Hello,
I'm a language lover who wants to help anyone having communication problems. My services involve both interpreting and translation from English and Russian into Italian. I have Trados (2007 and 2009) as a CAT tool and I have experience in many different fields, which you can see below, and I have also worked for:

National Geographic
Cisco
Right Answers Inc.
HP
Sephora
Frederick Fekkai
Dr. Brandt
Donaldson
Edwards
Ingersoll
Angelo Seminara


PROFILE
A Italian translation and conference interpreting graduate who is looking for a position as a linguist, a translator, and interpreter, a language teacher or in an international office. Reliable, trustworthy, meticulous. Working languages: Italian, English, Russian, Spanish.

EDUCATION

November 2008 – July 2009 Post-graduate course for tourist guides in the city of Siena and its surroundings.
2004 – March 2008 Post-graduate degree in conference interpreting (whispered/simultaneous interpreting and consecutive interpreting) at the School for Interpreters and Translators of the University of Bologna, Italy.
 July-December 2006, exchange programme at Edith Cowan University in Perth, Australia.
2001-2004. Bachelor Degree in translation and liaison interpreting. (subjects studied: English, Russian and Spanish languages, literature, history, and culture, translation, community interpreting, economics, linguistics).
1996-2001. High school diploma at the Liceo Scientifico G. Galilei di Siena, Italy. (81/100). (subjects studied: maths, physics, English language and literature, Italian literature, Latin language and literature, natural sciences).
2000. High school diploma at Globe High school, Arizona, USA, after a year in that school.

EXPERIENCE ABROAD

Fall 2006. Semester abroad at the Edith Cowan University of Perth, Australia.
August 2005. Volunteer work in two catholic missions in Astrakhan and Volgograd, Russia. Worked with people with disabilities, homeless and children.
August 2003. Same experience as in the year 2005.
September 2002. Language course in S. Petersbourg, Russia.
July-August 2002. Au-pair job in a family with 2 children in Lichfield, UK.
1999/2000. Exchange student (with AFS) for a school-year in Globe, Arizona, USA.

WORK EXPERIENCE

TRANSLATION
Language pairs:
English > Italian (200,000 translated words)
Russian > Italian
Italian > English

Three years experience in the following fields:
IT (both sw and hw, printers and routers mostly)
Videogames and online betting
Tourism
Medicine
Contracts, certificates, CVs
Cosmetics
Marketing
HR
Technical manuals
E-commerce
Psychology


INTERPRETING
- Simultaneous interpreter (English and Italian) for a conference on the dental industry in Italy, for a conference on cooperation for development for Doctors with Africa CUAMM, during the show of the Italian hair stylist Angelo Seminara in Florence and during the steering committee meeting of Net@work, supported by ISFOL and the European Social Fund, Rome October 2010.
- Consecutive interpreter (English into Italian) at a training for hair care and skincare products, at an international conference on the Balkan region (Italian into English).
- Liaison interpreter, at the Simac and Tanning Tech fair in Bologna (Italian <> Russian) October 2010, during a business meeting in the pharmaceutical machinery sector (English and Italian), at the Cosmopack fair in Bologna (Italian, English and Russian), in a workshop for a group of Italia oil and wine producers (Italian and Russian), in a workshop for a group of Italian small manufacturing companies, Community interpreting at Forlì’s (Italy) police station. (Russian and Italian), during the opening of a sport centre. (Russian and Italian).


OTHER
May 2008 – January 2010: Italian language teacher in Dante Alighieri, school of Italian for foreigners, in Siena, Italy.

COMPUTER SKILLS
Microsoft Windows 7, Explorer, Office 2007, Wordfast, Trados 2007 and 2009.

INTERESTS
Interests in playing music. Clarinet. Attended 4 years of music school.
Member of a theatre company.