Arkadiusz Koroch MSc
18 Nowogrodzka,
Mazowieckie
PL – 00-511 Warsaw
+48 (0) 602 111 429
arkkor@o2.pl
www.koroch.odu.pl
PROFILE
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Studious and discerning, inquisitive and inquiring mind combined with hard work yield high quality translations.
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Current position: Translator @ Interpreter EN-PL-DE, EFL & DAF Foreign Languages Teacher, Translation & Tutoring Team Head.
A versatile, analytical and hard-working Translator / Interpreter with a practical hands-on approach, who always perseveres to achieve the best results.
Able to collect and analyse information and quickly grasp complex technical issues. Excellent mediation and problem solving skills. Proven ability to
manage and complete projects to the highest standard, with a meticulous attention to detail and within agreed deadlines.
SKILLS
Has been professionally active in a variety of sectors, including a position of in-house translator at a manufacturing plant. Fluent in German and English, Arkadiusz
Koroch MSc boasts excellent communication and writing skills.
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Graduate in Applied Linguistics, Modern Languages and Translation Studies.
Experienced as a proof-reader of professional translations.
Boasting long-term technical translator / interpreter professional experience.
Able to produce work of a high standard on a consistent basis and having good organizational and time management skills.
Possessing an eye for detail and the ability to work successfully under pressure and to tight deadlines.
Having an excellent grasp of MS Office and good communication skills (spoken and written).
Possessing own methods and techniques, honed for many years they include close to a hundred tools and devices found both on the Net and otherwise in
electronic form: corpora, dictionaries, encyclopaedias, glossaries, etc.
A strong team player, he has proved flexible and motivated, as well as keen to learn.
WORK EXPERIENCE
Nov 2007 – Up to the present
Essel Propack Poland
Translator & Interpreter English-German-Polish, Teacher – English As A Foreign Language (EFL), German As A Foreign Language (DAF)
This line of work involves being active as:
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Interpreter at conferences, meetings, training sessions in, among others: management, H&S, Offset Printing, Plastic Extrusion, Polish Culture & Customs, Polish
Labour Code Regulations.
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The Translation Team has now created a corpus of in-house Polish versions of indispensible materials detailed above.
An interpreter, aiding shop floor workers of India, UK and Poland in everyday communication.
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Achieved rapport and agreement in conflict situations on multiple occasions.
A translator, creating Polish versions of SOPs, Guidelines, Production Line Operation Manuals, Clearance Procedures, Health & Safety Procedures, Training
Materials, Machine Operation Handbooks, Forms, Customer Requests, Notes etc.
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Międzyrzecz, Poland
Has been helping ensure harmony, rapport and liking among shop floor staff.
Teacher, head of the on-site Tutoring Team, English As A Foreign Language, holds classes twice on a weekly basis, teaches shift supervisors & future trainers in
what is an elementary level course in English as a foreign language with heavy focus on communication skills.
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Has been bringing up important shop floor issues, through role plays re-enacting with students potential situations on shop floor, unifying trade specific
vocabulary, created in-house glossaries etc.
Arkadiusz Koroch MSc
Aug 2003 – Up to the present
Arkadiusz Koroch Translations
Warsaw, Poland
Freelance translator
Freelance translations. Technical translations from different fields; translations EN-DE-PL. For details visit www.koroch.odu.pl
May 2007
Ministry of Education Region Examination Board, Poznań, Poland, a higher secondary school, Szczecin, Poland
Examiner
Partook in evaluating written new maturity examination papers.
Jan 2007 - Apr 2007
English Unlimited Ltd
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Szczecin, Poland
Freelance work as a German language teacher to groups of primary and lower secondary school teachers organised by 'English Unlimited' Foreign Language
School, state and EU-funded, in view to further the European Program 'Human Resources Development'.
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His teacher students excelled in the course achieving best marks and certified to their teacher’s achievement in anonymous evaluation forms.
Sep 2001 - Sep 2005
Higher Secondary School Group in Gryfice
Gryfice , Poland
English/German teacher, Examiner DAF, EFL, Tutor
Higher Secondary School Group in Gryfice - General Secondary School, Technical School.
Led and saw through his higher secondary school students to and through their maturity examinations in foreign languages (three years).
Delivered on his responsibility to get his students graduate.
Examiner, Teacher, Tutor; EFL, DAF.
“Progress”- Adult Extramural Grammar School, Gryfice, Poland
- Devised outcome educational schemes for education cycles leading up to matura examinations,
- Taught adults in evening classes,
- Created matura examination papers,
- Acted as examiner in matura examinations in EFL, DAF.
EDUCATION
Language and Literature Studies, Adam Mickiewicz University/Poznan,
Poland
Poznan , Poland
Applied Linguistics , Master (MSc/MA)
English As A Foreign Language (EFL), German As A Foreign Language (DAF)
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Studied at the Frankfurt Oder Viadrina University
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Stayed in Cologne, Hamburg, Berlin, Germany
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Stayed in Braunschweig, Pasewalk, Lüneburg, Germany as guest, au-pair.
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Jobbed as freelance interpreter in conflict situations in Germany, liaised with German police.
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Stayed in Leeds, LA, Hawaii, New York and Stevenage, UK as guest, au-pair.
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5 years of higher education with native speakers of German and English.
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Master’s defence in glottodidactics (foreign language teaching).
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Translator, Interpreter and Tutor in DAF @ EFL.
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Department for glottodidactics and translatology.
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Certificate: completed pedagogical training at secondary school during studies.
OTHER CERTIFICATES
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Chartered examiner in German for the new maturity examination
European class B driving licence
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Arkadiusz Koroch MSc
IT SKILLS
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Windows & Office tools: Advanced, 9 years of practice.
Corpora, dictionaries, encyclopaedias, glossaries, proofing tools: over a
hundred tools. Familiar with CAT devices.
LANGUAGES
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English
German
Polish
Proficiency
Proficiency
Native
COMMENTS
Every translation is approached with painstaking care to detail and phraseology.
Arkadiusz Koroch Translations
Tel +48 (0) 602 111 429
www.koroch.odu.pl
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