16 years of experience in localization, technical translation and proofreading.
In business since 1995.


Education
Master’s Degree (Mgr.), Faculty of Mathematics and Physics,
Specialization: Informatics - Databases and IS, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, 1990 - 1995.

Professional Experience
1995-2006 - Translation, review and quality assurance for many companies in telecommunications, software localization and translation of hardware documentation, automotive industry, CRM systems. Able to comply with Microsoft Vendor Kit requests and terminology. Multiplatform experience (Windows, OS/2, Unix...).

- Over 2 million translated words in SW and Help localization:
Printer Drivers/Tools (Lexmark, Canon, Epson, HP, Panasonic - inkjets/laser)
CRM systems and DB (CODA, Siebel, SuperOffice, PeopleTools, Oracle)
Operation Systems (Windows, IBM OS/2, MS Office)
Digital camera firmware&doc (Nikon, Canon)
Other

- Over 1 million translated words - automotive industry and MOTORCYCLES (Renault, Ford, Cummins, Volvo Trucks, Kawasaki - technical documentation, marketing and service manuals) and other technical translations - Mobile/Cellular (Motorola, Siemens, Sony), HW/infrastructure (APC, Philips)

- Several linguistic and functional testing workshops in the USA for IBM and Lexmark. Project manager of multilingual (Eastern European languages) projects.
- Member of Czechlocalizers team, able to coordinate and manage large projects sucessfully.
- Reviewer and senior coordinator on QA procedures.
- DTP (FrameMaker) and programming (C++, Internet) skills, markup languages skills.

1999-2001 - Teacher of Internet courses (Internet for Beginners, Internet for Advanced Users, Website Architecture). Author of "Driving License for Internet" guide

References available upon request.

Translation Output
Approx 3.000 words per day - English-to-Czech translations, proofreading and editing. Deliverable formatting according to the specification, maintaining original layout, pre-print preparation.