Experience

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  Usol - institute for sera ◘ vaccines

  Jan 1990 - Jan 1993

  Lab r&d worker

  Worked as a research biochemist - blood protein chemistry, immunology, bioengineering

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  Independent

  Jan 1994 - now

  Interpreted at hundreds of events including investigator meetings for clinical trials, pharma/medical device presentations, business meetings, training events, European Works Councils, sponsor audits for clinical trials, legal depositions for U.S. courts, focus groups, award ceremonies... onsite or online/RSI, you name it. Translated thousands of projects including clinical trial documentation, MSDS, SPC/PILs, medical device IFUs, software, IT hardware manuals, training scripts, marcomms, Ethical Codes, ...Fields: Life Sciences (Medicine, Agriculture, Biochemistry in particular), Computers/Localization/IT, Chemistry (MSDS), Legal, Web/E-commerce, Manuals, Telecommunications…

  • Conference Interpreter

    Jan 2002 - now

  • F/L Translator & Interpreter, EN>Czech

    Jan 1994 - now
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  Bowne

  Jan 2001 - Jan 2003

  Lqs
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  Berlitz

  Jan 2001 - Jan 2003

  Czech language specialist/qa

  Most of time, I worked for Microsoft as their senior QA person. Reviewed Czech localizations of MS Office XP, Windows XP, 2003 Server, Office 2003 and most of other MS SW released at that time.

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  Ibm

  Jan 2002 - Jan 2006

  Software tester

  As a contractor, I worked on the IBM WebSphere Portal – 4-year localization project of the enterprise SW solution (250k+ words) and did several QAs incl. four 4-week testing events in IBM’s dev’t lab in the USA and Germany.

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  Lionbridge

  Jan 2003 - Jan 2006

  Freelance translator