Silvia Agostini

Curriculum Vitae – Silvia Agostini Silvia Agostini Via Risorta, 5 Trieste, Italy Mobile: - Email:- Career summary Jan. 2002 – present: Freelance Interpreter, Translator and Subtitler Key responsibilities: • Translation, proofreading and editing; • Liaison, consecutive and simultaneous interpreting services at international conferences; telephone interpreting; • Subtitling of promotional videos, advertisements, short and long-feature films. Aug. 2012 – present: illycaffè S.p.A. Position: Export Customer Service Specialist Key responsibilities: • translation of documents, letters, speeches and advertising material; • interpreting; • translation project management; • order processing and relationship management with key clients. Oct. 2013 – Jul. 2017: SSLM - CIELS - Advanced School for Language Mediators Position: Contract Professor of Simultaneous and Consecutive Interpreting Key responsibilities: • Teaching theory and practice of consecutive and simultaneous interpreting; • Development of dedicated curricula to match with CIELS's three specialization courses: marketing, diplomatic sciences and criminology; • Exam assessment. Sep. 2010 – Aug. 2012 Bo.Ma Srl (Villesse, Gorizia) - leading company in the production of double-sided tapes. Position: interpreter and translator for the company’s International Sales Department Key responsibilities: • translation of contracts, legal documents, technical data sheets and laboratory reports; • consecutive interpreting at trade fairs and meetings between the company’s BoD and their clients/partners; • order processing, offers and quotations; • project management in the organisation of trade fairs, meetings and conventions for key accounts. Summer 2010 – Project International, London – Leading youth tour operator. Position: Programme Director. Key responsibilities: • coordination and supervision of 10 staff members reporting directly to the Programme Director; • monitoring activity of ten staff members reporting directly to the Programme Director and overall responsibility of 97 students and 8 group leaders; Curriculum Vitae – Silvia Agostini Silvia Agostini Via Risorta, 5 Trieste, Italy Mobile: - Email:- • project management related to the organisation of school and recreational activities at Ashville College, UK; • monitoring of safety measures; • cash flow management; • communication and dialogue with students to ensure a high level of satisfaction and retain clients; • regular reporting to the London Head Office and the General Manager. Sept. 2009 – June. 2010 – International School of Trieste Position: German Department Manager, interpreter/translator, German teacher. Key responsibilities: • teaching to middle and high school students, • translation of documents; • interpreting between parents and the school director or other teachers; • development of curricula for both classes and individuals, • communication and regular reporting to the director and the administration body; • monitoring of safety measures both inside and outside classrooms; • supervision of students during field trips abroad. Oct. 2001 – Feb. 2010 – Assicurazioni Generali S.p.A., world’s seventh largest insurance company. Position: Foreign language consultant, English and Italian teacher. Key responsibilities: • teaching and development of tailor made syllabuses for small groups and individuals (top managers and directors); • development of tailor-made courses for top managers; • regular testing and reporting on the progress made by students. Jan. ‘01 – Jul. ’01 – Titelbild GmbH, Berlin (Germany), International translation and subtitling company. Position: Subtitler and translator Key responsibilities: • subtitling of long feature and documentary films for American and British production companies including Eagle Pictures, Paramount, Warner Bros etc.; • editing of subtitled films; • translation of the company’s website from English into Italian; • project management. Education and training Sep. 2014 – Jun. 2016 Spanish course. Level: Intermediate (B1 of the CEFR, Common European Framework of Reference for Languages) Jan, 1997 – Mar. 2004 SSLMIT, Advanced School of Modern Languages for Interpreters and Translators, University of Trieste Degree in conference interpreting and translation (British Master’s degree). Final mark: 110/110 + (Summa cum Laude) Feb. – Jul. 2001 Humboldt Universität, Berlin Guest auditor at specialization courses in interpreting and economic, technical and medical translation from German into Italian. Curriculum Vitae – Silvia Agostini Silvia Agostini Via Risorta, 5 Trieste, Italy Mobile: - Email:- Oct. 1997 – Jun. 1998 University of Hull, UK Exchange student. Courses in liaison, consecutive and simultaneous interpreting from Italian into English, English for Business, English for Academic Purposes, Literary and technical translation EN > IT > EN, German language and linguistics, German translation (EN > DE > EN), French language and linguistics, French translation (EN > FR > EN) Jul. 1997 Inlingua Sprachschule, Munich German summer school 1991 – 1996 Liceo Linguistico (Language High School) High School Diploma in Foreign Languages (English, French, German). Final mark: 54/60 Jun. 1991 Alliance Française, Paris French course Language skills Italian: native English: excellent (C2 level) German: fluent (C1 level) French: fluent (C1 level) Friulian: good (B1 level) Spanish: good (B1) IT skills • Operating system Windows XP • Sublime (subtitling software) • Good knowledge of MemoQ • Excellent knowledge of Word, Excel, Access, Outlook, Adobe, Power Point. • Excellent knowledge of Sublime, a software for the creation of subtitles References: available upon request. I hereby authorise the use of my personal details solely for the circulation within the company.