Senior Chinese Translator, Reviewer, and Multilingual Publishing Technologist with over 25 years of professional production experience, including 21+ continuous years (2002–Present) serving as an independent contractor for the United Nations and multilateral international organizations across ~300 high-level contracts.

Core Specializations & Track Record:

• Legal, Treaties & Institutional Governance: Official multilateral model laws on international commercial arbitration, electronic commerce, public procurement, cross-border secured transactions, and global verification treaties. Zero margin for error.

• Multilingual DTP & Layout Engineering: Over 100,000 pages typeset across any script (CJK, Cyrillic, Greek, Latin, RTL Arabic/Hebrew/Urdu/Farsi, Indic, Thai, Vietnamese) and any format (InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, FrameMaker, CorelDraw, Figma, AutoCAD, Word). Expert in dead scanned PDF to live editable layout reconstruction.

• Generative AI & Computational Linguistics: LLM ground-truth evaluation, prompt engineering, RLHF preference annotation, and bilingual parallel corpora alignment. Developer of tokr.asia (vector & PDF CAT localization engine) and 100,000+ Regex QA verification rules.

• Language Pairs: English to Chinese (Simplified & Traditional), Chinese to English.

Direct Institutional & Client Recognition:

💬 “Great pickup there.”

   — United Nations Senior Official, commending proactive detection of source-level errors and discrepancies in English UN texts prior to publication.

💬 “Feedback and comments which are always really helpful.”

   — UN Production Coordinator, acknowledging editorial rigor, layout harmonization, and terminology consistency.

💬 “Diligent work... with complex scientific, legal, and technical publications.”

   — UN Chinese Translation Section Reviewer, recognizing zero-defect accuracy on international commercial conventions, model laws, and multilateral verification treaties.

💬 “Wei is truly a professional. Time differences between here and there are never an issue. He even goes out of his way to take care of some of my most difficult jobs!”

   — CEO / Project Lead, North American Language Agency, highlighting 24/7 cross-timezone reliability and technical problem-solving.

Software & CAT Tools:

SDL Trados Studio (2022/2024), memoQ, Wordbee, Passolo, Xbench, Smartcat, Phrase/Memsource, Python, tokr.asia.

Standard Quoting Standards:

• Translation: $0.08 – $0.10 USD / source word

• Revision / Editing: $0.04 USD / source word

• MTPE: $0.035 USD / source word

• Multilingual DTP: $2.50 / live page | $5.00 / dead scanned page

• Language Lead / AI Evaluation: $35.00 USD / hour

• Minimum Charge: $30.00 USD (accruable weekly across tasks)

Education:

B.A. in English Language and Literature (1989 – 1993), Beijing International Studies University (BISU).