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ProZ.com's 2014 virtual conference for International Translation Day

Sep 30, 2014



Virtual conference speakers

Irene Koukia is a freelance translator, outsourcer and business coach. She is also a Trainer and Mentor on Proz.com. She used to be an International Travel Consultant since 1989 working for many international companies as a branch manager. She also used to be a German teacher in her free time. Irene... read more »
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Christelle Weckenmann is a freelance government certified translator for French and German. She is French and lives in Germany since 2003. Since she grew up in Alsace, she was raised bilingual (French/German). Before she decided to start in translation business, she used to work as assistant/secreta... read more »
From 1973 to 1989, a systems analyst and senior research associate, Information Retrieval Systems Department at the Ukrainian Institute of Scientific and Technical Information (Kyiv, Ukraine) and from 1990 to 2000, Manager, Production and Product Development, for the American Institute of Aeronautic... read more »
Vyacheslav is a successful translator/interpreter and a regular contributor to translation community. Webinar coach and language trainer, he has extensive experience in multicultural and multilingual communication. Handling individual assignments and projects, Vyacheslav is experienced in mana... read more »
Jeff Allen — Professional translator, engineer, translation tools expert, real user of many MT systems
Jeff Allen has 2 decades of experience in many areas across the entire business life cycle (marketing, pre-sales, sales, account management, project/program management, product management, development, custom development, QA testing, TEP production, release management, deployment, customer support, ... read more »
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Douglas S. Willcox is an adjunct professor in the Translation Studies Department at Uniwersytet Pedagogiczny (Pedagogical University of Cracow) located in Kraków, Poland. Courses he teaches include Translation Writing, Creative Writing, and Editing. He is the managing director of two companies: Tra... read more »
Kirti Vashee — VP of Enterprise Translation sales for Asia Online
Kirti Vashee is VP of Enterprise Translation sales for Asia Online. He is a seasoned IT sales and marketing executive and statistical machine translation (SMT) enthusiast who was previously responsible for the worldwide business development strategy at Language Weaver.

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Melissa joined SDL 10 years ago as a Senior Financial Translator but by 2005, she had left production work behind and moved into a strategic role. Melissa founded SDL’s into English translation office in Sheffield and managed that office for 6 years, handling 60+ source languages and processing a... read more »
Sándor Sojnóczky is the Managing Director of Hunnect Ltd. Prior to founding Hunnect in 2003, he held a position as management consultant for PricewaterhouseCoopers. Sándor holds a BA degree in English and Russian, BA degree in Financial economics and he is a certified member of the British Insti... read more »
A double graduate from Manchester University (UK), Manuel spent most of the 90’s as a technical language consultant in large industrial projects (Ford’s new engine plants in Valencia, Rolls Royce Industrial in Spain and Argentina). His engineering skills led him to seek and implement automation ... read more »
After her graduation as a translator and interpreter, Katja Prasol studied Management (Economics) and afterwards Engineering Management with focus on Patent Management. She has over 12 years experience in translation and interpreting, vast experience as a project manager and freelance trainer in the... read more »
Dimitra Anastasiou has been working as a freelance translator for English/German and Greek since 2006. After graduating in 2005 from the Department of “Foreign Languages, Translation and Interpreting”, Ionian University, Greece, she completed a PhD in 2009 with the title “Idiom Treatment Exper... read more »
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Michael is a full-time professional translator & terminologist with over 20 years of experience working in the European translation industry. He translates exclusively from Dutch into English and provides glossary creation/extraction and terminology consulting services.

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Patrick began his career in the language industry in 1999. By the time he received a B.A. in linguistics in 2001, he had been translating website articles for a major financial news outlet for two years. His early translation work focused on financial and legal subject matter, and a strong interest ... read more »
Barbara Jungwirth of reliable translations llc (www.reliable-translations.com) translates German technical and business documents into polished English appropriate for a specific audience. She also writes and edits technical content for global audiences. Barbara writes a blog, On Language and Transl... read more »
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Gabriela is an ATA-Certified English-Spanish Translator, who graduated in 1999 from a five-year program at the School of Languages, University of Córdoba, Argentina. She is currently working on the thesis for her MBA. Gabriela is the CEO of Hispano Language Advisory, a translation and DTP company b... read more »
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Claudia Brauer — Licensed translator & interpreter and online trainer & writer
Considered a subject matter expert in translation and interpreting, Claudia's career spans more than 35 years in Latin America and the USA, logging over 15,000 hours of interpreting assignments in a large diversity of venues and fields of knowledge, and translating more than 10 million words.
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Konstantin Kisin is a highly successful legal, financial and video games translator. Since joining ProZ.com in 2004, he has made full use of the website to propel his business to new heights and build long-term relationships with clients and colleagues.

A regular contributor to Proz.com on t... read more »
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Marcia Pinheiro — PhD MA Licentiate Decades in T & I
Professional translator and interpreter since 1992 (Brazil and Australia); * Leading researcher in Logic (Paradoxes of Language), Real Analysis (S-convexity), Networks (Model for human networks, disease spread), and ODEs (nonisothermal film blowing); * Listed with the IBC and the Who's Who Marquis b... read more »
James Brian Mitchell has published over 120 scientific papers and is the co-author of a textbook on Experimental Physics. He is also the holder of patents in the automotive and oil industries. As a Professor of Physics in Canada and France, he has given over 80 invited scientific presentations at c... read more »
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