Sladjana Spaic
Naselje Novo Mesto 6, 85347 Igalo, Montenegro
In-house Freelance Translator/Interpreter
CURRICULUM VITAE
Personal Data:
Name and Surname: Sladjana Spaic
Date & Place of Birth: 5th November 1969 in Kotor, Montenegro
Current Adress: Nas. Novo Mesto br.6
85347 Igalo
Montenegro
Contacts: Cell Phone: + 382 (0) 67 859 440
Phone/Fax.: + 382 (0) 31 335 917
Email:
msn:
web: http://www.proz.com/profile/105050
Education:
Secondary School - Johannes Kepler Realschule, Lübeck, Germany
Secondary School completed in Montenegro
Hampstead Garden Collage, London
Cambridge FC Certificate
UN Proficiency Certificate in English Language
Previous Residences:
1970 - 1985 Lübeck, Germany
1985 - 1990 Herceg Novi, Montenegro
1990 - 1992 London, England
1992 - 1998 Ex-Republics of Yugoslavia (Croatia, Bosnia & Herzegovina)
1998 - current Herceg Novi, Montenegro
Employment:
1992 – 1998: Interpreter and Translator for UN and EU Organizations
(ECMM, UNHCR, UNICEF, OSCE)
1999 – 2007: Interpreter and Translator for German, English and Serbian at „Adriatic
Shipyard Bijela“ in Montenegro
2003 – 2005: Freelance Translator and Interpreter for the German School Grone
Schule, Luebeck - Germany and the Employment Board of Montenegro
in the Project “Train of Trainer For Professionals in the Field of Tourism
and Catering”
2007 – current: In-house Freelance Translator (well-established cooperation with
translation agencies and individuals from Serbia, Germany, Austria, Poland, Turkey, UK, Spain, the Netherlands, Greece, USA)
Language combinations:
* Serbian - English and vice versa
* Serbian - German and vice versa
* Montenegrin - English and vice versa
* Montenegrin - German and vice versa
* English - German and vice versa
Years of working experience: 18 years
Softwares: Word, Excel, Power Point, SDLX, Trados8
Fields of expertise and major translation projects:
MEDICINE
* Hip Implantation
- "Subtotalna artoplastika kuka", by Dr.Ivo. D. Ivanovic - "Partielle Hüftarthoplastie"
(Serbian – German, 154 pages,2000)
* Breast Implants
- Documents of 370 individual cases
* Patients’ medical histories from General Hospital Meljine, Montenegro
* Patient’s medical histories from General and Trauma Surgery Hospital “Vaso
Cuckovic”, Risan, Montenegro
* Patients’ medical histories and detailed discharge lists from Health Spa "Institut Dr.
Simo Milosevic", Igalo, Montenegro
* Medical certificates of postgraduate training and education
MEDIA
* German and English speaker at local radio Herceg Novi, Montenegro
* Simultaneous interpreting of live broadcast interviews with international representatives
and politicians, referring to news and reports on actual events in the country (in
Montenegro and Bosnia & Hercegovina)
* Interpreting of broadcast interviews with repersentatives of Grone Schule from Lübeck,
Germany in Montenegro.
* Interpretation of intwerviews for British Channel 4
* T-COM motivation projects for T-COM employees
ENGINEERING AND CONSTRUCTION
* Shipbuilding and construction
* Civil engineering (building construction)
- English > Serbian/Montenegrin Civil Engineering specification for UK Embassy building
project in Podgorica, Montenegro (ordered by Applied Language Sollutions, UK)
* Mechanical and electrical engineering
TECHNOLOGY AND INDUSTRY
*Waste water treatment and potable water plants
- German > Serbian Project on Water Treatment Plant in Opovo, Serbia
(orderd by IBK Ingenieurbüro Kronawetter, Villach, Austria)
*Electronics, telecommunications, automatic control
*Computer technology
*Environment & ecology
*Safety & health at work
- National acts on safety and health at work referring to shipbuilding industry
MATERIALS AND CHEMICALS
*Chemical and physical structures and properties
- Official certificates on chemical and physical structures and properties approved by international classification societies (Lloyd's Register, Germanischer Lloyd, BV, NKK, etc.), referring to shipbuilding industry
*Health effects in shipbuilding industry
*Environmental assessments and ecological risks
RULES & REGULATIONS - LEGISLATION
* OSCE Electoral Rules & Regulations (OSCE Sarajevo,BiH, 1997)
INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS & MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS
* Quality System Management; ISO 9002* (Project translated for Adriatic Shipyard Bijela, Serbia & Montenegro; 2000)
*Environmental management systems
- Environmental System Management for medium and small-sized Organizations; ISO
14000* (Project translated for Adriatic Shipyard Bijela, Serbia & Montenegro; 2005)
EDUCATION
* Educational seminars for secondary schools in Serbia and Montenegro
* Project on training schools in fields of tourism and gastronomy in cooperation with
Grone Schule, Lübeck, Germany
TOURISM, MARKETING
* Various brochures and promoting materials
* Long-term cooperation with the Faculty of Tourism and Hospitality, Kotor, Montenegro
- Serbian > German > English and vice verse applications and projects on student
exchanges to/from Germany, Austria and UK
- Serbian > German > English and vice verse projects on Tourism Development in
Montenegro
* Long-term cooperation with NGO "Centre for Toursim Development", Montenegro
- Serbian > German > English and vice verse tourist industry projects
LITERATURE
* "Kapija za novu reč", by Visnja Kosovic - "Das Tor für ein neues Wort"
(Serbian – German, 73 pages, 2002)
WEBSITES (COMMERCE)
- English > Serbain Website of Montenegrin Developments (ordered by Applied
Language Sollutions, UK)
- Serbain > English Website, referring to export of Ex-Yu goods (ordered by private
individual)
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Phone/Fax: +382 31 335917 *Cell Phone: +382 67 859440 *Email: