Personal Information
Address
76 Valiquette Road, Gatineau, Québec, Canada J8P 6H8 Telephone Work: (613) 669-6748
Home: (819) 669-0470
- E-mail Address
louis@commelair.ca
- Web Site
http://www.commelair.ca
- Date and Place of Birth
November 29, 1961, Stanhope, Québec, Canada
- Native Language
French
- Other language
English
- Family Status
Married, 2 children Education
- University Studies
Concordia University, Montréal (Québec), de 1980 à 1984. Bachelor of Arts, with a Specialization in Translation.
- College Studies
Sherbrooke CEGEP, Sherbrooke, Québec, 1978 to 1980. College Diploma in Literature.
- Secondary-School Studies
La Frontalière High School, Coaticook, Québec, 1973 to 1978. Secondary-School Diploma.
Work Experience
- Full-time - Since May 1996 / Part-time - Since December 1991
- Traduction/Rédaction Louis Rondeau enr.
- Positions : Entrepreneur, Translator, Writer, Consultant, Trainer.
- Duties: translation, writing, consulting, and training services for corporate and personal clients; managing a small enterprise.
- October 1990 to May 1996
- La Cité collégiale, Ontario College of Applied Arts and Technology.
- Position : Technical Writer.
- Duties : writing, revising, translating and layout duties for the Computer Resources Department of La Cité collégiale. The main goal of the position was to document in-house applications, as well as commercial software used by the College. Duties included writing and revising error messages and user-interface screens; writing user guides; writing various documents for the Department (letters, memos, papers, etc.); writing and layout of a newsletter intended for College Staff; language-consulting duties for the Department and College Staff, in order to ensure a high level of quality with regards to French documents; setting up and managing the college's first-ever Gopher server; giving professional development workshops to the College Staff on the use of Pegasus Mail (e-mail software) and on the Internet; all other duties relating to the quality of all written documents produced by the Department and, occasionnally, by the College.
- February 1988 to September 1990
- Algonquin College, Ontario College of Applied Arts and Technology.
- Position: Translator.
- Duties: English-to-French translation duties involving documents of various nature: administrative, advertisements, memos, job postings, letters, educational documents, and so on. Duties were carried out using the WordPerfect word-processing software. Other duties included: rereading, revising and editing documents; French-language consulting for the college Staff.
- October 1984 to September 1987
- T.A.L. Investmend Ltd. Investment Consultants / Portfolio Managers.
- Position: Mailroom Coordinator.
- Duties: supervising mailroom activities; supervising one messenger; purchasing office supplies; managing the stockroom; storage; updating a list of publications and books; managing the company's small library.
Hobbies and Interests
- Family
- My greatest hobby is spending as much time as possible with my family, my Number One Priority.
- Reading
- Computers, environmental issues, psychology, current issues, philosophy, literature, poetry, health issues, science and all the classic French comic strips (Astérix, Tintin, Achille Talon, Philémon, etc.).
- Music
- I listen to everything: classical, rock, jazz, blues, folk, instrumental, folk, etc.
- Other interests
- Gardening, birdwatching, walking, biking, photography, cooking, fishing and, of course, surfing the Net.
