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Curriculum Vitae

 

Abbreviated version - if needed, please contact me and I will send you the full version

 

 

Throughout the years of my freelance activity, I have been working for many and varied customers, in the private as well as the public sectors. I have worked for a variety of private commercial companies, NGO’s (e.g. the Foundation for the Development of Civil Society, Partners for Democratic Change …) and many public institutions including different government departments (Ministries of Labour and Social Affairs, Finance, Regional Development, Industry and Trade, Health, Defense, Culture, Education, Foreign Affairs, Interior), for Czech Television etc.

 

I have been involved in a number of international projects, e.g.:

 

- training employment service staff in the Czech Republic, organized by the Czech Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs in collaboration with the British Employment Service;

- a major project in aid of disadvantaged youth in North Bohemia, implemented by the Czech Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs with the assistance of the British Know-How Fund and in collaboration with the British Department for Education and Employment, the Segal, Quince & Wicksteed company and Stevenson College in Edinburgh;

- the PALMIF Fund/(Czech) National Training Fund projects;

- PHARE projects implemented in collaboration with the Czech Ministry for Regional Development (development of business consultancy network in the Czech Republic, Cross-Border Co-operation, development of Regional Operational Plans in NUTS II regions ...)

- PHARE project to prepare the Czech banking sector for EU membership (organised by the Banking Institute, Prague),

- project of social service reform, organised by the Czech Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs in collaboration with the British Know How Fund and Bannock Consulting, UK,

- training projects delivered by Partners for Democratic Change based in Washington, USA (its Prague branch Partners Czech)

and others.

 

I have extensive experience of interpreting during international conferences, seminars, workshops and meetings with OECD and EU officials, and translating documents relating to European Union programmes, projects and initiatives.My first employment after graduation was with the Czechoslovak News Agency; where I worked as a translator in the „export“ department. In 1974 the agency sent me for half a year to its London branch, where my chief task was researching the British press. Soon after returning to Prague I left the News Agency, as I was put under political pressure, and went freelance.Ever since then, I have been self-employed, with the only exception of five years in a part-time job with the UNESCO-sponsored European Centre for Leisure and Education (administratively attached to the Sociological Institute of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences).

 

I have had several of my translations into Czech published in book form, including:

 

George B. Tindall, David E. Shi: America: A Narrative History

published by NLN (Nakladatelství Lidové noviny), Prague

 

Partick Gallion, Michael Jones: The Bretons

published by the same publishing house

 

Steve Davey: Unforgettable Places

for Academia publishing house

 

Piers Paul Read: Alice in Exile

for Academia publishing house

 

 

Thank You, Alena

Czech & English translations and interpreting

faltyskova@volny.cz