Romuald Pawlikowski

TECHNICAL TRANSLATOR ENGLISH-POLISH

(full time)

LANGUAGE PAIRS
English (British) into Polish
English (American) into Polish
English (AUS/NZ) into Polish
(Polish mother tongue)
MAIN AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Automotive
Information Technology
Multimedia
Internet
Software/Hardware Localization
Technical Documents and Manuals
User Instructions
Web Development
OTHER AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Business Correspondence
Consumer Research
Finance/Economics
Geography
Intercultural Services
Management
Newsletters
Travel & Tourism 

EXPERIENCE

Feb 05                  Softphone/internet phone software localization

Feb 05 - Apr 05   Honda parts catalogue

Feb 05                 CanoScan User's Manual

Dec 03 - May 05  Xerox, Ricoh, Samsung printer setup applications and documentation localization

Nov 03 - Dec 04    Opel, Daewoo (GM) and SEAT service manuals

Aug 03 - Dec 04    Wacker construction equipment manuals

Sep 03 - May 05   Oce printer software and user's manuals

Sep 03 - May 05    Fellowes office equipment

Nov 03                   Siemens cell phone user's manual

Nov 03                   Translation of a training course on LeanSixSigma methods. Localization of PowerPoint presentations

Oct 03 -                Crown forklifts service and operation manuals, PageMaker 6.5 files (on going)

Jun, 03                 Wireless network adapter User manual (web pages)

May-Jun, 03         Translation of medicine leaflets database (72,000 words in XML)

Apr-May, 03         Banking and telecommunication billing software & documentation

Apr, 03                 Translation of medical diagnostic software documentation (for Siemens hardware)

Mar, 03                Translation of Nokia user’s manual

Feb-Mar, 03        Translation of Microsoft Project and Microsoft Visio on-line help

00-02
Programming for DomData Software & Consulting, Localization Department, creating translation support software. In charge of translating documentation for Ameritege, San Diego, USA. Translation and localization of Document Translator GUI.

Nov - Dec, 02
Contracted by Edustrada Sp. z o.o. to translate the Edumatic system, User’s Manual and several Web Based Training Courses

October, 02
Contracted by Bownie Global Solutions, Warsaw, Poland. Translated Microsoft MSDN Knowledge Base articles

August, 02
Dell computer system user's manuals translation.

April-June, 02
Translated documentation for credit card production process and other related documents.

November, 01
Localized TextPad.com Web site to Polish.

April, 01
Contracted by Helios Software Solutions, England. Localized TextPad 4.5 GUI and help files to Polish. (TextPad is a multipurpose editing program.)

1995-1997  
Contracted by Business Service Translating Office, Poznan
Types of documents translated:
Legal commercial contracts and commercial correspondence, technical documentation of food processing (for CPC "Amino", Poznan), and other technological processes, technical manuals, environment state regulations

1994
Translation of Isaac Asimov's "The Gods Themselves", ISBN 83-86211-83-0

EDUCATION

1990-1996

School of English, Adam Mickiewicz's University, Poznan, Master of Arts, majored in English

IT PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATES:

Since 1999 Microsoft Certified Professional in the following areas: Visual Basic desktop applications, Visual Basic distributed applications, designing and developing databases with MS SQL Server 7.0

OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

1996-2000 
teaching Business English at the University of Economics, Poznan, Poland

1996-2000
teaching Business English at the Banking College, Poznan, Poland

• Adobe Acrobat
• Déjà Vu
• PASSOLO
• PowerPoint
• SDLX Translation Suite
• TRADOS
• Wordfast
• DejaVu X, SDLX 2005 Elite, SDL Localization Suite 2005, WordFast, Trados Freelance 7.0, Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Pro, MS Office 2003, Open Office 2.0, Omnipage Pro 9.0, PASSOLO Translator's Edition, Alchemy Catalyst 5 Translator/Lite