CURRICULUM VITAE
NAME: Eileen Brophy.
BORN: in Newcastle upon Tyne, England,
ADDRESS:Calle José Damaso Pepete-15-1-2,
Córdoba, Spain
Tax Data: X0081706X
TEL: (Cordoba, Spain) 957 231 867
Mobile 678 465 956
Email:
EDUCATION:
- GCE 'A' and 'O' Level - English, Spanish and history.
- R.S.A. Cert TEFL (Cambridge)
- Open University Course in Linguistics.(2 years)
- Open University Arts Course (1 year)
TRANSLATIONS :
Along with many routine and contract translations these are some subjects of interest which I have translated:
2015 Medical reports related to requests for second opinions, education and
Tourism.
2014 Education, Commercial, Tourism and Construction
2013 Tourism, Facebook, Contract and Construction Translations
2012 Audio Guides for Tourism
2012 Arthrosis and Arthritis Assay with Stem Cells.
2011 Proofreading, Engineering translations, and translation of
various subjects including a short film script, business, marketing, bank
guarantee website, handicrafts and translations of contracts. Catalogue
of bio-control bags for different uses (Mushroom growth,, etc.).
2010 Tourism in Asturias.
2010 Tourism in Galicia (Orense and surrounding areas).
2010 Tourism in The Canary Islands and Secret corners of the Canary Isles.
2010 Questionnaires about people using mobile phones at work
2010 Translations for tourism and general engineering (a water filtering project)
Contracts
2009 Sanofi Aventis Pharmacovigilance Website documents
2008 (ISO Guidelines) estimate for a Company Management System Project.
2008 Architecture and tourism
2008 Patagonia today and how it was when Darwin discovered his theory of
Evolution.
2008 The Untouchables in India and their “Goddess” in Spain helping them survive.
2008 Kyoto Investigation of Agricultural Emissions into the atmosphere.
2008 Zaragoza Water Expo
2008 Medical and technical translations.
2008 Coastal property rentals
2008 Literature and Poetry writers generation 27 history of their lives and comments
from those who knew them and the success of their work in society
2008 Project for steel machinery production plant
2008 Legal conflict between Orange/ Telefonica telephone companies.
Hotel accommodation and tourist information (Easter in Zamora, the Coast and
The Sierra of Granada.Costa Sol and other tourist details).
From, 2009 -2010: -Translations for the Autonomous Community of Valencia
(Tourism & Culture)
Technical Engineering Project for a desalination plant
Various small real estate marketing projects
From 2007 -2008: Regular translations of Music, Theatre & Art on a website
for the Autonomous Community of MADRID.
From 2007- 2008 CORTE INGLES a large Spanish department store Company,
with branches in different cities in Spain.
Translation of Safety system to prevent fires caused by sparks
on AVE High Speed Railway system in Spain.
2007 Construction and sale of apartments and flatswebsite .
2007 Cancer website
2006 Translation for Greenpeace.
2005 Insurance Reports.
2002 “Spanish Horticulture” Book
Translated from Spanish to English
Published by the Spanish Horticultural Sciences Society (500 pages)
Medical A variety of subjects
Building Constructions Modules for timber homes
Mechanical Machinery for packing and water pumps
Natural Medicine A variety of subjects.
Tourism…. Paradors in Spain
1996 Translation of a book : “Byzantine Art in Syria”
1995
Other literature for Planeta de Agostina,
A large publishing company in Spain.
EXPERIENCE
1.2002 to date
I have worked as a freelance translator for a number of agencies in different areas of Spain, translating art, music and theatre on a weekly basis plus translations for ExpoZaragoza, Contracts, General Medical texts, 18,000 words for a cancer web, tourism, Corte Ingles, and a variety of other subjects.
2. 1996/2002
TEFL Teacher
I started up my own small language school in Córdoba,
where we taught English and French to all ages from 4 year old
children to adults with specific needs such as agriculture, tourism,
commercial, financial, medical and others. I also gave Business English
Lessons to employees in Bankinter, Córdoba and organised exchange
Programmes with a state school in Manchester, UK.
3. 1994/5
TEFL Teacher
Teaching advanced and Intermediate English.
Centro de Idiomas,
School of languages
Cordoba.
4. 1993/4
Translator/interpreter
Timber home import
Rafael Cruz Mata/Classic Hüs of Sweden
5. 1989 / 1992
English language teaching
To Students of all ages.
I also assisted my husband in our bookshop in the mornings
6. Nov/June 80/81
Translator Interpreter
Water pump import/export Co.
BombasElias,S.A.,Barcelona
Left to move to Córdoba
7. Feb./Nov 1980
Translator/Interpreter
for manufacturers of packaging
machinery
Roure,S.A., Barcelona
closed due to the economic crisis .
8. 1978/79
Secretary/translator
property sales agents
EspañaInternational,S.A
(Puerto Alcudia),
Mallorca.
9. 1975/78
Secretary/translator
of legal
documents, mainly wills and contracts.
Manuel Domingo Ochogavia
(Lawyer)
Pollensa, Mallorca.