Iwan Davies MITI – Chair, Option 1 Saturday pm.
Iwan Davies BA(Hons) MITI is a freelance translator and localisation expert
based on the northern edge of the "Fair City" of Perth in Scotland. Working
with his wife, Louisa, under the umbrella of their company Translutions
Limited, Iwan supports a wide range of British and continental European
clients with translation and localisation services from French and German
into English in the fields of Accounting, Banking and Finance, Economics, IT and
Telecommunications. He joined ITI as a student in 1994, while at
Heriot-Watt University, and became an MITI in 2000, shortly after going
freelance. In the period from 1995 to 1999, Iwan worked as an inhouse
translator and localisation project manager at a small software company in
South-West Germany. He is a keen advocate of the use of technology in
translation, and is an early adopter of all things technological. He
regularly provides training to fellow freelancers in the use of translation
tools, and runs the largest independent dedicated Trados user group on the
web, tw_users (groups.yahoo.com/group/tw_users).