Loek van Kooten

27 Years’ experience as an IT/game translator. 37 Years’ experience in IT, games and electronic music. 13 Years’ experience as a technical translator. 7 Years’ experience in European matters and legal translations. Direct clients include Electronic Arts, Microsoft, SEGA, Codemasters, NCSoft, Network Associates and the Dutch Ministry of Defense. Worked on large-scale localization projects for eBay and Microsoft. Used to translate 400.000 words per year for the European Union.

Worked on localization of Multiple AAA titles for Electronic Arts (Dutch), Someday You'll Return: Director's Cut (Japanese), Stray (Dutch) Syberia: The World Before (Dutch), Arma Reforger (Japanese), Cyber Shadow (Simplified/Traditional Chinese), Pathway (Japanese and Chinese), DayZ (Japanese), Draugen (Japanese and Chinese), Swag and Sorcery (Japanese, Chinese and Korean), Return of the Obra Dinn (Simplified/Traditional Chinese and Korean), Graveyard Keeper (Japanese, Chinese and Korean), Moonlighter (Japanese and Chinese), Beat Cop (Japanese and Chinese), Dota 2 (Japanese), Motorsport Manager (Dutch), Gremlins Inc. (Japanese and Chinese), Punch Club (Japanese), Arma 3 (Japanese), Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games (Dutch)

EDUCATION: 1998: Graduated from the Faculty of Japanology (National Leiden University), obtaining the degree of ‘Master of Arts in Japanology’. 1994: Selected as one of the twenty best first year students of the Faculty of Japanology (National Leiden University) and sent to Japan to follow a one year study program at an auxiliary branch of the Leiden University in Nagasaki, Japan. 1992: Graduated from the Christelijk Lyceum Veenendaal (Veenendaal Christian Lyceum). Subjects studied: Latin, Dutch, English, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Economics.

AWARDS/ACCREDITATION: 1998: Officially sworn in as a translator/interpreter at the District Court of The Hague. 1997: Won first prize in the 8th National Japanese Speech Contest, organized by the Japanese Embassy in The Netherlands.

GAME EXPERIENCE: Avid gamer since the age of 10, playing 2-4 hours a day. 7 Years’ experience as guild leader of Fabulae Marrii, a guild focusing on MMORPG’s (Massive Multi-player Online Role Playing Games).

MUSIC EXPERIENCE: Former band member of Galbatron, a synthesizer band performing symphonic electronica. This band had more than 128,000 listeners. Former editor of national synthesizer magazine Keys & Audio. Author of several books on mp3 and audio, published by Sybex International and available nationwide in all Bruna/V&D bookshops.