Katerina Fetsi

Address: Bondebacken 18, 72164, Västerås, Sweden

Home phone no.: +46 210-9029754

Mobile phone no.: + 46 6937-259891

e-mail: ,

Date of birth: July 30 1980

Place of birth: Athens

Nationality: Greek

Profile

A translator with experience in different fields – technical, medical, legal and financial, among others. Specialized in English, German and Greek. Used to taking initiative and work towards tight deadlines. Dedicated to maintaining high quality standards.

Skills

  • Fluent in translating to and from English and German
  • Good knowledge of Italian, basic knowledge of Swedish and Spanish
  • Specialized translation related education
  • Very good verbal abilities
  • Familiar with the use of computers and computer programmes, such as Word, Windows, Excel, Internet
  • Extensiveexperienceworkingwithtranslationsoftware, mainlyTradosversions 5.5 and 6.5 andTransit 3.0.

Working experience

January 2005

  • KJ International translating firm (USA)

Freelance translating projects from English to Greek and also freelance proofreading projects on texts translated from English to Greek.

June 2004

  • Thanassis Yianakopoulos translating firm (Athens)

Freelance translating projects (legal, medical) mainly from and to German.

February 2004 – December 2004

  • Intertranslations translating company (Athens)

In-housetranslatorfortheGreektranslatingfirmIntertranslations, basicallyworkingmainlywithtextsinGermanandEnglish, and also some in Italian. Basically translating technical andlegal texts, but also medical, financial, general, marketing texts and also handbooks and manuals of use and service for automobiles, heavy machinery, etc. The saidpositionalsoincludesediting, correction in grammar and syntax and proofreading of translated texts.

September 2003 – January 2005

  • Intertranslations translating company (Athens)

Workingasafreelancer – mainlywithtextsinGermanandEnglish. Working on texts in various areas, such as technical, legal, medical, financial, and also general and marketing texts.

June 2003

  • UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Athens)

One-timecooperationwiththeUNdepartment. The services offered included consecutive interpretation during a personal meeting between the Secretary General of the Greek Ministry of Public Order and UN representatives relating to issues of reception and hospitality of refugees in Greece.

November – December 2003

  • GfK Market Analysis

Research and phone interviewing of random and specific subjects for clients such as Vodafone, Electrolux, Citroen, etc.

January 2003

  • KappaResearch

Researchandphoneinterviewingconcerningvarioussubjects like politics, television and radio ratings etc.

October - November 2002

  • Wellenwide, Public Relations

Administrative support

Translationofpressclippings, newslettersandpublicationstoandfromEnglishconcerningtheairline, tobaccoandtelecommunicationsindustry in general, as a source of information to specific customers of the company about the general state of the market in those specific areas.

Issuing of monthly reports regarding SingaporeAirlines, one of the clients of the company, as well as monitoring daily press in relevance to the airline industry

Translationandsummarization of articles and publications concerning the telecommunications market.

May – June 1999

  • Supertravel, traveling agency in Corfu

Reception of tourists and people bound to participate in conventions from all over the world

Allocation of said individuals to hotels

Managing problems and guest complaints occurring during their stay

Studies

2004

Inthefinalyearofmystudies at the Department of Translation of the Ionian University, pending the completion of my dissertation.

2001

One semester at the Post- graduate Department CTIS (Centre for Translation & Intercultural Studies) of UMIST in Manchester, as part of my studies with the Ionian University.

1998-2004

Admitted to the Department of Foreign Languages, Translation and Interpretation of the Ionian University in Corfu, studying in the English and German languages.

1998

AdmittedtotheAristotleUniversityinThessaloniki, DepartmentofItalianLanguageandLiterature through national examinations

1998

Graduatedfrom Lyceumin Dafni, Athens. Grade of graduation : 17 and 7/10.

Foreign Languages

Mother tongue

Greek

Other languages:

English

Excellent, Proficiency level

German

Fluent, Mittelstufe level

Italian

Three year course in private language school

Spanish

TwosemestercourseinUniversity

Swedish

Beginner level.

Personalprofile

Iconsidermyselftobeapersonwhocaneasilyadapttovariousworkingconditionsandrequirements, dependinguponthetaskathand.

Personal Interests

Music, literature, foreign cultures, cooking, traveling.