Translations to Croatian from English/German/French

TRANSLATIONS 2 CROATIAN
from: English/German/French
Résumé: Ivana Bjelac

Education

University of Zagreb(Sep. 72-Jun. 76) B.A. in English Language and Literature
Extensive linguistic courses (translation, writing, editing)

Special Training:

- GERMAN :eight years of formal studies , five years of professional translation
- FRENCH: seven years of formal studies, six years of professional translation
- Courses in computer skills (WinWord, Excel)

Native Language: CROATIAN

Professional History
Sep. 78 - Oct. 95

Translator/secretary to attorney at law (correspondence in English & French)

Translator & secretary at the publishing house (correspondence with publishing firms in USA and GB)

Translator/interpreter with the Nuclear Power Plant

Translator/Claims Officer with the Intl.Payments Dept. in a bank

Translator with the dentist equipment importing firm

Oct. 95 - present

Full-time Freelance Translator

Areas of Specialization

English/German/French to Croatian translation, proofreading and editing

Consumer and professional electronic

Scientific/Technical documentation (physics, engineering and various technical documents)

Piping, patents, petrochemistry, engineering, building construction, geology, machine tools

Marketing Literature (Brochures/Catalogs Instruction Manuals for all kinds of equipment).

For more complex or larger projects a skilled team of professionals is available I can also supply language-specific foreign fonts where applicable
For samples of my work, go to: 'samples', or write to: [email protected]

Computer Literacy

Windows 95

MS Office 97 (Word, Access, PowerPoint, Excel)

MS Works

Corel Draw

HTML

Recent Projects

Translation of the Educational Scientific Equipment Catalogue (physics, chemistry, biology, audio-visual)
Translations of User Manuals for welding systems protection equipment
English to Croatian translation of dentist lab apparatuses manual.
Multiple proofing jobs of manuals and catalogs for products ranging from surgery theatre equipment to educational scientific equipment.
English/German into Croatian translation of User's Handbook for Car Navigation System.
Translations of technical documentation for construction of landfill for solid wastes (English & German to Croatian)

Reference Literature & Software
Specialty Dictionaries

Dictionary of Electronics - English/Croatian (Logos 1991)
Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary, Ed.28 (Saunders)
Kettridge's Technical Dictionary- English/French, French/English (Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd)
Scientific and Technical Dictionary by Flood/West (Longman)
An ever-growing collection of online dictionaries and lexicons

General Dictionaries

Webster's New Collegiate Thesaurus (Springfield, MA: G. & C. Merriam, 1980)
English-Croatian Dictionary by R Filipovic (GZH 1980)
English Pictorial Dictionary (Oxford-Duden, 1997)

Other Resources

Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary CD ROM;
WordWeb 1.51;
Croatian Spellchecker & Grammar/Thesaurus (Batonzic, Ranilovic, Silic, 1996)
CROkonvert (fonts converter by Ratko Gospodnetic)

Equipment

Hardware

PC 166MMX, 32 MB RAM, HD 3,2 GB
PC Celeron 366 MHz, 64 MB RAM; HD 6,4 GB
Modem 56K, with 24 hrs access to e-mail/Internet;
Artec View Station AM12EP;
HP DeskJet 850;
Iomega Zip drive

Software

MS Windows 98
MS Office 97 Professional Ed.
Netscape Communicator 4.5
TransMac v.3.4

(converting PC < > Mac files)

CorelDraw 8
Recognita Plus 3.2
Acrobat Reader 4.0

Rates : sensible, acceptable, negotiable

[email protected]
[email protected]

Velika Draga 6
10291 Prigorje Brdoveèko
Croatia (Hrvatska)

Phone: 385 1 3392 689

Fax: 385 1 3357 805

SMS: 385 98 306 767