Pascal Zotto

C U R R I C U L U M      V I T A E




I. Personal data

    



Family name    Zotto

First name    Pascal Gianpietro Georges

Gender    M

Born on    22 March 1977
in    Luxembourg

Nationality    Luxembourger

Civil status    Single

Address    Reindorfgasse 28/2
    AT-1150 Vienna

Mobile    +43 (0) 699 1133 6720
Fax    +43 (0)1 2533 0338 238

Driving Licence    B


II. Education

1) Secundary education    School
    
    1989 - 1996    Lycée Classique Diekirch (L)
    1996 - 1997    Institut Notre-Dame Séminaire de Bastogne (B)
    1997 - 1999    Bundeshandelsakademie und
        Bundeshandelsschule I (A)
    1999 - 2001    Abendakademie für Wirtschaftsberufe (A)
    02.10.2001    A-levels

2) University    Vienna
    
    2001 – 2007    Translating & Interpreting (DE-EN-SP)
    1st February 2005    1. Diploma (DE-EN-SP)
 
3) Languages    
        Arabic    A1 (1 semester)
    Dutch    B2
    English    C2
    Cambridge First Certificate: Grade A
    Certificates In English for International         Business and Trade: Pass with distinction         (Reading, writing, listening)
    French    mother tongue
    German    mother tongue
    Italian    C1
    Japanese    B1 (4 semesters)
    Luxemburgish    mother tongue
    Spanish    C1

4) Informatics
    1) Operating systems:    Windows 3.11
        Windows 95 (update)
        Windows 98
        Windows NT
        Windows XP Home / Professional
        Windows 7 Home Premium / Professional
        Dos 6.22
        Linux SuSe

    2) Word processing:    Ms-Works II
        Word Perfect 6.0
        Dragon Naturally Speaking 11 - Premium
        Omnipage

    3) CAT-Tools:    Trados 5.2
        SDL Trados 2007
        SDLX Studio
        SDL Trados Studio 2009/2011 (Pro)
        MS Quint
        MS Term Studio
        Idiom Workbench
        Passolo
        LocStudio

    4) Data processing:    D-Base
        MS SQL-Manager
        MS SQL Server Express

    5) Office packages:    MS-Office 95/97/2003/2007
        Openoffice
    
    6) Programming    HTML 4 (learned by myself)
        ASP (learned by myself)
        PHP (learned by myself)
        SQL (learned by myself)
        Dreamweaver
        Phase5
 

5) Special courses
    
    1) Secondary education    Business administration & marketing
        Accounting
        Law & economics

    2) University    Law & economics
        Spanish law
        Terminology: Architecture, Engineering, Natural             sciences, Medicine, Humanities & arts
    3) Other    Insurance broker Training (2000 – 2001)



III. Professional Experience

Summer jobs:

    Municipality Boevange/Attert (L)        August 1993
    Bank of Bermuda (L)    July 1997
    SOMEBA Mondorf les Bains (L)    August 1998
    International Bank of Japan as
    IT-Manager (L)    July - August 1999

Full time jobs:

    Salzburg Sightseeing Tours (A)    Sept. 1999 – Sept. 2000
    Condor Speditions- Transport-
    Ges.m.b.H. & Co. KG (A)    September 2000 – July 2001
    Royal Tours (A)    April 2002 – December 2002

Other:

    Member of local fire brigade    1993-1997
    Instructor of youth fire brigade    1994-1997

Self-employed:

    Founded an e-commerce shop
    (www.pet-needs.com)    11 March 2004

Founded a translating agency    8 April 2005
(www.translating-it.com)


IV. Hobbies

Ballroom Dancing
Cooking
Video & Computer games (PS1, PS2, PC, NES, Nintendo, Gameboy)
MMORPG (World of Warcraft, Perfect World, Runes of Magic, Dragonica, Warrior Epic…)
Badminton
Cycling
Rollerblading
Programming
 
V. References as Freelancer:

French > Luxembourgish

• IT - Software localisation : Mobile GPS App
• Marketing - Advertisement : Brochures
• Medicine:
• Nutrition
• Product labeling

German > Luxembourgish

• Engineering manuals
• Marketing - Advertisement: Radio Ads
• Meteorology

English > Luxembourgish

• Chemical engineering – Security specifications
• Environnement – Recycling & waste disposal : KCI
• General Texts
• IT – Software localisation: Microsoft (IE9 / Hotmail / Calendar / Windows 8 / Silver / SkyDrive / setting up style guides for Luxembourgish)
• Legal : Microsoft (End user agreements)
• Marketing - Market research
• Medical engineering & instruments
• Medicine

English > Luxembourgish

• Marketing - Market research

French > German

• Astrology
• Energy
• Engineering - Technical manuals
• Erotic content +18
• IT – Hardware
• IT – Software localisation : mobile phone app
• Marketing – Advertisement
• Medicine: medical congresses: press releases (neurology, venerology & dermatology, gastroenterology)
• Nuclear energy - handling safety
• Tourism
• Transport & logistics
 
Italian > German

• Marketing - Market research : Pirelli
• Medicine

English > German

• Chemical engineering – Security specifications
• Engineering – Technical
• Financial reports
• General texts
• IT – Hardware
• Marketing – Market research
• Medical engineering & instruments
• Medicine
• Official speeches : Archbishop of Dublin
• Religious texts : Archbishop of Dublin
• Security devices : Samsung
• Tourism

German > French

• Engineering – Technical
• Marketing – Advertisement : Advantage Communication Partners
• Marketing – Market research
• Medicine
• Railroads
• Tourism : Tourotel Mariahilf Wien

German > English

• Engineering – Technical : Kraus Betriebsausstattung und Fördertechnik GmbH
• General texts : Pet-Needs, Drinkomat
• Legal – Contracts : DAYvid smart producing GmbH
• Marketing – Advertisement : Tourotel Mariahilf Wien
• Medicine
• Nutrition : Labor Reiner


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