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Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Accomplishments
Software
Timeline
CPD
Collaborations and Research Activity
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ANNA MARIA SCIACCA

ANNA MARIA SCIACCA

Translator - - - Chinese | English | French To Italian
Chiavari

Summary

Focused translator with highly developed understanding of Chinese, English and French languages and cultures. Specialized in Legal&Financial, Marketing translations, transcreation. Skilled in quickly and accurately translating written documents and website localization. Over 15 years of related expertise. Dedicated individual, successfully facilitates communication between people of different cultures and backgrounds. Brings wealth of knowledge and experience to organizations requiring interpretation and translation services. Committed to providing excellent quality service and results.

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Ordinary Member of ANITI (#3482)

Certified Translator at the Court of Genoa

Overview

15
15
years of professional experience
30
30
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Translator, Terminologist

Freelancer
Chiavari
03.2007 - Current
  • Translated documents for major large corporations, financial institutions, and government bodies.
  • Applied cultural understanding to discern specific meanings beyond literal written words.
  • Maintained message content, tone, and emotion as closely as possible.
  • Reviewed final works to spot and correct errors in punctuation, grammar, and translation.
  • Proofread, edited and improved documents of different sizes.
  • Developed strategies to perform accurate and consistent translations.
  • Maximized quality control of translated documents.
  • Updated existing translations to meet contemporary trends in communication.
  • Translated business websites to support international expansions.
  • Used translation software to verify complex terms and expedite communication process.
  • Played key role in international business efforts, working with sales and client groups to optimize collaboration.
  • Prepared detailed notes per client specifications, assisting in business meetings and proposal presentations.
  • Prepared comprehensive glossaries and terminology databases to facilitate analysis.
  • Worked with other translators to facilitate real time conversations.
  • Created detailed reports on accuracy of translated documents.
  • Provided cultural input to speakers to help parties who did not speak similar languages communicate with and understand one another.

Other Work Experience - Senior Account Executive

Rotella And Partners SpA, APR Communication Srl
Rome
10.1999 - 12.2008
  • Spearheaded communication plans drafting and rollout, organized Adv and Btl campaigns, event organization; main clients: Wind Telecommunication, Poste Italiane, Confcommercio.
  • Prepared client budgets by reviewing client billing and managing monthly invoices.
  • Developed strategies using market research with support from cross-functional teams.
  • Managed and mentored team of account executives.
  • Analyzed key competitors to respond to competitive threats.
  • Overall budget management per year (distributed among different clients 1.5 m Euro).

Education

MA - Conflict Studies

University of Genoa
Genoa, GE
09.2008 - 11.2009

MA - European Public Relations

Ateneo Impresa Business School
Rome
09.1998 - 05.1999

Specialization Course (500 Hrs) - Language Translation (Chinese - Italian)

European School of Literary Translation; CSEA
Turin, TO
03.1996 - 06.2023

BA - Oriental Languages - Chinese

University of Venice - Ca' Foscari
Venice, VE
11.1988 - 10.1995

Skills

Fluent in Chinese

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Accomplishments


  • Collaborated with the team supervising the 11 languages localization project of the Internal Training Portal of a major Italian banking institution, supervising translation and revision of the courses content and technical functionalities (Multilanguage localization including EN, FR and ZH, in progress);
  • Developed business licenses, annual reports, audit reports, and quality certification while ensuring compliance with writing standards;
  • Organized advertising campaigns by formulating marketing plans and presenting localization strategies to key stakeholders.

Software

TMS (MemoQ, Trados, Memsource, QTerm, XTM)

Office Package

Verifika Palex

Timeline

MA - Conflict Studies

University of Genoa
09.2008 - 11.2009

Translator, Terminologist

Freelancer
03.2007 - Current

Other Work Experience - Senior Account Executive

Rotella And Partners SpA, APR Communication Srl
10.1999 - 12.2008

MA - European Public Relations

Ateneo Impresa Business School
09.1998 - 05.1999

Specialization Course (500 Hrs) - Language Translation (Chinese - Italian)

European School of Literary Translation; CSEA
03.1996 - 06.2023

BA - Oriental Languages - Chinese

University of Venice - Ca' Foscari
11.1988 - 10.1995

CPD

  • (2023 – in progress) -Terminology Management (advanced) – Termnet
  • (2023 – in progress) Language Technology Solutions – Nimdzi
  • (2020) - Translating in Legal field (advanced) – webinar, Langue & Parole, Milan
  • (2020) - Post-editing in legal field – webinar, Arianna Grasso Traduzioni, Milan
  • Post-editing in Memsource environment – webinar, Yellow Hub, Milan (2020)

Collaborations and Research Activity

  • Participation in the “Juri” - Terminology Without Borders Project, EU Terminology Coordination Unit (DG-Trad). Creation of an EN | ZH Glossary on Global Terrorism (2022);

RESEARCH ACTIVITY

Glossary Building and Terminology Management (Chinese Language)

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