CURRICULUM VITAE
JENNY COWD
PERSONAL DETAILS
DATE OF BIRTH
ADDRESS
E-MAIL
WEBSITE
21/12/1978
Via Cembalina 33, Ferrara (ITALY)
jenny.xpresstrans@gmail.com
www.xpresstranslations.co.uk
NATIONALITY
TEL
FAX
MOBILE
British
+39.0532.417305
+39.0532.417305
+39.349.5272286
EDUCATION
2005/06
MA in Specialist Translation at the Scuola Superiore Mediatori Linguistici (Vicenza)
Italian into English, English into Italian
2001
TEFL (teaching English as a foreign language) CELTA at Inlingua Cheltenham
1997/2001 BA 2-1 Joint Honours French and Italian studies at the University of Birmingham.
2000
Intensive French language course at the Centre International d'Études Françaises,
Dijon
1999/2000 Erasmus project at the University of Ferrara
WORK EXPERIENCE
Since 2008 Translator for Xpress Translations Ltd with partner translator. Language
combinations offered: Italian - English, English - Italian, French - English, FrenchItalian, Russian - Italian.
2005-2008 Freelance translator: Italian – English, French – English.
Translations for private companies and translation agencies.
References available upon request.
July 2006
Translation project work at Adelphi International Research, Macclesfield.
2003/05
Teacher, translator and interpreter at Smiling Service International School, Ferrara.
2002/03
Analyst for Accenture, London.
SPECIFIC TRANSLATION INFORMATION
Working languages: Italian – English; French – English.
Proposed price per 1000 words: from £ 60.00 to £ 70.00
Activities: translating; proof-reading.
Specialist fields: legal; tourism; medicine; patents; technical; science; agriculture; education
and training; history of art.
SOFTWARE SKILLS AND OTHER TOOLS
Good working knowledge of the following programs: Trados 7FL w/Multiterm, Wordfast, Microsoft
Office, Photoshop, Internet, Adobe Acrobat. Use and compilation of glossaries. Broadband
internet.
Availability of the following dictionaries:
English Language- Oxford English Dictionary, Dictionary of contemporary English (Longman), A
Dictionary of Literary Terms (Penguin), Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms (Oxford)
Italian Language- Italian-English Dictionary (Collins), Dizionario commerciale inglese (I
Garzantini), Dizionario Tecnico Marolli (Hoepli), Il dizionario della lingua italiana (De Mauro,
Paravia)
French Language- French-English Dictionary (Collins), Le Petit Robert (Le Robert).