TranslateCluj Booster 2021

In her 15 years as a translation professional, Alina has been wearing many hats: translator, member of the Chartered Institute of Linguists, Chartered Linguist (Language Specialist), member of the Mediterranean Editors and Translators, member of the Institute of Translation and Interpreting (Language Services), project manager, international conference speaker, and author. Her #1 passion? Languages! She speaks six languages with various degrees of fluency. Some of her articles were published in translation journals and magazines, such as Traduire in France, MDÜ Magazine in Germany, La Linterna del Traductor in Spain, the ITI Bulletin in the UK and De Taalkundige/Le Linguiste In Belgium. Her latest project is an extensive research study on the freelance translation landscape.

Vesna Žagar studied journalism and spent eight years as a TV reporter on Slovenian national television. During that time she became a part-time freelance AV translator. After ten years as an editor of a parenting magazine she decided to commit her time exclusively to translation. Her translating career spans three decades, the last 14 years as a full-time freelancer.

She has worked with all major Hollywood film studios, either subtitling or dubbing, with Paramount and Universal as her main clients. In her work with TV channels she specialises in documentaries and science fiction.

Hello, my name is Mike Lemay. I was born to French-Canadian parents. I am a husband, father, grandfather, and entrepreneur wearing a few different hats. One of those is as an English-French simultaneous -Double A- interpreter.

I stumbled upon interpreting in the late 90’s by accident, over 20 years ago when I was volunteering to consecutively interpret a guest speaker in my local church. I immediately fell in love with interpreting. One of those nights, a professional interpreter was in the crowd and offered me a job as well as referring me to a few agencies. The rest is history, as we say, and I never look back.

In my role, I am tasked to provide the best experience to our freelance customers with the great help of the customer experience team. Our team is a multilingual, enthusiastic team with a strong background in various fields and are commited to offering the best experience to each customer. So regardless if you have used SDL Trados Studio for a long time or if you are just planning to join the freelance translation community, we will be more than happy to assist you.