freelance translator
PROFESSIONAL INFO:
Language combinations:
1.Ukrainian <> German
2.Ukrainian < > English
3.English <> German
Native language: German, Ukrainian
Address: Berliner Platz 1       21680 Stade
Born: 26.08.1968 in Stade/Germany
Output: from 2500 words daily, up to 3500 words for rush jobs
Software: SDL Trados 2007, SDL Trados 2009, SDL Passolo 2009
Experience: 22 years
WORK EXPERIENCE:
1990-2000 freelance translator at a number of translation agencies both in Ukraine and abroad
July 1996 – April 2000 translator of English and German at “CPT-Ukraine”(pipe construction and installation)
Responsibilities: translation of commercial and technical texts, including contracts, manuals, legal documentation, etc.
April 2000 – June 2004 Freelance translator and reviewer at Publishing House “Family club”, Foreign literature department.
Responsibilities: translation of books and writing reviews.
June 2004 – Dec. 2007 Translator at “Steps Film Studio”
Responsibilities: translation of film subtitles.
March 2008 – October 2009 Translator at translation agency “Aspect-Ukraine”
Responsibilities: translation of various texts, mainly contracts, agreements, foundation documents, certificates, patents, tenders, articles, manuals, marketing research, etc.
October 2009 - present Freelance translator at several publishing houses, f. e. GEO (Ger-Eng), Eksmo (Eng-Ger), etc.
EDUCATION:
M.A. Translation of English and German,
Foreign languages school
Kharkiv National Karazin University, Ukraine
M.A. Media & Communications, 
Sociology school
Kharkiv National Karazin University, Ukraine
FIELDS OF SPECIALIZATION:
TECHICAL
Operation and maintenance manuals (consumer electronics, car service, machine tools, generators, engines, medical equipment, ship and aeronautics navigation, air conditioning, etc.)
User guides
Catalogs and descriptions of equipment
Technical articles
FINANCIAL Contacts
Agreements
Foundation documents, privatization plans
Certificates, licenses
Patents, tenders
Feasibility studies and reports
Business and auditor’s reports
Financial reports
Instructions, protocols, investment conditions, insurances, etc.

GENERAL Marketing materials, advertisements and e-Commerce (transcreation skills)
Travel guides and articles
Health and body care, including cosmetics
Catalogs of goods
Articles and general science, including history, psychology, religion, politics, tourism, sports, news, food, fashion, diets etc.
Literature translations, reviews, subtitles, synopsis, scenarios, etc.
IT &web 
Help-files
Websites
RPG, including dialogs, character and scenario descriptions and criticism
Software descriptions, user guides and other computer literature.
SOME RECENT JOBS: 
Audio tour guides (for AntennaAudio) to exhibitions: Canossa 1077 (Paderborn); Holy Roman Empire (Magdeburg); Convent of Zarrentin; Sebastiano del Piombo (Staatliche Museen Berlin, Gem?ldegalerie; Lucas Cranach. An Artist in the Age of Dürer, Titian, Metsys (Palais de Beaux Arts, Brussels); Folkwang Museum, Permanent Collection Stage II (Essen) Humboldt Forum Project (Altes Museum, Berlin); Emil Nolde Graphik (Nolde-Stiftung, Berlin);Gerhard Richter (Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin);Ittingen Charterhouse (Kartause Ittingen, Thurgau, Switzerland); Open Air Museum Vogtsbauernhof (Antenna Audio)
Website for TownFence (TownTalker Media AG)
Ute Engel: Worcester Cathedral: An Architectural History (Phillimore 2007)
Klaus Honnef: Josef Heinrich Darchinger: Wirtschaftswunder: Germany after the war (Taschen 2008)
Hans Christian Adam: Eadweard Muybridge, The Human and Animal Locomotion Photographs (Taschen 2010)
Computer programs:word, exel, powerpoint
INTERNSHIPS: EF Boston Language Schools 2001 (certificate)
EF Bournemouth Language Schools 2001(certificate)
EF corporate Cambridge Professional English certificate 2010
IHK Diplom staatl.anerkannte Wirtschaftsübersetzerin(certified statutory translator)