Rafal Kwiatkowski
Owner at TRANSLAX
- Location
- Bydgoszcz Area, Poland
- Industry
- Translation and Localization
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Rafal Kwiatkowski's Overview
- Current
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- Owner at TRANSLAX (Sole Proprietorship)
- Freelance DTP Specialist at Merrill Brink International
- Freelance DTP Specialist at Aploq
- Freelance EN => PL LQA'er at Welocalize
- Freelance DTP Specialist at Skrivanek
- Freelance EN => PL LQA'er + DTP at Tek Translation International
- Freelance DTP Specialist at Atominium
- Freelance Senior DTP & Graphics Specialist at WIONET
- Freelance DTP Specialist at ArcusLink
- Freelance DTP Specialist at MultiLing Corporation
- Freelance DTP Specialist at Transleo
- Freelance DTP Specialist at A.W. Solutions
- Freelance DTP Specialist at Contrad
- Freelance DTP Specialist at ForeignExchange Translations
- Freelance DTP Specialist at mLingua
- Freelance DTP Specialist at AmaR TRANSLATIONS
- Freelance DTP Specialist at Lidex
- Freelance DTP Specialist at Lido-Lang
- Freelance DTP Specialist at Intertext
- Freelance DTP Specialist at Studio Gambit
- Freelance DTP Specialist at Lionbridge
- Freelance EN => PL LQA'er at Transware
- Freelance DTP Specialist & Translator and QAer + L10n/I18n/G10n Engineer at General Freelance Activity
- Past
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- DTP Specialist - Junior at SDL International
- Education
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- Night school TWP
- Night school TEB
- Secondary school XIII
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Technical college of printing industry
- Recommendations
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5 people have recommended Rafal
- Connections
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387 connections
- Websites
Rafal Kwiatkowski's Summary
I'm a freelance L10n/I18n/G10n(G18n/G12n) DTP Specialist and Engineer from Poland. I have over 7 years experience as a DTP Specialist (professionally since 2005), L10n & I18n Engineer and Proofreader & Translator.
Starting in SDL International, Lionbridge Technologies, ForeignExchange Translations, Studio Gambit, Transware, Lidex and other (updated CV available upon request). I can handle CAT tools (Trados, SDLX, Synergy, DejaVu, Passolo, Across, Transit, MemoQ etc.), DTP Tools (FrameMaker+structure, InDesign, PageMaker, XPress, Passport etc.), Graphic (Illustrator, Draw, Photoshop, Fireworks, Freehand etc.) & Office (MS Office & Open Office) Suites etc. I learn very quickly and i'm also very flexible what means that the time zone doesn't matter for me - i'm available when i'm needed.
I prepare files to translation from InDesign, FrameMaker, Quark, Page Maker, PDF, Word, XLS and many other file formats to translate using Trados, TagEditor, SDL Edit (SDLX) or other CAT or l10n tool. After translation i revert the conversion to the original file format. I am able to exchange the translation and TMs between CATs (f.e. SDLX MDB to Transit TM) using f.e. XBench tool, Access or my own procedures. There's no problem with QAing the translation by spot/visual checking, Editing the modules (UI, GUI, structure, source code) or QA Distilling to check the consistency and find & correct other potential issues in the final product (such as local suitability, typos, units localization errors etc.): publication, software or game.
Performing whole production process starting with engineering, preTranslation, preDTP, QA, LSO, Translation, DTP, QA, FQC, post CR. I am reproducting, typesetting, designing, manipulating documents and graphics, producting publications, OCRing PDFs and rebuilding scans or graphic files.
Sometimes i do construct the procedures for client's internal problems, writing manuals and guides to prevent or solve some technical issues - looking for the solution.
Specialties
customer focus, detailed eye, adobe oriented, typesetting, dtp knowledge, typography, printing, printing preparation, prepress, well organized
Rafal Kwiatkowski's Experience
Owner
TRANSLAX (Sole Proprietorship)
Sole Proprietorship; Myself Only; Translation and Localization industry
March 2010 – Present (1 year 11 months)
Freelance DTP Specialist
Merrill Brink International
Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Translation and Localization industry
July 2009 – Present (2 years 7 months)
Freelance EN => PL LQA'er
Welocalize
Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Translation and Localization industry
2008 – Present (4 years)
Freelance DTP Specialist
Skrivanek
Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Translation and Localization industry
2008 – Present (4 years)
Freelance EN => PL LQA'er + DTP
Tek Translation International
Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Translation and Localization industry
2008 – Present (4 years)
Freelance Senior DTP & Graphics Specialist
WIONET
2008 – Present (4 years)
Feedback:
"Rafal is a talented individual with proven skills in DTP and graphic design. He is well versed with a number of applications, and with his dedicated approach, appeared reliable team member on some of our complex projects."
WIONET | +48 (22) 886 9800 | 2008-07-21
Freelance DTP Specialist
MultiLing Corporation
Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Translation and Localization industry
2007 – Present (5 years)
Freelance DTP Specialist
ForeignExchange Translations
Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Translation and Localization industry
2007 – Present (5 years)
Freelance DTP Specialist
Lionbridge
Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; LIOX; Translation and Localization industry
2006 – Present (6 years)
Freelance EN => PL LQA'er
Transware
Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Translation and Localization industry
2006 – Present (6 years)
Feedback:
"Rafal has been a freelance reviewer for Transware since Sept. '06 and has perfomed a quality assessment role on over 30 translation projects in the language pairing English into Polish. These projects cover a wide range of subject matters. Rafal continues to provide his language expertise on Transware's Flag-ship account and on many of Transware's Key Accounts. Rafal is professional not just with his language, but also on his communication and adherence to schedules. I highly recommend Rafal"
Dali McAlister / Transware | +353-1-218-7738 | 2008-05-01
Freelance DTP Specialist & Translator and QAer + L10n/I18n/G10n Engineer
General Freelance Activity
June 2005 – Present (6 years 8 months)
General freelance activity - single - one time - jobs for private individuals and self employed peoples. Simply the "high-end" services and products for the "low-end" customers.
DTP Specialist - Junior
SDL International
Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; sdl; Translation and Localization industry
2005 – 2006 (1 year)
Rafal Kwiatkowski's Skills
- Typesetting
- Typography
- Customer Focus
- Pre-press
- Desktop Publishing
- Translation Management
- Localization
- Proofreading
- QuarkXPress
- Adobe Acrobat
- Internationalization
- Translation
- Print Production
- Adobe Creative Suite
- Trados
- Photoshop
- InDesign
- Illustrator
- Website Localization
- Web Design
- Multilingual
- FrameMaker
- English
- HTML
- Graphic Design
Rafal Kwiatkowski's Education
Night school TWP
Computer graphics
2006 – 2007
Night school TEB
Computer science
2005 – 2006
Secondary school XIII
Profile: biology and chemistry
2004 – 2005
Finished with secondary school certificate.
Technical college of printing industry
Universal printing
2002 – 2004
Rafal Kwiatkowski's Additional Information
- Websites:
- Interests:
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Computer science, communications, prototypes, languages, technologies, printing industry, DTP, computer graphics, HTML, photography and many more.
- Groups and Associations:
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My Outsourcing, DTP, DTP out-sourcing professionals, Global Language Solutions, Inc. I recommend my website about DTP and localization: http://www.into-localization.com/
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- career opportunities
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