Diana Ciupe

WORK EXPERIENCE

Since 2002:
Freelance translator and interpreter for private and legal entities,
Romanian and foreign employers, European Parliament, state institutions
Since July 2006 :
Foreign trade co-ordinator – in-house translator for  SC GHIMAR SRL, woodworking machinery producer

EDUCATION

October 2006 – July 2007:
“Babeş-Bolyai” University, Faculty of European Studies and International Relations and the Pitagora Institute (Brescia, Italy)
MA degree in High Performance Management
October 2001 – July 2005:
“Babeş-Bolyai” University, Faculty of Letters
BA in Philology (Major: Italian language and literature – Minor: English language and literature)
October 2004 – April 2005:
Università degli Studi di Padova, Faculty of Letters and Philosophy,
Erasmus scholarship – research for my degree thesis

PERSONAL SKILLS AND COMPETENCES

Romanian - mother tongue
Italian - reading, writing, speaking skills:excellent (C2)
English - reading, writing, speaking skills:excellent (C2)
French - reading, writing, speaking skills:basic (A2)

RELEVANT CERTIFICATES

Translator / Interpreter Authorisation for Italian and English, issued by the Ministry of Justice on 11 April 2006

FIELDS OF EXPERTISE IN TRANSLATION

Technical-engineering:
mechanics, electronics, motor vehicles, railway, electric machines, building industry, chemistry, vapour generators, photography, woodworking industry
Legal, Economics and Business:
contracts, leases, balance sheets, business reports, statutes, work ethics, agreements, business correspondence, tenders, insurance policies
General Medical Texts:
short descriptive texts, medical prescriptions, medical insurance contracts
Linguistics and Literature:
nonfiction and fiction

IMPORTANT TRANSLATION PROJECTS

ITALIAN > ROMANIAN, 10.000 words
Instructions manual for precision bench mitre saw

ROMANIAN > ENGLISH, 15.000 words
Instructions Manual for Oscillation Mortiser

ROMANIAN > ENGLISH, 10.000 words
Instructions Manual for Double End Tenoning Machine

ENGLISH > ROMANIAN, 15.000 words
Installation Instructions Manual and Storage and Maintenance Manual for Rubber Expansion Joints

ITALIAN > ROMANIAN, 13.000 words
Instructions Manual for Pig Slaughtering Line

ITALIAN > ROMANIAN, 35.000 words
User’s and maintenance manuals for rolling machines, driers and numerical control serigraphy machines

ROMANIAN > ITALIAN, 30.000 words
Project for city and road works

ITALIAN > ROMANIAN, 200.000 words
Foundation course on using numerical control machine tools – comprising jargons related to mechanical technologies, IT, numerical control, technical drawing etc

ITALIAN > ROMANIAN, 250.000 words
Technical-economic offers related to the woodworking industry and user’s manuals for equipment in this sector

SOFTWARE

Windows XP Professional
MS Office 2003, 2007
Trados 2007, SDLX
Adobe PageMaker 7
Adobe FrameMaker 8
Adobe Acrobat 8 pro
Frontpage 2003

Mozilla 5, Opera 10.01, Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2009, Yahoo Messenger 10 Beta, Skype

DAILY OUTPUT

1800 - 2000 words

RESOURCES ON CD-ROM

• CAMBRIDGE ADVANCED LEARNER’S DICTIONARY
• COLLINS COBUILD ENGLISH USAGE FOR LEARNERS
• LONGMAN DICTIONARY OF CONTEMPORARY ENGLISH
• MACMILLAN ENGLISH DICTIONARY FOR ADVANCED LEARNERS
• OXFORD ADVANCED LEARNER’S DICTIONARY
• OXFORD LEARNER’S THESAURUS
• OXFORD COLLOCATIONS DICTIONARY
• OXFORD PHRASEBUILDER GENIE
• CAMBRIDGE GRAMMAR OF ENGLISH
• ZANICHELLI ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS (ITALIAN AND ENGLISH) DICTIONARY
• HOEPLI: NUOVO MAROLLI GRANDE DIZIONARIO TECNICO INGLESE
• HOEPLI: TECHNICAL DICTIONARY ENGLISH-ITALIAN / ITALIAN-ENGLISH
• DIZIONARIO GARZANTI HAZON DI INGLESE 2009
• DIZIONARIO GARZANTI DI BUSINESS ENGLISH
• DIZIONARIO DE MAURO PARAVIA
• ZANICHELLI IL GRANDE DIZIONARIO DEI PROVERBI ITALIANI
• DIZIONARIO GARZANTI DI ITALIANO 2006

• Adobe Acrobat
• OmegaT
• PageMaker
• PowerPoint
• SDLX Translation Suite
• TRADOS
• Wordfast