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Entrepreneur / Designer / Technical Translator: English to Dutch, Dutch to English, German to Dutch.
Place of birth: San Nicolas, ARUBA (The Netherlands).
Living in The Netherlands since 1966 up to now.
INTRODUCTION
Alvin Schenker is owner of AGENTAS.
AGENTAS. One-Man Business. Founded in 1993.
AGENTAS is an engineering and trading firm.
Our activities: Design and Drafting Services, Technical Documentation and Technical Translation Services, for the disciplines: Automation; Architecture; Electrical and Control Engineering; Electronics; General Engineering; Instrumentation; Machine Engineering; Manufacturing Engineering; Mechanical Engineering.
AGENTAS operates from the location of Wageningen – The Netherlands, and via telecommuting.
PROFILE (A.A. Schenker - AGENTAS)
Years of experience: 5 years & more.
Source languages: Dutch, English and German.
Target languages: Dutch and English.
Native language: Dutch (The Netherlands) and Papiamento (ARUBA – Netherlands Antilles).
Languages: Dutch, English, German, Papiamento and Spanish.
Fields of expertise:
Aeronautics & Aerospace; Automation; Architecture; Civil and Road Engineering; Electrical & Control Engineering; Electronics; General Engineering; Instrumentation; Machine & Manufacturing Engineering; Mechanical Engineering; Railway Construction.
Our technology tools for engineering, design, documentation and technical translation works are:
SDL TRADOS Studio 2011 Freelance, WordFast Pro;
AutoCAD (LT), ProgeCAD, StabiCAD, TurboCAD Professional Platinum.
WORK EXPERIENCE (Detail information of some jobs in connection to my CV)
1966 ... 1970: Position: Aircraft Electrician; (Communication: Dutch / English).
Company: NV Fokker Vliegtuigfabriek (Aircraft factory) in Schiphol-Oost, The Netherlands.
Assembly and Installation of:
Avionics Installations, Aircraft Electrical Systems, Aircraft Instruments, Avionics Displays, Aircraft Wiring and Cabling in the following type of aircrafts:
Fokker Friendship 27 (Turboprop);
Fokker 28 (Fan Jet);
Fokker 100 (Fan Jet);
Fokker 70 (Fan Jet).
Function test of aircraft systems and installations.
I had worked on military aircraft projects.
No information will be given about the military projects.
1977 ... 1979: Position: Electro technical draftsman / Translation: Dutch to English.
Company: Polec Project Engineering BV in Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Drafting of documents and drawings and diagrams of electrical installations, systems, measuring, detection and control installations, electrical energy / power supply stations for: Dutch railway stations, railway tunnels, railways and trains (Schiphol Airport, Amsterdam and neighbourhood).
1979 ... 1982: Position: Designer; (Communication: Dutch).
Company: Algemene Sein Industrie in Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Designing and drafting of documents, drawings and diagrams of control systems, protection systems, railway traffic control and monitoring systems for:
railroad, railway, railway connections, railway bridge, railway centres, railway yards, railway junctions, level-crossings, railway lines, rail networks, railway crossings, protected railway-crossings, unprotected railway-crossings, railway stations and underground substations.
WORK EXPERIENCE as SELF-EMPLOYED PERSON:
Entrepreneur, Technical Adviser, Engineering and Design, Technical Translator, since November 1993 up to now.
Our principals are in the market segments of:
Aeronautics and aerospace, filing departments and documentation, chemical industry, energy generation and distribution, electrical industry, mechanical industry, power industry, pharmaceutical industry, mechanical engineering, machine building, metallurgic industry, petrochemical industry, infra and road engineering, traffic control and dynamic management systems, water and waste water treatment.
OVERVIEW of some carried out and performed jobs or projects
CAD Design, Drafting and Documentation: Dutch and English.
