Vito Schiuma

VITO SCHIUMA

Interpreter and Translator

(English > Italian; German > Italian)

via Piave 39, 70010 Casamassima (Ba)

ITALY

Contact info:
Tel: +39 080/674093

MSN contact: pianovito@msn.com
Mobile: +39 348/0623281

Skype contact: vito.schiuma

Email: pianovito@yahoo.it

PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE

2006-2010 Freelance Translator and Interpreter for the language pairs: English/German > Italian

Cooperation with several translation agencies and translators all around the world.

            LATEST TRANSLATION PROJECTS

-         Elect. engineering: signal devices (German into Italian);

-         Pharmaceutics: Generika (German into Italian);

-         Tech. engineering: pumping systems (English into Italian);

-     Tech. engineering: bilge pumps (English into Italian);

-         Videogams: games for Wii and Xbox (German/English into Italian);

-         Chemical engineering: systems of water disinfection (German into Italian).

 -         Advertising Project: new electronic POS (German into Italian).

 -        Medical Project: The Anatomy of Memory, translation for an important journal (English into Italian).

-         Journalistic Translations: translation of some articles of an Art & Music Magazine (German into Italian).

EDUCATION

           2009______Master Degree in Technical Translation, Università di Bari (English/German summa cum laude);

              2008____ Conservatory Degree as Pianist at Conservatorio Piccinni di Bari;

           2007 _____Master in Interpretation and Translation at Fask Uni-Mainz Gutenberg Germersheim;

           2007_____ School of  Interpreters Degree, Bari (English- German, summa cum laude.);

                                        - simultaneous translation

                                        - merit scholarship granted by the German DAAD

                                        - merit scholarship (ISUIULM)

                                        - Abilities with Windows and Mac OS X

2004_____   Technical Institute for Foreign Language Correspondent Diploma

HONOURS AND QUALIFICATIONS

            2007______  Merit Scholarship granted by the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service)

          2006____ Merit Scholarship as best student of the year (ISUIULM)

            2006______  Highest certification at Goethe-Institut  in Düsseldorf (German)

2004______  One week German course in Munich (Goethe-Institut)

2002______  Trinity Exam

Attendance at “Niccolò Piccinni” Conservatory in Bari (10^th year)

COMPUTER SKILLS AND CAT-Tools

• Always available (broadband connection), reliable and punctual.

• Excellent computing skills, particularly word processing in documents of all formats including *.doc, *.ppt, *.xls, *.html, , *ttx, *.pdf, ect.

• Excellent computing skills, Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X as well.

• Adobe AcrobatAdobe, Photoshop, PowerPoint, Word 2007, Excel 2007, iWorks '09 (Mac)

• CAT-Tools:

TRADOS 2007 Freelance, Trados Studio 2009 and Multiterm, Across v5.0, MemoQ, Alchemy Publisher, Idiom, OmegaT...

• Across
• Adobe Acrobat
• Idiom WorldServer
• MemoQ
• OmegaT
• PASSOLO
• PowerPoint
• SDLX Translation Suite
• TRADOS
• Wordfast