CURRICULUM VITAE
As of January 20, 2004
Name: Sage Aughta
Address: 2-16, 1-chome, Nakaikegami, Ota-ku, Tokyo 146-0081, Japan
Tel: +81-3-3751-2019.
E-mail: kyoju@dd.catv.ne.jp
Contents
1. PERSONAL DETAILS
2. ACADEMIC BACKGROUND
3. EXPERIENCE AS PROFESSIONAL TECHNICAL TRANSLATOR
3-1. Experience
3-2. Major Accomplishments
3-3. Paper
3-4. Membership
4. BUSINESS TOOLS
4-1. Hardware
4-2. Software
4-3. CD Dictionaries and Glossaries
4-4. On-line Dictionaries and Glossaries
4-5. Classic Paper Dictionaries and Glossaries
5 PAYMENT INFORMATION
5-1. Bank Account
5-2. PayPal Address
1. PERSONAL DETAILS
Name in full: Sage Aughta (officially written "Seiji Ota")
Born: September 7, 1940, Hokkaido, Japan
Snail address: 2-16, 1-chome, Nakaikegami, Ota-ku, Tokyo 146-0081,
Japan
Permanent: 111, Minami-Takahama-cho, Suita-shi, Osaka 564,
domicile Japan
Tel: +81-3-3751-2019
E-mail: kyoju@dd.catv.ne.jp
Hobbies: Music and travel
2. ACADEMIC BACKGROUND
March, 1967 - April, 1963
Physics Course, Natural Science Faculty, Science University of
Tokyo, Shinjyuku-ku, Tokyo, through examination. Graduated,
March, 1967. Major subjects studied include principles of
physics, dynamics, electromagnetics, quantum mechanics, theory
of relativity, solid state physics, and history of natural
science.
March, 1963 - April, 1961
Electronics Academy of Japan. Major subjects I studied include
electronics, including radio and television technologies,
radio- and tele-communications, and information technology.
Major qualification and license:
Television Service Engineer by MITI (Ministry of
International Trade & Industry), 1956; and, Radio
Communications Operator by Ministry of Postal Services, 1956.
3. EXPERIENCE AS PROFESSIONAL TECHNICAL TRANSLATOR
3-1. Experience
Current - July, 1987
Free-lance technical translator. Translated Japanese patent
specifications, product manuals and similar technical
documents into English and vice versa, mainly in fields of
electronics, communications and information technology.
Clients included translation companies and patent attorney
offices for Hitachi, Japan Radio Corporation, and similar
large electronic corporations.
June, 1987 - April, 1984
Employed by Ishido Patent Office for managing its Foreign
Department to correspond with overseas patent offices and
customers in Japan. Also, wrote and translated numbers of
patent specifications.
March, 1984 - September, 1977
Free-lance technical translator. Translated Japanese patent
specifications, product manuals and similar technical
documents into English and vice versa, mainly in fields of
electronics, communications and information technology.
Clients included translation companies for Hitachi, Toshiba,
and similar large electronic corporations.
August, 1977 - July, 1974
Started up Transworld Incorporation, president, for technical
translation services. Translated Japanese patent
specifications, product manuals and similar technical
documents into English and vice versa, mainly in fields of
electronics, communications and information technology.
Clients included translation companies for Hitachi, Toshiba,
and similar large electronic corporations. The company had
been closed down from September, 1977, to March, 1994 and was
transferred to Tsunehiko Araki for patent research in April,
1994.
June, 1974 - September, 1973
Free-lance technical translator. Translated Japanese patent
specifications, product manuals and similar technical
documents into English and vice versa, mainly in fields of
electronics, communications and information technology.
Clients included translation companies for Hitachi, Toshiba,
and similar large electronic corporations.
August, 1973 - June, 1969
Employed by Technical Service Incorporation as in-house
technical translator. Translated Japanese product manuals and
similar technical documents into English and vice versa,
mainly in fields of electronics, communications and
information technology. Clients included translation
companies for Fujitsu, Toshiba, and similar large electronic
corporations.
3-2. Major Accomplishments
My recent selected translation works are listed below.
1. “Novel Antimicrobial 7-Substituted Piperidino-Quinolone Carboxylic Acid
Derivatives,” E-J patent translation.
Type of product: Pharmacy.
Scope (volume): 18000 words.
My ref: 00250
2. “File Exchange for Group Program Development.” FAQ html J-E translation.
Task performed: Localization.
Scope (volume): 103 Kbytes.
Platform: Windows 2000 Japanese Edition.
Target language: English into Japanese.
