Damien , Technical and Scientific Translator (EN>FR)

Damien started his translation career with the OPTI THERMIE ENVIRONNEMENT technical research bureau in 1997. He founded MECATRAD and has been its manager since 2002. Rigorous, exacting, and a perfectionist, Damien translates more than a million words a year in complex sectors such as industrial valves, machine tools and robotics, control and analytics, metrology and more.

He lives in Éloyes and has two children, Nathan and Thalia. His favourite sports are football (particularly amateur, as he runs an Under-15s team at the Éloyes club), rugby and KAPAP (a variant of KRAV MAGA, a combat sport that originated in Israel).

Coordinator - Business Manager

Céline’s role within the MECATRAD translation team is to satisfy its clients’ most exacting demands.

Resourceful and determined, with 15 years’ experience of translation project management behind her, she has proved herself capable of overcoming a variety of challenges, even arranging translations into Tibetan!

No language combination is beyond her reach!

Passionate about her project management role, Céline takes pride in responding promptly and effectively to even the smallest request from clients. Nothing makes her happier than to establish a business relationship based on mutual trust to provide the most suitable translation, whatever the context.

When not at work, she is equally vivacious and dynamic, with eclectic tastes in leisure activities, attending local concerts, taking her children to the cinema, or wielding a hammer and drill alongside her partner! At the moment, all her leisure time is being spent renovating a Lorraine farmhouse dating back to the 1700s.

Technical and Scientific Translator (EN>DE>RU>FR).

Creator of the OPTI THERMIE ENVIRONNEMENT technical research bureau in 1997, after research work on process engineering, Christophe now undertakes many translation projects covering industrial analytics, machine tools and agri-food.

As manager of a number of engineering departments, he specialises in renewable energy, energy management and environmental quality in construction.

Now an associate lecturer of the Nancy School of Architecture and a teacher at ESPI, Christophe is passionate about the experimental research he undertakes with his students on ecological transition.

Living in Chantraine with Martine and Théodore, he volunteers with a number of local associations.

Coordinator - Business Manager

Marion is the latest recruit to the MECATRAD team, working as a Project Coordinator and Project Manager.

Having honed her skills at the IUT (Institute of Technology) in marketing and commerce, Marion’s responsibilities will include overseeing new projects and managing relations with our translator partners. Marion loves the simple pleasures of life: spending time with family or friends, or countryside walks with her two children and her wonderful dog Higlou.

Communication manager - DTP and web design

Maxime lives in the Vosges. After having studied marketing and then communication, he joined the MECATRAD team where he developed new communication tools. He manages all graphic designs and creates websites. He is a herbalist and a rock climber.

Technical and Scientific Translator (FR-IT> EN)

Matthew lives in Rayleigh in the southeast of England. After studying at the University of Exeter in England he worked as a secondary school teacher for 11 years, before launching a new career as a translator. He has been translating professionally since 2003.

Outside work, he loves music. He sings tenor in the choir of Chelmsford Cathedral, and also in a number of local amateur choirs. He also plays the organ and the piano.

He takes physical fitness seriously and trains at the gym three or four times a week.

Technical and Scientific Translator (FR-RU-BG-MK> EN)

David studied Russian and French at the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom where he later taught classic Russian literature. He was awarded his PhD in Linguistics at the University of Sofia in Bulgaria, where he also teaches semantics. David also works as a translator and interpreter of French, Russian, Bulgarian and Macedonian into English.

David is an avid horse lover. He owns three and when he’s not in front of his computer translating technical texts for Mecatrad, you can find him in the equestrian arena training his horses for dressage competitions.

Technical and Scientific Translator (EN-FR> PL)

Pawel has been a translator since 2003. He lives with his wife, his 13-year-old daughter and his 18-year-old son in the countryside in central Poland, not far from Łódź. He enjoys active life and nature, and he favors mountain holidays.

