Katarzyna Walas
Translator and Interpreter: Polish, French, English
Fields:
Technical, Business & Management,
Marketing &Communication, Computer science
Polish nationality – resident in France
Born on 29 November 1971- Married
Address: 68, Bd. Rochechouart, 75018 Paris
Tel. +33 (0) 1 55 79 97 50
E-mail: katarzynawalas@ifrance.com
Education
2001-2003
2001
1997
1996
University of Paris VII – Master’s degree in computational linguistics
ESIT School for Translators and Interpreters (Paris) - Degree in methodology of
translation
Polytechnics of Wrocław - Degree in marketing and management
University of Wrocław (Poland) – Master’s degree in French second language
acquisition
Professional experience in translation and communication
1997-2000
Translator and interpreter for polish subsidiary of International Group Legrand leader in
the field of electrical equipment in the polish market.
Fields: energy, plastics, electrical engineering, building, purchase, finance, management,
marketing, communication, computer science.
Documents: summaries of industrial project reviews, purchase contracts, users guides,
quality reports, specifications, specification sheets, budget and finance documents.
Meetings: project reviews, business reviews, meetings with department managers and trade
unions, equipment tests.
1999-2000
Communication Manager Legrand Poland – products catalogues, responsible for trade
fairs (6 fairs successfully completed)
Free lance translator and Interpreter based in Paris
Fields and references:
Paper - Otor - business review interpreting
Agriculture - Promodis - business review interpreting, accompanying visitors, agriculture
machines
Marketing - BVA – market research.
Communication, Financial - Renault - guide for commercials, annual report.
Industry – Arcelor – industrial gazes purchase contract, electricity purchase contract
Computer science - Amoweba – users guide for software.
From 2004
Computational linguistics skills
Project management:
CAT tools:
Star Services Paris – translation project manager, technical support
Machine translation- text processing, formalisms, algorithms and models,
CAT tools - Transit, TermStar, Trados, Multiterm, WinAlign, Trados SDL
Computer science skills
Programming
Systems
Internet
Data bases
Perl, C, Java,
Windows 98, XP, Unix
HTML, XML, JSP
SQL
Languages
Polish
French
English
Spanish, Russian
native speaker
Bilingual
Good command FCE –2004,
Basics
Other
Travelling (Malaysia, Cuba, Morocco, Norway, France, Italy, Spain, Hungary, Czech Republic, Poland), treks
(Atlas, Pyrenees, Tatras), bike, cooking