About Me

Background

25 years of full-time in-house and freelance professional translating and interpreting experience.
Native Czech speaker with native-level English proficiency.
Passed U.S. Department of State interpreting tests (simultaneous and consecutive, 1996), EU contract translator tests (English and Spanish to Czech, 2012) and EU staff proofreader tests (Czech, 2012).
Lived 20+ years in the Czech Republic and 20+ years in the United States and 1 year in Estonia.
Work experience in both the Czech Republic and the United States.

Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic. MA, Library Sciences, 1992.
Software Localization, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 2001.
60+ days of training while employed by Oracle as an ERP software localizer: software development, software QA, general business, accounting, manufacturing management, logistics, HRM, resource planning, warehousing, CRM.
Continued professional development: attendance at conferences of American Translators Association (2002, 2012) and Mid-America Chapter of ATA (2011) including professional workshops, and medical translation conference MedTranslate 2014.
Taught workshops on medical and pharmaceutical translation, SDL Trados Studio and other translation tools (Prague, Czech Republic, 2014 and 2015)