Ivana Bjelac

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Contact Information

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Address: Velika Draga 6, Prigorje Brdovecko, Zagreb County 10291, Croatia  (Show map )
Phone: +385 1 3392-689, Fax: +385 1 3357-805, Cell Phone: +385 98 363-239

Joined: Aug. 25, 2002, last update Dec. 21, 2008
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Website: http://www.inet.hr/~ibjelac/

Working Language Pairs

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English > Croatian, German > Croatian, English > Serbian, Spanish > Croatian, French > Croatian

Language locales: Serbian (Cyrillic) - Serbia

Services

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Localization, Other, Proofreading, Teaching, Translation

Specialization

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User Guides for professional and consumer electronic (hardware components, printers) , telecommunications (mobile/wireless phones)
o Manuals & catalogs for machine tools (air conditioners, forestry & gardening tools), household appliances,
o Promotional booklets and leaflets
o Product Specifications ( food , pharmaceuticals, electrical)
o Automotive
o Documents for Immigration Offices (personal documents, instructions for immigrants.)
o Ddescriptions of drugs for patients (PILs)

Subject Areas

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Advertising, Chemical Technology and Related Industries, Child Care, Computer and Information Sciences, Culinary Arts, Design and Applied Arts, Engineering, Environmental Science, Food Sciences, General, Mechanical Engineering, Medicine - Medical Technology, Medicine - Occupational Health and Industrial Hygiene, Medicine - Pharmacology, Medicine - Public Health Education and Promotion, Metallurgical Engineering, Photographic Arts, Photography, Physical Education Teaching and Coaching, Telecommunications, Tourism and Travel, Transportation

Background

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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

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

• Telecommunications
• Electrical engineering
• Computer software and hardware
• Automobiles

PROJECTS I TRANSLATED

• Automotive-workshop and user manuals (Saab, Chevrolet, Opel,
• Volvo)
• Advertising-Promotion (Oracle, Epson)
• Product Specifications ( food , pharmaceuticals)
• Chemical and Hazardous Materials (MSDS)
• Electronics - professional and consumer (Raytheon, Sweex, HP,
• Zebra, Kenwood)
• Telecommunications - mobile/wireless phones (Samsung,
• Panasonic, Westtec)
• Tools Machinery Manufacturing/Assembly (Atlas Copco, Volvo
• VCE, Hydrema, Ridgid Tools, ESAB Welding Equipment AB, Walter)
• Forestry & gardening tools (Oregon, Husqvarna, Jonsered, Viking,
• John Deere)
• Medical devices, records, questionnaires (Olympus, C.O.R.E., Spacelabs Medical Data)
• Pharmaceutical/Clinical Trial /PILs and descriptions for drugs for
• patients (GlaxoSmithKline, Telik, Inc, Baxter)
• Documents for Immigration Offices (instructions for immigrants)
• Human recources questionnaires (Hilton, Marriott, Intercontinental hotel groups)

EDUCATION

SPECIAL TRAINING

CV (156 Kb, English)

Software

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• 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,

Hardware

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OS: Windows XP Pro, Windows 98
PC PentiumPro 1300 MHz, 64 MB RAM, 20 GB HDD,
PC Celeron 366 MHz, 64 MB RAM, 8GB HDD
PC 166MMX, 32 MB RAM; 3,5 GB HDD;
ISDN fax/modem 56K,
ADSL - 24 hrs access to Internet/e-mail/FTP;
Iomega Zip drive; CD-RW Drive Atapi, HP DeskJet 850
Scanner Artec View Station AM12E Plus

Membership

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HDZTP (Croatian Association of Scientific and Technical Translators)