Frédéric Dufour

I am a trilingual Project Manager & Coordinator (English, French and German) and fully available to work at your service - "flexibility, precision and customer-dedication" is my motto!

Project Management PRINCE2/PMBOK/AGILE - From 2021 to 2022 - BUSINESS TRAINING SCHOOL - Brussels

• Managing in a team 3 different projects with the Prince2 and PMBOK methodologies and with the Agile framework from inception to closure
• Ensuring the documented monitoring and reporting of all procedures, activities and productivity

Project Manager / Language editor of European standards - From 2008 to 2019 - EUROPEAN STANDARDIZATION COMMITTEE / EUROPEAN COMMITTEE OF ELECTROTECHNICAL STANDARDIZATION - Brussels 

• Proofreading and distributing European standards (Microsoft Word, Acrobat pdf and XML/HTML) drafted in English, French and German by European technical groups and made under the terms of EU Directives/Regulations 
• Working as a contact point and coordinating the technical groups in charge and other external stakeholders at national and international levels 
• Managing the workload so as to monitor the development of standards within set deadlines and encoding the precise data and dates 
• Setting up, co-organising and participating to meetings, events and trainings, whilst drafting the necessary documentation, i.e. agendas, minutes and presentations 
• Filing and centralising the documentation in a consistent manner 
• Respecting and supporting working and drafting practices, and keeping and maintaining the related documentation up to date 
• Setting up exchanges for best practices between German standards bodies and the European Standardization Committee CEN-CENELEC during two missions at the DIN German Standardization Institute in Berlin and at the DKE German Commission for Electrical, Electronic & Information Technologies of DIN and VDE in Frankfurt am Main

Translator - 2007 - COMMITTEE OF AGRICULTURAL ORGANISATIONS / CONFEDERATION OF AGRICULTURAL CO-OPERATIVES IN THE EU - Brussels 

• Translating deliverables, speeches, reports, meeting minutes and mail related to the EU common agricultural policy and to the committee’s activities, from and into both English and French, and from German 
• Providing research pertaining to the EU common agricultural policy Practising cabin interpreting from and into both English and French

PRINCE2 Certificate in Project Management (People Cert/Axelos) - May 2022 - BUSINESS TRAINING SCHOOL - Brussels

Project Management and Methodologies PRINCE2/PMBOK/AGILE - From 2021 to 2022 - BUSINESS TRAINING SCHOOL - Brussels

Graduation in translation (English-French-German) - 2007 - INSTITUT SUPERIEUR DE TRADUCTION ET D’INTERPRETATION (ISTI) - Brussel

Postgraduate studies in translation sciences - 2005 - FACULTE DE LETTRES ET SCIENCES HUMAINES / IONIAN UNIVERSITY - Caen, France / Corfu, Greece

Master’s degree in English studies - 2002 - FACULTE DE LETTRES ET SCIENCES HUMAINES - Caen, France