Mina Di Stefano

Technical Translator and Writer

Education and training

June 2008: Master’s degree in Technical Translation and Writing (one year course) - University of L'Aquila 

July 2007: Degree in Mediazione linguistica e comunicazione interculturale (Applied Languages) - University of L’Aquila

July 2006: 30 hour course in Technical and Scientific Terminology and Translation - University of L’Aquila

July 2003: School-leaving certificate - Liceo linguistico “Saffo”, Roseto degli Abruzzi, Italy

Work experience

June 2008 – to present: Freelance translator from English and German into Italian

25 February 2008 to 07 April 2008: Trainee at Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS-INFN) - Translation from English into Italian of technical documents related to the Lifelong Learning Programme (LLP)

June 2007 to present: Private English teacher - self-employed

Personal skills and competences

Mother tongue(s)

Italian

Other language(s)

English: C1

German: B2

French: B1

Computer skills and competences

Operative Systems: good knowledge of Windows XP and Windows Vista.

Office: good knowledge of Microsoft Office Professional Edition 2003 (Word, Excel, Power Point, FrontPage) and Microsoft Office Professional Edition 2007 (Word, Excel, Power Point, Outlook, Publisher, OneNote).

Internet: thorough knowledge of browsers Internet Explorer 7.0 and Firefox 2.0; very good knowledge of Windows live (Mail, Messenger, Writer), Wordpress and Skype.

CAT (Computer-assisted Translation): good knowledge of Wordfast, Trados and Déjà vu.

Markup Languages: basic knowledge of HTML and XML.