TRANSLATIONS EN>IT (from British/American English into Italian)
ITALIAN PROOFREADING - EDITING
LANGUAGES:
Italian (native speaker)
English (British English and American English)
Spanish
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND:
1987 - Graduate at the State University of Florence - Modern Foreign Languages and Literature
specialised in English as first foreign language, Spanish as second one
1980 - High school degree at Liceo Scientifico
PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND
- 1990/2001 - Freelance translator of:
- environment/sport/society magazines (featuring translation and abstracts from magazines such as "Time", "Newsweek", "National Geographic", etc.)
- marketing (company profiles, newsletters, etc.)
- publicity/advertisement (press releases, interviews )
- catalogues (exhibitions, products explanation, etc.)
- contracts (between Italian fashion houses and foreign Clients/Distributors)
- commercial correspondence (letters, faxes, basic administration, etc.)
- 1987/2001 - Import/export consultant in fashion business, operating in the following fields:
- translations EN>IT and IT>EN of exclusivity, distribution, franchise agreements,
- translations EN>IT and IT>EN of press releases, catalogues, brochures
- commercial correspondence in English and translation into Italian,
- English/Italian and Italian/English interpreter during commercial negotiations and meetings
- 1984/85 - sales assistant in leading fashion shop in Florence,
dealing with foreign Clients and Suppliers
- 1979/80 - Part-time collaboration with the Italian newspaper "La Stampa"
(typing, proofreading and simple translations)
TRANSLATION AREAS AND EXPERTISE
- books (narrative and essays), literary texts in general
- commercial contracts (franchising, exclusivity, distribution, etc.)
- environment, tourism, society
- marketing and publicity
- various
SOFTWARE
- Windows 95
- Office 97 (Word, Excel, Power Point, Access)
- Internet Explorer
- Outlook Express
- Norton Antivirus 2000
- Acrobat Reader