Andy Walker - SDL Trados Studio - A Practical Guide

Andy Walker has worked for many years as a translator and is an experienced trainer and teacher of translation technology. He combines his work as a freelance translator (working from Japanese, French, and German into English) and Japanese-English interpreter with the post of a Senior Lecturer in Translation Technology at the University of Roehampton in London. As well as being a Member of the Institute of Translation and Interpreting (MITI), he is an Approved Trainer for SDL Trados Studio and currently one of SDL's Lecturer Champions.

I would like to thank my family, my colleagues at the University of Roehampton, and the staff of SDL for their support with the writing of this book. In particular, I would like to acknowledge the role of the technical reviewers Alison Field, Jerzy Czopik, and Daniela Ford. Their numerous insights, corrections, and suggestions have resulted in great many improvements to the content of the book.

Jerzy Czopik , born in Cracow, studied Mechanical Engineering at the Cracow Technical University. He finished his studies after relocating to Germany in 1986 at the University Dortmund. Since 1990, he has been a full-time translator and interpreter for German and Polish. He is a user of many CAT tools and trainer for SDL Trados products. He is an LICS auditor for the translation standard EN 15038.

He is the author of the manual SDL Trados Studio 2009 dla (nie)wtajemniczonych , published by Biuro Marketingowe Adebik, 2011 , ISBN 8362134097.

Alison Field is a freelance technical translator, proofreader/reviewer, and trainer. She has worked in linguistics for some considerable time, covering virtually all aspects of the translation chain at some point in her career, seasoned with teaching French for enjoyment.

For many years, Alison worked for Balthasar Ltd, a small translation agency based in Herefordshire. This is a company that has built its success, firstly on the strength of a gifted, committed team, and secondly, by never compromising on its watchword: quality.

Through this experience and her own ongoing professional development, Alison became increasingly conversant, first with Trados, then SDL Studio, and of course MultiTerm. She progressed to becoming an invaluable member of the SDL beta testing team, which she finds highly rewarding.

Alison loves nothing better than "playing" with languages, especially using computer software to do so. She happily spends hours troubleshooting others' issues with CAT software, displaying all the tenacity of a Yorkshire terrier with a bone. When presented with an apparently insoluble problem, Alison's usual response is "hmm, that's interesting", following which she might not surface again for a few hours until she has got right to the root of the problem, and probably solved several others along the way!

I would like to thank Andy for the honor of performing a technical review of his book, which I have thoroughly enjoyed.