Maija Kepule

Personal information

Name

Maija Ķepule

Address

Kalsnavas 6–1, Riga, LV–1035, Latvia

Telephone

(+371) 29164195

Nationality

Latvian

Date of birth

09.07.1971

Work experience

October 2005 onwards

Freelance Translator / Language Specialist

Long-term cooperation with several agencies on IT (PCs and networking), telecommunications (one of the Europe’s leading mobile service providers) and industrial machinery (typography equipment, generators) translations as well as QA, DTP and evaluation of test translations.

January 1998 –
May 2008

Managing Localization Specialist / Team Leader

Tilde Ltd.

Vienības gatve 75a,
Riga, LV–1004,
Latvia

Manager of Localization Division: planning, management, accounting and evaluation of employees’ work, mentoring of employees, project management and supervision.

Localization Specialist: localization of PC software program (for the 3 biggest software developers) and mobile phone (for 5 world leading mobile phone manufacturers) user interfaces, games, documentation, online help systems, user guides, marketing materials and Web sites, QA, DTP, technical writing.

May 2003 –
December 2005

Freelance Translator, DTP Specialist

Egmont Latvija Ltd.

Biķernieku 1, Riga,
LV–1039, Latvia

Translation and DTP of books. 7 books published.

June 1993 –
January 1998

Layout Designer

Dadzis Ltd.

- Design and layouts of books, magazines and newspapers

- Computer graphics and image processing

February 1990 – September 1995

Assistant of Associate Professor, Programmer

University of Latvia

- Programming of system for processing and analysis of data obtained by students in laboratory works in Electrotechnics

- Programming of test system in Electrotechnics for testing and analysis of students’ knowledge

Education and training

2003 onwards

Goethe–Institute Riga

German language

1989–1993

University of Latvia

Computer Science

1977–1989

Riga Secondary School No. 50
(currently: Riga Centre Humanitarian Gymnasium)

Extended studies of English language from grade 1. Several subjects learned in English in secondary school (including technical translation).

Personal skills
and competences

Mother tongue

Latvian

Other languages

English

Russian

German

• Reading skills

Excellent

Excellent

Basic

• Writing skills

Excellent

Excellent

Basic

• Verbal skills

Excellent

Good

Basic

Technical skills
and competences

Competent both with PC and Macintosh.

Expert knowledge of the following software: MS Office Professional, Trados, MS Helium, MS Localization Studio, IBM TranslationManager, SDLX, RoboHELP, HTML Help Workshop, FrameMaker, QuarkXPress, PageMaker, Adobe Photoshop, Macromedia Fireworks, CorelDRAW, Corel Photo-Paint, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Acrobat.

Highly experienced in using a lot of different specialized not widely known localization tools of different customers, as well as image and video processing and DTP tools.