Hi,

A bit about me:

I am an Australian of Greek background, from Melbourne, so I consider myself bi-lingual and bi-cultural.

Most of the different parts of my life - personal, academic and professional - have seen English and Greek - the languages and the places, texts and contexts - shadow each other.

So, while I've spent most of my life in Melbourne, where I was born and grew up, I have spent some 10 years living and working in Greece.

A bit about my translating:

I have been translating for the past 7 years and still enjoy what I do. Every job is different and I seek to find and translate the uniqueness in each assignment, anyway.

To date, many of my translations have been within in the Tourism and Hospitality industry, which is thankfully still thriving in Crete (Greece), and in academia, by way of PhD theses, reports and presentations in fields of study such as Environmental Engineering, Medicine, Biology, Behavioural Sciences, Economics and Business.

New frontiers I wish to pursue within the translating landscape are Telecommunications, IT, copywriting, website localisation and, very especially, representing all the economic and political forums and initiatives Greece is now committed to on a European and global (UN) level, to see if I can do some good there.

In my free time, of my own bat and just for fun, I have been what one would call, "cutting my teeth" in my newly adopted fields of interest with docs such as 127 or so page Corporate Responsibility Statements (Telecommunications) and annual banking reports. As mentioned, just for fun. Translators are really not well people, I think.

Best thing I would like to bring to translating:

An on the dot sense of what needs to be said, to who(m) and why. Also, some uniqueness and personal voice, a bit of identity, in each piece I handle. That also works well with audiences.

Types of translating work I'd like:

Aside from my new fields of interest mentioned above, all sorts, really. Lots of different types. It's all good.

Also, texts that release a bit of good in the world. That's the teacher and social worker in me.

Motto I live by in life: Do no harm.

So, this by way of a quick look at me.