Paola Carunchio

Via Rivetta 18 - 13040 Saluggia (VC) - Italy

Mobile: (+39) 348.8643270

Email: paolacarunchio@libero.it

Website: https://sites.google.com/site/paolacarunchio/

Personal details

Nationality: Italian

Date and place of birth: 15.10.1980, Vercelli

Translations (since 2006)

Languages EN > IT; DE > IT

Fields: Websites, Technical Userguides, Business, Catalogues.

Translations for: E.N.A.I.P. Regione Piemonte, TFF Torino Film Festival, IPG Photonics.

Experience in Global Target translation agency (manuals, technical, catalogues).

 Employment history

January 2011 – November 2011 Translator for TFF - Turin Film Festival, Catalogue (http://www.torinofilmfest.org/).

September 2010 – today  Private Italian teacher for an English scholar.

January 2008 - today  Global Target Translation agency in Turin. 

January 2007 - today  Freelance Translator.

November 2006 – March 2007  In-house translator on short term contract for ENAIP Regione Piemonte (http://www.enaip.piemonte.it/).

Education

March 2010 today Graduate Degree in Translation, School of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Turin (English and German).

February 2010 Graduated from the BA Degree, School of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Turin, 107/110 (English and German). Thesis title: "The Russian Harlequin in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness" (English Literature). 

Foreign Languages

Native language: Italian. 

Proficient: English, German. 

Intermediate: French. 

Basic: Russian.

Time spent in Malta, Berlin, Lyme Regis, and London can be considered experience of foreign language practice (both holidays and study/work  travels).

Courses 

2010 Trados: seminar held by professors of the University of Turin.

2009 Dejà Vu: seminar  held by AITI (Italian Association for Translators and Interpreters)

2008 "The Job of Translators": seminar held by AITI (Italian Association for Translators and Interpreters)

 IT skills Good knowledge of Microsoft Office, Outlook, basic HTML, Dejà Vu, Trados.