Design, drafting and production of a complete set of drawings and documentation of: Explanatory diagrams; machine- and equipment assembly drawings; machine- and equipment detail drawings; documents lists of equipment items and machines; instructions for: assembling, starting up, operation and maintenance; machine- and equipment drawings; parts lists of the assembly drawings; list of spare-parts; structure drawings; technical specifications of: equipment, machines, insulating and painting, parts and auxiliaries; machine and equipment lists.
Description of projects: Construction of machines, drive systems and installations for the production of micro-electronic materials.
Principal: Engineering and Construction Bureau; Veenendaal - Netherlands.
CAD Design and Drafting / Documentation: English.
Drafting and production of drawings and documentation of: Process flow diagrams; piping and instrument diagrams; utility distribution diagrams; utility flow diagrams; documents lists; lists of piping materials; list of valves and line auxiliaries; piping assembly drawings and parts lists.
Description of project: Process-control system for biological purification installation.
Principal: Environmental Engineering Bureau; Ede - Netherlands.
Technical Translation Services
Translation work: German into Dutch.
Description of project: Translation of manuals: Safety-related control systems for machines; Principles, standards and implementation.
Principal: German translation bureau, Germany.
CAD Design and Drafting / Documentation: Dutch and English.
Drafting and production of drawings and documentation of: Basic data of power supply; block diagrams of power supply; circuit diagrams; structure drawings of panels, boards, trace supports; document lists of electrical equipments; electrical equipment lists; instructions for: assembling and operation; panel equipment location diagrams; list of operations materials; part lists; technical specification of: equipments, items and nameplates; cable and line routing drawings; list of cables and lines; detail drawing of the installation; hook-up diagrams; installation drawings; interconnection diagrams; material take-off list; parts list of the installation drawing.
Description of project: Process-control system for biological purification installations.
Principal: Environmental Engineering Bureau; Ede - Netherlands.
CAD Design and Documentation: Dutch, English > Dutch, and German > Dutch.
Design, drafting, revision and production of drawings and documentation of: Basic data of power supply; list of power consumers; list of requirements for plant control operation; block diagrams of power supply; circuit diagrams; structure drawings of panels, boards, trace supports; detail drawings; document lists of electrical equipment items; electrical equipment lists; electrical tracing lists; graphic flow plan diagrams; instructions for: assembling, starting up and operation; panel equipment location diagrams; list of operations materials; part lists of location diagrams; part lists of the structure drawings; list of spare parts; technical specification of: equipments, items and nameplates; unit wiring diagrams; cable routing and piping drawings; list of cables and lines; detail drawings of the installations; hook-up diagrams; installation drawings; interconnection diagrams; material take-off list; parts list of the installation drawings; terminal diagrams; construction- and as-built documents; operating manuals; basic instrument data; list of requirements for plant control operations; instrument lists; system document.
Description of projects: Electrical- and Control Installations, Process Control Systems and Installations for the metal and metallurgical industry.
Principal: Metallurgical factory, plant and works; Rotterdam - Netherlands.
Technical Translation Services
Translation work: English into Dutch.
Description of project: Translation of a catalogue, manuals, instruction manual and part lists for measurement instruments and laser level instruments.
Principal: French translation bureau, France.
Technical Translation Services
Translation work: English into Dutch.
Description of project: Translation of an instruction manual for Network Storages.
Principal: South-Korean agency.
Technical Translation Services
Translation work: German into Dutch.
Description of project: Translation of an operating instructions manual for a production line in a steel factory.
Principal: Steel factory in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Technical Translation Services
Translation work: German into Dutch.
Description of project: Translation of naming, designations and operating instructions for control and instrumentation panels.
Principal: Turkish translation bureau, Turkey.
Technical Translation Services
Translation work: English into Dutch.
Description of project: Drawing up and technical translation from English to Dutch, and editing of a master glossary for a software manufacturer of programs and applications for (CAD) computer-aided design, (CAM) computer-aided manufacturing, (AEC) Architecture, Engineering and Construction systems. Translations for web pages.
Principal: French translation bureau, France.
For more information see: Resume AASchenker-AGENTAS to DESIGN to WRITE to TRANSLATE.
Expertise