About the Leader/Instructor
Wahba Youssef
Academically, Wahba has a Master’s degree in Applied Linguistics from the University of Birmingham, a BA degree in International Business and Management from Bournemouth University in England, and another BA degree from Ain Shams University, Faculty of Alsun (languages) in Egypt. He has earlier supported his linguistic study with a diploma in Information Systems Analysis and Design regulated by NCC Education Institution. He is also certified in Trados Studio, Trados MultiTerm Desktop and MemoQ Level PM.
Professionally, between 2001 and 2004, Wahba worked in Egypt for Dar El Farouk Publishing House as an English-Arabic Translator where he translated so many books in different disciplines like information technology, medicine, finance, and investment. Then he moved to the leading translation agency in Egypt “Future Group” to work as a senior translator for 3 years. Since then, he focused on using different CAT Tools in translation such as Trados Studio, Wordfast Pro, and MemoQ. In 2007, he was offered a position by Ernst & Young to work as a financial translator and reviewer for 3 years in Kuwait. After that, he settled in London and started a new phase of his professional career; he spent six years contracting with local and international clients in the UK to provide them with translation services using innovative translation technology applications.
Currently, Wahba is a senior translation specialist at the Translation and Training Center (TTC). He is also responsible for the translation technology function at the center and work towards spreading the knowledge and deployment of such tools and project management techniques, in addition to building up terminology databases for specialized translation tracks.