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Professional Translator & Language Specialist

LIBOR ZAJÍČEK

Professional Translator & Language Specialist

  • Phone: +48 797 387 541
  • Email: libore@gmail.com
  • Languages: Czech (Native), Russian, Polish, English, German

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Dedicated and versatile language professional with over 25 years of translation, interpretation, and lexicographic experience (active since 1997). Proven expertise across legal, financial, technical, and literary domains, as well as subtitle creation, localization, and academic editing. Adept at handling multiple Slavic languages alongside English and German, combining rigorous linguistic background with strong technical proficiency.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Freelance Translator & Language Consultant (1997 – Present)

  • Legal & Financial Translation: Translated complex contracts, certificates, court/prison regulations, and e-learning modules and frameworks.
  • Technical Translation: Delivered accurate technical documentation, user manuals, and specifications for construction, IT, electronics, and automotive industries.
  • Literary & Academic Translation & Editing:
    • Translated published works, including Valery Soyfer’s Red Biology: Pseudoscience in the USSR (Stilus, 2005) and poetry by Roman Brandstaetter and Vladimir Mayakovsky.
    • Performed lexicographic revisions for Russian-Czech dictionaries and cataloged records for the Slavic Library in Prague.
  • Localization & Subtitling: Created and edited multilingual subtitles (English, Polish, German) for international film festivals (One World), TV Noe, Fatym, and non-profit organizations using tools like Adobe Premiere and StormEdit. Handled complex scripts in Cyrillic and Arabic.

Selected Recent Translation Projects (Past 3 Years)

  • Technical Manuals: 80 pages of operation and maintenance manuals for an odor neutralization system (English to Czech).
  • Legal & Corporate Agreements: Debt limit agreements and commercial rental contracts (Polish to Czech).
  • Academic & Literary Texts: Sorbian poetry and composer brochures for the Czech Academy of Sciences and the Sorbian Institute (Stiftung für das Volk sorbische).
  • Social & Non-Profit Sector: Documents relating to domestic violence prevention for academic and non-profit research (English to Czech).

Conference & Consecutive Interpreting

  • City of Poznań: Consecutive interpreting for municipal representatives regarding urban parking policy and land management (English to Czech).
  • Technical University of Liberec: Consecutive interpreting at the international conference Democracy as a Value (Czech to Polish).
  • Ministry of the Interior of the Czech Republic: Interpreting for asylum seekers and applicants through the Department for Asylum and Migration Policy.
  • Corporate & Cultural Events: Simultaneous interpretation for management training conferences (Diamonds International Corporation) and high-profile public figures (including Russian human rights activist Sergei Kovalev and writer Alexandra Marinina).

SELECTED CLIENT REFERENCES & PARTNERSHIPS

Collaborates regularly with professional translation agencies and direct clients, including:

  • AGIT Translation Centre (Poland) – Justyna Szymańska
  • Omero Translation Agency (Poland) – Ewelina Filipczak
  • ILS Translation Agency (Poland) – Magdalena Chojnacka
  • STRIDE Translation Agency (Poland) – Malwina Feczan
  • Translation and Consulting POINT (Poland) – Gabriel Filipek
  • Academic References: Dr. Marcel Černý (Institute of Slavic Studies, Czech Academy of Sciences)

EDUCATION & CREDENTIALS

  • Master of Arts in Russian Language and Literature(1991 – 1997)
    Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
    Includes a 7-month academic study stay in Russia.
  • Certificate of Proficiency in Russian Language
    State Exam, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic.
  • High School Education: Polygraph Training School (focus on prepress, print, and typography).

Note: Does not hold a stamp/sworn translator accreditation (non-sworn translation services only).

TECHNICAL SKILLS & SOFTWARE

  • CAT Tools: SDL Trados Studio.
  • Office & Publishing: Advanced proficiency in standard office suites, open-source software, and cloud-based collaborative tools.
  • Multimedia & DTP: Experience with video editing, subtitling software (Adobe Premiere, StormEdit), and basic graphic layout processing.