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Expertise

Additional work areas: Engineering: (general) • Engineering: Mechanical/Automation&Robotics • European Union • General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters • Industry and Technology (general) • Law (general) • Manufacturing • Materials (Plastics, ) / Metallurgy • Medical (general) • Medical: Pharmaceuticals • Transportation / Transport / Shipping

Education

1996: Course in business German attended at "Goe­the-Institut" in Padua. Attainment of an acknowledged certificate ("Wirtschaftsdeutsch") issued in co-operation with the German-Italian Chamber of Commerce.

1995: Degree in Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures taken at Padua University with marks 110/110 cum laude.

• Four-year language: German.
• Three-year language: English.
• Two-year language: French.

1989: Diploma in Foreign Languages taken at "Luigi Einaudi" Technical Institute in Ba­dia Polesine (RO) with marks 60/60.

• Five-year languages: French and English.
• Three-year language: German.

Acknowledgements

• 1988: Scholarship granted by the Ministry of Education of the German Federal Republic, consisting in a one-month stay in Würzburg.

Experiences Abroad

• 1993: Three-month au-pair stay in a German family in Hamburg. Two-month course in German language and civilization attained at "Linguothek" Institute in Hamburg.
• 1988: One-month stay in Münsterschwarzach, in the surroundings of Würz­burg, as a guest in a German family. Course in German language and culture attained at "Egbert-Gymnasium" in Münsterschwarzach.

Job Experiences

1996 to date:

• Export Department employee for a Company manufacturing electronic components for the heating field, where I have been charged with the management of foreign market sales and business relations.
• Business and technical translator for the same Company and for partner companies dealing in different fields.

Main translation fields:

- technical (electronics and electromechanics): product data sheets, brochures, advertising material for exhibitions, technical specifications, product test reports and approval certificates issued by approval bodies, European standards and directives, study and research reports, patents;

- business and economics: sales correspondence (offers, order acknowledgements), sale contracts, agency agreements;

- information technology: web pages and software texts;

- confectionery industry: documents related to industrial processes, product labels describing contents and product ingredients.

• Interpreter for the same Company during exhibitions in Italy and abroad or during customer visits to the Company's office.

1990 to 1996:

• Freelance translator: occasional translations for small companies (wood-manufacturing field) and law institutes (Magistrate's Court), as well as various kinds of translations for private people (correspondence, scientific essays and research reports for university students).

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