Turkish |
Mrs. Satiroglu was born
in 1981 in
Istanbul. She graduated from
department of Russian Language and Literature,
Istanbul
University in 2005.
After working as freelance English/Russian to
Turkish translator,
she joint to Alafranga in 2006. Since then, she has
been
giving support to administrative works along with
project
management.
Apart from translation,
she is interested in music,
classic
guitar,
psychology and child development and chess.
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Serdar
ÖZGER
Project Manager
Turkish English
Translator
Native Turkish
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Mr.
Özger was born in 1961 in Bolu. He graduated from
the
department of Electrical & Electronics, Bogazici
University in
1984. In the following years, the companies that he
worked
for
together with his positions are as follows:
AEG-ETİ
Export as electrical engineer (1984 to 1985); Tofaş
Automobile Factories Bursa as electrical and
electronics
maintenance chief (1987-1989); Petek (Honeywell)
Automation
Ltd. as sales engineer (1989 to 1991); ABC Cedetaş
Automation
Ltd as sales manager (1992 to 1995); Eprom
Automation Ltd.
as sales manager and business development manager
(1996-2004).
Since 2005, he has been working as professional
Turkish
English translator with the accomplishment
of countless technical
translation and localization projects thousands of
pages in various
fields of expertise including law,
business, engineering and other
technical topics
like quality and environmental management
systems and even biochemistry and medicine.
Apart from translation, he is interested in
photography, movies,
science.
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Hiroko Haksever
Project Manager
English/Turkish Japanese Translator
Native Japanese |
Mrs. Haksever was born in Tokyo,
Japan. She graduated from
Department of American & English Literature, Tokyo
Woman’s
Christian University in 1981, and received Master of
Science in
Translation in Business & Management Translation by
distant
learning at Babel University (U.S.A), Professional
School of
Translation in 2005.
After graduated from the
university, she worked at a Japanese
trading company as sales assistant and an American
financial
institution as secretary to Vice President, both are
located in
Tokyo, Japan. After marriage with a Turkish, she
moved to
Istanbul in 1992. She started translation in 1999,
and is now
engaged in Japanese, English and Turkish
translation.
Apart from translation, she is
interested in travel, classical music,
reading books, history in Istanbul, and historical
places in Turkey.
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Mehmetcan Karslı
Project Manager
Turkish
French English
Translator
Native Turkish
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Mr. Karslı was born in 1977 in Istanbul. He
graduated
from Saint Benoit French Lycee in 1996 and then
Department of
Translation and Interpreting,
Yıldız Techical
University. In the following years, he worked
for Promay
Production as production assistant and dubbing
translator
(1993 to 1996); Genç TV as dubbing translator
for
Discovery Channel, Gülen İnsan Yapımcılık as
executive
producer (TV
series, 16 episodes) (1996);
Klaket Yapımcılık
as dubbing translator for Discovery Channel,
National
Geographic and TRT (Turkish National Television)
(2000);
Mirai Interactive as web design project
responsible in 2001;
Group SMG as partner and technical project and
dubbing
translation coordinator in addition internet
project coordinator
(2002 to 2004).
Particularly during this period, he has involved
in wide
range of translations and localization projects
for local
and international companies including major
automotive
companies. He is capable of translating between
Turkish,
French and English in an advanced level.
In addition to his
translation capacity, he is a genuine webmaster.
Apart from translation, he is interested in photography and
cinematography, information technologies, holistic medicine
and former civilizations
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Melike Luise Örser
Project Manager
Turkish German
English
Translator
Native Turkish |
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Mrs.
Luise Orser was born in Germany. She completed
her primary, secondary and lycee education in Germany.
She graduated from School Teaching Department in Mathematics
of Hacettepe University along with the achievement of the highest degree
of the department and the honor of Ihsan Dogramaci.
Since 1989, she has
been involving in countless projects as
German Turkish translator, editor, proofreader and project
manager. She is also master in Trados and Star Transit.
Apart from translation, she is interested in mathematics and technological
innovations. She also collects proverbs.
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