Career / Experience

Personal Data

Name and Address Azra von Niederhäusern
Switzerland
Web: www.titc.ch

Date of Birth August 19, 1979
Country of Origin Bosnia and Herzegovina
Birth town Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Marital Status Married

Years of experiance: 8

Languages. Bosnian and Croatian – mother tongue.
Can communicate fluently in Serbian. Reading and writing of Cyrillic alphabet.
English – Advanced reading, writing and aural comprehension.
German (5 years) reasonable understanding


Education

April 2002 Batchelor of Arts in English Language and Literature
Graduated from Tuzla University, Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina

1998-2001 University degree in English language and literature
B.A. Honours
Major subjects:
o morphosyntax
o translation (English translations to Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian)
o English literature and ESL teaching

Tuzla University, Bosnia and Herzegovina Department of English language and literature


Work experience

Sep 2002 – July 2005 Working as English teacher with students 15 to 18 year olds; ESL teaching position.
Gradjevinsko-geodetska, technical high school Tuzla, Bosnia Herzegovina
o In charge of lesson planning and class organization
o Test making and testing of own classes and classes of the unqualified teachers.


April 2004 – June 2005 Euroclub International, d.o.o, Sarajevo
Foreign language school

Taught English as a foreign language in Raiffeissen Bank in Tuzla:

o In charge of lesson planning and three groups; two beginners and one advanced group (adult students)

o Testing of the groups


Jan 2003 – Feb 2004 Tuzla University, Tuzla

Hired as a professor assistant teaching English language to seniors at the university

Taught students of different departments: Bosnian language and literature, Mathematics/Physics, Biology, Geography, Phys Ed and Arts



March 2003 – Dec 2003 Part ot a team working on

Localization of Microsoft Windows XP and Office 2003 products into Bosnian language.


2003 – 2004 Kindergarten “Nase Dijete”, Tuzla

o Simultaneous translation on meetings

o Document translations for the needs of the company


Feb 2003 – Mar 2004 Snaga Zene (The Power of Woman), Tuzla.
Social centre for traumatized and socially endangered women and children in Bosnia and Republic Srpska.

o Translated in-house and on site.

o Simultaneous translation for trainers from Great Britain, New Zealand and the U.S.

o Document translations for the needs of the company


1997- present Freelance interpreter, proof-reader and language instructor
(All kinds of written and aural interpreting and translating)


o Translation of all kinds of educational material

o Tutoring and private lessons with students of all ages

o Freelance interpreting for various organizations and foreign language schools (aural and written translations)

o Proofreading and translation of all kinds of documents

o Translation of newspaper articles and book abstracts

o Translation of manuals for different machines

o Translation of graduation papers (telecommunication, economy, physics, medicine, chemistry…)

o Gave private English lessons



Specialization :

Education / Pedagogy
Linguistics
Medical (general)/health,
Art/literature& Crafts,
Fiction and non-fiction,
Politics,
Business reports,
IT,
Social Science,
Sociology,
Ethics,
Manuals, ...

Background :
Multilingual services: translating, proofreading, interpreting
BA in English language and literature( translations and teaching/ESL)
A translator/interpreter since 1997,
also a teacher of English language and translation in highschool

   Pricing / Other services

Min/Target per word Min/Target per hour
English > Bosnian 0.05/0.08 EUR 10.00/22.00 EUR
English > Serbian 0.05/0.08 EUR 10.00/22.00 EUR
English > Croatian 0.05/0.08 EUR 10.00/22.00 EUR
Bosnian > English 0.06/0.09 EUR 10.00/22.00 EUR
Croatian > English 0.06/0.09 EUR 10.00/22.00 EUR
Serbian > English 0.06/0.09 EUR 10.00/22.00 EUR

Proofreading 0,02 EUR
Prices are negotiable - depending on source text, deadlines and terms of payment.

OR page = 350 words or 2000 characters without spaces.

   Certification / Accreditation

English > Bosnian

BA degree in English Language and Literature
Tuzla University
75000 Tuzla
Bosnia and Herzegovina