Pawel specializes in technical areas: automotive industry, energy, electromechanics, IT, food, logistics and transport.

he is an interpreter during business trips and training of technical personnel. His work being rather static, Pawel practices a lot of sports: swimming, cycling and running. Its objective is to participate, one day, in an Ironman event !

Technical Translator (FR-EN> PT)

Nicole holds a master’s degree in Portuguese literature. As the daughter of Portuguese emigrants, she has always been immersed in Portuguese culture. At the age of 24, she decided to settle for good in Portugal, where she teaches French in language institutes. Alongside this, she has established a career as a translator/interpreter for more than 21 years.

Nicole also teaches cake design, travelling frequently around the French-speaking world. This is a hobby that brings her great satisfaction. She has sat on an international judging panel on three occasions. It is an artistic environment that fascinates her.

Her dream is to be a writer, and she continues to write about her thoughts and feelings from time to time. Translation is, in part, a form of writing, a retranscription.

Technical Translator (FR-EN> IT)

Eleonora is 39 and originally from Italy. She holds a diploma from the Forlì Scuola Superiore per Interpreti e Traduttori (University of Bologna). Her preferred languages are French, English and Spanish. A professional translator since 2008, she specialises in the field of technical translation and proofreading. She works from her home in Mirandola, in Modena province, Italy. She is married to Nico, who owns a car dealership. They have a cat called Gigia, who has proved to be a great help in reducing stress at work! Eleonor loves travelling, cooking, art and photography exhibitions, and taking long walks in the country.

Translator (FR> IT)

Franca is Italian, and comes from a small village a few kilometres north of Rome. She arrived in France in 1990 and started teaching Italian in 1992, to both adults and students, chiefly in the Auvergne. In 2000 she became a freelance translator. In 2017, for her own personal fulfilment, she gained her C2 level Brightlanguage certification in French.

She loves TV series, world cuisine, travel, and reads avidly (detective novels, preferably). Her dream would be to translate one someday. In the meantime, she has co-written her first Italian handbook, “Buon viaggio”, published by Ellipses.

Technical and scientific translator (EN-FR>ES)

Carmen has been working as a technical translator since 1998. Having completed her accountancy studies at the University of Salamanca, she moved to Madrid. She works internationally in administration. With her knowledge of English and French, which she developed from childhood, she often receives translation requests from her colleagues. Her taste for finding the right word, and her pleasure in creating faithful and well-written texts, led her to take a decision: to abandon accountancy and embrace languages. She trained as a translator at the Estudio Internacional Sampere, and embarked on the adventure of translation.
So she swapped the General Accounting Plan for her technical dictionaries, and then exchanged Madrid and hours spent on the Metro for the family, the countryside and hours on the vegetable patch and the farm. Nowadays she works with words, her horses and her vegetables in Sanabria, a wild and beautiful region in the north-west of Spain.

Technical and Scientific Translator (FR-EN>RU)

Yury has been a language teacher, translator and interpreter since 1976. He was born in the former USSR, then settled with his family in Béziers (France) in 2011.
Yuri loves French culture and civilisation, is a great connoisseur of cinema and chanson, and is passionate about photography and computing. He is also a real football fanatic. In Russia, he worked with others on the music for one of the most famous productions of “The Maids”, a play by Genet. One of his former colleagues, a specialist French teacher in Moscow, still uses the phonetics lessons recorded at that time by Yury. Yury also worked as an interpreter for Edith Cresson and Renaud during their travels to Moscow.

Translator (FR-EN-ES-PT> DE)

Christoph lives in Mannheim, in southern Germany. After studying language and literature (English and romance languages) and completing industrial clerk training, he worked for a while as an accountant. Christoph has been working as a freelance translator since 2004, and as a MECATRAD business partner since 2006. He translates many documents from English, French, Spanish, Portuguese and Latin into German. In his spare time, Christoph reads a lot, listens to music, enjoys computing and collects stamps and coins.