PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE RELATED TO TRANSLATION AND LOCALIZATION

• Freelance translator, interpreter, and proofreader since 2002. Translations related mainly to marketing, business, advertising, law, and medicine.
• Sworn translator and interpreter of English and Polish certified by the Polish Ministry of Justice to provide certified translation.

PROJECTS – SPECIALISMS AND SELECTED CLIENTS:

• Apparel:
  Columbia Sportswear Company, Esprit, L-Shop-Team, Zumba Wear;
• Business, finance, insurance, consulting:
  Government of the Republic of Poland, DekaBank, Franklin Templeton, Grant Thornton, J.P. Morgan, Royal Sun
  Alliance, Stowarzyszenie Akredytowanych Podmiotów Doradztwa Rolniczego AKROS [Association of Accredited Agricultural
  Advisory Services Providers AKROS];
• Chemistry:
  DowDuPont (Corteva), Unilever (Sunlight), Werner & Mertz;
• Construction
  and interior design: Good Home
  / Castorama (Kingfisher);
• Cosmetics, beauty
  care, wellness: Amway, Avon,
  Cetaphil, Colgate-Palmolive, Elmex,
  Procter & Gamble, Unilever (Dove), Yuva;
• Financial:
  Government of the Republic of Poland;
• Food and
  drink; food production: Captain
  Morgan, Carte d'Or, Danone, Diageo, DowDuPont (Corteva), Ferrer Internacional, Flora ProActiv,
  Glasgow Beer Works, Heineken, Heinz, Johnnie Walker, Kellogg’s, Nespresso, Pringles,
  Unilever (Wall’s);
• Games:
  King;
• History:
  Multicultural History Society of Ontario (MHSO);
• Hospitality:
  Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc.;
• IT: GDATA, IBM, VMware
  AirWatch;
• Legal:
  Aspen Pharmacare Holdings Ltd, Brighton Sister Cities Inc. (Brighton, Colorado
  (USA) and Ziębice (Poland) Sister Cities cooperation), Polish courts, Ergomed, Government
  of the Republic of Poland, HP (Hewlett-Packard), KPL Solicitors, Polish courts,
  Portola Pharmaceuticals, Roche, Scioderm, Urząd Miasta i Gminy Ziębice [City and Municipality Office], Ziębicka
  Inicjatywa Obywatelska [Civic Initiative
  for the City of Ziębice Association];
• Life
  sciences: Edwards
  Lifesciences, IDEXX, Roche;
• Logistics:
  DHL;
• Marketing,
  incl. transcreation: Aimia
  Coalition Loyalty UK Ltd. (Nectar), Amazon, Amway, Apple, Avon, Bayer, Be4Arts,
  bigblu, BORA, Bose, Brother, Cetaphil, Colgate-Palmolive, Danone, DHL, DowDuPont
  (Corteva), Durex, Dyson, Elmex, Emirates,
  Epson, Esprit, Facebook, Glasgow Beer Works, GlaxoSmithKline,
  Google, Heineken, Heinz, Herbapol, HTC, IBM, IDEXX, Infiniti, Johnnie Walker,
  Kellogg’s, King, Good Home / Castorama (Kingfisher), Montblanc, Nespresso, Nextdoor,
  Opel, Philips, Pringles, Procter & Gamble, Scholl, Shell, Siemens,
  Swarovski, The Economist, TK Maxx, Turkish Airlines, UNiDAYS, U.S. Census
  Bureau, Vype, Werner & Mertz, Unilever (Dove, Sunlight), Zebra
  Technologies;
• Medical,
  Pharmaceuticals (incl. clinical trials),
  in vitro, diagnostics: Aileron Therapeutics,
  Aristo
  Pharma GmbH, Bausch Health Ireland Limited, Bayer, Brinker Pharmaconsulting,
  Cell Med, Cheplapharm Arzneimittel, Cipla, DePuy, Ergomed, Farmigea, GE Healthcare, Gibson Research
  Consultancy, GlaxoSmithKline, Hälsa Pharma GmbH, Intercept Pharma International
  Ltd., Ipsen, ITG Isotope Technologies Garching GmbH, Lundbeck, Novadip
  Biosciences, Ortho Clinical Diagnostics (Johnson & Johnson), Otsuka
  Pharmaceutical Europe Ltd., Oxyton
  Pharma GmbH, Portola Pharmaceuticals, Roche (incl. Roche Diagnostics), Sanofi (Sanofi
  Aventis, Sanofi-Winthrop Industrie [France]), SAVIO INDUSTRIAL S.r.l., Scioderm, Serb SA, SI-BONE, St. Jude
  Medical, Summit Medical, UCB Pharma, Valeant Pharma, Vascutek, Zakłady
  Farmaceutyczne Polpharma;
• Microbiology:
  IDEXX;
• Oil and gas: Government of the Republic of
  Poland;
• Technical
  and technology: bigblu,
  BORA, Bose, Brother, Dräger, Dyson, Epson, GE Healthcare, HP (Hewlett-Packard), HTC,
  Marquip Ward United, MSA, Philips, Plum, Shell, Siemens, Trias, Vollrath, Zebra
  Technologies.

• “A Little
  Something Different” by Sandy Hall
• “Carry On,
  Warrior” by Glennon Doyle Melton
• “Two Across” by
  Jeff Bartsch

• “Saving the Rabbits of Ravensbrück”, documentary. http://www.rememberravensbruck.com/
• lectures, podcasts, and presentations in psychology, statistics, linguistics, life sciences, management, marketing, among others

Brand analyses

Analyzing brand names for products (goods and
services) clients plan to introduce on the Polish market. The analyses includes,
among others, the spelling and pronunciation, associations the names may evoke,
potential similarities to names of products and services already present on the
market.

EDUCATION 

Graduate studies:

• Translation and interpreting - University of Warsaw, Institute of Applied Linguistics
• Psychology - SWPS University of Social Sciences, Warsaw
• American studies - University of Warsaw, American Studies Center
  

Postgraduate studies:

• Translation and interpreting - University of Warsaw, Institute of Applied Linguistics, Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Studies in Translation and Interpreting
• Translation and interpreting - Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, School of Translation, Interpreting and Languages
• Coaching and mentoring - - SWPS University of Social Sciences, Warsaw
• Psychodietetics - SWPS University of Social Sciences, Warsaw
• Nutrition and dietetics - Warsaw University of Life Sciences (SGGW) 
• Project management – SGH Warsaw School of Economics
• Management and marketing – SGH Warsaw School of Economics

Undergraduate studies:

• English philology - University of Warsaw, English Teacher Training College

Postsecondary school

• English, IT, economy, law - College of Foreign Languages and Computer Science in Wrocław

COURSES AND TRAINING

• Legal and economic English - University of Warsaw, Faculty of Applied Linguistics and East-Slavonic Studies, Department of Languages for Specific Purposes
• Translation of legal documents of the European Union - Council of the European Union, Brussels, Belgium
• Linguistic review and editing – University of Warsaw
• Journalism and editing – University of Warsaw
• E-business in practice – online business basics – University of Warsaw
• E-marketing in practice – developing and executing an online marketing strategy – University of Warsaw