Екатерина

Kateryna Romanova
Kharkiv, Ukraine (currently living in Zagreb, Croatia)
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Work Experience Hybrid Project Manager
April 2022 to Present
Novalins Medical Translation
Human Medical Translations, For Medical Experts By Medical Experts, Powered
By Technology. An ISO Certified Company.
 Managing the workflow throughout the project life cycle.
 Communication with clients and account management (receiving and
analyzing requests, elaborating the strategy depending on the
file/platform types, requirements, desired turnaround times and
language combinations).
 Picking the best approach for project processing (CAT tools and the most
suitable linguists with regard to their specific experience, rates, weak and
strong points, e.g. ability to work in specific tool or particular
translator/proofreader).
 Arranging work of multiple linguists from all over the globe (up to 30
different language combinations within one project), planning their
work, providing technical support (e.g. for using specific tools),
monitoring their work (for larger projects).
 Quality assurance (troubleshooting if needed), preparation of certificates
of accuracy and delivery to the client.
 Proactive work to find and deploy technological solutions to optimize
company workflow.

Project Manager, Client Service Manager
05/2015 to April 2022
Kenaz Translations GmbH
Baar, Switzerland (production office in Kharkiv, Ukraine)
 Planning the workflow of the linguistic team (in-house and freelance
translators, editors, and proofreaders).
 Processing clients’ requests according to industry best practices in terms
of TEP procedure.
 Managing new clients’ accounts: checking contracts and negotiating on
terms; investigating clients’ requirements and developing efficient
procedures to fit their needs; training the teams according to clients’
instructions and requirements; developing instructions kit to speed up
and simplify the process of introduction for new linguists or PMs.
 Processing clients’ requests and developing the best approach to handle
each task: choosing the best tool, splitting files among several translators
(if needed), picking the best way of ensuring top quality and consistency
(assigning to the most suitable linguists depending on the topic, creating
termbases for larger projects, ensuring effective pattern of translation
memory exchange and communication among linguists); registering
tasks in the CRM system.
 Creating ready-to-work kits for linguistic teams: preparing files in CAT
tools, adding informative and clear instructions and references, giving
necessary clarifications, monitoring the progress, and performing quality
assurance on the go (for larger projects), helping the linguists in case of
doubts.
 Performing final checks before delivery: QA checks or thorough revision
if needed; file preparation for delivery to the client, updating translation
memories, archiving, and updating project instructions.
 Performing quality assurance on internal and external linguists’ work;
analyzing and commenting third party reviews.
  Onboarding and educating new linguists; developing and adjusting
relevant instructions.
 Adopting new software and technologies for the sake of workflow
optimization, testing their efficiency and relevance for the company’s
procedures.
 Arranging calls featuring clients and linguists in order to discuss possible
problems and difficulties.

Translator and Editor
10/2009 to 04/2015
Kenaz Translations GmbH
Baar, Switzerland (production office in Kharkiv, Ukraine)

Translator/editor/proofreader
Language pairs: English/French ↔ Russian/Ukrainian
Fields of expertise: marketing, corporate & learning, industry & engineering, toys
& games, legal, life sciences, education, IT, technical, tourism, fashion & luxury,
entertainment and sports, automotive, food and beverage, agriculture, etc.

Accounting Assistant
06/2007 to 09/2008
AGROIMPEX Ltd
Kharkiv, Ukraine

Paperwork, phone calls, performing basic accounting operations.

Skills Translation, project management, linguistic quality assurance, editing,
proofreading, software localization, DTP, planning, organization.

Education Vasyl Karazin Kharkiv National University
Degree: Master’s
Department: Foreign Languages (English, French)
Kharkiv, Ukraine
09/2005 to 06/2010

Software skills
General: MS Office, Google Drive, Acrobat, AutoCAD, Notepad++, Jira

CAT tools/linguistic software/QA tools: Trados Studio, MemoQ,
ABBYY FineReader, ChangeTracker, SDL MultiTerm, SDL Passolo, Verifika,
Wordfast, Xbench, XTM, Memsource, Transit, Across, etc.

General Statement
My strong points I would like to use doing my job: planning, process optimization,
communication skills, multitasking, healthy leadership, team building, mentoring.

What I find exciting about a job: nice and highly professional people around, getting new skills,
increasing knowledge, traveling, appealing corporate culture and events.

Thank you for reading this ;)