As a native French speaker, I grew up in a bilingual environment and spent a lot of my childhood holidays travelling to England to perfect my English. Fast forward a few years, and I decided to leave my country and settle in Denmark, where I worked in an international advertising agency with 24 nationalities were represented and English was the common language. A few years later I followed my newly-wed wife to her home country, Norway, where I learned to speak Norwegian to a level where I could work as a staff manager and took care of international customer relationships. I now speak 3 languages fluently, and am looking for opportunities to use these skills to work independently. 

My professional experiences have mostly revolved around marketing, communication and advertising, which has allowed me to work on the creation, translation and localization of content for various industries (IT, Marine, Food / Wine, Tourism, ...). I have for example been in charge of the localization of all of Dell's advertising campaigns for EMEA, as well as the creation of global strategies and content for the MSB market (B2B). Since moving to Norway, I have had the chance to work in one of the leading companies in Marine Automation, where I took care of defining and implementing a new identity (including messaging, branding, and the creation of marketing tools), as well as participating in international customer relationships. Most lately my work has allowed me to work on the translation of online content for hotel chains and sport companies.

 Being educated in graphic design and web development, I am able to work directly from production files (from Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, ...) or from the back office of websites (WordPress for example). I have also been able to work through CAT tools such as Felix and OmegaT, and am fully proficient in the use of Microsoft Office tools. I have also worked on the development of software, acting as a project manager, point of contact for international customer, and writing / translating user manuals.

My personal interests are mostly food and wine (for which I also have professional experience in one of teh industry's leading startups in France), music, literature and gaming. I regularly read and listen to podcasts in English or French about these fields.

My full CV is available upon request, as well as on my LinkedIn profile (https://www.linkedin.com/in/pierrebonnemaison/)