Contact Information | TOP |
Address: Velika Draga 6, Prigorje Brdovecko, Zagreb County 10291, Croatia
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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 Preferred E-mail of Ivana Bjelac: send a messageWebsite: http://www.inet.hr/~ibjelac/
Working Language Pairs | TOP |
English > Croatian, German > Croatian, English > Serbian, Spanish > Croatian, French > Croatian
Language locales: Serbian (Cyrillic) - Serbia
Localization, Other, Proofreading, Teaching, Translation Specialization | TOP |
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 | TOP |
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
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
1978-1998: In-house translator/interpreter in various companies
1998-Present: Full time freelance translator
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
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,
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 HDZTP (Croatian Association of Scientific and Technical Translators)
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