3. Help file
Type of product: File Exchange for Group Program
Development.
Task performed: Localization.
Scope (volume): 69 Kbytes.
Platform: Windows 2000 Japanese Edition.
Target language: English into Japanese.
4. Website
Type of product: Sunglasses.
Task performed: Localization.
Scope (volume): 1,235 Kbytes in total.
Platform: Windows 2000 Japanese Edition.
Target language: English into Japanese.
5. Website
Type of product: Uniting the worldwide computer community.
Task performed: Localization.
Scope (volume): 803 Kbytes.
Platform: Windows 2000 Japanese Edition.
Target language: English into Japanese.
6. "A Method of Creating 3-Dimentional Contour Surfaces,"
J-E patent translation.
My ref: 00253
7. "Opinion Exchanges of Cooperation Procedures Between
Government and Private Corporations in Development of
Light-Water Reactor Techniques," report, J-E translation.
My ref: 615-k.r
8. "Joint Study of Phase X for Creation of Reference Plant
Concept to Make Its Overall Evaluation," report, J-E
translation. My ref: 613-k.r
9. "Neck Dag Coating Machine," product manual, J-E
translation. My ref: 612-k.m
10. "Speaker System," patent specification, J-E translation.
My ref: 532-t.p
3-3. Paper
"How To Associate With a Translator, Kogyo Eigo (Industry English),
Vol. 10, Nos. 10-12, 1982
3-4. Membership
SUT Entrepreneurs Association, 1988.
http://www.hq.sut.ac.jp/~risokai/index.html
4. BUSINESS TOOLS
Major translation tools I use for my work are as follows.
4-1. Hardware
a. Faith's Progress FT61000C having Celeron 1GHz CPU, 512 MB
RAM, 20GB HDD, 24x CD-ROM
b. Home-made PC having Celeron 535 MHz CPU, 256 MB RAM,
64.5 GB HDD, 50x CD-ROM, and 24x CD-R/RW.
c. IBM Japan 750-P100 Personal Computer having Pentium 233
MHz CPU, 128 MB RAM, 16 GB HDD and 40x CD-ROM.
d. Seiko Epson GT-6000 Image Scanner.
4-2. Software
a. MS Windows 2000 Professional Japanese Edition.
b. MS Windows 98SE Japanese Edition.
d. MS Office XP Japanese Edition.
e. Trados Edition 5.5.
f. Adobe Acrobat 6.0 English Edition.
g. Adobe PageMaker English Edition 7.0.
h. Adobe Framemaker 7.0 Japanese Edition
i. Adobe Photoshop 7.0
j. RoboHelp X3
k. Many others.
4-3. CD Dictionaries and Glossaries
a. "Kojien (Japanese dictionary)," Iwanami.
b. "Large Japanese Dictionary," Shogakkan.
c. "Modern Japanese Dictionary," Sanseido.
d. "Progressive English-Japanese Dictionary," Shogakkan.
e. "New Century English-Japanese Dictionary," Sanseido.
f. "New Crown Japanese-English Dictionary," Sanseido.
g. "New English-Japanese and Japanese-English Dictionary,"
Kenkyusha.
h. "Concise Adopted Word Glossary," Sanseido.
i. "Kanji Glossary for Wordprocessor," Sanseido.
j. "EB Comprehensive Science and Technology Dictionary,
English/Japanese and Japanese/English," Nichigai
Associates.
k. "Dictionary of Science and Technology, English-GermanyJapanese," Sansyusha.
l. "Computer Glossary, English-Japanese and Japanese-English,"
Kenkyusha.
m. Bookshelf Basic, Microsoft-Shogakukan.
4-4. On-line Dictionaries and Glossaries
About 200 links.
4-5. Classic Paper Dictionaries and Glossaries
About 150 volumes.
5. PAYMENT INFORMATION
5-1．Bank Account
Name: Seiji Ota (my official spelling for Sage Aughta).
Address: 2-16, 1-chome, Nakaikegami, Ota-ku, Tokyo 146-0081, Japan.
Tel: +81-3-3751-2019.
Account type: Ordinary (Futsu). No.: 1252730.
Bank Name: Mizuho Bank.
Office:
318 (Kamiikegami Office). Tel: 3-3726-5411.
Address: 37-6, 5-chome, Kamikedai, Otaku, Tokyo 145-0064, Japan.
Tel: +81-3-3726-5411. Fax: +81-3-3726-7091.
Swift code: MHBKJPJT
5-2. PayPal Address
kyoju@dd.catv.ne.jp