Quality and Education Hand to Hand

Phone:	00386(0)40368386
Mobile:	00386(0)40368386
Address:	Mariborska cesta 7 2370 Dravograd Slovenia
VAT number:	SI-38397021
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Nika Plevnik

Languages

English Slovenian (Native speaker)

Typical prices (USD/source word)		Years of experience: 6
Translation:	0.11 USD	Proofreading:	0.055 USD
		Interpretation:	82 USD /hour

Services offered: Translation / Proofreading / Interpretation (Consecutive) / Interpretation (Simultaneous) / Subtitling

Slovenian English

Typical prices (USD/source word)		Years of experience: 5
Translation:	0.11 USD

Services offered: Translation

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Expertise

Computers (general) • Electronics • Engineering: (general) • Human Resources • Industry and Technology (general) • Law (general) • Machinery & Tools • Medical (general) • Science (general) • Telecommunications

Additional work areas: Arts and Humanities (general) • Cinema, Film, TV, Drama • Computer Hardware • Ecology & Environment • European Union • Finance / Economics (general) • Food/Nutrition/ Dairy Technology • General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters • Insurance • Law: Contracts • Linguistics • Localization (Software/Websites) • Management • Manufacturing • Marketing / Market Research / Retail • Media / Multimedia • Medical: Dentistry • Medical: Health Care • Medical: Instruments • Medical: Pharmaceuticals • Music • Philosophy • Photography / Imaging/ Graphic Arts • Printing & Publishing • Public Relations • Real Estate • Social Science, Sociology, Ethics, etc. • Sports / Recreation / Fitness • Transportation / Transport / Shipping • Travel & Tourism

About me

Enthusiastic, flexible, reliable, dedicated, self-motivated, hard-driving, responsible, detail oriented, with good methodical and organisation skills. Able to work independently using initiative and as part of a translation team to tight deadlines. With editing, keyboarding, interviewing and good communication skills.

Qualifications

More than 5 years of experience as a freelance translator and proofreader for Slovene and English.

PhD candidate - English and American studies

BA Translating and Interpreting - English

BA Slovenian language

Education

Year:	Qualifications:
2007–	Faculty of Arts, University of Maribor – English and American studies – cultural studies (Ph.D.)
2004–2007	Faculty of Arts, University of Maribor – Translating and Interpreting – English (B.A.)
2000–2006	Faculty of Education, University of Maribor, Slovenia. Slovene language and literature (B.A.Ed.)
1996–2008	Employment Service of Slovenia, Scholarship for outstanding students (Zoisova štipendija).
1996–2000	Gimnazija Ravne na Koroskem High School, Slovenia.

Experience

Year:

Projects of larger volume (type, quantity, language combinations)

2004–2009

Subtitling movies, cartoons, documentaries

Proofreading and editing in Slovenian

Translating contracts for public procurements, lease agreements, statements of work, annual reports; technical, industry texts: environment (piroliz. plants); offset printing device manual (Komori), various manuals (orbital sander, blow-drier, mp3 player, Caterpillar etc.), education (articles), social sciences, art, telecommunication (Telekom, Amis, Mobitel), human resources (Johnson Controls), marketing (Master Management), automotive (Toyota, Renault, Caterpillar), computers-software, IT (IBM, DELL, Detelfone, Oracle, various), photography (Sony–advertisements, manual), literature, biology, medicine (Lek, Novartis, Cancer treatment, MRI, Ostomy care, dentistry, med. appliances and tools-manuals-Global Voices, Eureco, Kerr, Polilingus, etc.), tourism, real estate (Slovenia Invest), banking & financial (Aviva & AmerUs) etc.

References

Field	Company	Name and surname	E-mail
telecommun., marketing, law	Language Connect, UK	Ms. Sarah STARCK	sstarck@languageconnect.net
computers, automotive	SDL Slovenia, Ljubljana	Mr. Simon KORANTER	skoranter@sdl.com
marketing, technical	Applied Language Solutions, UK	Mr. Tom Shaw	tshaw@appliedlanguage.com

Interests

Aerobics instructor and running sports society, play the guitar, enjoy traveling around Europe, Asia and Africa and meeting variety of people, cinema and theatre going.

My Software

Across / Déja Vu / IBM CAT tool / SDLX / TRADOS / Wordfast

Opinions

We do not receive funding for translators so we really appreciate Nika helping us out with a Slovenian - English translation. She provided an excellent service and we would contact her again.
Rating: 3

Jill Hampson, Cochrane PCG

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2009-08-25
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