Ivana Bjelac

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

• Native speaker of Croatian
• B.A. Degree in English Literature and Linguistics
• Excellent command of English, both written and spoken
• Extensive experience both in translation and proofreading

RELATED EXPERIENCE

• 1999 present     Freelance translator
• 1983 1995         in-house translator/interpreter in several banks in Zagreb
• 1980 1981         in-house translator/interpreter at Nuclear power plant in construction
• 1978 1980         in-house translator/interpreter at a publishing company in Zagreb
• 1978                 Tour guide with the Tourist Agency "Atlas"

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Medical (protocols, manuals, records, questionnaires),

Pharmaceutical (patient information leflets (PILs) and descriptions for drugs for patients),

Automotive (workshop and user manuals),

Electrical (household appliances, machine tools,)

Advertising/Marketing (Promotional booklets and leaflets for food, household appliances, electrical),

Chemical (MSDS),

IT (telecommunications and networking),

Personal (documents and correspondence, documents for Immigration Offices)

PROJECTS I TRANSLATED

• Manuals for medical instruments, protocols, records, questionnaires (ABBOT, General Electric Healthcare, Olympus, Dröger Medical, C.O.R.E., Spacelabs Medical Data, Baxter)
• Pharmaceutical/Clinical Trials /PILs and descriptions for drugs for patients (Q-med, GlaxoSmithKline, Telik Inc., )
• Chemicals and Hazardous Materials, MSDS (Dow Biocides, BIG)
• Automotive-workshop and user manuals (Saab, Chevrolet, Opel, Volvo, Renault, Citroen) 
• Tools Machinery Manufacturing/Assembly (Atlas Copco, Volvo VCE, Hydrema, Ridgid Tools, ESAB Welding Equipment AB, Walter GmbH)
• Forestry & gardening tools (Oregon, Husqvarna, Jonsered, Viking, John Deere)
• Electronics - professional and consumer (HP, Lexmark, Zebra, Brady, Sweex, Kenwood, Raytheon)
• Advertising / marketing (Oracle, Epson, )
• IT & Telecom (Oracle, HP, Kenwood, Samsung, Panasonic, Westtec)
• Documents for Immigration Offices (instructions for immigrants)
• Human resources questionnaires (Hilton, Marriott, Intercontinental hotel )

EDUCATION

High School: Technics-engineering

College: BA English & German Literature and Linguistics, University of Zagreb
 

SPECIAL TRAINING

Extensive 3-year course on translation

GERMAN: 10 years of formal studies, 8 years of professional translation

FRENCH: seven years of formal studies six years of professional translation

LATIN: four years of formal studies
 

• Adobe Acrobat
• Adobe InDesign
• Déjà Vu
• PageMaker
• PowerPoint
• STAR Transit
• TRADOS
• Wordfast
• MS Office XP Pro, FTP clients, Adobe Acrobat 8.0 for PDF output, Corel PhotoPaint,