RESUME


Evita Savicka
Translator, editor since 2005
Native speaker of Latvian and Russian languages
Working languages: English, French
Born on February 22nd, 1983, in Jekabpils, Latvia


SPECIALTY FIELDS

Computer games
Previous experience:
MMORPG Age of Conan, Russian localization – editor
GTA San Andreas, Russian localization – translator
MMORPG Atlantica Online, Russian localization – translator, editor
MMORPG Aika Online, Russian localization – terminologist, editor

Movies
5 years experience: translation of feature and documentary films for voiceover (En-Ru).

Fashion
2 years experience: translation of French fashion catalogue 3Suisses (Fr-Lv)

SOFTWARE
CAT-tools: SDL Trados 2007 (experienced user of Tag Editor), Déjà vu X.
Other: MS Office, Adobe InDesign CS4, ABBYY Fine Reader 9.0.

EDUCATION
2001-2005: Daugavpils University, Daugavpils, Latvia – bachelor of Arts, English philology

WORK EXPERIENCE
6 years of translation practice.
- In May 2008, I became a sworn translator.
- Since 2006, I work as a freelance translator. The list of my customers includes translation agencies from Latvia, Russia, the Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, as well as some direct customers.
- In 2005-2006, I have spent 6 months working as an in-house translator and interpreter in a Latvian affiliate of a French enterprise “Axon’Cable”, specializing in the production of wires, cables, interconnect solutions etc. I used to translate production documentation, as well as all kind of documents provided by Quality, IT and HR departments. I also used to interpret during meetings, seminars and trainings).