Curriculum Vitae

Mgr. Petr OLIVER

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PERSONAL DATA
Date of birth:
Contact address:
Electronic address:
Phone: / 25 August 1978
Slatinská 3840/106, Brno-Židenice, 636 00, Czech Republic

+420 776 543 278
Professional Experience
2005–present Translation Czech Republic
2011: IFER Annual Report CZ to EN(forestry/science), Stem Analyst Instructions Manual CZ to EN(IT - SW);Quotation and description of a mixing and dispensing machine, EN to CZ (machinery)
2009-10 co-translation of Tom Hodgkinson’s humorous booksThe Idle Parent, 2009;How to be Idle 2010; M. H. Greenberg, J. L. Lellenberg, D. Stashower, Ghosts in Baker Street, Collection of short stories, JOTA, 2007EN to CZ(fiction)
2009: FIBA World Championship 2010 Manual, EN to CZ(marketing)
2005-2008: Coordination, co-translation and review of grant projects: “The Interior Renewal of Virgin Mary Church on Chlumek in Luže 2008“, CZ to EN; “Renovation and Preservation of Cultural Heritage Blansko Castle 2005-2006“, CZ to EN; clinical trials (Avastin), 2008, CZ to EN; translation of a catalogue of lubricants Molykote for company Ulbrich Hydroautomatik s.r.o., 2005, EN to CZ 2005(machinery)
Other translations in the following areas: tourism, design, construction, law (CZ to EN, EN to CZ)
Interpreting for language schools/agencies
II 2011 – X 2011 SW development specialist + corporate linguist Jílové u Prahy, CZ
Translation and revision of English written company documents, development and management of database applications, programming in Delphi (Object Pascal), developing XML in connection with databases
VIII 2010 Linguistic Services Manager, MORAVIA IT Brno, CZ
Introduction to linguistic quality assessment
2004 - 2011 Teaching English as a foreign language (adults)
2005 - present freelance South Moravian Region, Central Bohemia Region (2011) CZ
Individual students and groups, complete management of language courses
Teaching general English, business English
2003 – 2009 language schools Brno, CZ
Brno University of Technology, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Brno 2008-09, teaching university students;
Language school at the Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, Brno 2004-2007, teaching university employees and students; Language school Across Pretorian (later HOPE v.o.s.), Brno 2003-09, teaching company and school courses, individuals and daily “preparation for FCE” courses (post-secondary-school students); methodology of English, organising courses, auditing and creating placement tests; Language school Perfect English,Brno2002-2003, “preparation for FCE” courses (post-secondary-school students)
EDUCATION
1998-2004 Masaryk University Faculty of Science,
Faculty of Arts Brno, CZ
Master studies in the fields of Teaching English and Geography at secondary schools
Final state exam in English studies: 16 June 2003
Final state exam in Geography: 10 February 2004
Major thesis: “Geomorphology of the surroundings of Nový Bor”
Minor thesis: “Australia – The ‘British’ Commonwealth in the Course of ‘American‘ globalisation“
Course in English Language Teaching Methodology known as “Teacher Training”(equal to CELTA)
1997-1998State Language School Liberec, CZ
One-year intensive course of English, obtained Basic State exam in English
1997-1998IOV – Institute of business education Ústí nad Labem
Tourist guide training – certificate obtained
1993-1997Grammar school Česká Lípa, CZ
SKILLS
Language skills
English – professional level (C2)
German – communicative
IT
User SW: OS Windows XP, MS Office 2000-2010, IE, Mozilla Firefox, SkyDrive etc.
Translation, CAT tools: SDL Trados Studio 2011, OmegaT
Graphic and GIS applications: Adobe InDesign, Photoshop, ArcView, FieldMap
Audio and video applications: Cool Edit, Sibelius, Subtitle workshop
Programming: XHTML, CSS (intermediate),JavaScript, PHP,MySQL, XML and Object Pascal(pre-intermediate), creating/maintaining websites (e.g. translaterra.cz)
Driving licence
Group B (active driver)
WORK-STAyS ABROAD
2003 (2 months) London, GB
Temporary jobs
2002 (2 months)Foxbury Farm, Kent, GB
Seasonal student work at an apple farm
INTERESTS

Culture and films of English speaking countries

Music, (band leading, concert organising 1997-2004)

Playing clarinet; performing mainly in Brno, CZ (also Germany and the Netherlands); genres: jazz, swing, Dixieland; CDs recorded: Beat či off Beat 2002, Trbukyja 2004

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