Maria Antonietta Antonella Ricagno

 CURRICULUM VITAE

PERSONAL DETAILS

Name/Surname: Maria Antonietta RICAGNO

Date of birth: 24.2.1962

Place of birth: Alessandria - Italy

Nationality: Italian

Mobile telephone: +34 603657941

NIF/VAT no.: Y1425623-M

E-mail addresses:

ricagno.technical.translations@gmail.com; mariaantonietta.ricagno@gmail.com;

Web site: www.antotranslation.com

Skype: antonella54461

MSN: transjob@hotmail.it

ITI profile page

Proz.com profile page

TranslatorsCafè profile page

Facebook profile page

My cultural on-line magazine

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS

• DEGREE IN MODERN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES – (ENGLISH - SPANISH), “Università degli Studi di Torino”; mark: 105/110; graduation thesis title: “E.M. Forster: Lo spazio narrativo” (E. M. Forster: the Narrative Space);

• University courses abroad (e.g. UNED – Denia -Alicante – Spain)

• Several seminars, worshops and on-line courses and webinars for CPD

Software and Hardware:

• Use of PC (Office 2003 (Word, PowerPoint, FrameMaker, PageMaker, Excel) (Linux – Ubuntu); Use of MacBook; CAT tools: SDL Trados 2007 – SDL Trados Studio 2009 on a professional basis.

• ADSL Internet connection, laser printer, scanner, Pendrives, PC (Windows XP Professional, Linux Ubuntu), MacBook; External back-up unit; LAN and ftp area.

Memberships:

• Member of the Experts Register (Technical Translators and Interpreters) of the Chamber of Commerce of Torino.

• MIL of IOL (Institute of Linguists)

• Qualified Member of ITI (Institute of Translation and Interpreting)

• Member of ASETRAD

• Member of IAPTI

LANGUAGES SPOKEN AND LEVEL OF KNOWLEDGE

Italian: Mother-tongue

English: Fluent/ written-spoken

Spanish: Fluent/ written-spoken

Work Languages: English / Italian /Spanish

Services offered:

Translation;

Proofreading;

Proofreading by external translators if required

Consulting by Medicine Doctors, Veterinary Doctors, Engineers in case of specialistic documents (terminology check)

Average daily output: 2.500 wds

Standard rate for translation: 0,08€/source word; =,07€/source word

Hourly rate: 25,00€

Areas of specialisation:

Engineering; Electronics; Automotive; Mechanical; Telecommunications; Software Localization, Medicine, Medical and Laboratory equipment.

No financial.

WORK EXPERIENCE

I started as a part-time freelance translator in 1987, in addition to teaching English. Afterwards, I decided to dedicate my professional life to translation full-time and began to specialize in some technical fields, including software localization.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

During my spare time I like compiling glossaries and writing articles about translation in general, Linguistics and the freelance translator world. Some of them can be read at www.contesti.eu (my cultural online magazine on which I also publish a section dedicated to Linguistics), on the IOL and ITI bulletins and some on-line translation portals; more info and updates on my ongoing activity at www.antotranslation.com, an interactive website based on Plone where colleagues and readers can register and also collaborate with articles and news about translation.

I have recently published an e-book guide for freelance translators (see www.antotranslation.com) and more articles are in preparation. The guide is currently in Italian only, but English and Spanish versions will be published as well.

I also write articles about translation for the ITI Bulletin and The IOL The Linguist: my last article for freelance translators was published there on the February 2011 issue.

CPD

The complete list of CPD activities can be found at the CPD page of my Proz.com profile page.

• PageMaker
• PowerPoint
• SDLX Translation Suite
• TRADOS
• Windows XP; Office 2003; CAT tools: Trados; SDLX Lite; FrameMaker 7.0; Pagemaker; Excel, Access, PowerPoint
  Linux Ubuntu; Trados Studio 2009